The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-25
School Sheet Poisons
Children's Minds With
Its Lies About China
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the Chinese situation being seized upon the
forces of reaction excellent opportunity to spread
more propaganda poison against the Union OF Soviet Re-
There is nothing unusual about this That their task.
1t the task OF the workers to that they DO not sue
coed.
Every worker, therefore, interested in knowing the
kind of capitalist dope that being injected into the minds
of his children in school, seeking prejudice them against
the triumphs of labor in Russia.
How this is done becomes very evident in reading Sour
rent Events which claims larger circulation than any
other school paper in the world not only used by the
teachers text but is widely read and studied by the
children themselves who are urged to subscribe to it,
This devotes nearly column in its June 1919
issue to developments in China putting into it's headline the
Against Foreigners in China and then in the text "The
Russian Boshev seem to be responsible for much of the
present unrest in China"
Thus the capitalist rulers of the nations educational
system seek to blind the children to the horrors Of the for
eign industrial system imposed the Chinese against
which the workers of China now revolving.
would not do to tell American school children that
boys and girls in China at six years Of age sent
into the mills owned by foreign capital where the bosses
have the right to "beat up" the workers.
The strikers demand that corporal punishment be abo-
shed and that their be increased The child workers
now get as little 50 month working u hours day.
with hardly ever holiday and no Sundays off, The mill
who reap huge profits do deny these conditions
An investigating commission half of which consisted of
spokesman for the employers admitted the truth of these
charges Yet the bosses rejected the demands of
When the strike resulted the police and foreign troops
joined by u s. Marines came in to shoot down the workers.
the usual pretext of restoring order The warshps of
foreign powers from all parts of the orient have been
rushed to Chinese Among these many American
warshps flying the stars and stripes to which American
school children are forced to pledge allegiance.
None of these simple truths showing that the present
growing struggle in China developed directly of the
noic conditions against which the workers rebeed found
their way into Current Events the poisoner of the
of Americas school children 1t is world imperialism that
creates these conditions Communism offers the
and the escape from them.
This propaganda sheet of the barbarous profit system
that feeds Children here in the United States we'll as
in China will only succeed in dscredting itself thru rank
perVerson of facts The students in China among the
best fighters for the workers. There slowly painfully
sprngng up in Americas Schools from the bottom to the
top similar revolutionary body of students, who will
veIop their fight side by side with labor whose numbers
must rapidly grow.
The only truth that appears in "Current Events is that
the Russian Boshevks Woud like all nations under
the same form of government that in Soviet
But this wish is not confined to Russia It is the wish
of militant labor everywhere. So the school children
day. as they grow up especially the boys will refuse be-
come cannon fodder to help keep the Chinese workers.
women and children in slavery to foreign capital Rather
they will extend their atena hand of comradeshp across
the broad Pacific with the hope that the children
both countries will strive throw off the chains of cap
ast oppression in both countries That is what sheet
Current Events" fears But its will come true
in spite OF its efforts to spread transformation the schools
OF today The victory of the workers will prove the fuity
OF this malicious capitalist propaganda.