The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-26

BEhElN.-Ine united front move
ment of the German toiling youth is
making real progress. Especially is
this movement growing since there
turn of the young workers delegation
from the U. S. S. R. with it's enthu-
siastic report about the Russian pro-
letarian youth. One had but to be
present at one of the overcrowded
mass meetings at which the delega-
ton reported in order to be convinced
that the great lesson the young work
ers have learned from this report was
that only the united front Of the prole-
tartan youth will make il possible for
them to achieve, with the aid Of adult
workers, the splendid position Of the
tollIng youth in the U. S. S. r. Every
meeting closed with cheers for the
united front or, as they call it here,
the Red Youth Front.
The leadership of the Young Social
list League pitflessly failed in their
efforts to weaken the remarkable eff
feet of the report. Their action in
expelling the young socialists who par
ticipated in the delegation worked
against them like a boomerang; it
rather strengthened than weakened
the effect of the report; it strength
ened still more the movement for the
United Proletatrian Youth Front. The
Y. S. L. leaders have now, more than
ever, quite hard case to defend their
position before the masses of the
working youth. The young toiling
masses who live in the greatest mis-
cry, the
Thousands Of Young Unemployed
Workers
want a clear and definite and imme-
date answer, how to get rid of their
difficult and unbearable conditions,
how to emancipate themselves from
poverty and slavery.
The conditions of the German prolet
youth are deplorable indeed Only in
Berlin alone there are about $4,000 I'M
employed young workers up to the
age of 81. Nearly so per cent-of them
are girls. Those between the ages of
IA and 16 are even excluded from the
pitifully little unemployment benefit
that the others get. The misery and
danger confronting especially the
young unemployed prolets was quite
well understood by the Young Work
ers' Congress of all the proletarian
organizations, held on January TO- 1t
was only under the pressure Of the
working youth masses that the Berlin
city-deputies assembly (board of al
dermen) accepted a few of the de-
mands of the congress, such as pro-
viding day homes, free dinners, enter
tainments, ETC., and voted for this
purpose a sum of 10000 marks.
However, the few demands granted
by the c. D. A. means very little.
Partly they are not as yet carried out,
and in those sections where they were
already put into effect the homes, ETC.,
are mostly mismanaged. If so little
is being done for the unemployed
working youth in Berlin, which is I'M
der the administration of the social
lists, who pretend to help the unem-
ployed, then one can Just imagine in
what a miserable position the young
workers all over Germany find them
selves. Can it therefore be wondered
at why the German toiling youth is
so anxiously looking for way out of
this lmentable situation? Can it be
wondered at why the unity movement
of the young workers is growing, in
spite Of the treacherous attitude of
the Y. S. L. leadership? 1t is only at
the cost of unheard of sufferings that
the working youth is learning the
great value of unity, and as a result
more and more young proIets are Join
ing the united front organization Of
the tollne youth.
The Red Young Storm.
The membership of this remarkable
organization of the German toiling
youth is already more than 10000, of
which only about 20 per cent are
members Of the Young Socialist or
Communist League. The Red Young
Storm, or as 1t is sometimes called,
the Red Youth Front, is the youth
section of the Red Front fighters,
whose aim is to defend the working
class meetings, demonstrations, ETC.,
against the fascist (the r. Y. S. is to
fight especially the fascist youth or
CARNATIONS, such as the Steel Helmet
Youth, Bismarck Youth, etc., to fight
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