The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Rx RICHARD SCHUYLER.

By RICHARD SCHUYLER.
The International Youth Day was
always a fighting day. In the midst
of the imperialist great war it was
created as an international action of
proletarian youth against imperialist
war, against social democratic treach-
cry, and for the proletarian revo-
luton.
In 1915 tens of thousands of juve-
nile workers followed, for the first
time, in all the countries of Europe,
the call of the Executive of the Youth
International to demonstrate against
the war; 1t need not be said that the
bourgeoisie marshalled their forces
with equal energy, and attempted,
with the aid of soldiery, police, mar
tial law, and every description of
persecution, to arrest the advance Of
the youth, or at least to hinder 1T.
In spite of this, the First lnterna-
tional Youth Day in autumn Of 1915
was a powerful revolutionary demon
stration against the war, and more
than this, it was the first interna-
tional action calling forth a far
reaching echo among the broadcast
masses of the working class. And
it was the youth and its international
organizations which could claim the
honor of being the first, during the
world war, and at time when the
II. International had just shamefully
collapsed and the III. International
did not yet exist to carry out an in
ternational proletarian action against
the war and for revolution.
Twelve Years Ago.
Twelve years have passed since
this time, and this year we are hold
ing the 13. International Youth Day.
The International Youth Day has be-
come one of the most firmly rooted
traditions of working youth. 1t gath
ers around it not only tens of
thousands as in the war years, but
mobilizes millions of the working and
peasant youth every year. 1t is no
longer limited, as in 1915 and 1916,
to a few European countries, but is
celebrated today with equal enthusi-
asm in China and Germany, in South
Africa and South America as Canada,
in the Soviet Union as well as in
Mongolia. 1t has become an official
holiday in the first proletarian state
of the world, the Soviet Union. What
change in so short time!
But although our International
Youth Congress has so Expanded,
it has not lost anything of it's revo-
lutionary impetus. 1t still remains
what it has ever been, a day of in
exorable struggle between the work
ing class and capital. And it is still
the fight against imperialist war
which lends the International Youth
Day its peculiar character. Never
was this fight so imperative as at
the present moment. The threat Of
fresh imperialist attack presses
heavily upon the Soviet Union, in
China we are already witnesses of a
war waged by the imperialist powers
against the Chinese people, and the
political atmosphere is filled with
explosive material.
Defend Soviet Union.
The main task before the whole of
the Youth international at the present
time is the struggle against the
danger of imperialist war, and the
defence of the Soviet Union. Our
present international Youth Day will
call forth powerful demonstration
in all countries against the danger
Of an imperialist war, and against
the attacks on the Soviet Union plan
ned by the imperialist robbers.
But this year there is still another
circumstance giving a special feature
to the International Youth Day. It's
convocation comedies on this occasion
with the goth anniversary of the First
International Youth Conference at
Stuttgart; with that conference at
which the Socialist Youth Interna-
tional was created.
The Socialist Youth international
has not shared the disgraceful fate Of
the ii. international. 1t did not help
to intensity the horrors of the inn
perialist world war, and during the
war it did not betray socialism and
the revolution like the II. Interna-
tional and the Trade Union Interna-
tional. On the contrary: the Youth
international has always marched at
the head of the most determined re-
evolutionary struggle against the
world war, and for the proletarian
revolution. 1t has worked together