The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-28
School at WinchendOn, Mass.
Progress Of the YWL Training

We have been very active in the last
two weeks of our training course, in
fact we have been so busy that we
have had no time for mischief.
Our training program consists of
five four-hour days of school and five
hours of study each weak. For text
books we are using the Elements of
Political Education and the ABC of
Communism and in addition to these
we have from twelve to fifteen books
and pamphlets per student. Our libra
ry also has an interesting stock of
books and reading matter.
We have a half hour of current
events each day which has proved to
be very interesting and at the same
time keeps US in touch with the events
of the world. We have already studied
about the Chinese revolution, the
Sacco and Vanzetti case and the at
tack on Soviet Russia.
Our evenings are all planned out
for US. Every Monday we have public
speaking and on Sunday nights we
have entertainment consisting of sing
ing, storytelling, games, reading, etc.
The country surrounding this school
is very beautiful, having numerous
woods, fields and lakes everywhere
about us. We are far away from the
noisy city life in which most of the
poor workers children live such as in
the big industrial cities of Chicago,
New York and Boston. Therefore, be-
cause of our environment, we should
be thankful to those who have sent us
here. Lake Dennison is about 200 feet
away from our school, and we have an
opportunity to go swimming, fishing
and canoeing. About one-eighth of a
mile from here is the Lake Dennison
Park where dances are held every
Wednesday and Saturday evenings.
Those of US who are fond of dacing
go there on our free nights. Every
night except on Wednesday and Sat-
urday nights we must be in our rooms
at 10 o'clock. On Wednesday and Sat
urday nights we can stay out until
II o'clock. On Saturday nights we
usually go to Holmes Park in Gardner
to dance and give support to Finnish
comrades. We usually come back from
the dance in a special bus and, oh
boy! don't we have fun. We sing,
yell, tell jokes and make big racket
all the way back. The chauffeur
doesn't have to be politician to know
that we're bolsheviks for we sing lot
of revolutionary songs, such as the
International, Red Flag, Hold the
Fort, and the Preacher and the Slave
which is our favorite song. Much of
our spare time it put into swimming
fishing, hiking, dancing, baseball and
all other kinds of sports.
We are going to organize an or
chestra of our own because there are
quite a number of musicians among
US.
We publish two wall papers weekly.
The names of them are the Red Rocket
and the Fighting Youth. Every COM
rade who can write, writes an article
on politics, sports, comics, poems, etc.
Among the most interesting articles
that appeared in this weeks publica-
ton were under the Banner of Ru-
thenberg," "The Young Worker and
the Trade Union" "Why Should
Sports Be Commercialized," and "The
Criticism of the School,"
These wall papers are very inter
esting to us especially and to the
strangers that come to visit US.
In sports we have concentrated most
of our attention on baseball. We al
ready have baseball team, which is
in fine condition. We expect to trim
every team we go against. Next Sun
day we are playing our first game
which will be against the Young
Workers League team of Fitchburg at
Gardner.
We are sure to learn about our DO
sition in society and about the class
struggle between capitalists and
workers. Our instructors teach in a
very systematic way, which makes it
very easy for us to understand thor
oughly what we are talking about. We
all expect to be able to organize either
the Young Pioneers or the Young
Workers in our home towns after we
come back. We, the students of the
Y. w. l.. Training School, will be the
leaders of the working children and
working youth in the communities to
which we'll return at the end of the
school. -TAUNO HAHN.
L.