The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-20
Mine STRUGGLE
SHOWS WORKER
YOUTH MILITANT
Boss Schools Fail to
Hide Class War

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WHEELING, W. Va. (By Mail)
Out Of the struggle of the miners
against police brutality, state per-
secution, fight against the corrupt
officialdom of the Lewis administra-
ten, and physical combats with the
hired thugs and assassins of the
coal barons, Ia born a spark of hope
which will eventually burst into Q
flame Of Revolution that will lead to
economic and political freedom not
only Of the miners, but of all work
ers. This spark Of hope is the al
leqiance Of the young miners to the
only youth revolutionary organiza-
ton, the Young Workers (Commu-
nist) League. With determined
faith In the League as the only
leader Of the American toiling youth
the fight Of the devastated coal re-
gions now changes from a local
fight against coal capitalists to q
fight against the entire rotten ex-
plotting capitalist system.
Although the youth section of the
working class in contaminated with
bourgeois theology and patriotism
by the public schools and the press,
yet when they see what is taking
place in the struggle of the miners
their eyes open to the alarming
truth that the entire state machin-
cry from the kindergartens Of the
public schools to the armed force of
the state is used against the work
ers. The statements of the court
officials that constitutional rights
learned in schools are merely scraps
Of paper and the use of the state
militia is to beat down defenseless
women and children, leGs the truth
shine through the bourgeois scum
that covers the eyes of the youth
that the workers have no fatherland
in a capitalist country. From the
strike Of the miners the youth have
learned a fundamental truth, that
there is class struggle in America
and that society generally is divided
into two antagonistic classes, the
proletariat and the bourgeoisie, the
toiling and working majority and
the exploiting and robbing minority.
Without a doubt there is an
awakening among the American
youth. Hitherto, in the struggles of
labor only the father took part, but
now the entire family is involved for
the simple reason that production
has so changed that all members of
the family are drawn into the in
6ustries. In the past when the head
of the family, the father, spoke of
working conditions the children and
the wife did not understand, but now
the entire family participates in the
discussions and actually takes part
i'll the active struggles of the work
ers. One needs but glance at the
coal and textile strikes to see the
necessity of all members of the
workers family, father, mother
son and daughter to engage in the
struggle of the working class fol-
emancipation. The MARKHAM truth
that capitalism is digging its owr
grave because it produces more Of
its own grave diggers is shown
clearly now that women and children
are in the industries and engage il
the struggles Of the workers.
At the wave of a piece of calico
the flag, the American youth can be
modified against anything un
American. Everything is being
done, especially In the strike are;
of the coal regions to appeal to pa
triotism and expose Communism a!
an imported malady-a foreign
sickness, a European plague. w,
must show the youth that Commu
nism is the highest form of society
That Communism is universal, there