The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-12
YOUTH IN MINING
Towns SUPPORT
Workers PARTY
prosperity Talk Fails
to Deceive, Miners

mat Hoover would claim the youth
vote and that generally the youth
you'd support the republican party
ALSO in the same issue of the Times
f, here appeared challenge by the
New York Young Democratic Club
!; % debate with the Young Republican
Tub Of New York on the subject
Resolved, That Alfred Smith, rath-
r then Herbert Hoover should be
elected President of the United
tates." The debate, one must con-
fess, is an excellent pastime for
T Wild college youths who go to "edu-
oeationap institutional to prolong
their adolescence and between "Rah
Rahs" have noticed that in 1928
there is an election campaign. Also
the statement of. VIM. Hill that Hoo
yer will claim most of the votes of
= he youth will hold a little water
but not much, because prosperity
Of the republicans is too common for
college youths and the democratic
promises of a "foaming beer glass"
will claim a few votes from thirsty
college cubs. Indeed everything
would be nice and rosy if all the
youth of our GLORIOUS" land would
be in schools and colleges. But I'M
fortunately, in prosperous America:
the education of the youth is limited
and at a very age they are sucked
by the capitalist whirlpool into the
7weatshops and factories to add to
the building money bags of few
Greedy philanthropists.
There's the rub. The republican
Prosperity bluff and the democrats
promise booze may go with the col
lege youth, but the working and
'arrning youth cannot be lured on
hese promises because they have
I'D a good taste of prosperity and
democracy in the last few years
Especially the youth miners from
re coal fields who have faced de-
mocracy and starvation would like
70 change the subject Of the debate
to-"Resolved, That both parties
represent identically same interests
and that the Workers (Commuist)
Party is the only true representative
of workers, especially the youth"
Miners Eyes Opened.
Not only is it a fact that hundreds
of young miners have Joined the
ranks of the Young Workers (Com-
munist) League but there are con-
crete examples to show that the
youth are breaking away from "par-
entail" organizations and that these
organizations are losing their in
fluence among the young workers.
The bunkum of the boss controlled
public schools may have powerful
Influence and make good loyal re-
srpublicans and democrats but the
coal strike (court injunctions, beat
ngs and unjust arrest) has opened
the eyes of the working youth and
has made many good Communists
The fact that young workers who
for years have been regular church
goers Zone case where a youth
walked three miles to church and
never missed a Sunday for six years.
and now have joined the Young
Workers League and have severed
all relations with the church indi-
oates that one of the strongest
clutches of bourgeois theology is
weakening.
AThe fact that The Daily Worker
and the Young Worker is as prom
inent as the bourgeois papers in the
mining towns shows that the miners
know the lies of the capitalist press
and look to the official organs of
the workers for correct information
on their problems. One of the most
delicious bits of news from the min
ing section is the news that many
young miners who for the first time
are of age to vote Communist.
1t is pleasing to note how the
traditional chains are slowly but
surely breaking in the coal fields.
When one lives on relief for eighteen
months and faces the winter with
life in poorly built barracks he loses
faith in republican prosperity"
When one is forbidden to hold meet
ings, free speech is prohibited by
claw" and one is beaten on the
picket line for demanding better
conditions, he loses faith in dem
ocracy, Without doubt there is
marked change in the coal fields of
Pennsylvania and Ohio. Not only
are the older workers cup in arms"
against the sham democracy and
fake prosperity of the parties of
big business but the youth who have
been the most active and militant
in the. miners struggle have begun
to expose and fight against the en-
tire rotten exploiting system. With
he same determination that built
new miners union they will fight
Under the leadership of the Young
Workers (Communist) League and
guidance Of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party to build new govern
rent of the workers and farmers
II the United States.
Join Workers Party.
With the exposing Of the UNI.
MA. corruption and misleadership,
and trade union leadership general
". their aides and cohorts-the
press, schools, churches and govern
rent have been unearthed as tools
- tha hands of the bosses. These