The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-04
OREGON u" HAS
A GREAT SYSTEM
TO SWEAT YOUTH
Merchants in Eugene
Mussolini's Pals
(Bp a Worker Correspondent

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EUGENE, Ore. (By MailD -
Business men and city officials (pro-
yided, of course, you are able to dis
tinguish between the two) of this
up-to-date little university town
won the trophy offered some time
ago by Benito Mussolini, grand ex-
allied goblin and ruler of the Anal
gamated Order of Exploiters, for
the individual or organization dis
covering the newest and best means
of exploiting children. it became
known today. The trophy was spon-
sored by Mussolini, who is also di-
rector of Italy, at a recent world
conclave of the order when reports
from the American branch of the
amalgamated order disclosed that
there was certain strata of Amer
lean children which has thus far
escaped the iron heel of oppression.
This section of American children
represent the sons and daughters of
the middle class business men
(what are left of them) and trade
union members who are fortunate
enough to reach high school The
inability of national business inter
csts to reach these children and ex-
ploit them to the fullest extent has
long been a source of much concern
to the American chambers of COM
merce and other business organiza-
lions. The Eugene system, it Is
said. will afford complete and i'm
mediate relief in this situation.
Eugene high school graduates
are reouireds if they intend to en-
ter the business world upon leaving
school,, to serve an apprenticeship
which consists of working free of
charge four or five hours daily in
the office of local business con-
Germ during each high school term.
At the beginning of each school va
cation the more promising students
ore selected for the summers work
for which they are paid nominal
wage. When the fall term begins
the students are again placed upon
the charity" basis, and in many
cases where the summer services
have not been entirely satisfactory
defaulting ones are replaced BY
new students eager to get ahead.
Those refusing to serve this APP
premiership are Immediately placed
upon the "black list" and ave un-
able to obtain employment in Eu-
gene. Education acquired else
where than in Eugene also does not
count, it being prerequisite that
the same education be obtained To-
cally to be worth SIS week job.
When foreign" high school gradu-
ate attempts to obtain employment
in Eugene, his certificate awarded
him in Medicine Hat or Kalamazoo
will not get him to first base. He
must enter Eugene school and get
a real education and incidentally
serve the apprenticeship.
The scheme, it is said, is of a
threefold benefit. Not only are
business men able to reduce over
head and exploit this heretofore I'M
touched section, but it affords a
most excellent method of selecting
leaders" among the rising genera
ton to carry the whip.
The trophy, which is a large
bronze affair, hand-painted design,
by William, former emperor of Ger
many, who was also an expert ex-
ploiter in his day, was sent to Eu-
gene by special ernissary from the
Italian dictator. In a covering let
ter the premier commended the in
genuity of Eugene business men and
predicted a new era of understand
ing between the two nations as a
result of the exploitation afforded
by the idea.
Individual credit for the idea,
which has been in practice in Eu-