The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-14
Pioneers WORK
FOR DELEGATION
TO SOVIET union
Workers Children and
Child Laborers to Go

The New York District of the
Young Pioneers last night issued
call for a conference to consider
ways and means of raising money
for the first workers Childrens'
Delegation to the Soviet Union. ~
This meeting will be held on
Saturday, June 22nd, at 2:3O p. M,
at 1928 Union Square, N. Y. 4ni2t
This will be the first of the series
of district conferences by means of
which the workers children, and the
entire working class will be mobil-
lied for the sending of this delega-
ton. 7e
Similar conferences will be held in
Chicago, Pittsburgh, in the South,
and in many other working class
centers, from which children will be
selected to constitute the delegation.
From Industry.
Representative of the oppressed
workers in the basic industries of
the United States, the delegation
will probably consist of a miners
child, child of Southern textile
striker, needle. trades workers
child, child worker, and a Negro
child all in company of an adult.
The drive for funds needed has
just been started by the National
Pioneer Committee. The New York
district has already begun the rails
ing Of money, but it hopes to enlist
the aid of many children's clubs,
and other workers childrens organi-
cations in this work.
Fight New War.
Signed by Ruth Yukelson, district
organizer of the Pioneers, and adj
dressed to all workers childrens or
CARNATIONS, the call follows in
part:
The bosses are preparing for a
new war. They are not overlooking
the children in their feverish
preparations. They are using such
organizations as the Boy Scouts and
the Girl Scouts as a means of mill
tarizing the workers children, and
preparing them to become good
soldiers for the bosses profits. The
Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of
Liverpool, England this summer will
be rallying point for the militari-
cation of the workers children from
every country.
The main object of this attack
that the bosses are getting ready,
will be the workers and farmers
government in the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics. The Soviet Union
is the only country where the work
ers rule, where there is no child
labor and child misery. The children
of Soviet Russia are among the
first cares of the government.
In marked contrast to these con-
ditions are the miserable conditions
of the workers children here in the
United States. The children live in
dirty, old houses, go to schools that
are real firetraps, and suffer most
when their parents are unemployed.
Child Slaves in U. S.
Added to this is the fact the
nearly 3 million children are; slay-
ing their young lives away in the q
mines, mills, and fields, of this, the
richest country in the world, victims
of the bosses greed. ,.,-l
The attack of the bosses upon the
Soviet Union is an attack upon every
worker and --orkers child all over
the world. 1t is for this reason that
the working class must defend with
its sweat and blood the life of the
Socialist Fatherland of the working
class. -ga-
The answer of the workers chill
dren to the war preparations of the
bosses must be the sending of The
first workers Childrens Delegation
to the Soviet Union, which will bring
the message of working class soli-
darity from the American children
to the proletarian children of the U.
S. S. r.