The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
BY MARTHA STONE.


IN the intensive preparations for May LIST, the
AParty must not fail to mobilize all sections
of the working class. There is quite often
tendency on the part OF some comrades to
consider youth and children's work sec
Diary problem. However, in order to really
become effective and mobilize the masses of
workers for May LIST, it is necessary for every
single department in the Party to properly
mobilize it's workers for the struggle.
"Out of School May First"
In preparing the Young Pioneers for May
1st the League has had to buck up against
many right wing tendencies among comrades
sympathzers. In raising the slogan "Out of
school on May Day" there has been some re-
sstance amongst workers and even Party
members. The Pioneer movement has reached
a stage that without a complete understanding
of it's tasks and support of its campaign it will
be hampered considerably in its growth.
Today, we can record many struggles in
which the Pioneers have participated, many
struggles for the betterment of school condi-
tons, ETC. But as yet we are basically isolated
from the masses of workers children. On the
one hand, we have but handful of Pioneers,
and on the other we have the strong bourgeois
organizations of the workers children. Such
organizations as the settlement houses, Boy
ranks. A sign that the Pioneer movement is
breaking down its isolation will be when we
can record in our organization large numbers
of children and child laborers, working as boot
blacks, newspaper boys, ETC., children recruited
from the mass organizations such as the Boy
Scouts, etc., have thousands of children in it's
etc. The Pioneers today come mainly from
parents who are sympathizers, Party members,
or are recruited from the Non-Partsan Schools.
Win Proletarian Children
This has been the main shortcoming in the
work Of the Pioneers. While it is correct to
recruit from the language schools etc, it is
weakness in our work when these schools
become the main source of our recruiting in
stead of increasing our numbers with prolet-
tartan children, from the East side, children
of the unemployed, etc. Today when our move
ment is going thru real test in the heat of
the struggle we are suffering considerably
because of our isolation and composition of our
membership. The fact that there are many
children within our ranks who come from petty
bourgeois homes, and in this time of struggle,
the petty bourgeois elements want to run
away from the struggle, drawing the children
away as well. 1t shows itself clearly in OPP
posing our slogan of "Out OF School on May
Day" in wanting to keep the children away
from demonstration because it will mean
clash with the police, in opposing mass work
in the schools because it will result in perse-
cutions, demotion etc., in instruct1ng Pioneers
when they get arrested to deny that they
Pioneers, etc.
The above manifestations of the right danger
are seen amongst our own Party comrades,
especially is this true of many OF the Party
teachers in the language schools (Non,Par
tisan etc..
Free Harry Eisman.
The central campaign for the Pioneer move
ment today is the freedom of Harry Eisman
as part of the May Day agitation This slogan
must be raised everywhere, wherever there
are workers, and the workers children. The
Party must intensity its work in demanding
the release Of Comrade Esman. This is not
merely an attack on a leading Pioneer, but an
attempt to crush the Young Pioneer organiza-
ton. The fight for the release of comrade
Eisman, must be linked up closely with the
fight for the right of workers children to be-
long to the Young Pioneers and to participate
in the struggles of the workers.
To carry out this struggle, the Pioneer