The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-22
Young Pioneers in Los Angeles

capitalist system uses to blind the children OF
the workers.. Snski held the position of the
head of the "Red Squad taking the place of
the notorious Hynes and Phiffer) and in a re-
port which he brought back to the school he
said Roosevelt is known for the reds here and
has bad reputation and it is my duty to see
that Roosevelt is cleared of them and GER
tany will
The trial of these comrades was a farce,
where the state had three students and two
policemen to testify. David Sinski was directly
responsible for the breaking up of the meeting
this being proven by the witnesses of the state
and defense. He claimed that he had been
given power from the Automobile Club of
Southern California to protect the students of
Roosevelt High School against any harm, that
this power included the right of protecting
students against harmful ideas and he con-
sidered Communism harmful and was going to
make stop to 1t.
The witnesses for the defense were all child
rem most of them attending Roosevelt High
School Some of the main witnesses were those
who spoke at the meeting proper. Sarah Pri-
zony who was chairman of the meeting told
the court what the purpose of the meeting
was repeating her speech as nearly as possible.
The meeting had been called to counteract the
propaganda imported by Mr.. Elson principal
of the schooD from patriotic and religious in
situations, against the organization of the work.
ing class. Miriam Brooks who was the speaker
for the Young Pioneers repeated her speech.
She had spoken. about school conditions, perse-
cutions on local scale, Harry Eisman and
that the chilrren should strike May First with
the workers at the Plaza Then Yetta Strom-
berg who was defending herself took the stand
and explained what she had said and done that
day. She sploke about unemployment and its
4l.o4 Cd, f,,,e L;orL ~
think positions are waiting for them but find
unemployment and not fit to do any work. At
this point in the meeting it was broken up bye
Dave Sinski pulling Yetta off the stand and
the arrival of the police and arrests.
The prosecution in it's summing up did net
prove that the defendants were guilty, but
merely brought out that they were Commu-
nsts "trying to undermine our government
and teaching our children to overthrow our
good American government by bloodshed an1
revlution."
Yetta Stromberg in her talk attempted to
analyze the economic crisis it's causes, the con-
dtions of the working class and the conditions
of the workers children at home and in the
scholss The Judge, fearing that some good
may come out of it, as the courtroom was over
crowded with workers who came to hear this .
trial, kept interrupting her every few seconds
breaking the trend of her talk and not allow
ing her to make various statements which
would have had some effect upon the audience.
The decision of the jury was a quick one.
That of guilty. Can we as workers expect any
thing better from the capitalist courts?
So another farce trial has endel sending our
comrades to serve a sentence in their filthy
jails. We on the outside must organize our
selves and fight for the right of militant
workers organizations to be allowed to address
workers children, to counteract the anti-work-
ing class propaganda they receive in the boss
controlled schools.