The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
OrganizationaI Tasks for
International Youth Ddy
By JOE ROBERTS

1EVENTEEN years have passed since the first
international Youth Day was established at
the height Of the last world war On this day
the workngcass youth established its tradition
of struggle against imperialist war which was
raging at that time. The Young Communist
international has carried on this fight since
Its formation and truly upheld the traditions
Of IYD as day for the mobilization of large
masses Of Workingclass youth to demonstrate
against the bosses preparation for war and the
authorization of the youth for this purpose
This year International Youth Day will take
place on September 8, at time when the air
is filled with war hysteria. Every capitalist
country is arming, militarizing the youth
spreading war propaganda and anti-SoVet lies
with the aim Of directing their attack on the
Soviet Union
The Youth today is being sharply affected
by unemployment, which means actual starva-
ton because of no relief Those working have
to work under speed-up conditions with very
little pay The outstanding boss controlled or
ganization, the YMCA is considering very serl-
ously how best win the youth for the boss class
The bosses are using their organizations such
as the YNdCA, YWCA, Amateur Athletic Union
Congress of Youth, Christian Endeavor and
struggle with the adults against their rotten
conditions and for unemployed relief They
want the youth to be willing fighters in case
of war.
Our task is TO alarm the working class youth
everywhere to the imminent danger of another
war. To mobilize the youth and the adults on
international Youth Day to demonstrate against
bosses wars and for the defense of workers
fatherland, the Soviet Union. How is TO be
done?
The Young Communist League together with
the Communist Party should get the active sup
port of all Youth clubs and organizations to-
gether with the adult fraternal and language
organizations These organizations have lot
of connection with the Youth and can help a
lot in modifying larger numbers for IYD. Every
sympathetic youth club, trade union sport clubs
and fraternal organizations should issue caH
to the youth around them to take part in the
1YD demonstrations which must be linked up
with the struggle for unemployed relief against
wage cuts and speed-up that especially affect
the youth for the release of 9 Scottsboro boys
against the terror of the bosses Chicago mas
Sacre).
International Youth Day should bring for
ward the revolutionary youth movement and be
step in strengthening it both organizatonaIly
and politically. In the campaign leading up to
IYD mass recruiting should take place of young
workers into the Young Communist League
trade unions, unemployed branches, Labor Sports
Union, Two. youth branches
Support the campaign for International
Youth Day, September g.
Fight against the pacfiSt illusions that the
bosses are spreading to hide their war moves
Smash the influence of the bosses organiza-
tons over the Youth.
Then came the force of 70 thugs from Chi
cago, organized under their own commander
This army, dressed in armor hidden under coats
rides through the Kentucky fields shooting
plundering dynamiting. 1t is led by scout car,
armed men and machine guns fill it, This is
followed by ten others that carry two airpane
(LeW1s) guns each, so arranged in the rumble
seat that they can sweep fore and aft and
along both sides Then the rear guard car fol-
lows, also heavily laden with machine guns
This is the usual way this gang travels, accom-
panied by local deputies who act as guides.
Everybody in Harlan knows Of the contract
they have with the operators. They boast of it
1t provides for so much day for ordinary ter
ror-raiding of whole communities, searching OF
houses and destruction of all the miners guns
and ammunition; dynanliting of houses and
dynamiting of strikers automobiles. But there
was special bonus for preventing the confer
ence This bonus they lost. The conference was
held with miners sentries posted outside and
around the hills to defend it.
There is a special bonus of $1,000 for the head
of Dan Brooks organizer of the National Min
ers' Union. Jessie Wakefield is charged with
criminal syndicalisn. She is the representative
of the International Labor Defense which Is ac-
lively engaged in defending the arrested coal
miners. Caroline Drew, organizer of womens
auxilliaries, is also wanted for similar war
rant, but miners, guarding her carefully, pass
her from house to house so that her work
continue All of the hunted organizers are
continuing their work from hiding up in the
hills.
Even Bruce Crawford, newspaper man from
Norton, Virginia. was shot in the leg when he
came into Harlan to investigate the situation
for his paper.
The miners Of Kentucky are not nearly as
well armed as the thugs. They are handicapped
by intense starvation-the starvation disease,
flux, is taking heavy toll. Even the soup
kitchen opened in Wallens Creek must be guard
ed day and night from the thugs. The Har-
Ian miners preparing for another tri-state
conference. Their courage and determination
are enough guarantee that they will succeed in
organizing the southern coal fields into the Ma
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