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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
OF THE YOUNG
COMMUNIST LEAGUE

Program Of demands of the
Young Communist League for all
young workers.
1. The right 10 vote in all cleo
tons for all IS years Of age and
over. Old enough 10 work, old
enough to vote.
2. Abolition Of child labor un-
der il, with government support
for all children now employed un-
der that age.
3. A six-hour day for all young
workers under Is with full pay.
4. EQUAL pay for equal work.
No night work. No piece work.
No work in dangerous occupations.
No specd-up.
5. Establishment of work schools
in factories for the training of
young workers. These schools TO
be controlled by the workers. Full
wages to be paid during atten-
dance.
6. An annual four weeks vaca-
ton with pay for all young work
ers under IS.
7. Social insurance, including
accident, Illness, unemployment,
old age and maternity benefits, to
be provided by the government for
all workers. Insurance funds TO
be administered by the workers.
s. No young worker TO receive
less than $50 week in wages.
8. Full social economic, and ro-
litical equality for Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
BY JAY ANYoN.


The Importance of building fac
Tory sport movement under the ban
ner of the Labor Sports Union can
be seen when we realize that
wherever youth is hardest hit and
most exploited, there is to be found
the greatest network of boss-con-
trolled sport under the masks OF city
recreation leagues, church leagues,
American Legion leagues, A. A. U.
meets, ETC.
Detroit can be taken as a typical
example of what ss-controlled sport
is. In Detroit we find it taking the
form of team games; teams for whites
and teams for Negroes. These teams
are practically without exception
groups Of five to six (basketbalD or
10 or IL CbasebalD crackerjack ball
players. The masses Of factory
workers, those who have no time to
practice, those that were not high
school or college stars are never
drawn into the games. They merely
make good cheering squads and a
good market for popcorn or peanuts.
Then these teams that are organized
are used as advertisements and
money-m making propositions for own
ers of stores and factories and the
politicians running the sport racket
for the bosses. These sports, while
bearing out the aim of the bosses to
keep the young workers thinking
about other things than the condi-
tons they live in, are profit making
propositions in themselves.
With this understanding of bosses
sports, the only correct appeal to
the workers of the factory can be
all workers of all races, colors and re-
ligionS, learn the game you like TO
play, play it in workers club. Sec
ondly all workers enter all games
with workers control Nof all activi-
ties in amateur standing. Refuse to
be a profit to the boss in your play
hour.
Here is a concrete example of how
we organized a club in section of
Detroit, where young Ford workers
hang around and live.
One Sunday night a Young Com
munist League Unit of COPELAND Hall
had a dance. At this dance were
some five or six young Ford workers.
The unit was working on the organ
ization of sport club. Right on
the dance floor we decided to make
an appeal for all workers that want
to learn any sport to come to a
meeting on Monday 10 establish
classes where everyone could learn
and practice. All workers were to be
eligible for the meets and games.
At the meeting we found these
Ford workers amongst the crowd and
when volunteers we're asked to sup
ply some equipment, amongst those
that volunteered was one of the
Ford young workers. Then few
minutes we're spent in discussing the
standing Of competition and it was
the amateur and workers control of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
BY WALSH.


At the coming convention of the
League we will again be confronted
with the problem of how better TO
make the Young Worker an organizer
for our League. The present con-
ditions are favorable for the turning
of the Young Worker into a mass
youth paper. The increase in circu-
lation for the last two months shows
the demand for our paper among the
young workers This is only be-
ginning.
In order to reach and attract young
workers to read our paper we must
carry the needs of the youth in our
paper. We must know the exact con-
ditions in each particular phase of
life in order to be able to put their
needs into our press and reach the
youth with the Young Worker To
ACCOMPLISH this each district must
be assigned to study these conditions
and make I'D articles that will run in
the Young Worker.
IL New York for example, we can
pick up many things 20 write on
Just take the Boro Hall territory
There is no reason why comrade
should not be assigned to study the
conditions of the Negroes. We can
describe the atmosphere of the ter
ritory, showing the actual living con-
ditions.
A leaflet can be issued to the neigh
borhood informing them what is 60
ing to appear in the Young Worker
and comrades assigned to go from
house to house TO sell the paper. What
can We expect out of this article?
The getting Of contacts with many
young Negro workers. We can or
ganize Negro youth organizations and
make up demands for improvement
in line of this article and use this
organization to carry on the fight
for them. The same can be done in
other sections of the city.
In our factory work, we keep on
telling the units to sell the paper
at factories. We must realize that
the Young Worker cannot carry the
latest news being it is a weekly, and
therefore may not attract the work.
ers in the factory. We must then
resort to some different methods in
order to attract them. First Of all
on factory news. We must instruct
the comrades in the large factories
to make up notes ON what takes place
each day in and outside the factory
I spoke to the comrade working in
the Gem, the conlrade could sit down
and tell me many things about the
factory and this must not remain
in the heads of the comrades, but
must be made up as news for the
Young Worker II we would do this,
he talk about partial demands would
1e more concrete.
In places where we have no COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
Build Factory Sports
Clubs for the LIS. u.

activities that won the greatest sym
pathy from those workers present. A
definite precedent was set that only
the majority vote of the members Of
the club can decide any matters Of
the club
At the first practice night these
young Ford workers were among the
learners. The only thing they knew
was that they wanted to box and
wanted TO play baseball. The prac-
tice nights following found these
young Ford, workers bringing some
friends with. them, all anxious to
learn and compete in the games and
meets. At the last practice there
we're about.ten young Ford workers
among the Sol. 80 present and most
of them joined the club.
Now that these young workers ars
involved and drawn into the club
they naturally aim to develop it and
increase the membership, because
that is the orientation of the entire
membership. Their contacts are
Ford workers because they live and
work in the same neighborhood.
With the leadership and co-opera-
ton of Young Communist League
fraction member they will gladly be-
come conscious and active contacts
for further Ford young workers.
This club may even now be con-
sidered a Ford factory sports club.
The future membership is Ford
workers membership. We must re-
member that a factory club is a
club that has the membership pre-
dominantly from a given factory, all
though it need not be 100 per cent
factory membership. Even the non
factory membership can be used to
recruit the element we aim to reach,
if the Y. C. L. members are on the
Job. Experience shows that every
new member makes contact for at
least four or five more, II given to
understand that they could and they
should get their friends to join their
club.
Let us say that this year there
would be no Spartakiad to rally the
workers to our ranks. Does that
mean we would suffer any paralysis
in our work? AS long as the L. S. U.
schedules local and district meets,
leagues and tournaments and pre-
sents every worker with the chance
TO learn the game and then compete
on an equal basis with others, work
ers will rally to our ranks, since no.
where else, because of the very char
acter of the bosses controlled sport,
can they find this possibility.
The winning of the youth from the
bosses controlled clubs is another
problem and needs another method
of attack, but the young worker
from the factory is not the major
membership in these organizations.
ANY neighborhood club can be con-
verified, actually, into q factory club
if the Y. C, l., unit follows the COR
rect line of action as did the unit in
J COPELAND Hall in Detroit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
our Youth In Trade Unions

an executive body. This to be done
along the lines of the general Shop
Delegates Council. Thus we will be
able to establish organizational con-
facts in the shops. -
Now, to come back to the question
of our new methods of work, We
have to use these methods Csports,
social5, personal contact, etc). as
means for making irroads among
the young workers. This should help
us win over the young workers, pro-
viding we use these methods correct
ly. But to show how not 10 use these
methods and at the same time be
under a misleading illusion: A lead
ing conrade had spent quite some
ttrne playing ball with group of
Young workers at enc of the fac
tories concentrated on This is an
example of good step in the storm
ing of the factory By applying ANEW
method. However, now that those
young workers do not play any more
outside of the factory, the comrade
has no more contact with them.
Evidently he remains a mysterious
memory to those workers. This is
good example of the method becom-
ing the work. The Labor Sports
Union is not something new. 1t is
in existence at least 4 or years.
Yet We must ask ourselves as to how
many of its membership are mem
bers of the revolutionary trade I'M
ions, or thru how many of its men,
bers have we developed strike strug-
gle in their shops, which are surely
not exempt from wage-cuts, etc. But
before we go into that we must real
ize that the LLS.U. has until now
remained sports organization with
out Labor and without Union. No
theological work has been carried on
among the membership.
The lack Of faith in our task of
building the union was even seen
(but not recognized enough in the
reports and discussion in the en-
larged national buro held about two
months ago. There TUUL was men
toned in passing. However, COM
rade did suggest that in our unem-
ployed youth demands We should in
clude demands for free movies and
dances for the young workers. But
he forgot that even American young
workers are more interested in food
when they are hungry. This is how
not to draw up youth demands. We
| must not go to extremes, simply be-
cause we want to draw up youth
| demands.
We must, as part of our pre-con-
vention campaign, enlighten our
membership as to the relation of our
League to trade union work. A cam
paign to be started at once to draw
in our membership into the trade
unions, and the necessary comrades
released for trade union work. The
| role Of youth sections, why we need
them, and why it is the task OF the
League TO build them must be clari-
fled to our membership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
H, PAUL

II. PAUL
In order that our League really
begins the turn towards mass work
We must consciously realize that we
must become an actual factor in the
building OF the revolutionary unions.
We did try to build youth sections
OInconsciouslyl. How and to what
extend did We do that?
In New York We have what We
call a youth section in the Needle
Trades Union and one in the Metal
Workers League. l will deal only
with the Needle Trades, since the
other one is only about two weeks
old Is this youth section function
ing? a Is it participating in the build
ing of the union? Did We do any
thing to build it up? The answer to
al tins is that OF the contrary, for
many reasons.
/. The League in the New York
District has done nothing to organize
the 10 comrades. who work in this
Industry into a func5ioning fraction
which would have as its task the
building UP of a functioning youth
section. This is because we still do
not realize that trade union work
should be our main activity. There
still exists the attitude that only the
one who is doing unit work" is any
good.
2. The very superficial ideas of
what youth sections and youth ac-
tiYity is. The small youth section
we have, exists as sort of separate
little union, separate and apart from
the life and activities of the union.
FOR example. While the youth sec
ton would concentrate on the same
building as the union does, it would
not coordinate its activities with that
Of the Union. but would go on with
its work without the union ever
knowing about these activities or the
results. Young workers would be
called upon to join the youth sec
ton. and not the union,
3. The youth section as it is now,
Is loosely organized group, not or
ganized on the basis Of the shop,
and does not take up shop problems.
Because of this it stands out as a
sort of social organization.
4. The still existing bad attitude
on the part of the union leadership
towards the youth, even among those
interested" in youth work.
Our immediate tasks in the needle
trades are:
l. Organization OF a fu1ctioning
youth fraction.
2. ORIGINATING the youth section
towards economic activity, particu-
larly in the white goods trade which
is dominated by young workers and
where the union is now entering a
campaign g
2. Clarity our comrades as TO the
organization and function OF the
youth section, and its relation TO the
union.
3. Organization Of the youth Sec
ton on a shop basis, that is. not
youth sections on q shop scale
though this is the most correct form,
but in view OF the fact that the
shcns are small II is our task TO
sdcrt some representative form Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18

He who has the youth has the
future
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
On TO National Youth ps1l

Defend TIE AIahama ls,S from
legal lynching.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
AUTO ACCIDENTS
INJURE d MEN,;
TRIO ARRESTED
Fishing Trip Goes AWry
When Car Crashes
Into Trees.

Auto accidents in and near the
city Monday and early today in
jured four persons, and one we'll
known former indianapolis resident
was hurt in a crash near Louisville,
according to reports received here.
Donald Bankert, 81, of 518 North
Liberty street, was taken to city
hospital with minor injuries this
morning after a collision in the 2400
block North Delaware street.
Two cars crashed on a curve on
state Road So, north of Traders
Point Monday, injuring both driv-
ers. Edwin M. Davidson, So, of
217 East Seventeenth street, SUI
fered broken hip and skull frac-
ture, and A. T. Withrow of Des
PLANES, H., arm and chest and in
ternal injuries. Carl Tully, Is, of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
LIQUOR TAXES
SEEN WEAPON
FOR DEFICITS
Government Asked to Scan
Figures Presented by
Wet Organization.

BIZ scripps-HotodTd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, June 3o.-In its
hunt for a source of additional and
stable revenue, the government was
advised today by the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment
to give attention TO the claim that
legalization of liquor would furnich
annual taxes Of 5000, 402 ,224, or
enough to wipe out the estimated
deficit for 1881.
Economists employed by the wet
organization based this estimate on
the 1918 revenue taxes and the esti-
mated consumption Of the 1880 pop
ulation in the seventeen states
which, under return of liquor in
some form, would be expected to
legalize its sale and distribution.
Remain Fairly Fixed
Foreign countries, 1t is pointed
out, derive from Is to 20 per cent
of their total revenue from such
taxes.
Like the tobacco taxes, 1t is de-
clared the receipts from a duty on
liquor would remain fairly fixed in
good and bad times. Thus they
would furnish the basis of a taxa
ton system recently described by
Secretary Mellon in his radio
speech.
Mellon said the treasury def
cit seriously raises the question as
to whether we have yet developed a
sufficiently well-balanced system to
provide revenues on which the gov
eminent must count from year to
year."
Would Abolish Graft
The association also believes fur
ther savings would result through
elimination of the tribute now paid
by business to gangsters, and by
individuals to Illegal purveyors of
alcohol.
1.-THE exorbitant profits of boot
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30

grasshoppers literally devastated
the whole section, has damage been
so widespread in the north central
section of the state, he said.
Railroad trains were forced to
travel on delayed schedules
throughout the stricken area. Tracks
were made slippery by the crushed
bodies of the graSshoppers. All
rains used sand to prevent the
wheels from spinning on the rails.
Clothes left lying on the ground
or even stretched over line were
gnawed into small pieces by the in
sects, it was reported.
The extraordinarily warm sum-
mer, together with the fact that last
winter was mild in the section, is
responsible for the pestilence, ex-
perts said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30

Lafayette, riding with withrow was
hurt slightly.
Fishing plans 81 three men went
awry Monday night when their auto
bounded into two trees and they
we're arrested on liquor charges.
They were: Marvin Owens. 80, Of
1907 North Warman avenue. a city
fireman; Roy Harper, So, of 1874
North Holmes avenue, hip fractured;
and Angeles Bait, Is, of TAB North
Warman avenue, back strained.
All were charged with drunken
ness, and Owens with failure to stop
after an accident.
Barrett M. Woodsmall, son Of H.
H. Woodsmall, insurance broker, was
brought TO Methodist hospital after
an auto crash near Louisville Satur-
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30

leggers and rum RUNNERS" 1t points
out, land the vast sums paid in cor
rupting public officials and the
waste incidental to a highly de-
centralized and evasive industry are
all included in our national drink
bill. Formerly large part OF
the drink bill found its way into
federal and state treasures.
ut is fair to assume that, once
the liquor industry is put on legal
and efficient basis, the total expen-
ditures for liquor will not exceed our
present expenditures, even though a
large proportion is diverted to fed
eral and state treasures"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
CRASSHOPPER
HORDES KILLING
FARMING LANDS
Famine Is Predicted for
Northern Nebraska;
Aid Is Urgent.
BvUusted Press

By CHfted Prcss
LINCOLN, Neb., June 30.-Great
swarms of grasshoppers today
worked their way through north
central Nebraska, running farm
crops to such an extent that famine
is predicted for the section.
Wheat, oats and alfalfa fields,
even pastures, were reported left
barren by the insects. Farmers ap-
pealed to Governor Charles Bryan
for aid, so acute was the situation.
State and federal authorities we're
asked to supply funds for purchase
and distribution Of insect poison.
The state set aside $1,000 for pre-
ventive work. Congressman Edgar
Howard Of Columbus appealed to
the federal department Of agricul-
ture in Washington for further aid.
Not since 1870, when an army of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
GRAF Yep TO ICELAND
Giant DirigibIe Leaves Germany;
Carries Twelve Passengers.

By United Press
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
June 30.-The dirigible Graf Yep
pelin left today on a flight to Ice
land, with DR.. Hugo Eckener in
command.
The big airship carried twelve
passengers, including Edward Smith,
United States naval observer. DR..
Eckener said they would return Fri
day. The route lay over Holland
and England to Iceland, and back
via Norway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30

That's why Camel smokers hold SO
persistentIy to Camels. They simply
can't enjoy the stale, flat smoke
from dried-out, moisture-robbed
tobacco.
You see, every Camel package is
now a humidor that excludes dust
and germs and guarantees factory
fresh Camels to every smoker.
If you are not Camel smoker,
switch over for just one day. After
you have discovered how mild, how
cool they are to your throat, then
leave them for stale hot smokes -
if you can.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30

Tune in CAMEL QUARTER
HOUR featuring Morton
Downey and Tony WOns-
Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn - every night except
Sunday
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30

Don't remOUe the moisture.
proof CelEoPhGne from your
package of CanreIs after you
open il. The HunidOr Pack
is protection against SiUeGt,
dust and germs. 1t delivers
fresh CGnleIS and keeps them
right until you smoke the
last one
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06
THE HIGHWAY WAGE PROBLEM
(By Elmer G. Johnson, Hibbing).

(By Elmer G. Johnson, Hibbing).
Being deeply interested in the
strike by highway laborers of Cook,
Mimi, l journeyed up there for few
days to seek enlightenment in the is
sue. AS l parked my car in front of
a store on the main street, a laborer
came up to the side of it and in a
very friendly manner asked: Have
you come here to seek work on the
highway" My reply was in the
negative. The laborer excused him
self, saying: 81 am sorry to have
accosted you, but we have a strike in
this area and it is only fair that we
protect our interests l questioned:
"Your interests are what?" He re-
piled: 81 do not know who you are,
but l want to tell you that contracts
on this highway work are being auc-
toned off in manner that is next to
slavery (sub-contracts). We have
tried the contracting companies sys-
tenn and cannot make anything near
fair living wage. l worked all day
and made less than a dollar"
The power to see, to appreciate the
application of trained intellect to hui
man lives, and to use the truth in
improving the condition of mankind
has been called judgment. l mingled
with these laborers all day long.
From my mind l excluded all ''isms'
for 1 found amongst these laborers
Republicans, Communists, Democrats.
Farmer-Laborites.) Psychologists tell
us that this body of ours, unless it is
fed properly, properly developed, fed
with rich blood and carefully nour-
ished does no justice to the brain.
You cannot make bright or good
man in a starved body. l sympathize
with the laborers (sufferers). They
have just grievance. Their demand
for a living wage, for economic JUS
tice is not radicalism.
The Hon. Gov. Floyd B. Olson,
blessed with foresight, decreed that
the contracting companies doing state
highway work shall pay As cents per
hour for their labor. Let the con-
tracing companies honor the COVER
nor's decree. This is all the Cook
area strikers are asking. Is this
radicalism? Crowd a man with IA
hours day, and you crowd him. down
to mere animal life. (Some men
started to work at 5 a. m. and quit
at dark in order to attempt to make
days wages.) Is this radicalism?
Why retreat in our social civilization?
Progress is lying crippled and de-
formed in the Cook strike area. The
good governors decree is the panacea.
Who is right, the governor with his
45-cent-an-hour decree or the con-
tracing companies who by skulldug-
gerry evade his decree?