The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

satisfaction with the boss controlled "Y'' and in
many places leave the organization. The sup
port Of the "Y" members in Danbury, Connect-
cut to the strikers there is an instance of this
The Attempt to Win the Children for Rookie
Teller and Morgan.
Hand in hand with the increasing emphasis
placed on the winning of the industrial young
worker goes the special emphasis placed on the
winning of the child. 1t was seen fit to hold
q special assembly at this world congress on the
problem Of the boy. Topics such as industrial
boys work. rural boys work, work with boys in
uniform, received the significant attention Of
the congress
Were these problems dealt with in order to
provide food clothing and shelter for the mil
lions of children of unemployed workers, thrown
out of jobs by the very men who lead this con-
gress? Most assuredly not! These problems re-
ceived attention in order to find means of win
ming the children for patriotic" support Of the
capitalist system; to find new methods Of
work. to turn the miners children from the
support of the miners strike. 1t was obviously
not to win better conditions for the 315 mil
lions of child workers and to do away with child
labor, that the number of employed" boys
clubs increased from 881 in 1929 to 1851 in 1890.
But floWery phrases about an adventure with
God" cannot fill empty stomachs, illusions about
democracy" cannot find jobs for fathers, or
make it possible for children to have recreation
and go to school instead of working in the mills
and on the streets.
Indeed, the fact that the children and young
workers are demanding bread and will no longer
be satisfied with such "high-minded" talk forms
a source for real worry at the World Congress
of the Y.M.CA. These philanthropic gentlemen
leading the congress have their hands in their
hair when they exclaim:
"They (the young workers. are dissenting
with the past as well as With the present, and
are very critical AL over the world there
are multiplying and seemnizing signs that
some of the Oldest and most powerful re-
ngiens, traditions and social sanctions are re-
laxing their hold especially youth"
1t is not too much to expect that there will
be voices among the rank and file delegates,
right at their World Congress, demanding con-
crete measures on some of the problems touch
ing the real life conditions of the youth today.
Needless to say, neither Mr. Hoover, who will
speak at the Saturday session of the congress,
nor Mr.. Morgan member OF the board Of
trustees nor any of the other representatives
of big business or their servants, will propose
such measures as relief for unemployed work.
ers, relief for the striking miners Will the
Hocvers, Morgans and others speak about the
thousands Of young workers who were evicted
from the rooms they occupied in the Y. M G. A.
buildings because they were unemployed? It
would be folly to expect them to do so. But
the young workers, rank and file members who
are now starving and on the Streets and who
are incidentally not represented at this con-
gress, will raise their voices in revolutionary
resentment at the fact, for example, that there
are three hundred empty rooms in one of the
Y. M. G. AS of Chicago, while the young work.
ers are on the streets. The demagogy and
~ t,,1ei Of +La Lad
by the American bourgeoisie will not be able
to blind either the members of the Y. M. G. A,
the young workers outside of the "Y" to the
real role of this capitalist agent
Y. c. L. Convention Calls for Organization
At the Sixth National Convention of the Y
c. L., of America the young workers striking
miners, striking textile workers and young Ne
groes coming to the convention from all over
the country sounded the call to all youth for
organization in the fight for better conditions
At this convention it was clearly pointed out
that "the economic crisis and preparations for
war has intensified the struggle for the youth.
The boss class of the United States is making
every effort to weld the youth more closely to
its war machine and to fight the working class
resistance to mass misery
The convention placed the problem of winning
the young workers and working class students
away from such organizations the boss-con-
trolled Y M. c. A., and call was issued to all
youth for the fight against mass misery and
against war. 1t is only the Y. C. L., under the
leadership of the Communist Party, who can
and will lead the youth to the winning of
better conditions and the ending of the system
of slavery.
To the young workers and working class stu
dents within the Y. M, G. A.. as we'll as to all
the youth, the Y. G. L. states that this World
Congress will not provide relief for unernploy-
ment, will not increase wages and better con-
ditions, but will rather look for new methods
to cram more wage-cuts down the Threats of the
youth and adult workers, covering it up with
all sorts of denagogy.
After this congress of the bosses Y. M G. a.
international Youth Day comes, on Sept. 8.
This will be day of real struggle throughout
the entire world and it is to the working class
youth all over in bosses organizations, shops,
mills and unemployed that International Youth
Day calls, the 18th International Day of Strug-
gle Against Imperialst Wars and Capitalist
slavery.