The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
OUR NEW PIONEERS

They will use play and sport and educational
endeavors not to separate the workers children
from an understanding and support of the in
terests Of its worker parents, but to connect the
child with such an understanding.
A most important role in this work will have
to be played by the Pioneer magazine. The new
Pioneer magazine shall become the educator and
guide of the masses of workers children which
will be organized in the Pioneers of America.
Chidrens stories shall convey a picture and
understanding of the real life of the working
class Directions in the field of mechanical en-
deavors such as radio building, airplane con-
struction, etc, shall not only give technical adj
vice to the workers children, but shall also con-
vey the understanding Of the use of these i'm
pIements under capitalism and the value of these
implements for the working class.
Illustrations, simple and politically, explana-
tory drawings, cartoons etc.. shall capture the
interests of the workers children for political
problems and problems of the class struggle
and shall explain these problems to them. So
cial, hygiene, sports, nature study, sciences, in
short, all fields of knowledge for which the work.
ers' child Graves, shall be dealt with in the new
Pioneer magazine, but it shall be dealt with in
such form as to convey to the workers child
naterialist conceptions of life and an under
standing of its class position and its class duties.
The new Pioneer magazine shall not only be
published for the workers children it shall also
be written and made up largely by the workers
children. Aside from general children's CORES
pondence, the Pioneer groups for learning to
draw, or for studying scientific questions, or for
sport endeavors, or for any of the possible ac-
tivites of the Pioneers shall be encouraged to
have their best products published in the Pioneer
magazine and to use the Pioneer magazine for
exchange of experiences and for guidance of the
backward by the advanced.
The first issue of this New Pioneer Magazine
is to appear at the end of April for the first
of May. Artists doctors, educators, engineers,
writer's in short, everyone that has clear I'M
derstanding of the workers children's needs and
an ability to supply some of these needs with the
definite aim of making the workers child con-
scious of its being workers child and also con-
scious of the duties, that implies, should help
the National Committee of the Young Pioneers
to make possible the issuance of the New Pioneer
Magazine. Financial as well as technical help is
needed.
The Pioneers themselves must mobilize to re-
cruit friends among their fellow schoolboys and
girls, as well as among their adult acquaint-
ances for serious effort to perfect the prep
arations in time for the First of May publication
of the New Pioneer Magazine.
Every militant working class parent, every or
ganization that contains militant working class
parents, must consider this reorganization of the
Pioneers and publication of the New Pioneer
Magazine an important event in the life of
the revolutionary working class of America. The
Catholic church has long ago seen the value of
children and has formulated this knowledge into
the sentence: "Give me the child up to IL
years and you can have it the rest of its life.'
During the period Of childhood. thei concep-
ton of life grows and develops in the young
worker. If we permit capitalism to hammer
and mould its conception of life into our chill
dren, we have the tremendous task of counter
acting this influence. task which often re-
mains unaccomplished.
Forward to the road to a real children's mass
organization for the Young Pioneers of America!
Forward in the New Pioneer Magazine!