The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-11
The Children Are
Fighters, Too!
BY HELEN KAY

Cne workers the world over and to demonstrate
their determination to defend the Soviet Union.
May First, international Day Of Struggle.
May First, beginning of International Chill
dren's Week, in celebration of ten years of the,
International Children's movement (1922). All
are events Of rejoicing and solidarity for the
workers OF the world and their children.
AND May First marks the first year OF the
NEW PIONEEP. For the workers children Of
the United States jas is 81 added reason FOR
rejoicing. For the past twelve luo-23ls tn eNEw
PIONEER has been coming regularly to the
homes OF from $4,000 to 10000 working class
families. In the past year the NEW PIONEER
has Increased its circulation, has spread It's
sphere OF influence, has attracted hundreds OF
workers children to the revolutionary movement
The NEW PIONEER has shown these chill
dren what they can do for the cause Of the
workers. and how to do It'll
1t has accomplished to great degree among
the children what a workers revolutionary chill
dren's magazine should it has been an organizer,
an agtator, and propaganda
New Pioneer Guide.
Besides the great love the children have for
their organ, comrades from the field workers
and organizers have written laudatory letters
In the mining fields the magazine is known by
the miners as the only magazine you read from
cover to cover"
Children Suffer-Fight.
The day has gone when workers keep their
children away from the struggle in little ivory
towers. Children are suffering Children are
starving. Children fighting. And they have
proved that they can fight!
When the class battle between the miners and
the coal operators ragged last summer In the
Pennsylvania region thousands Of maya
Zines were shipped to the strike area in the Ken
lucky strike, in the textile strike of Lawrence
Mass the NEW PIONEER was right on the
picket line with the strikers children In the
Hunger Marches, children and adult, in the de-
mandS for Unemployment Insurance, and inrne@
diate relief. the NEW PIONEER, was there with
the demands OF the children. In the fight against
Jim Crow and segregation, in the fight to save
the nine Negro boys in Scottsboro, the maya
zine is ALWAYS READY.
Our shortcomings are many. We have no mail
ing rights Funds are scarce. Our circulation
though showing a gain, is actually limited in
sphere of reach. There are millions Of workers
children whom we must reach with our message
of solidarity and struggle. There are thousands
OF child laborerS whose ranks we hardly even
touch with our magazine.
CHILD LABOR ON INCREASE.
On April 4th, the National Child Labor
Committee in q release to the New York
Times, summarized the status of child en-
plOyment: ut is conservative to say that theirs
are 100000 minors at work who should be In
school. 1t is grim jest that boys and girls
should be deprived of needed education, while
adult bread winners are desperately in need
Of Jobs these children hold"
While we know that child labor as an institss
ton is part of the whole capitalist system and
as such can not be wiped out until the whole
system is wiped out still the fight against child
labor is carried on and these child laborers must
be reached And by whom? BY the NEW PIO.
NEER
Even the palatiaI porch OF the White House
conference on Child Health and Protection comes
the admission that $3.50 900 school children are
physically handicapped to an extent requiring
special attention"
PRESIDENT Hoover, in his hypocritical speech on
child welfare and health while he denies the
right to live to the parents and their children by
refusing Unemployment Insurance, was forced
to admit that 100000 children are out OF school
In the Kentucky mine fields where officials
never bother to take statistics children of eight
to fourteen go into the mines to help their dads
load coal Such facts are not taken into account,
That is not child labor, they are merely help
ing their parents load and pick the coal. Miners
are paid by piece work, and every lump counts
Miners asthma, coal dust on the lungs among
children is rampant In every Tennessee, West
Virginia, Kentucky coal mine town. Flux, peIas
gra, tuberculosis hunger diseases, are wiping out
the children OF the working class.
AL such conditions OF the increasing misery
of the children is exposed-where? BY the Bow
Scout magazine, Boys Life, which organizes the
Boy Scouts to aid Morgan his Block Aiders"2
BY the American Girl? Decidedly MOI Only the
NEW PIONEER, magazine of the workers and
farmers children. exposes the truth
Word for the Children.
With war against The WoIAels' Fatherlana
any day, the only land in the world where tine
workers children have ali, where cniid health
day, is every day, where world is being built
Tor the worAeIs childYen, where there are no
bosses ana there is no exploitation, adult work.
ers must support and build the NEW PIONEER.
You mus tsupport the magazine which slows
the workers children what they must do to helm
defend the Soviet Union, what they can do Ia
expose the war mongers' vicious plots
We want 10 come out thirty thousand
strong, so that twice as many workers children
can hear the reverberation OF joy, of solidarity
of struggle, and of victory OF the workers Of the
world. =
In order to come out with thirty-two pages
ard thirty thousand strong, we need your sup
port. Send us q greeting Renew your subscrip,
ton. Get more subscribers Greetings can range
anywhere from Is cents up Sg
Show your solidarity to the workers children.
Support and spread their magazine, the NEvf !
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