The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-12
YOUTH CONGRESS
TO HOLD SESSIONS
IN CAPITAL, JAN. 4
Symposium on Congress
Will Be Held Dec. 81
in Washington

In preparation for the great Ma
tional Youth Congress to be held
in the Masonic Auditorium, Tenth
and U Streets, Washington, D. c.,
on Jan. and 5, at which repre-
sentatives of hundreds of thousands
of youth will meet to discuss ways
and means Of putting the program
adopted at the First American
Youth Congress into action, regional
congresses are being held through
out the country to mobilize the
youth in support Of the National
Congress.
The arrangements committee for
the Chicago Regional Congress con-
SiSts of representatives of the Stu
dent Council of the Central Y. M.
G. A. College, the Industrial Girls
League of the Y. w. c. A, the City
wide Council of the Business and
Professional Women of the Y. w.
G. A, the Young Communist League,
the Young Peoples Socialist League,
the International Negro Movement,
the Young Circle League, Youth
Section of the I. w. O., the Workers
Committee on Unemployment and
the Unemployment Councils.
T he arrangements Committee,
after discussion on the program
adopted at the American Youth
Congress, passed a motion to hold
regional youth congress based in
the main on the program of the
American Youth Congress with the
purpose of localizing and concretiz-
ing methods of improving the lot
Of Chicago youth
To Hold Symposium
The first session of the congress,
which will be welcoming mass
meeting at the New England Con-
gregational Church, 10 w. Della
ware, Dec. 81, will be featured by
symposium by representatives of the
Republican, Democratic, Socialist
and Communist Parties on the topic,
What is the attitude of my party
toward the program of the Amer
lean Youth Congress-" Sessions of
the congress proper will start at
the Y. M. G. A., SO E. Monroe,
at 2 pm. Dec. %. Seven commits
sionS will be formed on problems
OF youth in industry, unemployment
and social insurance, the interna-
tional situation, crisis in education,
child welfare, and racial relations.
Among the other endorsers of the
call for the Regional Congress are
the Pilgrims Baptist Church Zone
of the largest Negro churches on
the South Side, Arthur Falls, chair
man of the Inter Racial Commits
sion of the Chicago Urban League,
the presidents of the youth groups
in the West Ridge Community
Church and the Temple Bnai Israel
and many others.
In Ann Arbor, scene of the first
Regional Congress in Michigan,
there will be held the broadest
youth gathering ever held in the
State. Among the long list of en-
dorserS of the call to the congress
are the Y. w. and Y. M. G. A., the
Boy Scouts, the Campfire Girls, the
Michigan Council of Religious Edu-
cation, the League of Catholic Wom-
en-, the Jewish Community Center
OF Detroit, and the American Boy
Magazine.
The arrangements o m m i t e e.
states, THE Importance of the Mich
igan Youth Congress in connection
with prospective youth legislation,
both State and federal, is a sub
Ject that has aroused keen interest
and debate among political, educa-
tional and sociological groups
throughout the State of Michigan"
1t is expected that this enormous
interest will result in the presence
of over a thousand delegates at the
congress which will take place Dec.
IA to Dec. IS.
New England Rallies
In New Haven, Conn. call
jointly endorsed by the Inter Club
Council of the Y. M. G. A. and
Young Communist League has been
sent to all organizations, calling on
them to participate in a conference,
Dec. Is, at the Y. M. G. A.
These Regional Congresses will
discuss the program adopted at the
American Youth Congress held last
August in New York University, will
propose changes and ways and
means of putting the program into
effect in the particular region and
will elect delegates to the National
Congress which will take steps to
carry out the program nationally.