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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Class Point of View the
Only Defense of the
New Generation

their parents and neighbors in favor
of the war, etc.
The Boy Scouts in this country
are a real challenge to the revolu-
tionary workers. IN the Boy Scouts
the ruling class and its executive
committee, the government, has
built up a reserve, so to speak, for
the next war and for the service of
the ruling class even in time of
peace" There are well over a
million Boy Scouts registered in the
United States at this time. And
the Scout movement is at present
embarked on a Ten Year Plan of
Recruitment. The Scouts are fl
nanced and directed by the big
industrialists and high government
officials. And these members of
the ruling class know how important
for them the Scouts are.
Here is a quotation from an adj
dress made by Secretary of the
Interior Wilbur at the annual din
ner of Boy Scout officials in 1929:
Two great contests are going on
in the world. One we are staging
here. Russia is staging the other.
Russia is dealing with its youth,
trying to teach them to think new
ways, new methods of working to-
gether. 1t is succeeding to a re-
markable degree. We think the
ideal with which the Russian boy
is confronted is not the best, but the
greatest contest in the world today
is between those working class
ideals-M. CO and our ideals (capi-
talist ideals-M. Co.,. One of the
questions of most concern today is,
which will win, the American idea
or the one in Russia?
1--WE DO not know, but we have
confidence that ours is better. Ger
tainly it seems to be better for us,
and in developing in this country
these ideals, these standards, these
feelings, that we want our youth to
have, we find the Boy Scout move
ment one of the most significant
of all the institutions that we
have" my emphasis-M c.
When in the Boy Scouts more than
million children are being trained
physically and ideologically for can
non fodder and against the working
class surely our 10000 organized
working class children are not a
cause for celebration alone.
Every indifference toward the
education of workers children in
the past has been paid for thrice
over by the working class. And
indifference to the children at the
present time, with the rise of fas-
cism and the danger of war any day,
is crime against our class.
Will our children be cannon fod-
der in the next war, and Storm
Troopers when the American Hitler
comes along? Or will they be our
allies in the struggle for a workers
government, the builders of the new
world which we shall conquer? The
answer depends on lis.
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mist Party long before the downfall
of the Sampler government urged
united front of the Socialist and
Communist Parties in preparation
for the armed uprising.
The united front, however, was
formed in the general strike and In
the lighting throughout Spain
against the attempted institution of
the fascist regime.
Growing difficulties among the
ranks Of the capitalists and land
lords was seen in the protests of
the heads of the Republican Party
against the establishment of the
Lerroux cabinet. Former Premier
Manuel Azana, and many of his
followers. broke all connections with
the Lerroux government on the
ground that these political ele-
ments delivered the republic to its
enemies today
More recently the Socialist Party
leaders have been speaking and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
Alabama Kidnaps Two Attorneys

Alabama hdnapS Two Attorneys
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct. 5.
Throwing a federal writ of ha-
beas corpus served on them out of
the car window, Alabama deputies
Thursday kidnapped two attorneys,
Daniel Swift and Sol Kone, and
spirited them across the border.
The two attorneys we're charged
with bribery" in a crude frame
up in which Alabama authorities
charged an attempt to bride Vic
toria Price, whose perjured testi-
mony has been used as the basis
for the conviction of the Scottsboro
boys, and sentence of death
against two of them.
They were arrested in Chatta-
nooga on request of Alabama au-
thorities, who claimed that man
named Pearson had told them the
attorneys were coming TO give him
money, as a go-between, for Vic
toria Price.
A hearing was held before Gov
ernor McAliSter Of Tennessee, here,
and extradition ordered.
Before the order could be exc
cuted, an attorney had obtained a
federal writ Of habeas corpus, based
on the fact that the extradition
was illegal, no specific date or spe-
ciflc offense having been charged.
The writ was served on the Ala
bama authorities as they started
away with the two attorneys in
their car, and was legally binding
upon them. They threw the writ
out of the window Of the car,
stepped on the gas, and proceeded
to Huntsville, Ala,
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There are thousands Of employ
ers of two, five, ten and fifteen
men" Richberg stated, in which
the right to individual bargaining
may be very real right and the
essence of tranquil relations. In
such cases employers and employ
ees may work out their problems to-
gether and all may desire TO be
free from outside control"
This open attack on the closed
shop principle of trade unions called
forth from William Green. a dema-
gogic reply in an effort to hold
back rising rank and file resent
ment in the A. F. of L. at the top
leadership's policies.
Green based himself solely on the
rulings of the various NRA laboA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
International Children's
Week, Oct. 3 to Is,
Stresses Issue
By MARTHA CAMpION

In a school in Germany a boy
softly hummed the international"
What is that song?" asked his
neighbor. That's our song" he
answered. "Oh," said the other,
SHOW me the badge of your party"
The first drew hammer and sickle
on a piece of paper, and the second
said, Your hand on it, comrade.
We will form cell here"
When all the strike leaders were
arrested in the recent mine strike
in Gallup, New Mexico, fifteen
year-old miners daughter, vent to
the telegraph office and wired, All
leaders in Jail. Send help immedi-
ately."
To make this spirit live in our
youth is the task we all must be
conscious of during International
Children's Week (Oct. S-15). This
week is being celebrated for the
fourteenth time, in all countries
where workers and their children
are organized.
1t is time, here In the United
States, not only for celebration, in
spite of the fact that there are
10000 children organized into work
ing class organizations young
Pioneers, TWO. Juniors, Young De-
tenders, Nature Friend Scouts, etc..
It is equally time when all work.
ers must consider very seriously
what their responsibility to the
children means.
Children and Politics
Let us note what lack of re-
sponsibility to the children has
meant in the past.
Before the war, very casual atten-
ton was given to the training of
proletarian children. In the ranks
of the revolutionary workers there
existed to q large extent the atti-
tude that children should have
nothing to do with politics. Child
hood was supposed to be a time
only for play.
The serious consequences of this
attitude can easily be seen. Those
children who were carefully guarded
from the EVIL effects" Of working
class training went to war; they
killed working class young people
Of other countries; they themselves
died "for God and country"
The reason for this is not only
that they received little or no
political training at all. They did
receive in the schools, the churches,
through all the agencies of bourgeois
democracy thorough working
class training. They we're indoc-
trinated with nationalism, chauvin-
ism, militarism. The class in power
was not so foolish as we were. They
saw that the children received ex-
actly the political training that
would be of benefit to the class in
power. The liberals" with their
attitude that children should have
nothing to do with politics. dis
armed the workers, and the child's
mind was left open to the schools
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If We Don't Train Working Glass
Children, Capitalists Surely VIII

which were run by the class in
power. The schools gave the chill
dren solid anti-working class edu-
cation, and the organized working
class gave them nothing to coun-
teract it.
Children and FaScism
A second serious consequence of
the lack of working class education
given the children is the hold fas-
cism has been able TO get upon some
sections of the youth. It is true
that this is not as yet as observable
in this country as it is in Italy and
Germany, where many young peo-
pie who have just graduated from
childhood, so to speak, are brought
into the fascists bands. That fas-
cism Goes not have mass base in
this country yet is all the more
reason why we should bend our
energies to the education of the
children, We must make it i'm
possible for fascism to win our
young people.
Who will be the Storm Troops of
this country? Some will be boys like
Johnny. Johnny is the son of a
worker. He went through hig h
school, and when he came out,
could not get work. He spends his
days and nights hanging around the
corners with other boys like him
self. These boys are full of the
energy of youth, but there is no
outlet for this energy. For amuse-
ment they go to the movies which
daily becomes more nationalIstic
and more antagonistic to reds" and
Communists; they real cheap maya
zines in which "red" is the villain
and young policeman or the
United States Army the hero more
and more frequently. These boys
have never had any working class
education. They have never had
any experience in industry or labor
organizations. Their minds are still
full of the education they have re-
ceived In the schools of the ruling
class. And they are full of energy,
and no outlet for i'll Let Hitler
come along, and give them guns,
and drills, and orders to raid homes.
and shoot up workers demonstra-
tions, and what will happen?
The Example of Germany
Let Germany, where the Social
Democrats were in control of the
schools for a decade, and where the
school children still paraded before
Hindenburg and learned from mon
arehist textbooks, be lesson to us.
Our youth must not be ready to
follow Hitler as so many of the
German youth did.
Let us learn also from the acti-
vities of the youth and even of the
small children in our own country
during the last war. In that war,
as we saw, war propaganda found
fertile ground in our young people.
And look at the activities of the
children themselves. The Boy Scouts
sold more than 100000, 900 worth of
Liberty Bonds and War Savings
| Stampsl The masses of children in
the schools, besides, as you all re-
member. were regimen ed to sell
bonds and stamps. to knit lnittens
for the soldiers, to propagandize
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LiebOwitz Quits
SCOttSbOrO Case
Continued from Page y

ests Of the Scottsboro boys. or of
any other political prisoners, in
their fight for life and freedom. To
have retained any but the ablest
available constitutional attorney
for the Supreme Court appeals,
would have been false to the prin-
ciples Of the organization, and
betrayal of the boys, and of the
whole struggle of the Negro people
for national liberation, of which
this fight is an inseparable part.
Mr.. Liebowitz is out of the case
because he has chosen to put his
personal and political ambition
above the interests of the Scots
boro boys" the LID. statement
said. He is not a constitutional
lawyer, and therefore completely
unsuited to take the case to the
o. S. Supreme Court. He has exc
posed his motives Of personal ambi-
ton in the case by his withdrawal
at this time, and by the vicious, I'M
warranted attacks upon the LID,
n4lACA4 LIDO odNCQ GlEC 4lFCo VI Tile
boys for three and a half years,
and which is continuing the fight
for their lives and freedom.
Now, more than ever" the LID.
statement said, masses of workers
must be organized to fight to save
the lives Of the Scottsboro boys and
obtain their unconditional freedom.
The case now goes to the U. s. SUI
preme Court, which must first of
all be forced by the mass pressure
of the workers all over the world,
to consent to review the case, and
then to free the boys uncondition-
ally, which is within the power Of
this court"
Protests must be addressed to
the U. S. Supreme Court and to
President Roosevelt, both at Wash
ington.
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boards in his charge that Richberg's
position was impractical Green
did not point out that Rooseyelt's
new NRA lineup is engaging in an
extension of the drive against mill
tant union policies which was be-
gun with the fostering OF the NRA
codes.
Green sought to create the i'm
preston that Richberg's open shop
stand is something contrary to the
position of t he Roosevelt govern
ment instead of the deliberate and
logical extension of the whole
Roosevelt program of protecting
monopoly profit
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News coming from Spain does not
clearly indicate the methods or Or
ganization of the armed struggles
and whether any central di-ectives
were issued for the establishment OF
a workers government. Nothing has
bsen reported on the actions of the
peasants, who face severe attacks
under the Lerroux regime.
Francisco Largo Caballero, presi-
dent of the Socialist Party and sec
rotary OF the General Laborers
Union, issued the call for the gen
eral strike, which was Joined in by
the Communist Party. The Commu-
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Continued from Page ~
son and captured it. Less Of life
was reported on both sides.
OLVIEDO.-A number Of Civil
Guard garrisons were attacked by
the workers, and severe fighting is
going on.
BARCELONA. = Pightist and
Fascist newspapers arriving here
from Madrid were seized by the
workers out on a general strike and
burned in the streets.
OYONIEGO.-Barracks Of the
Civil Guard We're burned to the
ground by the rebels. A motorist
passing through by a roundabout
way reported that the streets here
we're filled with barbados, and
fierce fighting is going on.
SERGUARA.-A truck carrying
Civil Guards sent against the rebel
lious workers was forced to turn
back when it came Upon a detacn-
ment of the workers militia. The
armed workers are marching along
the highway with red banners
floating in the breeze, shouting for
dictatorship of the proletariat and
vowing death to the Fascist gov
eminent Socialists, Communists
and Syndicalists, wearing red arm
bands, are marching and fighting
side by side for the victory of the
workers cause.
BARCELONA. - The Catalonian
government is reported to be ready
to issue a manifesto declaring
Catalonia an autonomous republic.
In Basque, 300 railway strikers
sliced a train, armed themselves
and headed for Olviedo where they
planned to Join forces with their
fellow workers in that city. They
we're stopped on the way by a
heavy concentration of Civil
Guards and after severe fighting
were forced to retreat.
SAMA DE LANGREO.-Armec
miners seized huge quantity OF
explosives and are proceeding to at.
tack the entrenched Civil Guards
They have warned the Civil Guards
and soldiers that if they do net
give up their stronghold they vii
be blown up.
Observation-Disclosures siezed the
town officials and proclaimed the
workers government. Troops were
sent against the town. Severe
fighting is now going on. The out
come has not yet been reported.
CUETA. Spanish Morocco.LThe
general strike movement spread tc
this Spanish colony when worker,
here Joined in the fight against the
Fascist Lerroux government.
MANzANEDA.-A detachment OF
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revolutionary workers attacked
bus containing Fascist reinforce
ments, killing a number and effec-
lively preventing them from pro-
ceeding against the revolutionary
workers.
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Continued from Page y
Of the workers against the open
shop. Citing the Houde decision of
the National Labor Board, Rich
berg declared that this decision at
firms the right OF majority OF
workers in plant TO elect repre-
sentetiyes. but also gurantees the
minority the right Of individual
Bargaining" a clear justification for
the open shop.
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n. R. A. Change to
Extend Monopolies

Continued from Page y
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SPANISH Workers
Seize Many Towns

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BARCELONA. = Pightist and
Fascist newspapers arriving here
from Madrid were seized by the
workers out on a general strike and
burned in the streets.
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MANzANEDA.-A detachment of
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OLVIEDO.-A number Of Civil
Guard garrisons were attacked by
the workers, and severe fighting is
going on.
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son and captured it. Loss Of life
was reported on both sides.
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CUETA, Spanish Morocco.-The
general strike movement spread to
this Spanish colony when workers
here Joined in the fight against the
Fascist Lerroux government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Grand Jury Indicts Ia
Jailed in Oklahoma City
Nay 81 Demonstration

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Aug. l..
Fourteen workers, arrested dur
ing demonstration of 5000 unem-
ployed on May 81, we're indicted by
the Federal Grand Jury here on
July II, on charges of "obstructing
an officer"
In the May 81 demonstration the
workers marched on the federal
food commissary after relief had
been cut off. Police attacked the
workers with tear gas and clubs,
and the fire department was mo-
bilized to turn streams of water on
the marchers. Scores were beaten
and one leader was seized and
beaten by thugs.
Six workers, part of the scores
arrested, are still in jail. The In
ternational Labor Defense of Okla
bona City is circulating petition
demanding their release and the
dropping of all charges against the
arrested workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Bronx Bread Strikers
To Press Price Fight
AT NRA Board Today

Representative of the f74th Street
Neighborhood Organization Against
The High Cost of Living will appear
this morning at hearing of the
New York N. R. A. Consumers
Board, which has injected itself into
the fight of Bronx workers to COM
pei lower bread prices in neighbor-
hood bakeries. The neighborhood
organization accepted the invitation
on the proviso that arrests of their
pickets would be stopped.
1t was disclosed at a hearing yes
terday that three of the bakers
against whom the consumers strike
is aimed are being prevented from
making settlement by the associa-
ton of bakery owners to which they
belong under the threat of $500
fines,
Since the beginning of the fight
three weeks ago under the lead
ership of the Council of Working
Class Women and the neighborhood
units of the Communist Party and
Young Communist League, 80
pickets have been arrested and
sentenced to short Jail terms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Ohio Collects 10000
Signatures; Deadline
Extended to August 3

CLEVELAND, Aug. IA check
up at the State Ratification Con-
ference held at Youngstown Mon
day showed that twenty thousand
signatures had been secured for
nominating petitions to place the
Communist Party on the ballot of
Ohio State. Fifty thousand sigma
lures are needed.
The deadline to file the petitions
has been extended one week till
Aug. 8. During this week an in
tensive campaign of all possible
forces will be conducted. Several
delegations pledged themselves to
fulfill their quota by Aug. 5.
The conference adopted a plat
form based on the National Con-
gressional Platform of the Commu-
mist Party. 1t endorsed the State
candidates nominated by the Party
and adopted proposals for an in
tensive campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Buffalo Jobless
Call District
Relief Farley

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 1.-The
Unemployment Councils here issued
call yesterday to all working
class organizations to a district I'M
employment conference on unem-
ployment insurance and relief, The
conference will be held at 881
Broadway, Buffalo, on Aug. 10 and
10.
Every working-class organization
is asked to send two delegates for
each so members.
The conference committee tenta-
lively put forward the demands for
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill, for immediate adequate
cash relief to all unemployed work
ers, and against evictions.
All unemployed groups and Or
carnations are urged to send dele
gates for the working out OF single
unified unemployment movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Independent
LabOrBOdy
To Be Formed
New England Unions To
Meet September l
In Bridgeport

NEW HAVEN, Conn, July 81. =
A conference for the purpose of
organizing an Independent Fedora
ton of Labor for the New England
states has been called to take place
in Bridgeport, Conn, Sept. and
2. The conference, decided on at
a meeting Of delegates from indie
pendent and industrial u n ions
which took place here Saturday,
will include independent and indus
trial unions not affiliated to tie
American Federation of Labor.
The initiative for the conference
was taken by a large independent
union in Connecticut.
Together with the representatives
from the independent and indus
trial unions, delegates will be invited
from the federal unions of the A..
F. of L. in view of the policy of
the A. F. of L officialdom in at
tempting to exert jurisdication
rights of A. F. of L. international
unions over the federal organiza-
tons. Conference calls will be
mailed out Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Hearst Attorney Leader
of Council That
Spread Poison

The publishers daily propaganda
against the menace" with the
slogan that the general strike was
revolution was pushed forward.
THE strategy of Mr.. NeyIand
and the publishers council had
now begun to work. :. On Thurs
day the general strike was called
off in San Francisco and the next
day in the East Bay area. AS
the strike collapsed the publish
ers' council endeavored to get
things moving again"
Ironically, the same edition of the
Editor and Publisher contains an
editorial advising editors to stop
the red scare on the grounds that
it gives the Communists too much
publicity.
The publishers did yeoman serv-
ice for the shipowners, one of the
largest of which is the Standard
Oil Co. They maintained constant
contact with the Mayor and Gov
ernor and the Roosevelt government
officials. They worked hand in
glove with the reactionary A. F. Of
L. officials. They manufactured
daily strike breaking material
Once more the West Coast news
paper owners struck blow against
the working class, against the rights
of the workers to organize, and to
strike. against the trade unions.
Once more the state of California
boasts Of its employers propa-
ganda mill, ON guard to maintain
the open shop.