The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Party Life
The New Pioneer
And the Duties
OF Party Members

THE NEW PIONEER, a monthly
publication of the Federation of
Workers and Farmers Children's
Organizations, has been coming out
regularly, with little or no direct
assistance from our Party as such.
The present circulation of this mag
azine, which is very well liked by
not only the children but also by
the adults who read it, is about
$4,000, distributed over 40 states
Considering the conditions of the
workers and their rapid radicaliza-
ton, the figure should be much
higher-50,OO0 readers could easily
be gained in short time without a
great deal of effort.
If only 10000 copies were sold and
paid for every month, the NEW
PIONEER would be disappearing
AS things are, it runs at a deficit.
Last year it was forced to engage in
campaign to raise $1,000 with
which to pay off its debts. About
81 300 was raised. This year it is
faced with the same problem. and is
having a campaign to raise $4,000.
We are depending chiefly upon
the children to raise this money,
but it is very essential that the adult
comrades help as much as possible.
There are several ways in which this
can be done. First, adult organ
izations can make collections of
money and send them in directly to
the NEW PIONEER. Every Party
and Y.CL. Unit can make a collec-
ton of at least a quarter and send
it in. If every Unit did this much,
1t would help tremendously. Second
ly, every Unit should take bundle
of NEW PIONEERS once month.
Individual members can buy copies
for children they know (their own
children, if these children do not
read the NEW PIONEER). Then
the magazine can be used in can
vassing. Where you go canvassing
with the Daily Worker, take a few
copies of the magazine along for the
children. They will like the mag
azine, and you will have an addi-
tional approach to their parents,
who will often organize for the needs
of their children sooner than for
their own needs.
1t should not be necessary to say
that every child of every Party
member and every child of a mem
Der Of a mass organization should
be a reader of the NEW PIONEER.
However. figures and other evidence
prove that it is necessary to say
this. Many comrades who are good
Communists in other respects fail
to fulfill their Communist duty
when it comes to their own children.
They fail to realize the Importance
of the working class education of
the child in our society, where from
his earliest years he is given educa-
ton against the working class in
the schools, movies, newspapers,
books, etc.
The Boy Scouts at the present
time have membership of almost
million boys ready to carry
through the program of the ruling
class at all times. In the last war
the Scouts sold Liberty Bonds and
War Savings Stamps worth more
than $2,000000. The Scouts are
now engaged in a recruiting cam
paign. They have the full support
OF the ruling class, naturally.
The Pioneer organization is very
important for the working class.
Yet we continually neglect it. Be-
side every branch of every mass or
ganization there should be built a
Junior Branch of Pioneers. This
Is simple task to accomplish.
Children of class conscious parents
want to be organized and educated
in the ideas Of the workers-that
is, If we approach them before the
schools, etc, have alienated them
from the working class. There is
such thing as leaving it until too
late.
The NEW PIONEER is an organ
izer and educator of workers and
farmers children. Yet we con-
tinually neglect it. We do not
spread it, even though the task of
spreading it is so easy. Let us stress
again that it is good magazine
generally conceded to be the best
IN our movement" Children like it.
Yet many children of our class
conscious parents don't even see it!
Surely this negligence is a criminal
thing, arising from a lack of I'M
Outstanding the political Importance
OF preparing our children to fight
with us and not against us.
Let us correct this attitude. com
rades! Let us organize Junior
Branches in every mass organiza-
ton. Let us buy the NEW PIo-
NEER, give it to our children. take
1t with us when we go canvassing
and, until such time as the maya
zine through our work will have
become self-supporting, let us sup
port it financially as a valuable in
strument in winning the working
class children for the working class
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