The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
BY MARTHA CAMPION

II never did realize until
became an /. ". o. Pioneer how
proud a Pioneer can really be.
/ am sorry for all those children
who do not belong to us yet. We
Pioneers learn to understand how
bad it is for workeT6 to scab. We
also learn the idea of strikes, that
3 our parents are struggling to make
our lives better, not to Starve,
and TO have clothes. We Pho
neers learn how TO appreciate our
parents struggles and hardships
in order to support us and to
make things better tor us. We
also learn by being organized how
to help our parents in the various
struggles by demonstrating with
our parents. We learn TO under
stand all the holidays Of the
workers. We are preparing our
selves for the celebration of May
the First. We Pioneers will raise
our voices to stop war and hunger
that we children are the sufferers
Of it. We shall organize to be
strong organization of Pioneers"
Pioneer -Iurray Kslisher,
Nine and one half Years Old.
MINISTERS and priests, and
wi rabbis, usually base their SER
mons on texts from the Bible. ]
would like to base this article on
the letter quoted above.
1t is impossible to reproduce in
print the whole effect of this letter
written painstakingly in pencil on
ruled tablet paper, with its childish
errors in spelling and grammar
But there is something here that we
can lay our finger on, something
that characterizes the letter inme-
diately as the letter of workers
child, and more than that, a child
conscious of the fact that = is OF
the working class. Moreover, at
the same time that the letter is
class conscious, it remains the let
ter of a child, and not of an infant
prodigy who is mounting phrase;
without knowing their meaning.
Many Of our enemies, and many
comrades in our own ranks, accuse
us of encouraging in our Pioneers
such a capacity for making speeches
and becoming little exhibitionist;
without knowing what they are
doing or why. In these days, wher
millions of children are slowly
starving to death, when theil
fathers, the workers of the coun.
try, are striking against the N. R. A
codes, against the ending of the
c. w. A., against further starvation
and restitution, can anyone say
that these conditions do not affect
the children without our telling
them about these things?
We Must Guide Our Children
One must tell hungry children
that there is no bread The rea
quarrel of our enemies with US il
that we show the children the rea.
sons for the conditions they arr
already conscious of, and the solu
ton, and teach them to tlgh
against these conditions.
What do the reformists of variou
kinds do in the face of these con
ditions? Well, it appears that som,
of them take workers children t.
camps and teach them games tina
their child psychologists tell then
normal children of that age shoulc
play The Musteites, who sponsor
number of summer camps to which
workers kids are taken, go in TO
child psychology in quite big way
They believe, they say, that teach
ers of workers children should con
centrate on problems of adjust
ment" to their environment. We
on the other hand, say that workers
children must not be taught how Il
adjust themselves to the society o
hunger and deprivation in whicl