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| Title | The Programs of the Young Communist International |
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| Publisher | Publishing House of the Young International |
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| Date | 1923 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 55 pages; 21 cm |
| Original Item Location | HX11.Y68P7 1923 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8319993~S11 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | Public Domain: This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Image 54 |
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| Transcript | ... .— .IM workers and apprentices receive, at best, much lower unemployment doles than the adult workers, and in most cases none at all. The young workers, however, must not only sustain life just as the adult workers must, but they are exposed much more to the dangers of misery and often lose the possibility of learning a trade. From these facts results the imperative necessity for the demands of the Y.C.I, for equal unemployment doles for young and adult workers and for the establishment of training shops for the former. The six hour day for young workers was also a demand of the Stuttgart program and, under the pressure of the young workers, even the antagonist Internationals of Youth had to include this demand in their programs. Considering the critical and early stage of development of the youth and their need for mental education and physical training, no one will today deny the imperative necessity of the six hour day. Furthermore, the prohibition of night work for all youths up to this age and of their employment in shops and industries injurious to their health, is a matter of course for the working class which dees not want its youth to be destroyed in the bloom of its years. We strive for a physically and mentally younger generation; every young worker must receive sufficient holidays and good care during these holidays, as well as sufficient week-end rest. The Y.C.I, furthermore, advocates a number of demands for the transformation of the present apprenticeship system and for trade education for all young workers, which capitalism has made the expensive privilege of a few. This compulsory trade education is not to have the character of the present bourgeois apprenticeship and con- inuation schools where the pupils are exploited and receive no real training in their trade but these schools must provide practical training based on the principles of the workshop school and excluding all exploitation. Although this demand can be realized only under the rule of the working class, it must, nevertheless, be raised even today. The basis of this education must be the apprentices' department RvT^oliHn^'J A- ^^P^ted by the worbhop schools. By the abolition of individual indentures and through strict control by the organizations of the working class, apprenticeship must be wrested from the con hoi of capital and regulated by the elective agreements of the trade unions. The exploitation of juvenile labor in apprenticeship, the sweating of apprentices, the claim oHhe r ghte of the employer, must be ruthlessly fought, and the apprentice who per- 52 |