REVOLUTIONARY PROPAGANDA AMONG CHILDREN.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "- SPECTATOR."' you allow me again to call your attention to the increasing revolutionary propaganda among children? The Proletarian School movement and the different revolutionary organizations for the young in this country have now been merged in a single " Young Communist League," which is affiliated to the "Young Communist International," and aims at a revolution on Moscow lines. The journal of this Leagne, of which the first number has recently been issued, is called The Young Communist, and contains one of the usual wordy revo- lutionary manifestos addressed to youthful workers to destroy Capitalism and establish Communism. The tone of the mani- festo may be gathered from the following:—
"Rouse! Young workers, rouse! You are living under the worst conditions. Yet none but the beet are good enough for you. You—your class, our class, produces all wealth. It has the right to consume it all."
But this is not enough. The children—I might say even the babies—are to be brought up to the class war. On the special children's page of this Bolshevik magazine a Soviet Star is offered to children for the best letters sent in. The type of letter expected may be gathered from a specimen said to have been received from a Liverpool child attending a Proletarian school, which runs :-
" WRY I AM A REBEL.
This is one thing why I am a rebel, because the capitalists make the workers slaves for profit for themselves, and also they make the workers slaves by not letting them work. We are rebels: we fight the capitalists because we want everybody
to have the right to live. (Comrade) Ross Dar Liverpool. (Aga 7 years)."
The only remedy is to expose the real aims of the revolution- ists. The British Empire Union, recognizing what a serious menace. the Socialist and Proletarian School movement is to
the character of the rising generation, as well as to sane con- stitutional government, started a campaign against it about six months ago. The British Empire Union has already enlisted the support of many prominent men and women and of religious bodies of all denominations, and I should like to appeal to your readers to, assist us in our efforts against this dangerous move- ment.—I am, Sir, &c., REGINALD Wissols, General Secretary..
British Empire Union, 9-10 Agar Street, Strand, W.C. 2.
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