‘Thanksgiving Day Public Trials to Be Held by Youth’ from the Daily Worker. Vol. 8 No. 283. November 25, 1931.

NEW YORK. —The Youth Committees of the Unemployed Councils have organized mass public trials for the youth on “Thanksgiving Day,” Nov. 26. In preparation for these there have been appeals made to the unemployed youth, through leaflets, demonstrations, struggles around specific youth cases for relief and to employed youth in the factories. City officials, charity heads, A. F. of L. officials, demagogic politicians have been indicted and challenged to defend themselves at these Public Trials.

The basis for these trials is to expose these officials before the youth. Unmasking their demagogy in completely ignoring of any relief for the unemployed youth. Discrimination practiced against the young unemployed in getting jobs or even miserable charity relief will be exposed.

This youth action on “thanksgiving day” is aimed at the hypocrisy of the bosses, when they try to satisfy the penniless, starving unemployed youth and children of unemployed parents with dinners on this day. They expect them to be contented to suffer the year around. This is a fitting day for the Public Trials which will give a smashing answer of the unemployed youth to the bosses. The trials will serve to expose these rich bosses and their politicians who don’t give a damn for the unemployed workers and especially the unemployed youth.

The unemployed youth has been quite active in the preparations for the National Hunger March to Washington on Dec. 7. Many of the delegates going will be young, unemployed workers. They will be actively organizing and continuing the struggle amongst the youth in the fight to get adequate relief for the unemployed.

The Public Trials are being organized in the following cities, which will be a youth action for the National Hunger March: Youngstown, Charlotte, Duluth, Superior, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bridgeport, New York, Cleveland, Buffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Detroit, Sioux City.

The witnesses for the prosecution will be unemployed young workers, children of the unemployed who have suffered and are suffering now from no relief. The witnesses and the prosecution will expose the demagogy of the officials, will show up the discrimination practiced against the unemployed in giving out a job and giving out miserable charity.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924. National and City (New York and environs) editions exist

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