The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-10

but the labor-partyism OF the Ruthen-
berg group. Comfade" Shachtman
makes strange impression, said Kap-
Ian, when he speaks now Of the form
err majority's energetic determined
and merciless fight Against Loreism
in the league and the party"
Kaplan analysed the membership
figures given by Shachtman and stat
ed that these were hopeiessly at vari-
ance with the facts.
Discussing the two, major decisions
of the Young Communist International
in regard to the American section,
Comrade Kaplan said that the former
majority of the N. E. G. had shown
a characteristic hesitation in carrying
them out,
During the six months period be-
tween August, 1924, and February,
1925, said Comrade Kaplan, there had
been some extension into mass activi-
ty, and this was due to some extent
to the pressure and criticism of the
former minority. The efforts Of the
N. e. G. to completely immense the
Y. w. L. into the fight against the
labor party policy which had absorb
ed nearly all of the leagues strength
and attention, was an expression of
the effort to get away from mass ac-
tivities again and into sectarianism.
Therefore, said Comfade Kaplan,
this opposition to the former N. E. c.
majority must not be falsely char
acterized; it was carrying on the role
of fighting for the line, Of the Com
munist International and the Y. c. l.,
while the former majority was fight
ing against that line. Because this
former majority group was 6rganical-
ly connected with a similar group in
the party from which It absorbed its
ideas and misconceptions, the political
life of the Y. W. L. suffered heavily.
The last decision of the Communist
international supporting the Ruthen-
berg group of the party, said Kaplan,
is in effect an endorsement also of
the comrades who had been fighting
for the line of the Comintern in the
Communist youth league.
Comrade Kaplan reviewed the great
problems which the new National Elk
ecutive Committee faces in the i'm
mediate present and future. Organ
nationally he said, we are but
small group but we possess the basic
prerequisites for carrying on the Y.
w. L. to a brilliant record as the
American section of the Young Com
munist International First and fore
most must come a solfdly united rank
and file, and second a united leader
ship. However, he said, just as we
are obtaining the required unity of
the rank and file and preparing to
make the first steps toward CARRYING
on our new stage of work, we are
already promised an opposition, an
opposition not based on policies nor
upon difference of point of view.
The promise of such opposition was
contained, he said, in the resolution
offered by Comrade Williamson on
behalf of the former majority of the
- - - NAC RACoCAt OIL Jne
\. w. L., which undertakes to make a
realignment against the present lead
ership Of the party and OF the league.
He asked that the entire membership
of the youth league tbeshned up solid
ly behind the Comintern and the de-
cisions for mass activity laid down
by the Young Communist Interna-
tional.
A resolution in support of the re-
port of the former majority of the
N. E. G. was defeated by vote of 90
to rs. The resolution supporting the
report of the former minority of the
~ E. c., the present majority of the
convention, was passed by % to 23
votes. In this vote, Comrade Cannon.
one of the party delegates, being re-
leased from the unit rule by the party
delegation, voted in favor of the
former majority of the N. E. G.