The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-06
The Young Communist International in the East.

ant movement and the struggle of
the proletariat for a leading role in
the revolution, resulted in the in
crease of the proletarian elements in
the Y. C. L. to 1920 and decline of
the students of 419e. The theological
influence of the Y. C. L. is 10 times
greater than its organizational
strength. Almost half of the revolu-
tiorary wing of the students move
ment, having 450-500 local organiza-
tions and embracing several hundreds
Of thousands of students, is under the
theological and organizational leader
ship of the Y. C. L., which enables it
to extend its influence over the broad
masses of the petty bourgeois urban
democracy. The active struggle of
the Chinese Y. G. L. for revolution
airy democratic dictatorship of the
working class and the urban poor, for
the agrarian revolution, for the social
and democratic Transformation of
China, the relentless criticism of the
opportunist leaders converts the Y.
C. L. into one of the most capable
fighting political organizations of
China, in spite of the severe suppress
sion of the bourgeoisie and the mill
tarist reactionaries.
Japan. The Y. C. L. of Japan was
founded at the beginning of 1923 by
a group of Communists and Left wing
trade union leaders. The Y. C. L.
did not have much experience or prep
aration in technical underground
work 1t likewise did not sufficiently
realize the aims and tasks of the
youth movement and bore narrow
sectarian character, most of its work
consisting of propaganda. The reac-
ton which followed the earthquake
resulted in the breakup of the Com
munist Party and the Y. G. L. It
snatched the most talented comrades
out of their ranks such as Hawai-,
Katashima, Emanici and others. The
Party was dissolved and the Y. c. L..
followed suit. In January 1925, the
Y. C. L. again organized and became
very active among the masses of
young workers. 1t advanced the slo-
gan of creating an independent class
proletarian youth league and worked
out a concrete program of action and
demands of young workers. In Sep
TENDER 1925, the Japanese Y. c. L..
for the first time celebrated Interna-
tional Youth Day, which produced a
vigorous response from among the
workers. The intensive activities of
the Y. C. Leagues attracted the at
tention of the police, who endeavored
to seize the most active organizers.
All activities of the Y. c. l.. proceed
under the severest police supervision
and absolutely illegally. Based on
the young and disintegrated labor
movement, the Y. C. L. of Japan, to-
Egether with the proletarian youth.
league, organized in November 1925
by active trade union Left elements,
have in their ranks over 1900 mem
bers. They constitute the largest or
ganization of young proletarians. If
we take into consideration that only
ITS, 900 workers out of a total of 5
million are organized and that the
organizations are split into 440 bod
lies, this figure is quite considerable.
The struggle Of the japanese Y. c. l..
at the present time against feudal
survivals, militarism and the putrid
Japanese bourgeoisie whilst there is
an upward surge in workers and
peasants movement, is no longer
menaced by complete humiliation and
has chances Of further successful de-
velopment. 4