The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-26

Iportant task that now confronts the
Communist Parties.
Work, Among Youth.
d) A matter of decisive import
ance is the work among the youth,
especially among the industrial
youth. The greatest efforts must be
exerted-not only by the youth or
CARNATIONS, but by all Communists
in combating bourgeois sport or
CARNATIONS, fascist organizations,
military schools, etc, through which
the bourgeoisie are training the
youth for imperialist wars. Further
more, bourgeois military training of
the youth must also be combatted.
Where the military training of the
youth is compulsory, the Commu-
nists should urge the young work.
ers to accept it, but they must or
ganize work for the political educa-
ton of these young workers and
for the disintegration of the bour
geois military organizations. Simile
work must be carried on in bour-
geois, voluntary military training
organizations. For this purpose, the
Communist Party and the Young
Communist League must send men,
bers into these organizations, but
they must not urge the young work
ers to join them. Instead, they must
urge the young workers to join, or
form, Labor Defense Organizations.
Work Among Women.
e Bearing in mind the important
part women play in industry, especi-
ally in time of war, work must be
carried on among the industrial
working women and workingmen's
wives. To combat the imperialist
influences disseminated among work
ing women through petty bourgeois
organizations and to organize the
working women in trade unions and
other proletarian mass organiza-
tons, are extremely important tasks
at the present time in view of the
ehiCeitculilB Wal danger.
In this connection, special consid-
Grafton must be given to the plans
for the militarization of women and
to the increasing influence which
bourgeois pacifist. religious and ma
tionalist organizations are exercising
over working class women. Work
among the women must no longer
be neglected, and the idea that this
work is solely the affair of the wom-
en- Communists must be stamped out.
r f. Anti-milt5arist activity; work
in the army and navy; work among
the recruits and reservists and in
bourgeois defense organizations, in
which the proletarian element is
strongly represented, must consti-
tute an inseparable part of the gen
teral revo' ltionary mass activity of
the Party, and must embrace the
whole of the working class.
Need of Illegal Organization.
16. Lenin was of the opinion that
the only possible way of continu-
ing revolutionary work after the out
break Of war is the creation of an
illegal organization" But, an illegal
Organization is also necessary in the
anti-war struggle before war breaks
out. There is still considerable con-
fusion of mind concerning this i'm
lportant task in the struggle against
war, and serious neglect in its prac-
tical fulfillment.
4 In some Communist Parties the
definitely opportunist view prevails
that the conduct of anti-war activity
is the business only of the youth,
or of a special organization. while
activity within the army is regarded
as not being absolutely essential.
Such views must be vigorously COM
batted, and the work must be taken
up Immediately, in the spirit of the
instructions given by Lenin. In this
connection, we must:
Organize Illegal Apparatus.
y. Enlarge the number of Party
factory nuclei which, under given
circumstances arising from the per-
secution Of the employers and the po-
lice, must go underground. The pre-
parations for the transference to