The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
BY HERBERT Fam.

We can therefore summarize as
follows: that the weight of young
workers in industry is increased, the
youth problem is made an outstand,
ing problem, not only to the young
workers themselves, not only to the
League as the vanguard of the toll
ing youth, but to the working class
as a whole. And the attacks upon
the standards of the working youth
which naturalization makes neces-
sary, bring about the worsening of
the conditions of the young workers,
bring about desire on the part of
the young workers to resist and to
struggle against these attacks, and
consequently affects their radicali-
cation.
This general process also intensi-
fies the class differentiations, both
economical and theological, between
the young workers and the non
working youth. We know that in
the United States in the past large
sections of the youth did not have
what we can call proletarian orien-
tation; that is, they did not orien-
tate towards industry, but rather
towards clerical occupations, because
they filled large portion of these
occupations. This is now changed.
The orientation of the youth is
changed. The differentiation in the
ranks of the youth is made sharp
and the general process of the de-
velopment of RESPONSIVENESS of
the young workers is greatly ac-
CELEBRATED.
Proper Orientation Necessary.
At the same time there is an I'M
even tempo in the development of
naturalization and it's effects; there
is an uneven tempo of development
and sharpening of the contradictions
resulting from capitalist rationale
cation, resulting from the general
contradictions of capitalism. Radi-
calization therefore also develops
unevenly. 1t affects some sections
of the young workers sooner than
other sections. 1t affects some sec
tons of the young workers to a
greater degree than it affects other
sections.
Our task as Communist youth
organization is to see and under
stand this change, to see the I'M
even tempo of development and to
orientate ourselves, to direct our
efforts towards those sections where
the development is fastest, where
the tempo of rehabilitation and the
processes of rehabilitation are pro-
ceeding at the greatest rate, where
the conditions are such as to set the
young workers in motion.
And if we fail to understand this
but deal only with rehabilitation in
general, the result will be disorien-
tation of our work, a Discrimination
of our League. We cannot put into
the same category the mining indus
try, or the textile industry, where
the process of rehabilitation has
proceeded fastest, where we really
have masses of young workers al
ready an active force in the class
struggle; we cannot put those in
dustries in the same category as the
biscuit industry, in the same cate.
CORY as the mail order houses.
And it is precisely because We
have not understood this sufficient
ly in the past, that we had to 6
certain extent, wrong orientation
For this reason our league is pas
years did not orientate itself toward:
the heavy industries, towards min
ing, towards textile, but our league
orientated it's main efforts and it:
main line was directed towards &C
tivity among the young workers il
the biscuit industry, among The
young workers in the mail order
houses.
This, comrades, resulted in con,
dition which necessitated and still
necessitates at the present time the
Qualification of this problem and the
proper orientation of the entire
league on the basis Of a correct
analysis, of correct understanding
of the results of naturalization anc
of the process of rehabilitation.
1t is in this sense that we speak
about a turn that we are going thru