The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
By JOHN LITTLE.

r,NE Of the outstanding tasks that confront the
U League at the coming Plenum will be the
trade union question. Together with this the
seaeue will have to consider other major prob
sens Primarily, work among the masses OF
Young Negro workers, the work within the armed
forces and the struggle against bourgeois sports
as well as the building Of our Labor Sports
Onion. -.t...-
This Plenum will have to make thorough
check up on the Shock Plan and especially us
trade union section, to establish within the ranks
of the membership correct orientatlon OF the
League toward the building OF mass economic
\ trade unions and their youth sections. the Z.
g. L. will not become mass political organiza-
ton that fights for the interests OF the working
class without this orientation.
( The problems of building powerful move
nnent among the Negro youth and mass sports
organization are not separate from the winning
of the working class and especially its youth Sec
ton into the revolutionary trade unions Tne
confusion, due to the mechanical separation OF
these problems from the trade union question mas
resulted in our inability to make the necessary
tnroads in any of these fields. critical analysis
/ of this work of the League in these respective
fields must be met.
Work Among the Unemployed Youth.
Il The developing of special forms by which to
rally the unemployed is of utmost Importance
Up to the present time the League has COM
pletely failed in understanding this. Much OF
the activity that has been carried on has been
of an abstract propaganda nature. In order
to effectively carry on the struggle against I'M
employment, it is necessary to place before the
workers immediate and realistic demands based
on what the workers are willing to fight for
The unemployed councils which we have or
ganized up to the present time do not reflect the
struggles of the workers With very few excep-
lions these councils do not reflect the fighting
mood Of the workers. This is apparent by the
failure to develop broad national movement
among the unemployed Where we have taken
up concrete struggles Of the workers Detroit,
Chicago, New York; for example, organizing
workers to carry back the furniture Of evicted
workers and then placing guards to prevent the
police from re-evicting the workers, the coun-
ellis have grown numerically. The League must
correct the failure to develop special unemployed
youth activities within the unemployed councils,
both on the industrial and neighborhood basis,
such as the building Of sports movements and
the setting up of dramatic and educational work
within the councils
The failure to understand and apply the united
front from below has resulted In our failure to
draw masses of young workers into the struggle
against unemployment Practically no efforts
nave Dccu uduc W PCoCIiuuO oiAo WoihCio AioVcA
nal sports and educational organizations which
have millions of employed and unemployed
young workers.
The coming Plenum will have as one Of It's
major tasks that Of making thorough analysis
of the conditions OF the unemployed young
workers in the various sections Of the country
from this formulating concrete and realistic
program of demands for rallyng the youth in
the coming struggles this winter.
The American Federation Of Labor and espe-
cially Music, the spokesman Of the socialist