The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-06
BY ART STEIN
District Organizer, District Is

Our district, here in California, has been
almost completely isolated from the life of the
League nationally insofar as an exchange Of
experiences with other districts is concerned
can only base my opinion on the scant reports
which have come through on the work of the
other district of our League. 1t is clear that
even in the Shock Plan we did not succeed in
carrying through even half of the tasks which
we set. But in going over the reports one thing
stands out-and that is that there has been
imbued in our League the spirit and desire to
break once and for all the sectarian bonds
which are holding back the development of our
youth movement. This in my opinion was the
first prerequisite for making the turn. Our
League now understands what the Y.CI. meant
when it called for a turn to mass work. What
remains before our coming Plenum is to see
that this understanding reaches the lowest
strata of our membership and to find the
cessary forms with which to carry through the
turn
l have stated above that from the reports
we have received we can say that the League
membership throughout the country has begun
to understand the turn. In the main, this is
true for our League in California In carrying
through the Shock Plan our District can poina
to certain achievements, the most outstanding
being the work in building the Young Worker.
to do such good work for the Young Worker.
The reason is simple. Our membership was
made to understand the importance of the
Young Worker in helping to break with the
sectarianism of our League in this district.
The comrades found through their experiences
in trying to make connections in the factories,
from which we were completely isolated, that
the Young Worker was an invaluable organ
izer. This is the reason for the enthusiasm on
the part of the membership of our district for
the Young Worker. Every individual comrade
directly felt the blow if the paper failed to
appear even for one week. Although our Lea
que as whole succeeded in building the Young
Worker since the last plenum the coming pie
mum still has the task of making the Young
Worker weekly, of stabilzing the finances
of the paper and taking steps to insure its
regular appearance.
We have also made some progress, though
very small, in beginning factory work. Especi-
ally in Los Angeles section of the League is
this true. In Los Angeles before the Shock
Plan began, practically no work was done in
the shops. Today, they are issuing two shop
papers, have recruited young worker into
the League as result of this work, made
several good connections with other young
workers, and have the possibility of forming
shop nucleus The work there shows US the
importance OIL personal contacts, OF VlSltlnS
young workers in their homes regularly In
Northern California, where before the Shock
Plan some factory was done, today very little
systematic work is being done in the factories.
This is mainly the fault of the leading COM
rades in the district, including the district
organizer, who have failed to give real leader
ship to these comrades, failing to give sufficient
direction and help in carrying through the day
to day work of the League.