The daily worker., 1930-10-01
(Continued)
BY JOHN STEUBEN


The Plan of Action
Comrade Green in his article correctly sum
married the position of the enlarged buro in
regard to the results of the first six weeks of
the carrying out of the plan of action. At pres
ent we are already in a position to draw some
general conclusions our plan of action
Naturally the first question to be asked is:
has the plan. of action on the whole been proven
to be correct or not? This question must be
answered SINCE there were many comrades
who challenged the correctness of the plan of
action. To those comrades who have seen on
the one hand lot of figures and on the other
a-lot of difficulties not seeing how splendid the
objective possibilities were for us, we can reply
the following: Life has proven that in those
sections of the country where our comrades pro-
ceeded to remedy those difficulties through the
carrying out of the plan, have made great steps
forward In districts where our obstacles were
not so great and the comrades actually proceeded
to carry out the plan, good results have been OBJ
tanned. So from what angle we will approach
the plan of action, the correctness of it cannot
be challenged any longer.
Now, if the plan of action has been proven to
be correct then to what degree has the plan
been carried out2 Or what new did the plan
bring? BY this what are the concrete
organizational results, what new forms of work
did we develop in the process of carrying out
the plan, what the difficulties we faced and
to what degree did we overcome them. 1t is
from this point Of view that can proceed to
draw the following conclusions:
1. Even though the concrete organizational re-
suits are, very unsatisfactory, the steps that we
have taken in connection with the carrying out
of the plan PREVENTED THE LEAGUE FROM
ENTERING "A CRISIS and furthermore makes it
possible for US at present to proceed at full
speed toward developing genuine mass youth
activity.
2. The bringing in of several hundred new
young workers into our ranks, the organization
of several shop nuclei and the establishment of
Leagues in town where we dN not have any
before will help greatly to eliminate the tre-
nendous gap that exists between the favorable
objective possibilities and the lack of human
material at disposal in order to utilize these
possibilities.
g. We have made beginning for the first time
in the history of our League for mass work
among the Negro youth, through the building of
the Young Liberators.
4. In the districts where the plan has been
brought to the membership and properly
planned and became the property of the whole
membership, tremendous rise in the initiative
and enthusiasm and willingness to do work
spread throughout the ranks This already has
resulted in more alertness and response to the
various issues of the working class youth-wage
cuts, local issues, etc.
5. Not only did we eliminate the circular
method of leadership, but the leadership is also
now going through a serious process of boil
shevization, freeing itself from the factonal
habits participating in the every day work of the
lower organizations and Strengthening its
facts with the young workers.
6. Without any hesitation we must fully recog-
nize that the most important part of the plan of
action-trade union youth work-remained the
weakest spot. The plenum will have to make
serious and deep analysis to why we have
failed UP to now to become important factor
in building revolutionary trade unions. This
shortcoming, however, is in itself a sufficient