The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08

riots to the concrete mass work among
young workers as test of their qualificatit
to leadership; considering as compuis'
instruction the establishment of functio
Y.CL factory groups in the largest enterpl
: in the immediate future with changes in l.
ership nationally and in the districts where t
task is not carried out; and the establishm
of systematic recruiting activity with the ira
ferring of the center of gravity Of this w
and the present membership drive to the la
factories with greater attention to the probl
of retaining the best proletarian elements
cruited.
2. Conducting all the work in the factor
from the point of view of the struggle of
Young Communist League for the independ
leadership of the working class youth and c
sidering the broad application of the uni
front from below as of greatest importance
bringing about the turn; the League must
mediately collect and study the most import
material regarding youth strikes and the
ticipation of the young workers in the gene
struggles of the working class, as wei
negative and positive examples of the apI
ton of the united front tactics, in orde
more effectively lead the struggles of the yo
workers.
3. Seriously undertaking the work of
ganizing the unOrganized young workers
the new trade unions, we must immedia1
start campaign throughout the League
the mobilization of all forces behind the !
U.L. by the unionization of our membersl
the building of functioning youth sections
the unions; the organization of industrial
ferences in the most important industr
and the popularization of our economic tt
union demands within the ranks of our Lea
and among the broad masses of young work
4. Placing of the question of the establ
ment of weekly Young Worker as task
the first political Importance, as an abso
necessity in the performance of the Leag
tasks in the period of developing crisis
the sharpened class struggles of the 20
workers; the beginning of the weekly Yo
Worker not later than May list with the reg,
appearance of the Young Worker as Sc
monthly up to that date.
5. Building a strong League in the So
to be considered major political task req
ing the support of every League district
the entire membership, which will be an inn
| tant factor in changing the national and
! cial composition of the League.
6. Development of broad anti-imper
and anti-militarist activity and increased
| gle against the war danger which become
such Importance at the present time apply
| new forms of mass anti-militarist work
! systematic building up of nuclei in the al
| and navy and in the war industries.
| 7. A complete change of the present
of the League in the general mass organizati
of the workers and in the mass organizati
of the working youth; first by radically cha
, ing our attitude towards auxiliary organ
tions, secondly, by every Y.C.L. member
/ sympathizer working in the factories show
the maximum initiative in creating the
varied forms of mass factory youth organ
tions youth sections of the trade unions,
| D. groups, workers defense, all kinds of 20
workers clubs, etc.,.
s. To pay particular attention to the VIZ
ers' sport movement, assigning large |
centage of leading comrades and of the
membership to this work. Crystallizing in
organizations the basic kernel for (a) s
| pickets; (b) workers sef-defense groups;
! workers for anti-militarist propaganda in
| imperialist army, etc. To carry ON stubb
everyday work to break up the bourgeois ST
organizations, the bourgeois youth organ
tions (YMCA and HA, etc., in which the We
ing class youth is concentrated, and the
ming of the young workers in these organ
lions to our side through continuous activit,
9. The development of the work among
growing number of unemployed young We
ers and the formulation of concrete dema
| for the unemployed youth and the special
tention to the question of winning the mas
of young Negro workers through the form
/ ton of concrete program for Negro W.
considering as first prerequisite the strug
against the serious underestimatiOn of {
work shown by the League and against
expression of white chauvinism in our ra
and among the young workers.
10. The solution of the serious crisis ex
ing in the Young Pioneers and the strength
ing of the leadership of the League to
| Pioneers through the assignment of def
number of leading comrades to this work
|, IL. To develop revolutionary competitio
| all spheres of activity of the League and
the struggles of the young workers as one
| the basic weapons in raising the initiative
revolutionary self-activity.
IL. The political Strengthening of the L
que leadership through the consistent prop
ton of new proletarian forces OH the basis
their ability to work among the masses in
cordance with the political line of the &C
| intern, and the systematic political training
the entire membership and all leading. &C
rades through circles in the units, district E
national functionaries courses, etc.
1t is necessary to approach all of these tai
| in the light of the economic crisis and it's
fects upon the conditions of the young work
modifying the entire membership of !
League for the more rapid turn to mass WI
which is so imperative if we are to take
vantage of the growing opportunities and oy
come the unsatisfactory situation in the Leas
The membership drive must be point of.
mediate concentration in the organizAti