The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
HOW to Change the Present Situation.

How to Change the Present Situation.
VI. The main task confronting the League
remains the decisive turn to Bolshevlk mass
work outlined by the Fifth Congress of the
YCI and the Fifth National Convention, and
more fully explained by the recent enlarged
Plenum of the Y.C1. 1t is not necessary to
repeat all the decisions of our convention in
voved in the carrying through of the turn,
but only to emphasize the fact that the League
has neither fully understood these decisions or
made more than beginning in carrying them
out. The turn means above all the struggle
of the League for the independent leadership
of the class struggles of the working youth.
1t includes all of the political tasks confronting
the League at the present time and is possible
only on the basis of carrying out the line of
the Party in the League and by broadly de-
veloping the Communist "Youth Policy"
The turn means transforming the center of
gravity of all our work to the shops and fac
tories and mass organizations of the working
youth, a decisive overcoming of the sectarian
isolation of the League; and can be realized
only by sharpened struggle against the Love-
stone renegades and all expressions of the
Right devations, against the conciliatory at
titude towards the Right deviations, against
every manifestation of opportunism in practice
both in the Party and in the League and the
simultaneous carrying out of decisive strug-
gle against all tendencies of petty bourgeois
radcalism left" phrases and deviations and
the tendency to take neutral attitude towards
them. One of the most important links in the
turn is the question of the further political
strengthening of the Leagues leadership by
the development of new proletarian cadres
who will be selected in the future on the basis
of their proven ability to concretely carry out
the Bolshevik mass work in accordance with
the political line of the Comintern.
The developing economic crisis and the
growing leftward trend of the young workers
places the question of the turn before with
ever greater persistence and makes it neces-
sary to set the following immediate tasks in
order that may change the present unsatis-
factory League situation at the rapid tempo
necessary. An important prerequisite for the
carrying out of these tasks and the whole turn
as embodied in the decisions of the last con-
vention is the struggle against the formal ap-
proach to these decisions-the acceptance of
decisions in words and the failure to carry out
the decisions in deeds-since this formal ap-
proach which had such paralyzing effect on
the application of our Fifth Convention de-
csions cannot be tolerated in the present stu
alton of developing economic crisis. Each
task must be followed down to its concrete
application and the most ruthless self-critcism
must be exercized by the whole membership
against all hesitancies and incompetency in
their execution:
l. Immediate concentration of the entire
forces of the League on the work in the large
factories and in the most important branches
of industry where the decisive masses of the
working class youth are concentrated, making
it obligatory upon all the leading committees
of the League, beginning with the NEG. and
ending with the D.E.C.'s and unit executives
to carry out a most thorough verification of
the concrete work in the factories, making the
selection of leading comrades from among those
young workers who gave in practice a proof