The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-06
PRE-PLENUM DISCUSSION
Young Communist League, U.S.A.
The Turn in California

We have made a beginning also in sports
work. Three clubs are now functioning in the
district, with membership of about $50. We
have comrades working in these clubs but as
yet there is no functioning fraction and we
have failed to give real leadership to these
clubs. There is too much the idea that we can
lead the clubs, even though we are not active
members of it. just because we can say we
are members of the vel. We have talked
long time about carrying on work in the
Y.M.C.A., but very little has been done in so
far as systematic work is concerned. We sent
one comrade into the but very little effort
was made to guide the activities of this COM
rade, or direct the work While we did assign
comrades to work in youth organizations, we
sent them only into the L.S.U. clubs, and are
only now beginning to make contacts with
other youth clubs.
Dur main disease in this district (Which is
true for our League as a whole) is the fact
that our work is not systematic; that we fail
to follow up our work A good example Of this
is the Anti Militarist activity in this district
Our district did some good work in sending
group of comrades into the C.M.T.C. Bulletins
were issued in all three camps in the state we
having comrades in all three camps. We also
had one comrade in an N. G. camp, where we
also issue bulletin, the comrade inside sue
Ceeu1uS III distributing AuU INSIDE OF Inc camp
himself. But once these comrades came back
from camp nothing was done. AS a result of
our work made some very good connections
including several in the regular forces Our
task must be to follow up this work and make
anti-work part of our every day League work.
Another example of this same disease is our
Negro work in San Francisco. Our unit in this
city arranged two meetings, in the Negro sec
ton which were very successful. We got sew
eral applications of young Negro workers for
the League and also two for the Party, but
here again nothing was done to follow up this
work. We are only now beginning to take our
work among the Negro youth seriously, and
taking steps to organize branches of the Young
Liberators in the district.
Our district was assignd the task of holding
an agricultural youth conference We had alb
solutely no connections with young agricultural
workers and knew very little of their cond-
tons, in spite of the fact that two big strikes
had taken place in the Imperial Valley We
sent out one of our leading bureau members to
begin work for the conference. Although no
date has been set for the conference itself we
have achieved certain successes in this work,
among which we must include certain new ex-
periences in the form and method of organiza-
ton of migratory workers. Membership books
and stamps have just been issued so that we
can only now begin to look for organizational
results.
The end of the Shock Plan is only beginning
of our work to break with the secetarianism of
our League. With all the shortcomings in our
work, we can nevertheless say that as begin
ming in making the turn the League has
achieved certain successes in carrying through
the Shock Plan. The coming plenum must see
definite break with the old forms, must
arouse our whole membership for real mass
work, and lay the basis for further successes
along the road towards a mass Y.C.L. by the
time of our Sixth National Convention.