The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-08

THE definite growth in the Young Commu-
l mist League since the recent plenum already
proves the correctness of the Plenum line, and
indicates a certain, though still inadequate,
Improvement in the work of the League,
During the recent recruiting drive the
league won 1000 new members. In the March
9th demonstrations in which 100000 young
workers participated, it played an active part
1t has begun to take up seriously the question
of trade union work among the young workers
in Connection with the Trade Union Unity
League membership drive The Young Worker
has been established as a weekly. More or
ganizational consolidation has been achieved
in the League.
These favorable signs of growth, however,
are in no way in proportion to the increasing
possibilities of the present situation Rather,
the inadequacy of these achievements empha-
sizes the Leagues continued tagging behind the
growing rehabilitation of the young workers.
The slowness in carrying out in deeds the
generally correct political line of the recent
YC.I. and National Executive Committee Pen-
ums has been the most outstanding weakness
of the League.
The plan of action is designed to turn the
attention of the entire League membership to
this serious disproporton. 1t emphasizes those
elementary tasks which must be carried out if
we are to get organizational results from our
increased activity and growing political influ-
ence. The League must. first of ALL give atten-
ton to the winning of 10000 young workers to
the T.U.U.L. during the present membership
drive and the building of the As shop nuclei of
the League as result of this increased mass
activity. Up to the present time serious weak
nesses in carrying out these basic tasks have
shown themselves. These shortcomings can be
eliminated however, in the course of the actual
carrying through of the Plan of Action
The chief prerequisite for the carrying thru
of the Plan of Action lies in the stubborn
struggle against all expression of opportunism
IN practice. Opportunism in the practical work
of the League shows itself very clearly in the
readiness to accept resolutions and decisions
in words and the incompetencies and failures
when 1t comes to executing these decisions in
deeds. The League fails to tackle some of its
most elementary tasks in recruiting the Young
workers into the revolutionary unions and un-
employment councils 1t does not build the
youth sections of the unions in the factories
but only accepts these correct forms on paper.
The comrades are slow in tackling the everv-
day work in the large factories and in build
ing or maintaining functioning shop nuclei
there. There is agreement as to the Importance
OF political strikes and demonstrations but At
the same time, we fail to organize the young
workers for these actions Leaflets. very gen.
eral IN character, are distributed to the ser
Vlcemen, but those concrete tasks that would
bring results are completely neglected
The NEG. Plenum pointed out MANY con-
crete examples of the Right Danger in the
League, including the underestimation of the
deep-golng nature of the present economic
crisis, the rehabilitation of the young workers
and the tagging behind their growing strug
gles' 1t also pointed to tendencies to turn the
League into cultural and social organization
rather than political organization leading the
class struggles of the working youth (Superior
Worcester, etc.. But the Y.CI. pointed out
that the right danger is not the only danger
There is also the so-called Left" danger which
stands as main barrier to be overcome in
successfully combating the main danger, the
right danger
The Left, danger expresses itself in the
tendency of Cleft phrasemongers to substitute
petty bourgeois radicalsm for the necessary
direct connection between the leadership and
the masses and mass organizations. These ten
dencles of left" sectarianism have shown them