The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-19
PRE-PLENUM DISCUSSION
YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE U.S.A.
How We Work
: LEAGUE U.S.A.

We find that everything is attempted at once,
and when catch our breath once in awhile
to ask ourselves exactly what concrete results
had been achieved-we cannot find these re-
suits.
One example can be given of the Phila-
delphia League. Answering the questions to
what had been done on the antilynch campaign,
One example can be given of the Philadel-
phia League. Answering the questions as to
what had been done on the anti-lynch cam
paign the comrades replied: Nothing. Because
we had other work to do" What about new
members? 1--WE have some. But it is only a
short time since we started and we can't be
expected to have many" What has been done
| on industrial youth conferences? "We had other
work until now" These comrades worked hard.
They spent much time and energy. But they did
not control their activities. Many other districts
work exactly the same way We do not point to
Philadelphia as example because the comrades
are bad and won't do work. These are earnest,
| hard working comrades But the situa-
ton prevails in almost every District of the
League. Very little checkup on work that has
been started. We must learn how to work stead
lily, consistently. We must learn to finish what
we have started. We must learn to increase the
tempo of the work that has started, instead of
allowing it to dribble down to almost nothing.
Instead of working on extremely important tasks
such as the anti-lynch conference and campaign,
comrades will spend their time sending out all
kinds of directives, and letters. We must state,
however, that the Philadelphia District has since
corrected this partially and has held an excellent
anti-lynch conference. F.! !!
Decisions, very good decisions are often made.
But were we to go back upon the Buro minutes
of most of our Districts we would find that
either these decisions have been forgotten, or
they have simply not been carried out We must
investigate and check very closely the carrying
out of all our decisions. And we must consider
very carefully and seriously before we make our
decisions. Then will not have situation
where such important work anti-lynch cam
paigns-or industrial youth CONFERENCE.-The not
been carried out because the Districts had "other"
work to do. Then we will not find that shop
nuclei were not organized because "other" work
was more important. But the comrades in the
Districts must discuss this question carefully be-
fore the Plenum. What is the "Other' work
which does not enable the most important activi-
ties of the League to be carried out? We must
answer to the October Plenum.
Reaction to Economic, Social, Political Problems
The test of our work lies in the quickness
with which we react to political events and
campaigns. And this not only on nationa
scale, but also local and District scale.
The League cannot enter the mass struggles of
VIC JouHS "oihers uHleSS we take up prODlemS
and events which basically concern the young
workers in their economic, social and political
life. wage cut in the mill. new form of
speedup. A layoff. Bad sanitary conditions.
All these questions concern our League very
basically. And when we speak about entering
the struggles of the young workers we mean
entering into and leading struggles against just
such conditions. When we speak about building
up the Red Trade Uionswe must speak in terms
of cfr narfrln o,,c{ s,,H4
Leagues work these elementary economic
struggles must be tied up concretely with our
political campaigns
The outstanding failure of the League in this
respect is our almost complete failure to engage
in the election campaign, while the Cleveland
District has to its credit good work in connection
with drive for Free Books for workers children