The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-12
BY JOHN STEUBEN.

A YEAR has passed since the Fifth National
~ Convention of the Young Communist
League. Events of world Importance took
place in the country as well as in our Parry
and League. Life has been the best judge and
has fully brought out the correctness of the
line and decisions of our convention.
If a year ago declared at the convention
that the prosperity myth" is disappearing,
now, year later, the country finds itself in
a serious economic crisis which is continually
deepening and has tremendous effect on the
conditions of the American working class.
The toiling youth have made gigantic steps
forward this year in becoming more and more
a decisive factor in the class struggle A
year ago. our convention pointed out that:
The proportion of young workers in
heavy industry is increasing and the gen.
eral orientatiOn of the young workers is
directed more and more to heavy industry.
New industries established on ration
allied basis, employ majority of young
workers. Thus the weight of the young
workers in industry is greatly increased,
leading to an increasing participation of the
young workers in these industries"
This process has been further accumulated
by the present economic crisis which brought
about an absolute worsenng of the conditions
of the young workers. simultaneously with
it, we see a tremendous increase of resistance
on their part. 1t is only necessary to recall
the strike wave in the textile industry through
out the South, the Illinois coal strike, the par
ticipation of 100000 young workers on March
9th, the participation of thousands of young
workers on May 1st 1t becomes obvious that
a militant spirit and readiness for struggle
prevails throughout the ranks of the Amer
lean young workers.
This year also brought about a complete
change in the life, work and outlook of
Young Communist League. Whereas at the
Sixth Convention of our Party, the renegade
Lovestone laid the basis to depart from the
Comintern by rejecting the Comintern line and
decisions, the League Convention fully en-
dorsed and pledged itself to become one of the
best interpreters of the Comntern line.
This firmness and decisiveness on the part
of our convention played an important role
Immediately after the convention, when the
hopeless opportunists and permanent faction
alists of the Rubinstein type raised their stu
pid fractional heads again. These elements
soon exposed themselves to be part of the
renegade Lovestone group, they were isolated,
discredited and expelled from our ranks.
This year was indeed year of struggle
stubborn fight to break with past Cine
Lovestone-Zam regime) which marked "one of
the darkest pages in the history of the Amer
out of our ranks by lancing the organized
right wing but consistently struggled against
all concrete manifestations of the Right Dan
ger which remains the main danger. We have
made beginning, although belated, in the
struggle against the cleft" danger, which is
the chief hindrance towards struggle
against the right danger and concrete Bolshe-
vik mass work.
Complete Unity.
The complete consolidation and unanimity
of our ranks from top to bottom on the line
of the Young Communist international has
helped US to make tremendous steps forward
in the direction of a beginning of mass youth
work. We have penetrated into the South for
the first time in the history of our League
The League actively participated in the strike
of the Illinois coal miners The establishment
of Weekly Young Worker is tremendous
political achievement of the entire League.
The taking in of eleven hundred new members
in the last membership drive, the beginning
we have made in organizing youth sections,
the issuing of shop papers in important indus
tries, the active participation of the League
on March 9th and May LIST, as we'll as the be-