The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-08
PLAN OF ACTION
Resolution OF the National Executive Committee
of the Young Communist League

selves very strongly in the abandonment of the
trade union work among the young workers
unGer the cover of radical phrases. The I'M
portance of work in all mass organizations has
been denied under theories that the League it.
self was sufficient. Purely demonstratve ac-
Invites have been substituted for the necessary
work of organizing the young workers into
permanent Organizational forms. Tendencies
to confine the life of the League to its own
little sectarian circle Of members and to OPP
pose going among the masses of young workers
wherever they are to be found have been espec-
tally marked
These are a few concrete examples of some
of those tendencies in the practical work of the
League which stand in the way of carrying out
the Plan Of Action. The failure to explain the
Right and Left" danger in such way that
it would render easier the struggle against
each one of these concrete mistakes must be
overcome if the Plan is to be realized A me-
chanical approach has hidden the class connec-
ton between both the Right and Left" devia-
tons AS a result the comrades have not I'M
derstood that the Left" danger stands as the
main barrier to be overcome in struggling sue
cessfuly against the main danger, the Right
danger. In emphasizing the Left" tendencies
of petty-bourgeois radicalism and phrasemon-
gering which are so strong in the League, they
have often done so in such a way as to have
these tendencies replace the Right danger as
the main danger. If comrades consistently re-
sst the organization of shop nuclei or trade
unions under the excuse that the young work
ers are not ready for organization it is clearly
an open Right opportunist error. IT, on the
other hand, comrades hide their failure to do
this concrete everyday work under radical
phrases about the readiness of young workers
for bigger struggles and replace this necessary
work with r11rplI DEMONSTRATION Il ;e
obviously a Left" deviation.
The Plan of Action sets certain definite goals
for the League which must come as a result
of all its activity and campaigns in order to
help close the gap between the words and deeds
in the work of the League. 1t has reduced
some OF the quotas previously set by certain
districts IN an effort to combat tendencies Of
exaggerated quotas and tasks, since such "big
talk has only served as a further means Of
hiding the failure to take up the most ele-
mentary work and get the most elementary re-
suits even on a small scale. These national
quotas have been built up on the basis of tie
minimum possibilities in each district. Every
district must further concretize the quotas,
Specific factories must be named and the units
told where, when and how" each task is to he
accomplished. Shock troops must be establish
ed, responsible to the respective leading bodies
Tor the definite accomplishment of each specific
task in the period of TIM set
The organizational functioning of the League
plays an important role in the CARRYING out
OF the Plan. Every unit must be made to
junction so that it can hold the gains made
IN new members, and not lose young workers
ready for the League as we did during the,
last membership drive. The whole life ~
the Vel. must be given youthful and fight
ing spirit such as will attract the working
youth, and those special youth forms developed
TO make possible the leading of the young work
ers IN all their struggles. At the same time
the organization questions and their solutio,
cannot be substituted for the necessary cor.
rect political line. Organization shortcomings
and subjective difficulties must at no time be
used as an excuse for the continued weakness
OF the League, either by comrades in the Center
or IN the Districts, and the necessary fiobt
against politically wrong tendencies must not
De confined to organzationa changes
Nothing can stop US from carrying out the
Flan OF Action by June 18th, if armed with
corrpect political line we take up the every
day work that confronts u.s.