The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-15

on broad scale the work of international edu-
cation of the toilng youth.
The turn embraces all the political tasks
confronting the Young Communist information
al at the present time and for this reason the
Attempts to picture the turn a narrow 'Or-
ganizational' task, pertaining only to a change
of the system of work. and the tendencies
to cover up the passivity in mass work and
the failure actually to accomplish the turn by
general abstract discussions about the "politi-
cal significance of the turn" depriving it Of
its organizational practical Importance, are alb
solutely wrong and politically harmful.
6. The Plenum records weakness in the dis
cussion regarding the turn which up to the
present time has been carried on abstractly
and mainly by the committees.
The shifting of the center of gravity of
carrying out the turn from discussion in the
upper quarters to practical work at the bottom,
in the nuclei, the local organizations, the draw
ing into this work on the basis of actual mass
AMI relentless self-criticism and self-activity
of the lower organizations, the entire rank and
file and every individual member of the Young
Communist League-are basic condition for
the realization of the turn.
The Plenum particularly warns all Sections
of the Young Communist International against
a formal approach to the question of the turn
towards mass work. A relentless struggle must
be declared against all those who will pay
lip service to the decision about the turn, but
who will sabotage it in practice, and against
those who will simply limit themselves to its
formal acceptance, because a formal attitude
towards the turn, was shown by the fate of
the decisions of the V Congress, is the greatest
danger.
Taking into account the unsatisfactory sit
uation in the Sections of the Young Communist
international which in some countries takes on
a form of crisis, the Plenum of the Execu-
tive Committee considers it necessary to make
a close study of the main causes of the crisis
in the Czecho- Slovakian British, Norwegian
and Austrian Leagues ian investigation of
the lower organizations, reports, instructions,
conferences) and point out the concrete meas
ures necessary to guarantee that the necessary
change will be effected in the Leagues. The
most important lessons of development of these
Leagues the basis Of examples from the
actual activity to make this the possession of
all Sections of the Young Communist Interna-
tional and all the members Of the Young Com
munist organizations (press, directions to the
Leagues, conferences, actual personal instruc-
tions, etc.,
In order to bring about the necessary change
the Plenum raises before all Sections of the
Young Communist international and before the
Executive Committee of the Young Commu-
mist International the following concrete tasks,
the carrying out of which must be accomplish
ed under the closest observation:
(a) All forces of the organizations must be
Immediately concentrated on work in large en-
terprises of the most important industries
where masses of young workers are concen-
trated. The Plenum makes it obligatory for
all leading organs of the Leagues, beginning
with the Central Committees and ending with
the lower local and section commttees-to
carry out systematic and most thorough in
vestigaton of the economic work done in the
enterprises, Analysing in the most thorough
manner its achievements and defects, and,
simultaneously selecting leading cadres among
the young proletarians who proved in practice
their ability to do mass work among the work
ing class youth. The Enlarged Plenum Of the