The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23

Within. these we must build Youth Sections that
will have as their specific purpose to win the
youth for the UFL, to develop struggles around
those issues affecting the farm youth and chill
dren, to develop various interesting forms of
activity so as to maintain them in our movement.
We must guard against the tendency to make
these Youth Sections forms of Youth UFL or
just merely recreational institutions The youth
drawn into the UFL must become the best mil
liant fighters against the high taxes foreclosures
etc. In addition to these forms of struggles
the youth must be modified to fight against
the various laws which bar farm youth from
hunting and fishing (these things are of utmost
Importance to farmers.
The youth section must develop forms of So
cia activities and sport activities. Struggles for
the use of certain school gyms, for baseball oiaF
monds and baseball facilities must be developed.
However, our slogans must be of such charac-
ter as to convince and win over the farm youth
in struggle If we merely come to the farm
youth and say fight for baseball facilities, they
will say the following: THE township is broke
completely and if we make these demands we
will be the losers because our parents will have
to pay greater taxes" Therefore our slogans
must be tied up with the fact, that there shall
not be any increase in the taxes of the poor
farmers. But where will the money be raised,
one may ask In certain parts Of northern
Minnesota we find that right next to Une farm
towns might be mine of the Oliver Company
or a railway of the Great Northern passes thru
that territory. Therefore our demand must be
for the sports facilities and the necessary funds
for these to be gotten by increasing the taxes
of the Oliver Mine Co. and Great Northern Ry
In other parts we find that there are certain
rich farmers who thru various trckeries do not
pay taxes on most of their property. In such
cases we can concretiZe our demands for sport
facilities with the demand that the funds be
gotten by taxing the rich farmers. Above ALL
we must formulate demands that will prove pos
sible and gain the support of the poor farmers
and the farm youth. In the schools we must
put forth such demands as: For free hot lunches
and medical aid, etc.
In District No. 9 the biggest obstacle in the
way of carrying thru the struggle for these de-
mands is the fact that we've not sufficiently
gone over from the purely agitational stage to
the concrete organizational stage. The mme-
diate tasks of the YCL units in farm localities
is to set up joint committees with the Party for
the organization of a L township. having
these committees approach poor farmers and get
their consent for the calling of a meeting in
the locality on such an issue as taxes, issuing
leaflets for such meeting with the signatures
Of these poor farmers that have agreed 10 call
the meeting, and at this meeting to take the
first steps of organizing local UFL Some pro-
gress can be recorded in the past few months
in the sense that many League units we're big
factors il building local UFL township commit
tees, have gone from farm to farm selling the
UFL program and the United Farmer, etc. Con-
crete organization and development Of struggle
for various demands must be Our foremost task
in the farm regions Of District No 9. -.