The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
BY WILLIAM ALBERTsoN.

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At the recent enlarged District
Committee meeting of the New York
District, one of the comrades raised
the question of what to do after
sending a comrade into an oppo-
nent organization. lie. was answered
that the work of these League com
rades is to recruit members into the
Y. c. L. At the last enlarged NJ. E. G,
Buro, held in the early part of March,
it was pointed out that in Our oppo-
nents' work we must not only bring
individuals into the Y. c. L., but to
bring whole groups of young workers
into the League, especially in con-
nection with National Youth Day.
However, this is still too general.
There are two main methods of ap-
proach in carrying on work inside
of the bourgeois organizations: A
struggle for partial demands inside
of the organization and against the
leadership, and the bringing in of
certain immediate class issues af-
fecting the membership. However,
they are both linked very closely to-
gether; for without a struggle for
immediate partial demands we will
find it rather hard TO win these
young workers for a struggle on these
class issues.
Our work must not only be to re-
cruit new members from these or
CARNATIONS into the League, but We
must work to build up opposition
groups Of young workers on certain
demands upon the leadership and the
organization. These opposition groups
give us a broader field for work than
having only a small League fraction,
Because we have carried on none,
or very little opponent youth work,
we cannot give any experiences in
opponent organizations. However,
certain demands can be worked out.
For instance, in the Amateur Ath-
letic Union, an organization of some
100000 members in this country
alone-most of them are young
worker athletes. In this organi2a-
ton we must not only build our frac-
tons and recruit y. C. L. members,
but we must follow a consistent pol
icy of building Labor Sports Union
opposition groups therein ION the
form of T. u u L. rlinorities in
A. +. Of L. unions) Recruiting for
these groups can be done by util-
izing these and other immediate
partial demands:
/. Fight for Democracy. This is
one of the most important partial
demands, as in the A. a. U. clubs and
local branches there is very little
democracy, The club members come
to the gymnasium or to the field and
carry on their athletics But all the
policies and the decisions in these
clubs are laid down by small group
of people at the top; either in the
club or in the higher A. A. U. bod
les. In many of the clubs even club
membership meetings are very sell
dom or never held and the members
never participate in the work of the
club.
2. Mass Support, In the A A, u.
the leaders are always locking for
stars among the members The play
ers are picked for the squad from
amongst the most promising. They
play, but the rest of the members
go hang. For instance, in the Bronx
dale A. c. Of the A. A. u, although
having an athletic membership Of
over 200 they had only one basket
ball team of members Is players
and subsl
There WIS resentment amongst the
members against this policy How
ever, this resentment received no or
gained expression because the club
held no meetings and the Y. G, l..
member there and also the L. S. U.
was not on the job crystallizing this
sentiment against the leaders into a
broad opposition group. 1t would
not have been hard task for our