The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
BY GIL GREEN.

NATIONAL YOUTH DAY, if it is to be sue
cessful, must become day of struggle of
the working youth This was the keynote of the
meeting of the YCL District Organizers of the
four districts who will participate in the Youngs-
town meet
The conference recognized that in all dis
tricts the comrades failed to draw in large sec
lions of the young workers, because they raised
only the general slogans put forth by the Ma
tional Executive Committee. There was not the
slightest attempt to concretize these slogans for
the given locality by the raising of certain
specific youth issues.
Partial Demands
The districts failed to connect National Youth
Day with the work of the Plan of Action They
did not connect it with the every day work of
the league at the factories, among the unem-
ployed, and with the building of the revolution
airy trade unions and youth sections. The COM
rades did not realize the tremendous import
ance of raising partial demands at the fac
tories in the name of the unions, in the sport
organizations in the name of the Labor Sports
Union, etc. They did not understand that this
was how to organize a real united front from
below of the working youth for struggle and for
National Youth Day.
This can be best illustrated by the work of
the Cleveland District. This district should have
concentrated most of its efforts in YOUNGSTOWN
and vicinity. When the National Executive Com
m1ttee selected youngstown for the meet, it was
with the understanding that this important steel
region was to be our control point of concen-
tration. just the same as we storm one given
factory or opponent organization, we must to
much greater extent storm" YOUNGSTOWN and
win the youth for our various organizations
especially for the Metal Workers Industrial
League and the YCL.
This was not done. No comrade was sent as
shock troop into Youngstown. Nothing was
done by the District to help the Metal Workers
Industrial League develop partial youth de-
mands at the factories in Youngstown as a
means of building the union and creating base
for National Youth Day Nothing was done to
raise certain specific issues in the various op-
ponent organizations in Youngstown The La
Dor Sports Union in its work for the Spartakiad
also failed to raise certain immediate demands
for struggle within the opponent sport organ
izations.
No Systematic Opponents Work
The reports of the districts at the confer
ence showed the first attempts to carry out
the line of the NEG in the "storming' of certain
opponent organizations for National Youth Day.
However, this was only meager beginning and
was not conducted Systematically The main
shortcoming was again the failure to develop
specific youth issues in these organizations Our
approach was too general In a few organiza-
lions, the districts reported excellent response
from the membership for National Youth Day
But this was not followed up. When the lead
ership of these organizations began to fight u.s.
we gave up the struggle for the youth. We did
not issue open letters to the membership of
these organizations mobiizing them on certain
issues against their leadership We did not at
tempt to get groups of young workers from these
organizations to agree to participate in NYD
regardless of their leadership The districts had
a formal approach the entire organ
ization nothing" 1t is clear that such
policy can only mean nothing"
The conference showed failure to work en-
the Central Control Commission is following
the general policy of the Party in reference to
those who sincerely recognize their errors, COM
petely associate themselves from the renegades
and fully accepting the policies and tactics of the
Comintern and of the Party are willing to be
active and energetic in carrying them out and
in fighting against the renegades.
CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION
LEM COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE LISA.