The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-12
Second Generation of Young
BOlsheviks Convenes

clad couple-these from the coal area of the
Donetz.
I glance up at the former Royal Box of the
czars. No longer does it hold the despotic
autocrat of all the Russians. From it come merry
laughter as "flotilla' of paper aeroplanes shoot
from it, below.
Near me notice a young Eastern girl. From
Kirkhitzia I decide. She looks around some
what timidly at this huge splendid congregation
of singing joyous youth, and it is perhaps only
now, sitting in the Red Capital and surrounded
by this happy gay spirit of the Komsomol ac-
twist that she realizes to what heights has the
Revolution placed her and her mother and her
sisters, who, until but a few short years ago,
lived in the most wretched conditions of semi
slavery And this young Kirghizian girl who
in all probability has never ventured beyond
the boundaries of her steppe-bound village, has
journeyed over 1000 miles to attend the Con-
gress and to relate to these wonderfully enthu-
siastic youth of the work that the young Com
munists are doing in her distant republic OF
how the spirit of the revolution has permeated
deeply into the mind and heart of the Kirghizian
youth, OF the difficult but increasingly success
ful battle that is being waged against old Gus
toms and traditions, with tenacious religion and
superstition with the crafty kulak; of schools
that have been opened where adults are pain
fully cropping toward Iteracy; of clubs and hos
pitfalls that are leading the way to tremendous
cultural awakening; Of factories, university,
even an electric power station that is flooding
the mud-built homes with "Lenin's light" and,
finally, she will describe with conscious pride
Of the unbelievable economic change that has
come about as a result of the Five-Year Plan.
A storm of cheering announces the opening
of the Congress. Comrade Kossarev (Secretary
of the League) speaks Of the great work that
the League has done during the past 21s years
since the Eighth Congress. During this period
the Five-Year Plan has been adopted and taken
to heart by the Konlsomol. The League has
proven itself worthy helpmate to the Party in
carrying out this Program of Socalistic Recon-
struction. Socialism which has seemed but a
fantasy two years ago was today sighted. The
three millioned army of young Communists has
proven by its struggle with the lefts and rights,
within its ranks and without, that it had reached
high level of political consciousness.
During difficult moments the League had even
been in the vanguard fighting alongside the
Party. Three hundred and fifty thousands Y.
G. Lers had been modified and thrown into the
breaches that had opened at various periods
in the struggle for fulfilling the Plan in four
years. "The Army of young Communist kolkhoz-
niki collective farm workers. had grown from
10000 to 100000 The gigantic development of
industry has made it necessary to increase the
number of factory training schools. eff in 1929
we had only 10000 pupils at these schools, then
in 1880 this figure has grown to 5894O0. And in
this the third year of the Five-Year Plan the
number will swell to 1204,100. In this manner
is the sore problem of obtaining new qualified
cadres for our socialistc industry being, in part,
solved"
The tasks confronting the League are touched
upon. Chief among these is the problem of "the
poytechnical training of the working YOUTH"
all our energy must be directed toward drawing
the entire youth into socialist competition, in
dustrial shock brigades, communes, etc. For the
village. the organizing of more and yet even
more agraran schools of intensified short-term
courses for the peasant youth. The keynote is
struck when Kossarev says that the League must
mobilize all its forces and energy to cement the
laying of q socialistic foundation TO the national
economy of the third and decisive year of the
Five-Year Plan.
Suddenly there is hush, the soft murmuring
and whispers die away 1t seems, for brief
moment, as though a vacuum has settled over
the hall. All eyes are riveted upon a figure
that is quietly making its way across the back
Of the tribune. OF medium height, dressed in
an army tunic, there is nothing to distinguish
it from the many delegates and guests sitting on
. the dias. A glance at the face, however. the
dark bead Of hair. the low brow. the black NOUS