The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-07
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Org. Dept. Central Con-
rrittee, Communist Party, U. S. a.
Party and League Relations
By BEATRICE sIsKND.


THE excellent composition and the splendid
L character Of the Youth Convention brings
before the Party the much talked of League and
Party Relations very boldly. The Central
Committee of our Party has set an example Of
giving every assistance to the success of the
youth convention. The report of Conrade Brow
der set the keynote for making the League a
real mass League broad and wide, and the lead
er of the struggle OF the young workers, to make
the League an integral part in the struggle of
the Party in gaining the majority of the work.
ing class Now that the convention is over we
must examine how deep the improvement Of
League and Party relations have reached into
the units, how the Party and League work to-
gether in the various campaigns whether the
League looks to the Party committees for poll
teal leadership and guidance.
We have noticed in District No. Minnesota)
for some time the conception of League and
Party Relations was the amount Of paper the
Party allows the League to use, how much space
the League is allowed to occupy in the Party
premises, and whether the League and Party or
ganizers starve separately or together.
Following the instructions of the Central Com
mittee the District Buro discussed and examined
the situation in the YCL and found that al
though the League was conducting some activity,
there was no youth committee in the Unemployed
TUUL, and generally the League dragged at the
tail end Of the Party compaigns, instead Of work.
ing with the Party campaigns among the young
workers, and on the other hand the Party was
not involved in the youth campaign, and the two
we're becoming estranged In some Sections
where the Party was weak vanguardist tenden-
cies developed in the League. In the strong Sec
tons the League pushed to the background.
Both the League and the Party were sharply
called to task in this situation.
We made some attempt to better the situation
by improving the TUUL and Unemployed work
in the Center The League examined its forces
and assigned definite comrades to unemployed
work and TUUL work. This corrected the mis-
conception that the League must set up its own
unemployed youth committees and TUUL sec
tons isolated from the general TUUL work. The
assignments we're done on the basis of making
the entire Unemployed Council and TUUL do
youth work through its youth representatives
and the youth committee.
Also we saw to it that the district committee
and the departments exchange representatives
and that constant reporting system be deyel-
oped, whereby the Party will be constantly in
formed of the status Of the League and its
activity This done, the comrades began to talk
about good League and Party Relations" in the
district. But what did We discover at the League
units and sections testified that the relations
we're only on the top and that they had not PEN
etrated the basic units of the League and Party.
Many examples given to show that the
Party comrades in the sections did not regard
the YCL as the political leader of the toiling
youth but rather as bunch OF kids" This
basic underestimation OF the League as a ire
mendously important factor in the class struggle
as an indispensable training ground for the new
cadres of our Party, comes from the lack of
working together for a single purpose OF two
different sections of the working class.
1t was also brought out at the convention that
In those sections where the Party is composed
largely Of non-English speaking workers, it is
the League comrades that are being used to
make contacts and to conduct work among the
English speaking workers
The District Bureau took note of the tremen-
dous shortcomings in League and Party Rela-
tons down at the bottom, and instructed its re-
porter TO the youth convention to bring very
sharply before the League the need for self
criticism and the establishment from the con-
vention forward of deeper and closer contact
between the League and the Party.
The District Bureau decided to put the follow
Ing into effect in each section At the bottom
ths section must have exchanged Representa-