The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
Agricultural Workers
LiVe in DireSt Poverty

AllOuSb1ld 4diIilo 1iiC lGSl1I woo Ollal
the workers would just get up and
move to some other district, leaving
the roads free for scabs to come in,
Youth Not Disseminated.
The youth organizer was sent out
in the field to do youth work" This
work on the surface would seem to
consist of, to organize youth sections
and lead the young agricultural
workers in struggles for better con-
ditions Let us first understand the
situation of the young field workers.
They are NOT Disseminated against,
as far as wages and conditions are
concerned. The fact is that field
work, being so much on a piece
work basis, the young worker oft
times, because of his energy, can
make more than the older workers.
Again-to come to the young workers
who have never heard of any kind
of organization Except the inevitable
church,. let alone a revolutionary
union, and ask them to form a youth
section is the height of righteousness.
Sports for Young Workers.
Our basic task at the start was
and now is, to simultaneously, as the
Agricultural Workers Industrial
League grows, find out the real needs
of the agricultural young workers,
and on them form set of demands
that the young field workers will
fight for We can definitely say that
the question of sports, the furnish
ing of sport means, showers, etc, as
well as reading roons-and of course
the demand of abolitio nof child la
lob-Will be some of the basic de-
mands. But aside from the general
demands the only way We can rally
the young field workers as YOUNG
field workers is to awake their con-
seriousness to the fact that even com
pared with the youth in other in
dustries their position is much worse
TO point out to them the condi-
tons and advantages of the young
agricultural workers in the Soviet
Union To do this requires an ex-
tensive education.
Inadequate Youth Literature.
Our main sfortcoming was the in
adequate youth literature that has
been put out in the fields. During
the entire time not one youth leaf
let was issued. In this the Party had
a hand, urging that it was prema-
ture to issue youth leaflets with
youth den1ands-it would tend TO
confuse the workers, etc. No doubt
the material that would have gone
into that leaflet at that time would
have had that effect-but the fact
remains that youth iterature-ele-
mentary and educational-m must be
spread to every young worker in the
fields.
How do We intend to bring out
these youth demands and finally
build youth section of the A. w. 1.
l.? First Of all the youth organizers
must draw in young workers into
our ranks, work to develop and edu-
cate them to become active The
a. w. !. L. is working to form farm
committees. and delegates from these
farm committees come into the near
est town, at regular periods, and
form the leading body IN that dis
trict, called the town committee.
These committee meetings must have
adequate youth representation. The
young workers must be drawn, first,
into helping to get in other young
workers, then finding out what de-
mands they will fight for Then we
can begin our work OF waking the
consciousness OF the field young
workers. Literature; coed stuff on
the youth in the fields Of the Soviet
Union, must come pouring in Then
later we can begin to dream OF a
youth section.
Let's for once build on solid rock,
not just helter-skelter for records
sake throw bunch of young work
ers into corner and call 1t a youth
section.