The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-28
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Conformation Among
the BuIlfrOgs
By JORGE

just our little mention of a certain 2. O. Z
Unit seems to have produced CONSERVATION.
who could have been the tale bearer? Is Il
Comrade "a" or "B" or "C"? Who is guiIty?~
Now it hadn't occurred to us that the Y. c. L.
was a secret organization whose members are
sworn not to reveal what goes on in its meetings
to members of the Party. In fact the Y. @. L.
Convention invited and the Party Plenum ems
joined Party members to take an interest in
y G. L. units, so all the Identification rolls OF
the crocodile's back.
Incidentally, the Unit in question DOES thu@
1t is secret organization of parboiled heroes
with Brigader General as Organizer, withous
whom NOTHING can be done. If he is away,
classes suspend, the work hats the clock stopS
The initiative Of the rank and file simply amt
there
In only one instance that we know Of did IL
escape beyond bounds. One new member start
ing out to sell Young Workers from door ia
door, alarmed old member partners by telling
folks that it was "a Communist paper"
20, you MUSTN'T tell them that! That will
SCARE them!"
Well, that the new member thought that was
funny, because he thought that capitalism
scares workers INTO Communism and not
away from it. But another new member asked
this first new comrade what to tell EN-, because
he was WITHOUT INSTRUCTION.
So the Williams got "out of control" and the
lad that decided to ask donations for COM
MUNISM, after both had figured out that hid
ing it didn't bring much, made record
breaking collections for the Young Worker All
Of which seems to tell the crocodile that an
understanding of the Third Period hasn't yet
penetrated that Unit, despite the efficiency"
of Bullfrog Brigadier
tharo or,J
in that unit, the lesson of this experience might
have been learned. But there isn't any The
Brigadier gives ORDERS and ASSIGNMENTS
and inteITnnable SPEECHES.
But if any of the Genossen think that the
crocodile is ornery let him her try to distribute
the decisions, moved, seconded and carried
without vote, of the BRIGADIERl
Shut up You're out of orderl" declares the
Brigadier and rejects the suggestion that the
Chairman has SOME function, as a mere
technical" objection. Of course a chairman
does come in handy sometimes as when, after
the chair had just given a comrade the floor
and while this comrade was speaking, the
Brigadier suddenly got the notion that he left
bored and ordered the chairman to cut the
comrade off in the middle of his talk
But if orders are sacred, it is not orders in
general but HIS. I'VE have instruction from
the District to form new unit or l. Y. u
applicants" says he. Sand Of course we must
carry out instructions, But I am against it"
From which he dives into long speech telling
why, but not why the District is for it, Result:
A Committee of protest is elected not to carry
out the decision of course" but to try to con-
vince the District that it is wrong.
Thus passeth life in not only this particular
unit but in plenty. And thus the Y. G. L.'ers
become accustomed to that sort Of thing, and
when they grow up to be red trade union mem
berS they think that brigadiering the non-party
members of the trade union is efficient Com
munist work" And that dear Y. G. Lers, is
what the crocodile is mostly worried about.
THAT is why he sheds crocodile tears over
this horrible exampleI