The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14
PARTY LIFE
Youth Members ofBoth Party,
YCL Help Build Closer Link
Demands That YCL'ers Do Party Work Will
Result In Negiecting Youth

ship means to the Y. c. L. The
Y. c. L. program explains:
although the Y. C. L. is Or
ganizationalIy independent, the
cIc5est organizstionsI connections
exist between it and the Commu-
mist Party. This connection is
effected through mutual represe:.=
tation on all rungs of the organi-
zaticnaI ladder.
ITO secure Party leadership id
the Y. c. L. it is necessary to have
an adequate number Of Party
members in the Y. C. L. This is
achieved by the overwhelming
majority Of the functionarieS
(cadrcs) being simultaneously
members of the Communist
Party"
The Party comrades of the York;
vile sub section, as well as Y. G. L.
comrades, see the need Of creating
Of a Party core in the Y. G. L. But
the comrades of the Party incor-
rectly view the act of joining the
Party as full graduation into the
Party. Thus at the moment when
every Party District is assigning
young Party members to devote their
entire time to the building of the
youth movement the Yorkville
comrades by their wrong attitude
are not only doing the opposite, but
they are discouraging young cadreS
of the Y. G. L. from joining the
Party for fear of being overbur-
dened with work.
Two things are thus bound to
happen. Either the work Of the
Y. c. L. will be entirely neglected
to satisfy the Partys need for
forces, or the young comrades who
try to develop closer understanding
of the Party, will leave the ranks
of the Y. C. L. entirely
Comrade Browder, in his report
to the Eighth Convention Of the
Party, declared against the current
practice of depicting the Y. G. L.
of its best forces when they are
most needed on the youth front.
"In the past there has been
allowed to develop a sort of organi-
rational rivalry between the youth
and adult organizations = a rival
net in the nature of socialist COM
petition, but of the adult organiza-
tons trying to grab away as quickly
as possible from the youth organi-
cations every rising young leader
who shows special organizational or
political capacity. The idea has
been that as soon as the youth
movement produces q leader who is
good enough for Party work that
this means he is wasting his time
if he remains any longer in what
is looked upon as a sort Of proba-
tionary kindergarten. This frivolous
attitude toward youth work must be
eliminated from cur movement
Every Y. C. L. activist must be
encouraged to join the Party in
order to become better acquainted
with its functioning, to raise his
level of understanding, to better
transform Party politics into the
work Of the youth movement and
to prepare the Y. G. L. activist for
future Party work While men,
Der of the Party, he must not be
made to feel like a Stacker II he
does not assume responsibilities as
the adult next to him. The Y. c..
L. ers Party duty and main task
is building the youth movement. If
that requires his full time (and it
should, there must be no attempt
to overburden the Y. G. L. COM
rade. On the contrary, the Party
unit, if it has the means, is obligated
to assign additional young Party
comrades to work in the Y. c. L.
The Party comrades thus as
sgned to Y. c. L. work are not a
fraction in the Y. c. L., in the
sense that fractions exist. Commu-,
mist fractions function not in Com
munist organizations, but among the
ron-Party masses. The Y. c. L.
is Communist youth organization.
Until different system of dues
payments is worked out, the Party
comrades in youth work (the present
Y. C. L,'ers who are also Party
members) shall pay their dues in
the Y. c. L. In the Party they
shall pay only the two cents a week
dues, In cases of unemployed COM
rades, the Party units shall assist
in making it possible for these COM
radss to pay dues in the Party, in
addition to their regular Y. c. L.
dues. ORG. DEPT. Y. G. L.
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