The daily worker., 1934-06-25
" Our Generation Shall Have the Honor of
OoerthrOwing Bloody U. S. imperialism" Green

NEW YORK.-In clear, straight
forward language, Gil Green, Ma
tional Secretary Of the Young Com
munist League, laid down the basis
of a revolutionary program for the
Y. c. L. before 5000 young and
adult workers at the opening Of
the Seventh National Convention
in st. Nicholas Arena Friday eve
ming
The complete speech follows:
1T is three years since we in this
l very city. but in a much smaller
hall opened our 9Th National Con-
vention. Three years is not a very
long time in the life of a person,
especially when that person happens
to be like most of us here, young
in years. But for the movement of
the revolutionary youth the past
three years we're years of greatest
Importance, years crowded with i'm
portant events, with important les
sons for the whole young generation.
Remember, 8 years ago. The crisis
was still in its early stages. The
hated Hoover was in Washington.
Many youngsters hoped that by the
time they left school, by the time
they grew up, the crisis would be
over-there would be jobs for all.
After all, didn't the newspapers
speak of returning prosperity?
Didn't the professors of Yale, Har-
ward and Columbia say it couldn't
last? And another thing. Election
time was coming. Soon Hoover
would be out. The Democratic party
would change things.
Thus thought many young work
ers. But today-Hoover is forgot
ten. Roosevelt sits in the big chair.
The country is basking in what is
called the New Deal But from five
to six million youth are still jobless.
Prices are rising. Bullets NOW down
young workers who organize and
fight for higher wages. The lynch
ing of Negro people increases. The
innocent Scottsboro boys still rot
in jail. Yes, New Deal, but for
whom?
While others were carried away
by the brain trusts monopoly on
ballyhoo - while Norman Thomas
was discovering Roosevelt as a new
Messiah who would peacefully lead
the people towards Socialism-our
Young Communist League did not
hesitate for one minute in exposing
this so-called New Deal, in mobiliz-
ing the masses of youth for the
every day struggle against the bosses
for the struggle for Soviet Power.
Our convention meets at very
important time. A new generation
has grown to manhood and woman
hood in the twenty years since the
last war. And today the war clouds
have gathered once more. Hitler
goes to Rome. Roosevelt reviews
the fleet. Congress gives billions of
dollars for war preparations. Semi
military camps are established IN
der the mask of peace talk Roose-
velt loans millions OF dollars to the
butcher CHARACTERISTICS. Battle
ships coast in Cuban waters ready
to drown in blood the struggle of
the Cuban people. The stage is set.
The curtain is ready to go up. Our
generation is expected to pay in
blood for the further profits of Wall
Street. 1914 1884 certainly the
similarity is not alone in figures.
In 1914 it was the Socialist leaders
the world over who betrayed the
masses who led them to the
slaughter. 1t was Kautsky and his
whole cowardly crew who voted for
war credits in Germany. Hillquit
supported the war in the U. S. A
few years later it was Noske and
Scheidemann who killed the heroic
Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem-
burg. 1t was again the Social-Dem-