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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Ill. RULING CLASS WITH AID OF LABOR-NIISLEADERS
STRIVES TO WIN YOUTH FOR WAR AND FASCISM

The ruling class has increased its
activities among the young genera
ton, hoping to turn their discon-
tent into reactionary channels;
striving to make them believe that
other nations and people, and not
the capitalist class, are responsible
for their present conditions. New
organizations such as the Silver
Shirts, Friends of New Germany
New Youth Movement, American
Legion Juniors, New Deal clubs, ETC.,
have been organized and concen-
trate their work among youth. The
Citizens Conservation Corps have
been built by the government with
the aim of creating a military and
fascist reserve and a source of cheap
labor.
At the same time the older, more
stable capitalist-controlled organiza-
tions have increased their activities
especially the Settlement Houses
and industrial US. These are par
ticularly dangerous as they pose as
liberal" organizations, spread paci-
fism, carry on social welfare work,
and in other ways attempt to hide
their capitalist control. These or
CARNATIONS are being centralized
directly and indirectly under gov
eminent supervision and can be
transferred into fascist organizations
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if we do not conduct work to win
these youth for revolutionary class
struggle.
The Socialist Party, the Young
Peoples Socialist League, and Amer
lean Federation of Labor, through
the use of radical phrases, through
creating illusions as to capitalist
democracy, through their theory of
gradualism, help pave the way for
fascism. These reformists at vari-
Gus moments increase their use of
radical phrases, but only to cover
up the brazen fact that they have
become merged with the N. r. A.
and government apparatus and are
doing all in their power to keep
back the struggle of the masses.
In order to check the growing
militancy of the Negro youth, and
the even firmer unity of the white
and Negro masses, the Negro re-
formists and nationalist are work
ing to turn the revolutionary hatred
of the Negro youth against the white
ruling class, into reactionary hatred
aaginst the white toilers. Especially
dangerous is the Japanese move
ment" which has as it's aim to win
the Negro youth for support Of
Japanese imperialist policy in the
Far East and away from support of
the Soviet Union.
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professionals, find themselves cast
more and more into the ranks of
the unemployed youth. The present
young generation is in the main a
product of crisis conditions, is truly
a generation which brutslly feels
the degeneration and decay of CAPT
talist society"
Soviet Union Main Stronghold Of the
World Working Class
While the capitalist world has
been sinking deeper and deeper into
the mire of crisis, the Soviet Union,
where the workers are in power, has
strengthened itself industrially, has
already laid the foundations for a
classics society, and has constantly
improved the material we'll being
and cultural level of its people. The
rivalry between young, robust So
cialism, and old, decaying capital
ism, is the main contradiction in
the world today.
The Soviet Union has become the
stronghold of the world working
class. 1t is source of inspiration
to the millions of exploited youth
the world over, who recognize the
Soviet Union as the living example
of the working class way out of the
crisis and the proven superiority of
the socialist economic and social
system over the capitalist system.
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sistance to doing the hard day to
day work without which successful
revolution is impossible. These COM
rades would sooner stay in their
narrow sects than go among the
youth still under the influence Of
the enemy. They talk revolution,
but resist entering and working
within the trade unions under re-
dictionary leadership They resist
going into the C.CC. camps. They
think that because they live in a
revolutionary period that it is un-
important, unnecessary for them to
work within the VS. and Settlement
Houses, to organize sport and cul-
tural activity, etc.
1t must be clear to every Y. G.
Ler, to every young worker who
wants to become a tried and true
Communists young Bolshevik--
that without working in the trade
unions and capitalist-controlled or
CARNATIONS, without leading the
every day struggle for the economic
needs of the young workers, with
out learning to utilize a variety Of
forms and methods cultural, social,
sports for organizing the youth. all
talk of Transforming our League
into a broad mass organization,the
leader of the majority of the work
ing-class youth, remains only talk.
And loud talk, without action, is
one Of our greatest enemies, be-
cause it covers up the opportunistS,
those who deviate from Communist
principles-those who in practice
hold our organization back.
The ones responsible for this sit
uation are not the new young work.
erS who enter the League with en-
thusiaSm and make up the bulk of
our membership, but a part of the
leading cadres who have not turned
the entire League out among the
youth, and have not aetivized every
single Y. c. Ler on the basis Of par
ticipation in the daily class struggle
THE Y. c. L. must mobilize all
its forces, energy and initiative
for the struggle against the
chauvinist and nationalist propa-
ganda of the capitalist class, This
requires from the y. G. L. that
it should increasingly propagate
feminist revolutionary teachings
among the broadcast strata of the
youth as well as intensity the
struggle for the smallest economic
demands of the youth and against
their compulsory fascination and
militarization." Resolution of
January Plenum of Young Com
munist International
This means that every Y. C. Ler
must work among the young work.
ers first of all in the shops. This
means that Y. G. Lers must not
shirk work in the unions under re-
dictionary leadership Ca F. of IL,
in the forced labor camps and in
the mass youth organizations con-
trolled by the capitalist class. This
means that the whole League, and
first of all every unit. must conduct
q policy of concentration for win
ming the young workers in the de-
cisive war industries (steel, marine.
coal and autol as our major task.
Ito Be Continued
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and making any additions or pro-
posals it deems necessary. Copies
of same should be sent to the Ma
tional Committee, Young Commu-
mist League, Box 20, Station d,
New York City.
Besides this main resolution,
special resolutions are also being
prepared on Economic Trade
Union Work, on the building of
the children's movement and on
control tasks for the coming
period.
The National Committee calls
upon all Party and League mem
bers and all readers of the DAILY
WORKER to carefully study the
above resolution and to participate
in the Y.C.L. pre-convention dis
cussion through the columns of
the DAILY WORKER.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE,
YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE,
u. S. A.
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of revolutionary struggle, realizing
that only through the victory Of the
working class can they find pros
poets of useful future and happi-
ness. Thousands of working, stu
dent, and farm youth have been
brought together in united front
anti-war movement. Hundreds of
militant anti-war youth actions
have been organized. These, to-
gether with the tens of thousands of
youth demonstrators on May LIST
show the readiness of the youth to
struggle against war and fascism.
It is this growth of militant
struggle on the part Of the working
class and its youth, that has forced
certain concessions from the ruling
class. 1t was the gigantic strike
wave and the fear of even a greater
one which forced the employers to
give wage increases to numbers of
workers. Although these increases
have to a great extent been nullified
by shorter hours, speed-up and
higher prices, they show neverthe-
less the power of the working people
once they organize and fight.
All of the above sharpens the
contradictions of the capitalist sys-
TEN and intensif1es the struggle
between classes and states to their
breaking points-bearing out the
correctness of the estimation of the
Communist International that the
world is on the brink of "a new
round of revolutions and wars"
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Labor ROuses the Waterfront
vH-wHO's WHO AMONG THE sEAMEN

active in the W. o. c. since 1882,
but who came forward in the relief
struggle only last December; Tim
othy Patterson, navy veteran, Amer
ican-born son of Welsh parents
who joined the union II months
ago, because, after ten years in the
I. S. u, Il got out because it was
50 openly a racketeering outfit, its
delegates were too busy playing
pinochle to visit ships. Then I seen
this union was leading activities
that weren't a lot Of doggone talk;
Lloyd Stroud, ex-soldier, ex-Wolo-
bly, and ex-Socialist Party member,
who shipped into Baltimore from
the Gulf of Mexico last october;
and Roy Howell, who lives in Bslti-
more with his wife and has been
shipping out of the port since 1922.
He was a member of the I. S. U.
until 1928, and came into the NJ.
w. I. U. thus: THE I. S. U. never
did anything but collect dues, but
once in Philadelphia they an
nounced we'd have to vote on rails
ing the dues from 81 to $3.50
month. All my crew and most of
the fellows in the meeting voted
against it, but those dirty buns an
nounced the vote was for the raise.
I tore up my book. dabbled in all
kinds Of labor literature, until
found some M. w. I. U. literature
on board, and recognized its pro-
gram met the need for real class
struggle that I had felt ever since
I was steel worker in an unor-
ganized mill"
Going to sea since 1918, James
Kennedy, who ran the clothing de-
partment of the Sesmen's Project,
also lives in Baltimore. He began
to work with the w. U. c. for pub
lie relief to unemployed seamen
here three years ago. His first par
ticipation in labor action was mis-
directed: II was on ship in New
York. They were going to cut our
wages. The crew decided to strike.
Before we walked off they had an
other crew on board, and we beat
them up for taking our jobs" To-
day, however, Kennedy is the first
to put down any provocative sug-
gestion of such tactics.
Hugh McCurdy, placed on the
Subcommittee soon after he
shipped down from the Great Lakes
last October, was not a member of
the union at the time.
The first United Front Commit
tee in charge of the Centralized
Shipping Bureau included an
Hawaiian, Negro, q Filipino,
Spaniard. Young Negroes, too,
came forward. Robert Minor, who
served the U. S. Coast Guard in
Honolulu, joined the Young Com
munist Leagues Waterfront Unit in
February; he was elected by all the
seamen on the beach to represent
them at the May / celebration in
the Soviet Union. Fellow Worker
Peoples, a seaman in Nicaragua
! while American Marines were shoot
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government arbitration (Labor
Board; company unions are being
forced upon the workers and the
right to organize taken from them:
workers are shot down on picket
lines alabama, Ambridge, Utah
vigilante committees are formed to
terTorize struggling workers and
farmers California;; and lynch
terror increases against the Negro
people.
Youth Enter Path of Revolutionary
Struggle
The growing rehabilitation of the
working and student youth of the
United States has been expressed in
hundreds of struggles in the past
year. Approximately Is per cent of
the one million strikers in the year
1888 were young workers. The
youth we're in the forefront of the
demonstrations and actions of the
unemployed masses and made up a
large percentage of the marchers in
the national and state hunger
marchers. Hundreds Of strikes and
revolts have taken place in the
newly formed C.CC. camps. Thou
sands of farm youth fought evic-
tons and foreclosures. Broader
masses Of Negro youth united with
their white brothers, were drawn
into the struggle, and the beginnings
of q large mass movement was
created among the young share
troopers in the South. For the first
time since the war, large masses of
student youth have entered the path
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
II. CRISIS OF CAPITALIST SYSTEM DEEPENs

THE revolutionary wave is rising
L in the capitalist world. More and
more masses see the need for deci-
sively smashing the capitalist sys-
tenn as the only way of ending hun
ger, fascism and war. Although
unevenly, the elements of revolu-
tionary crisis are growing the world
over. This was proven by the events
in China, where the Soviet Republic
has won tremendous victories; by
the barbados in Austria and
France; by the revolutionary de-
velopments in Spain and Cuba; and
in the United States by the growing
wave of strike struggles. The
masses are beginning to take the
o nary counter offensive
against the growth of fascism and
the danger of new imperialist war.
The increase of production in the
past year, while indicating that the
economic crisis has in all probability
passed its lowest point. does not sig
nifty a return to prosperity" or
better days for the young genera
ton.
The pickup" far from showing
way out of the general crisis of the
capitalist system, only helps to
deepen this crisis. This very pick
up" was brought about at the ex-
pense of the toiling masses. This
was done by lowering real wages; by
increasing speed-up; by turning
millions of farmers into paupers; by
the government granting of huge
loans and subsidies to the banks and
trusts; by imitation and speculation;
by pouring of billions of dollars into
ornaments and the creation of q
pre-war boom production for new
vars. BY lowering the standards
of the masses it widens the already
great gap between the huge pro-
ductive forces and the ever narrow
ing buying power of the masses,
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number of important strike strug-
giles and in few of these played
leading and important parts (Tren-
ton, Utah and New Mexico mining,
Ambridge, Pittsburgh Hotel, Balti-
more ship, New York radio, Phila-
delphia Knitgoods, etc..
Under the leadership of the Y. C..
L. struggles for unemployed youth
relief were developed, and in a num-
Der Of cities the system of youth
discrimination was broken (Balti-
more, Minneapolis), 1t alone raised
demands for the youth in the C. c.
c. and gave leadership to the strikes
and revoltS in these camps.
The Y.CL. conducted a struggle
for the rights of the Negro people.
and organized actions of white and
Negro youth against discrimination
and for the freedom of the Scots
boro boys.
Through the application Of the
united front the vel. in the last
year helped to develop an anti-war
youth movement, has organized a
whole series of anti-war confer
enceS and actions and has in the
past three years succeeded in trans
forming Memorial Day into a tradi-
tional day of struggle against war
and fascism.
1t has won considerable members
from the ranks of the Y. P. S. L. It
has helped to build a broad stu
dents movement, developed the be-
ginnings of mass farm youth
movement, built number of cul-
tural youth auXiliaries, and more
than tripled the size of the revolu-
tionary children's movement $4,000
to 10000.
In spite of these improvements
our League continues to lag behind
not alone in the rehabilitation of
the young workers, but also in the
progress Of our Party.
The main reason for this con-
tinued tagging of our League is to be
found in its sectarianism, which
despite all progress, has not yet
been broken. The sectarianism is a
result of the existence in our ranks
of open opportunism (right), and
opportunism covered with radical
phrases cleft'0. Both kinds of OPP
portunism flow from the lack Of
faith in the young workers and
their readiness to struggle, The
open opportunism is expressed in a
failure to react to the grievances of
the young workers. neglect Of eco
nomic struggle; a hiding of the face
of the League; desire to change
the character of the League from a
disciplined Communist youth or
ganization into a formless culture
organization. Errors in this direc-
ton were made by the National
Committee in 1882 and the first part
of 1888 and corrected with the aid
of the Young Communist Interna-
tional
Especially stubborn to root out
has been the opportunism which is
covered with radical phrases. There
are young Communists" who hide
their fear of the young workers by
loudly shouting about rehabilitation
and revolution. But these phrases
are merely used to cover up a re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16

ing down natives, Joined the Union
in Baltimore and became one Of the
leading Port Organizing Commit
tee members. Il was he and a
young white worker who led the
preparations for 10 strikes in SYM
pathy with the seamen's relief de-
mands.
The rank and file stand forth in
the discussion following a meeting
on the attack on seamen's control
of relief in the recreation hall:
Fellow Worker James, one Of the
most active in the agitation to
smash religious racketeering, one
who would go into gospel mission
meetings and call upon the speakers
to tell the seamen what was hap
pening to donations to the missions,
says: THE shipowners are trying to
break us up because they know
when we get relief we're not going
to scab. Well, we'll stick with EN-,
cause we remember how the re-
ligious racketeers tried to feed us
spiritual calories on Sunday to
make UP for what We didn't get in
chow" Bos'un on fishing vessels
for "a years, James was an I. W. W.
for IL years. Then, Il saw they
wasn't fighting right, that they had
a lot of stool pigeons instead of
militant workers, so I quit-and I
just joined the NJ. w. I. U. four
months ago."
There's pioneers in Nevada and
there's got to be pioneers here, "
contributes Fellow Worker O'Brian.
seaman and soldier. Lets stick
together, fellows"
And John stichel, Negro seaman
who's been shipping out of Balti-
more since 1914, says: This is the
first time in my life I've been in a
labor orgsnization-and I'm going
to stick with you fellows If it means
bloodshed."
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l. YOUNG GENERATION HAS NO FUTURE UNDER
CAPTTALISM-ALL UNDER SOCIALISM

i army control To the others, dis
elimination In public work jobs and
relief. The closing of schools has
only thrown more youth into the
ranks of the unemployed.
To the unemployed youth, the
New Deal" means exemption from
the minimum wage agreements
through learner" and helper
clauses, and for all it means in ac-
tuality lower wages due to higher
prices. 1t means increased speed
up, which has already resulted in a
growing toll Of industrial accidents
and diseases among youth, especial
ly girls.
To the Negro youth, the New
DEAL means the worsening of con-
ditions already nigh unbearable
While IS per cent of Negro youth
in U. S. cities are unemployed, they
are Disseminated against in receiv-
ing relief or jobs. Those working
face wage differentials in the South.
In the schools it means increased
discrimination and segregation, and
in sections of the South no schools
whatsoever In the Black Belt it
means conditions of actual slavery
for the young sharecroppers, who
face increasing lynch terror.
The New Deal" has placed before
the farm youth the alternatives of
increasing pauperization at home or
unemployment and starvation away
from home in the industrial CEN
tiers. The rise of industrial prices
has only widened the difference be-
tween the low price the farmer re-
ceives for his products and what he
must pay for high monopoly priced
factory goods. This, together with
the forced cutting of sowed acreage,
means increasing burden of debts,
foreclosures, evictions and tenant
farming.
To the student youth, the New
Deal" means more economy bud
gets more closing of schools, less
academic freedom, and the bright
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revolutionary Way Out Only Road For Working You'll
RAFT RESOLUTION OF THE NATIONAL Exc

The Daily Worker publishes to-
day the first half of the Draft
Resolution prepared by the Ma
tionaI Executive Committee of the
Young Communist League for the
National Convention of the Y.C.L.,
which opens June % in Detroit,
Mich. The second half Of the
Draft Resolution, defining the
concrete tasks and perspectives Of
the Y.C.L., will be published In
tcmorrow's Daily Worker.-Editor.
The publication of this draft
resolution should initiate the
widest discussion in all the units
OF the Young Communist League
and Communist Party on the
tasks Of winning the working
youth. Every unit of the Young
Communist League, after discus
sing this resolution, should adopt
short resolution of its own
stating its position on the resolu-
ton of the National Committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-16
Drivers Strike
In Minneapolis
Street Car Men Take
Strike Vote
Especial to the Daily WORKER

MINNEAPOLIS. MINI, May IS
The militancy Of over one thousand
truck drivers and gas station at
tendants forced the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor leadership Of their
union to support their unanimous
vote to strike today.
Among the leadership are several
Trotskyite renegades, including
Skoglund and Dunno, who are at
tempting to bolster up faith in the
N.R.A. by telling the workers that
Section Ia gives the right to or
ganize and strike. The only trouble
is that the employers disregard the
wishes of the MIRA"
The ice drivers, who are Of great
importance for the winning of the
strike, are being kept out by the
leaders.
The only demand raised is union
recognition; wages and improve
ment Of conditions are sidetracked,
even though some drivers get as
low as nine dollars week.
A Communist leafet issued to
the workers urged them to demand
rank and file control of the strike
through broad strike committee.
The leaflet warned the strikers
against Labor Board Cancellation.
against the renegades in control and
urged the workers to raise demands
for higher wages. The Communist
Party is rallying the workers of
mass organizations to support the
strike.
Street car workers will take a
strike vote tonight. Rank and file
committees demand a strike be
called. However, the stated policy
of the A. F. Of L. heads to stall
any strike move may succeed, tenn
porarily.
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THE three years that have
1 passed since the last con-
vention of our Young Com
munist League have been
years marked by continuous
deepening of the crisis of the
capitalist system on the one
hand, and on the other hand, by
tremendous growth and achieve
ments in the Socialist systematic
Soviet Union.
The capitalist class in its attempt
to get out of the crisis has increased
all the forces of terror and oppres-
sion in order to further worsen the
conditions of the toiling masses and
to prepare for new armed re-
division of the world. 1t has in all
countries intensified the struggle for
the masses of youth, working to
poison their minds with national
and racial hatred, trying to pre-
pare them for fascism and war.
In the United States, when Roose-
welt came to Office more than a
year ago, masses of youth expec-
family waited, hoping that the New
Deap' would end the crisis, would
give them jobs and higher stand
ards of living, and would in all
other ways drive the money
changers out of the temple" in the
interests of the forgotten man."
But this has not come to pass.
The Roosevelt government, under
the cloak of nice promises, has
really placed greater burden on the
backs of the working people.
what does the New Deal" mean
for the sons and daughters, the
Young men and women of the work
ing class?
To the five million jobless youth,
MANY of whom have never worked,
the New Deal" has not given jobs
or relief. It has given to 100000
of them forced labor camps under