The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Flexible Line
Necessary In
Vel. Work
Bolshevik Leade rs h ip
Must Guide Youth
in Concentration
BY LII DENICH

~ SEEMS TO me IndJ ble goal VI
/ the Young Communist League
under Capitalism is to organize and
revolutionize the working class
youth to the point where this youth
will be ready to join in with the
adult workers to give the final and
necessary blow to the capitalist ma
chine. when the moment comes. and
to be ready to establish a workers
and farmers dictatorship.
Now, in preparing for that mo-
ment, we have a definite line to
follow. A line that is flexible and
gains in strength, methods and tao
tics, while we carry ON the daily
struggles Of the young workers.
Mechanical Line
We all know that our strength in
the shops, mills and factories will
determine our strength when that
moment comes. Yet for some rea-
sons or others, which surely must
be condemned, the New York Dis
tIict is applying our line in the most
absurd, mechanical manner.
I want to deal specifically with
my own experiences. I am a mem
Der of the Novelty Section Of the
Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union. And so are hundreds
Of other young workers. And what
has our district done to take ad-
vantage Of this condition?
The district assigned comrade
TO organize youth sections in the
shops of the Novelty Trade. The
comrade, though she is more or less
one of the older members, did not
know how TO go on with her work.
| Very often our leading comrades
think that because one has been to
National Training School, the COM
rade is naturally capable organ
izer-but I've learned that it doesn't
always work this way) The dis
trict gave very little correct guild
ance, anyway, her methods were Of
the sort which our thesis and reso-
lutions condemn. working from
above, unorganized, mechanical and
everything that doesn't make good
Bolshevik work.
Routine
This is exactly how she worked
She told the comrades Of the Or
ganized novelty shops to bring at
least two young workers from each
shop to youth committee meeting
Of the Novelty Section. The COM
rades brought the young workers.
Right at that first meeting, they
were Immediately involved in a lot
of routine, technical work. Such as
planning dance to raise money for
a youth center, printing rattle tick
cts, posters, running here and there.
OF course the big dance was
flop, money was lost, a youth cen
ter was not rented
Why we're these activities fail
ures? Because they were uncalled
for at that particular time.
Because the comrade organizer
had no organization below to make
these q success. Because she did
not concentrate really, to build
youth sections in the shops that
would lead and educate the young
workers along our lines, but took
the easiest way out and involved
herself and the committee in a lot
of nonsense, work which the situa-
ton did not warrant.
And here is where the district
leadership is to be blamed.
Must Build Fractions
And yet we want to train a lead
ership that would come from the
factories Then why don't we? Why
couldn't the district call in all the
Y,C.L.'ers Of our trade to form
fraction? This fraction to map out
line that would really concen-
trate on building youth sections in
the shops. A fraction that would
lead these youth sections, train
them and recruit from them into
our ranks.
Naturally this will be hard work.
But we know that our struggle isn't
paved with roses, no, it is paved
with lousy parasitic class. If we
work hard, consistently, and in a
determined Bolshevik manner. it
may take some time, but we would
| get there.