The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Win the American Youth for the Revolutionary Way Out
Problems of Youth
Movement in the
Mass Organizations

failure to react to this problem, we
get the following answers: I'VE are
Lithuanian youth, we are UranianH
youth or we are Finnish youth, and 4
our task is to win the youth Of
these particular naTonalities. We
have no Negro questions!"
This is rank opportunism. Every
one of these youth organizations
must make special efforts to edu~
cate their membership on the Negro
question, to fight against all express
sions of white chauvinism and to
recruit the Negro youth for these
organizations.
There must be a reflection Of this
in the youth sections of the LAM
guage papers-something that is ale
most completely lacking at the
present time. 1t must be expressed
in the recruiting literature gotten
out by these youth groups Cthe
Lithuanians omitted this question
completely from their recruiting
leafleD. This question can very
easily and effectively be linked
up with the problems OF combating
the 'nationaIistic" language organs
izations showing the connection be-
tween the solution of the national
problem in the Soviet Union and
the Negro problem here in the
United States.
Education
The youth organizations have tbs
problem of Transforming the back
ward youth recruited into conscious
fighters in the interest of the work.
ing class This requires a consistent
educational program tied up d.
rectly with participation in the
struggles of the workers. Such
consistent educational program is
as yet lacking although some steps
forward have been made in this de
rection, especially in the Youth Sec
ton of the TWO. There is too
much of tendency toward abstract
education"
The educational activity must
center around the problems facing
the youth, unemployment, war and
fascisnl, student problems, Negro
problems, Soviet Union, etc. This
educational activity must have as
its objective the drawing of the
youth into these struggles The
English sections in the language
papers Eve have now such English
sections) must become an effective
instrument in educating the youth
under our influence.
There is also the problem Of
broadening out the educational act
ivity of these mass youth organiza-
lions, to include music, art, etc.
There is a definite need for the or
ganization of choruses, or bands
and orchestras, of the development
of dramatics, etc.
FINALLY, q general weakness to
4 be found in the work of the mass
organizations is the lack Of con-
sistent policy in regard to the LAM
guage youth organizations under
the control of the fascists and So
cial-faScists. The anti-Soviet DEM
onstration of the Ukrainian fascist
organizations in New York on the
occasion of the recognition of the
Soviet Union saw thousands of
Ukrainian youth modified by the
fascists demonstrating against the
Soviet Union.
What is the Ukrainian toilers
youth section doing about it-or
what has it dS,le in the past to win
these youth aCly from the fascists2
Very little if anything! The same
applies to the Finnish fascist and
social-fascist organizations, the
Russian, the Lithuanian, etc. One
of the central tasks of our language
of combating these organizations
youth organizations must be one
and winning the youth who are be-
ginning to fall prey to the fascists.
The Youth Section of the TWO.
in New York has carried on some
effective work in the Young Circle
League youth section of the Work.
mems Circle-a fraternal order
under the control of the Socialist
Party. -Four of the clubs were won
for united front action through the
American League Against War and
Fascism.
One serious problem that must
be tackled by the Young Com
munist League is the establish
ment of functioning fractions
the steel rod that will supply the
backbone to the work of these or
ganizations-as a guarantee that
these organizations will move in
the correct direction.