Evening star., 1935-01-06
YOUTHS CONGRESS
REBUFFS RADICALS
Committee Is Enlarged, but
Only NonradiCaIS Can
Be Members.

The National Youth Congress, which
brought $50 delegates here. purport-
ing to represent some 100000 young
people throughout the Nation, closed
last night with passage of a resolu-
tion apparently designed to restrain
the more radical elements in the or
ganization.
The congress voted to enlarge the
Combinations Committee. but limit the
additional membership to non-radical
members. The committee has charge
of maintaining the work of the con-
gress and calling future meetings.
Throughout yesterday morning. the
delegates listened to a political SYM
postum. participated in by Senator
Nye of North Dakota, chairman Of
the Senate Munitions Committee; for
mer Senator Brookhart of Iowa, Rep
reSentative Amlie, Wisconsin Progress
sive: Representative Rogers, Democrat,
of Oklahoma: Representative Maroon
tonic, Republican, of New York and
Clarence Hathaway, member of the
National Executive Committee of the
Communist party.
Nye Tells of Disclosures.
Senator Nye told of disclosures made
during the investigations conducted by
his committee, and declared the Gov
ernment in the past has been in part
nership with American munitions
manufacturers. The Senator advo-
Gated taking the profit out of war by
turning over to the Government the
manufacture of war materials. He
said this country is arming nations
which some day may become her ene-
mics.
Hathaway exhorted the young peo-
pie to throw in their lot on the side
of workers in what he called the
class struggle.
your movement must accept a
class program and class approach to
the problems confronting your coun-
try" he declared.
Following the Communist on the
program was Representative Rogers,
who cautioned his hearers not to
forget to be good American citizens, "
and not to get too impatient about
coming out of this depression" He
made a plea for support Of the PreSi-
dent recovery program.
Presents MARKHAM Analysis.
Amlie presented the attitude Of the
believer in the MARKHAM economic
analysis, who at the same time takes
into account existing conditions of
mass psychology, and is willing to &C
compish his Socialistic goal by slow
evolution.
1T is absurd at this time to talk of
any political revolution" he declared.
"The American people are not ready
for the ultimate goal"
Marcontonio said a crisis will de-
velop within four years which will
force the American people either into
a dictatorship for the preservation Of
capitalism or into a new economic
order based on a minimum guarantee
of food, clothing and shelter to every
family in the land.
Brookhart, who is head of the Co.
operative League of the United States,
told Of its work. He said the present
economic system had broken down.
Regrets Sent to Scouts.
A letter expressing regrets at hav-
ing mistakenly included the Boy
Scouts in the list of organizations an
nounced as participating in the Con-
gresS, was dispatched last night to
Linn G. Drake, secretary of the Dis
trict Council of the Scouts, by Murray
Plavner, chairman Of the Congress
Press Committee. Drake and James
E. West, chief Scout executive, had
protested that the Scouts had no
part in the Congress.
Plavner explained that the name
of the Scout organization was fur
nished him by Waldo McNutt, chair
man of the Congress, who said they
were still in the Congress because
they had not withdrawn. Two Scouts
attended the first American Youth
Congress, held in New York last Sum-
mer, Plavner said.