The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-02
Real Joint Action Must
Now Prove Will To
Real Struggle

tween the youth congress ond the
youth section of the American
League Against War and Fascism.
1t did not manifest its desire to
rally the greatest number of youth
in the struggle against war, as
would be the case if 1t were to CO.
operate with the youth section Of
the American League, but opposed
such cooperation on the grounds
that the American League is an
innocent Communist club"
Might we remind the leadership
Of the Y.P.SL. that the youth sec
ton OF the American League
Against War and Fascism repre-
sented over a quarter of million
youth at the Second Chicago Con-
gress in September, and further
might we remind the leadership Of
the YP.SL. that the chairman Of
the youth section in none other
than q member Of the Socialist
Party, Waldo McNutt9 For what
other reason, then, other than to
attempt to prevent a real mass anti
war struggle and to narrow the
base of the American Youth Con-
gress were the leaders of the Y.P.
81. opposed to such cooperation?
For the sake Of unity the proposal
was not pressed in spite of the in
sistence of numerous delegates. But
we have TO lay the responsibility
for the preventing of cooperation
Of these two movements at the door
steps of the YP.SL. leaders.
Unity Must Be Established
The Y.C.L. has constantly been
struggling for unity in the inter-
ests Of the student and toiling youth.
The Y.CL. has made numerous pro-
posals to the Y.PS.L for united &C
ton. The ink is hardly dry on
the most recent proposals made by
the YCL. for joint action in con-
nection with the defense Of the
Spanish Revolution. the Oct IL,
Columbus Day, Anti-Fascist Dem
onstration, and the proposals for
joint demonstrations on Interna-
tional Socialist Youth Week in o.
tober. To all these proposals the
answer of the leadership of the Y.P.
81. was negative. In the Oct. II
demonstration, it proposed as a con-
dition Of unity instead of joint
struggle against fascism, unity with
the renegade Lovestone group and
with the counter revolutionary.
Trotzkyite clique. The dangling Of
these two insignificant groups has
been raised as the chief obstacle"
to unity by the. Y.P ST.. leadership.
At the American Youth Congress.
in face Of its broad representation.
this ridiculous proposal could not
be put forward and the Y.P.SL was
compelled to dispose Of this obstacle
in the formation of the united front.
The congress has come to q close.
The resolutions adopted at this con-
gress are the base for the mobiliza-
ton of the broadest masses Of youth
in the struggle against their miser-
able conditions. The effectiveness
OF this congress will be determined
by the persistent work Of the par
ticipating organizations in the mo-
bilizationS Of its members, as well
as in all other organizations for
the program adopted at this con-
gress. On the basis of the reso-
lutions all participating organiza-
tons in the respective Boroughs Of
New York must unite. forming
Borough Committees that will carry
out the daily struggles against the
vicious SANDER of the Hearst press
and against its war propaganda.
Throughout the city. the Young
Communists and Young Socialists
must unite together with all other
organizations in determined fight
against the introduction Of fascism
and fascist methods in the U. S.
The coming National Youth Con-
gress in Washington on Jan. 5 and 6
must be elimination point of the
New York and other regional con-
crosses, broadening out the move
ment and rallying ever larger masses
OF toiling youth in the struggle
against war and fascism and for the
improvement of their immediate
economic conditions.