The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1931, Page 4

Page Four tw YORK, DAILY WORKER, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1931 Work Among California Agricultural Workers By B. Davis. tural work in in its very beginn specific youth the fact that ‘ornia, have recorded a in the field, since actually even Ip a set of y -work, the aps in adult an pproach id also conditions, even few more cents general nce the e gions is now between and 30 cents per hour. The same ap- plies to the question of lower hours lem, as pointed out are the nly nd for better the bx supplied bj s of a cer- sis of the crops in the are closed, tain set t needs of tt particular re We must immediately begin ra’ ing the children and their parents about | how- agri- | , around the questionof a minimum a| period of schooling, €oupled with the demand of maintenance of the chil- during the periedrof the school the y and county authorities. er problem confronting many the children and=their parents is rj the fact that, due té=te rotation of crops, many of the faiililies are com | pelled to travel from-one place another, naturally -prever children from attending any of the nools. It is especially in these c: ances that we must begin ral. ing the agricultural workers around h| the demands for maintenance of the n at the expense of the state, the school period, and where the parents live at a distance from school also free transportation s for these children. my opinion the article of A, Brown fails completely to have 1|the perspective of building the A | W. I. L. and naturally the youth committees, es, and especially the ¢ youth de- ithin the near conference of the agri- work out specific based upon the ex- these workers in the nd in their contact with the workers in the field. Only by strug- gling for the specific youth demands, and touching these problems, will we win the cultural youth to the A, W. I. L, and for the Y. C. L. e the lack of youth literature hindering the work to extent, is my opinion annot be made the main our failures so far to or- ‘© the young workers. The ar- also has a tendency to limit the entire act of the A. W. I L. among the young workers for the present at least to “educating the agricultural young ~ workers.” ‘This dency abcolutely wrong and t be combatted very sharply. Our be to educate agricul- ell as all other t ual participa- tion in the struggle, naturally ot giving up other means of educa- leflets, the Young er and pamphlets. I believe the comrades in the other agricultural regions must also con- tribute their experiences in this pre- plenum discussion, so that we can come to our convention and for the first time really discuss seriously the work among the agricultural young j workers ,and also work out a pro- gram for work and a series of de- mands youth demar ce of certainly gan ticle workers, Our Youth in H. PAUL In order that our League really begins the turn towards mass work we must consciously realize that we must become an actual factor in the building of the reyolutionary unions. We did try to build youth sections Cu ciously). How and ‘to what extend did we do that? In New York we haye/what we eall a youth section in the Needle Trades Union and one in the Metal Workers League. I will deal only with the Needle Trades, since) the other one is only about two weeks old. Is this youth section function- ing? ‘Is it partictpating in the build- ing of the union? Did we do any thing to build it up? The ansv all this is that of the contra many reasons 1. The League in the New York District has done nothing to organize the 70 comrades, who work in this industry into a functioning fraction which would have as its task the building up of a functioning youth section. This is because we still do not realize that trade should be our main activity. still exists the attitude that 0! one who is doing “unit work” good. 2. The very. superficial ideas of what youth sections and youth ac- tivity is. The small youth section we have, exists as a sort of separate little union, separate and apart from the life and activities of the union. For example. While the youth sec- tion would concentrate on the same building as the union does, it would not coo! te its activities with that of the tnit but would go on with its work without the union_ ever knowing ebout these activities or the results Young workers would be called upon to join the youth sec- tion, and not the union. 3. The youth section as it is now, is a loosely organized group, not or- ganized on the basis of the shop, and does not take up shop problems. Because of this it stands out as a sort of social organization. 4. The still existing bad attitude on the part of the union leadership towards the youth, even among those “interested” in youth work. Our immediate tasks in the needle trades are: * 1, Organization of a functioning youth fraction. 2. Orientating the youth section towards economic activity, particu- larly in the white goods trade which is dominated by young workers and where the union is now entering a campaign. » : 2. Clarify Our-comrades as to the organization and function of the youth section, and its relation to the upion, 3. Organization of the youth sec- tion on a shop basis, that is, not youth sections on a shop scale, though this is the most correct form, but in view.of,the fact that the shens are small, it is our task to adept some representative form of Trade Unt rade Unions an executive body. This to be done along the lines of the genera! Shop Delegates Council. Thus we will be able to establish organizational con- tacts in the shops. Now, to come back to the question of our new methods of work. We have to use these methods (sports, socials, persorial contact, etc.), as means for making inroads among the young workers. This should help us win over the young workers, pro- viding we use these methods correct- ly. But to show how not to use these methods and at the same time be under a misleading illusion: A lead- ing comrade had spent quite some ttre playing ball with a group of yong workers at one of the fac- tories concentrated on.. This is an example of a good step in the storm- ing of the factory by applying a’ new method. However, now that those young workers do not play any more outside of the factory, the comrade has no more contact \with them, Evidently he remains, a. mysterious memory to those workers. This is good example of the method becom- By A. BROWN. In California there are something like 400,000 field workers, of which (ifewe count the children), the youth constitute at least 50 per cent. The three main crops are lettuce, melons, and cotton. There are also other crops, such as asparagus, peas, citrus fruits, etc. The conditions of the workers in these fields are so rotten that spontaneous strikes are con- tinually breaking out. The main demands in these ikes are higher wages. There have also been cases of demands for better conditions, such as better housing, supplying wood by the rancher, etc. (Bakers- field, Nov., 1930.) In Imperial Valley there are con- centrated as high as 15,000 workers at one time. These are mostly Mex~- ican and Filipino, a few Negroes and flindus. The Mexicans are mostly families and have a great deal of ren and young workers amongst The Filipitos are gene them single and 75 per cent of them are we ob- under 25 years of age. Now serve a new phenomena. of whites, ruined, poverty-stricken farmers and their families, workers from the towns, from the sea—are streaming in, competing with the colonial labor for a mi istence. Of course the ranchers u this to stir up further race antagon- isms and hatred Direst Povert. In the camps, which y from 50 to 500 people, you will find every sort of makeshift shelter, from tents to brush huts. There may be two or three “toilets’—holes that give off a vile stench. These toilets are entirely inadequate, evern morn- ing and evening there are long lines of people waiting their turn. Drink- ing water is not supplied on the ranches. Water is gotten from irri- gation ditches that have all kinds of garbage and filth thrown into them. As a result the entire camp often gets sick—usually with diarreah and cramps. Epidemics can quickly spread in sucit cases, and of course the workers have no money for doc- tors or medicine. Work Not Steady. ‘The work is not steady. This year the workers waited as long as two months for the peas to start picking, and then were rewarded with two or three or four days a week work, ay- eraging about 75 cents to $1 a day. As a result—work being so spasmodic —the workers want to keep their children home from school, to help get in a few more pennies. The con- stant’ moving of the workers from field to field and town to town keeps the children from attending school the length of time they should. ‘The life of these camps is dull and monotonous for the children and young workers. They are confronted (especially on days they are waiting for work) with absolutely nothing to do. There is nowhere to go. To go to town requires money, to have any sports requircs a place (the camp yard is not sufficient) and sport facilities. There is nothing to read In’ this depressing atmosphere the bosses can and do spread all kinds of anti-working-class propaganda. These are the conditions in gen- eral. They vary in different parts of the state and in different crops. In cotton, for instance, most places, yet, furnish cabins and some even ing the work. ° The Labor Sports Union is not someth new. It is in existence least 4 or 5 years. Yet we must ask ourselyes as to how many of its membership are mem- bers of the revolutionary trade un- ions, or thru how many of its mem- bers have we developed strike strug- gle in their shops, which are surely not exempt from wage-cuts, etc. But before we go into that we must real- ize that the L.S.U. has until now remained a sports organization with- out Labor and without Union. No ideological work has been carried on among the membership. The lack of faith in our task of building the union was even seen (but not recognized enough) in the reports and discussion in the en- larged national buro, held about two months ago. There TUUL was men- tioned in passing. However, a com- rade did suggest that in our unem- ployed youth demands we should in- clude demands for free. movies and dances for the young workers. But he forgot that even American young workers are more interested in food when they are hungry. This is how not to draw up youth demands. We must not go to extremes, simply be- cause we want to draw up youth demands. We must, as part of our pre-con- vention campaign, enlighten our membership as to the relation of our League to trade union work, A cam- paign to be started at once to draw in our membership into the trade unions, and the necessary comrades released for trade union work, The role of youth sections, why we need them, and why it is the task of the League to build them must be clari- fied to our membership. On to National Youth Day! Hs alee Defend the Alabama legal lynching. Vers from In the fruit thinning and picking as also in the peas on the coast (Salinas, Watsonville, San Jose, etc.) many of the workers live in auto camps and go to work in their ‘cars every day. This picture does not describe the whole situation adequately. But it will give us an inkling of how sadly we have ne- glected agrioultural work. Organize Agrirultural Workers. ‘The Party had attempted to or- ganize the agricultural workers even before the T. U. U. L. was formed. Comrade Erickson and others had been working around Salinas for the’ A. W. I. L. until the strike broke out in Imperial Valley, January, 1930. Then the work started in the | Valley and ended for the time being in the disastrous fashion that we know. . We learned from this experi- ence three valuable lessons: 1. That an organization is not built on mass meetings. 2. That you have to reckon with the bosses’ police and state. 3. That the main basis of our organization must be the farm com-~- mittees. The latter is very difficult for some actives to understand. Especially cadres that are new in the field and behold a situation wherein the worker stays on a ranch only a week or so and especially in the peaches for as short a time as half a day. The solution seems to lie in calling the workers together in mass meetings and calling a strike, giving it publicity through leaflets and meetings. (This was the case in Bakersfield last fall and more re- cently in the peas and lettuce in Pajaro Valiey amongst the Filipino and Mexican workers.) The futility and shaky foundation of such tac- tics was proven time and again, not only in spontaneous strikes, but es we had a+hand in. There vould be no machinery to picket the yaods and camps; and no machiner; Agricultural Workers Live in Direst Poverty to keep the workers together on their | industrial farms. The result was that the workers would just: get up and move to some other district, leaving the roads free for scabs to come in. Youth Not Discriminated. ‘The youth organiezr was sent out} in the field to do “youth work.” This work on the surface would seem to consist of, to organize youth sections and lead the young icultural workers in struggles for better con- ditions. Let us first understand the situation of the young field workers. They are NOT discriminated against, as far as wages and conditions are| concerned. he fact is that field work, being so much on a_piece-| work basis, the young worker oft! times, because of his en | make more than the older workers Again—to come to the young workers | who have never heard of any kind| of organization (except the inevitable | church), Iet alone, a revolutionary | union, and ask them to form a youth section is the height of ridiculousness. | for Young Workers, | task’ at the start was| is, to simultaneously, as the | Agricultural Workers’ Indus | rial League grows, find out the real needs | of the agricultural young wor! and on them form a set of demands | at the young field workers - will| it for. We can definite) hat | the question of sports, the furnish- ing of sport means, showers, etc., as 5 reading rooms—and of course demand of abolitio nof child la- ‘Will be some of the de- But aside from the general | ands the~only way we can rall the young field wor Ss as YOUN field workers is to awake their con. sciousness to the fact that even com- pared with the youth in other in- dustries their 1 ion is much worse —to. point out to them the condi- | tions and advantages of the young] agricultural workers in the Soviet | Union. To do this requires an ex- tensive education Inadequate Youth Literature: Our main shortcoming wes the in | adequate youth literature that has| been put out in the fields. During the entire time not one youth leaf- Jet was issued. In this the Party had} a hand, urging that it was prema- ture to issue youth leaflets with youth demands—it would tend to confuse the workers, etc. No doubt the material that would have gone into that leafiet that time would} have had that effect—but the fact| rema: that youth literature—ele- mentary and educational—must be spread to e\ ng worker in the} fields How do we intend to bring out] these youth demands and finally build a youth section of the A. W. I L.? First of all the youth organizers must draw in young workers into our rank tk to develop and edu- cate. them to become activer The} A, W. J. L. is working to form farm | committees, and dele’ from thess | farm committecs come into the near- est town, regular periods, and form the leading body in that dis- trict, called the town committee. ‘These committee meetings must have adequate youth representation. The young workers must be drgwn, first, into helping to get in other young at workers, then finding out what de- mands they will fight for. Then we can begin work of waking the} cor of the field young Literature: good stuff on the youth in the fields of the Soviet | Union, must come pouring in. Then | later we can begin to dream of ay youth section. Let's for once build on solid rock, not just helter-skelter for records sake throw a bunch of young work- ers into a corner and call it a youth section. SECRETARY OF THE SOVIET LEAGUE srroff, general secretary of the League of the Soviet Union, presen’? Pre-Convention Discussion of the Young Communist League USA On June 28th, the Sixth National Convention of the Young Communist’ League will take place. Delegates from all over the country will convene in New York to take up the problems facing the American toiling youth. Our League Work in Opbonent By WILLIAM ALBERTSON. At the recent enlarged District Committee meeting of the New York District, one of the comrades raised the question of what to do after sending a comrade into an oppo- nent organization, He was answered that the work of these League com- rades is to recruit members into the Y.C.L. At the last enlarged N. E. C. Buro, held in the early part of March, it was pointed out that in our oppo- nents’ work we must not only bring individuals into the Y. C. L., but to bring whole groups of young workers | into the League, especially in con- nection with National Youth Day. However, this 1s still too general There are two main methods of ap- proach in carrying on work inside of the bourgeois organizations:: A le for partial demands inside of the organization and against the Jeadership, and the bringing in of certain immediate cl: issues af- fecting the membership. However, they are both linked very closely to- gether; for without a struggle for immediate partial demands we will find it rather hard to win these young workers for a struggle on thes> class issues. Our work must not only be to re- cruit new members from these ort ganizations into the League, but we must work to build up opposition | groups of young work demands upon the le hip and the | organization. These opposition groups give us a broader field-for work than having only a small League fraction. Because we have carricd on none, or very little opponent youth work, we cannot give any experiences in| opponent organizations. Howe certain demands can be worked out. For instance, in the Amateu™ Ath- letic Union, an organizetion of some | 5,000,000 members in this country alone—most of them are young] worker . athletes. tion we m not only build our frac- tions and r nit Y. C. L. members but we must follow a consistent pol icy of building Labor Sports Union | opposition. groups therein (on the] form of T. U. U. L. minorities in A. F. of L. unions). Recruiting for these groups can be done by util- izing these and other immediate partial demands: 1, Fight for Democracy. This is one of the most important partial demands, as in the A. A. U. clubs and } local branches tt very little | democracy, The club mbers cone | to the gymnasium or to the field and | carry on their athletics, But all the policies and the decisions in these) clubs are laid down by a small group | of people at the top; either in the club or in the higher A. A. U. bod- | ies. In many of the clubs even club membership meetings are very sel- dom or never held and the members never participate in the work of the club. | 2. Mass Support, In the A. A. U.} the leaders are always looking for) stars among the members. The play- | ers are picked for the squad from | amongst the most promising. They play, but the rest of the members go hang. For instance, in the Bronx- dale A. C. of the A. A, U., although | having an athletic membership of | over 209 they had only one basket on eortain | In this organiza-| be ball team of 8 members (5 players | and 3 subs’. | ‘There was re ment a d the | members against this policy. How- | ever, this resentment received noor- | ganized expression because the club | held no meetings and the Y. C. L. member there and also the L. 8. U. was not on the job crystallizing this sentiment against the leaders into a broad opposition grpup. It would not have been a hard task for our ee d All-Leninist [Young Communist ng fhe report of the executive conmmpittee to the assembled Young Communists. | on tour. Organizations comrade inside and the L. S. U. even to have built a basketball team of these disgruntled elements and use this team as a point around which to organize this opposition group. 3, Special Dues Payments for Un- employed. In the A. A. U., as well as in other bourgeois organizations, no special dues system has been in- troduced ‘or the unemployed mem- bers. In discussing this question with some young unemployed work- ers, they claim that one’of the things they miss most while unemployed is money with which to pay dues to their clubs. A sharp struggle in most cases could be organized against the leadership of the A. A. U. clubs on this issue. 4. Race Discrimination. In the A. A. U. especially do we find an almost open Jim-Crow policy, as evi- denced by the United States Lawn Tennis Association’s barring of Ne- gro tennis players, ete. It is only when the A U. discovers an ex- ceptional star amongst the Negroes, ch as Tolin, that they allow him in the organization to cover up their Jim-Crow policy, but discriminate against him when it comes to ques- tions of hotels, restaurants, etc., while In the Y. M. C, A. in Pitts- burgh there is an entirely separate branch for the Negroes. the Payment of Ex- 3 ees to Officials. In the Untted States Football Association of the Amateur Athletic Union the soc- cer teams are forced to pay the game | referees as much as $5 per game and oftentimes much more. Many of the players, due to unemployment, can- not afford “pitching in” for the ref- erees’ fees and as a result sometimes do not play. 6. Amateur Sport. This can and must be made one of the most im- Portant issues. Although the A. A. U. does not pay their star athletes openly, they pay them in the form of padded expenses. This really makes the A, A, U. non-amateur. This also tends to develop stardom and favoritism on the part of the A. A. U. leadership for certain picked athletes, which in turn means less participation in athletics for the rank and file, and less chance for them to develop into good athletes. ‘These are only a few of the par- tial demands that can be raised in | the A. A. U. and some of the other Sport bodies. Together with these, other issues of a broader nature can be introduced. For instance, during a strike in a town where a club is Idcated, we should approach espe- cially those organizations in which we are working to give strike relief and participate in the collection of relief. This itself may develop a struggle in the organization on a real class issue. Other and broader class issues may be introduced into these org: tions around which struggle can be developed Therefore, in our opponents’ work Wwe must remember that cur task is to build broad opposition groups based on certain partial demands fitting the situation in the organiza- tion; as a result of carrying on these riz: Build Factory Sports Clubs for the L.S.U. By JAY ANYON. ‘The importance of building a fac- tory sport movement under the ban- ner of the Labor Sports Union can be seen when we realize that wherever youth is hardest hit and most exploited, there is to be found the greatest network of boss-con- trolled sport under the masks of city recreation leagues, church leagues, American Legion leagues, A. A. U. neets, etc. Detroit can be taken as a typical example of what boss-controlied sport is. In Detroit we find it taking the ‘orm of team games; teams for whites and teams for Negroes. These teams are practically without exception groups of five to six (basketball) or 10 or 12 (baseball) crackerjack ball players. The masses of factory workers, those who ‘have no time to practice, those that were not high school or college stars are never drawn into the games. They merely make good cheering squads and a goed market for popcorn or peanuts. Then these teams that are organized are used as advertisements and money-making propositions for own- ers of stores and factories and the politicians running the sport racket for the bosses. These sports, while bearing out the aim of the bosses to keep the young workers thinking about other things than the condi- tions they live in, are profit making propositions in themselves. With this understanding of bosses’ sports, the only correct appeal to the workers of the factory can be— all workers of all races, colors and re- ligions, learn the game you like to play, play. it in a workers’ club. Sec- ondly, all workers enter all games with workers’ control yof all activi- ties in amateur standing. Refuse to be a profit to the boss in your play hour. Here is a concrete example of how we organized a club in a section of Detroit, where young Ford workers hang around and live. One Sunday night a Young Com- munist League Unit of Copland Hall had a dance. At this dance were some five’or six young Ford workers. The unit was working on the organ- ization of a sport club. Right on the dance floor we decided to make an appeal for all workers that want to learn any sport to come to a meeting on Monday to establish classes where everyone could learn and practice. All workers were to be eligible for the meets and games. At the meeting we found these Ford workers amongst the crowd and wher volunteers were asked to sup- ply some equipment, amongst those that volunteered was one of the Ford young workers. Then a few minutes were spent in discussing the activities that won the greatest sym- pathy from those workers present. A definite precedent was set that only the majority vote of the members of the club can decide any matters of the club. At the first practice night these young»Ford workers were among the learners. The only thing they knew was that they wanted to box and wanted to play baseball. The prac- tice nights following found these young Ford. workers bringing some friends with.them, all anxious to | learn and compete in the games and meets. At the last practice there were aboutzten young Ford workers among the=2#pr30 present and most. of them joined the club. Now that these young workers are involved and drawn into the club they naturally aim to develop it and increase the membership, because that is the orientation of the entire membership. Their contacts are Ford workers because they live and work in the same neighborhood. With the leadership and co-opera- tion of a Young Communist League fraction member they will gladly be- come conscious and active contacts for further Ford young workers. This.club may even now be con- sidered a Ford factory sports club. | The future membership is a Ford workers’ membership. We must re~- member that a factory club is 4 club that has the membership pre- dominantly from a given factory, al- though it need not be 100 per cent factory membership. ) Even the non- factory membership can be used to | recruit the element we aim to reach, if the Y. C. L. members are on tha job. Experience shows that every new member makes contact for at least four or five more, if given to understand that they could and they should get their friends-to join their club, Let us say that this year there would be no Spartakiad to rally the workers to our ranks. Does that mean we would suffer any paralysis in our work? As long as the L, 8. U. schedules local and district meets, leagues and tournaments and pre- sents every worker with the chance to learn the game and then compete on ap equal basis with others, work~- ers will rally to our ranks, since no- where else, because of the very char- acter of the bosses-controlled sport, can they find this possibility. The winning of the youth from the bosses-controlied clubs is another problem and needs another method of attack, but the young worker from the factory is not the major membership in these organizations. Any neighborhood club can be con- verted, actually, into a factory club if the Y. C. L. unit follows the cor- rect line of action as did the unit in standing of competition and it was the amateur and workers’ control of Copland Hall-in Detroit. The Young Worker in Our Daily Struggle By WALSH. At the coming convention of the League we will again be confronted with the problem of how better to make the Young Worker an organizer for our League. The present con- ditions are favorable for the turning of the Young Worker into a mass, youth paper. The increase in circu- lation for the last two months shows the demand for our paper among the young workers. This is only a be- ginn‘ng. In order to reach and attract young workers to read our paper we must carry the needs of the youth in our paper. We must know the exact con- struggles for partial demands the] ‘tions in each particular phase of drawing of the widest number of the membership into certain forms of the cless struggle such as strike relief, ard finally at the opportune moment splitting from these organ- ions the largest possible number cf working-class elements to our rev- olutionary organizations. “He who has the youth has the future”—Liebknecht. DEMANDS OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE. Program of demands of the Young Communist League for all youns workers. 1, The right to vote in all elec- tions for all 18 years of age and over. Old enough to work, old enough to vote. 2. Abolition of child labor un- der 14, with government support for all children now employed un- der that age. 3. A six-hour day for all young workers under 18 with full pay. 4, Equal pay for equal work. No night work. No picce work, No work in dangcrous occupations, No speed-up. 5, Establishment of work schools in factories for the training of young workers,. These schools to be controlled by the workers. Full wages to be paid during atten- dance. 6, An annual four weeks’ vaca- tion with pay for all young work- ers under 18, 7. Social insurance, including accident, illness, unemployment, old age and maternity benefits, to be provided by the government for all workers, Insurance funds to be administered by the workers, 8. No young worker to receive Jess than $20 a week in wages. 9. Full social, economic, and po- litical equality for Negro workers, life in order to be able to put their needs into our press and reach the youth with the Young Worker. To accomplish this each district must be assigned to study these conditions and ake un articles that will run in the Young Worker. J) New York for example, we can pick up many things to write on, Just take the Boro Hall! territory. There is no reason why a comrade should not be assigned to study the conditions of the Negroes. We can describe the atmosphere of the ter- ritory, showing the actual living con- ditions. A leaflet can be issued to the neigh- borhood informing them what is go- ing to appear in the Young Worker and comrades assigned to go from house to house to sell the paper. What can we expect out of this article? The geiting of contacts with many young Negro workers. We can or- ganize Negro youth organizations and make up demands for improvement. in line of this article and use this organization to carry on the fight for them. The same can be done in other sections of the city. In our factory work, we keep on teiling the units to sell the paper at factories. We must realize that the Young Worker cannot carry the} latest news being it is a weekly, and therefore may not attract the work- ers.in the factory. We must then resort to some different methods in order to attract them. First of all on factory news. We must instruct the comrades in the large factories to make up notes on what takes place each day in and outside the factory. I spoke to the comrade working in the Gem, the comrade could sit down and tell me many things about the factory and this must not remain in the heads of the comrades, but must be made up as news for the Young Worker. If we would do this, he talk about partial demands would ‘ye more concrete. In places where we have no com- rades, we can find In the Chamber of Commerce magezines plenty to te about certain factories and use os aS a means of coming to the young workers. in these factories. In some cases we can carry a headline about the profits or anything else in order to attract the workers in {the particular place we are interested sw The results are obvious. Now take the youth organizations. j We find not even in the organiza- tions we control do we carry the do- ings of these organizations, with the { exception of the LSU sport page. At the same time we expect these or- ganizations ‘to ma@ke the Young Worker their-orgam. ‘The comrades in charge of these organizations must make up news items about all their meetings and everything else they inlan for the Young Worker and see to it that they are sold ‘among the members and even make the mem- bers sell the Young Workers. In other youth organizations where we have no forces, we can ase their magazines or make the units respon- sible for getting of material from special places. In our house to house sale, the comrades must remember that they are not only out to sell the paper, but at the same time in- terested in the conditions of the young workers they happen to meet, Tn this way we can get contacts for the League.....One shortcoming we must note in the Young Worker i that it hardly ever carries néws abou pany legislative action to use som bills effecting the youth to make 1 big issue and attract the youth. One more field that we have never tried is the sale of the Young Worker in parks and play grounds. Especially during the summer, we find many young worker tcams in these parks and the com~ades must be assigned to go or’ there and sell the Young Worker. In this way we can reach many young workers and teams belonging to opponent organizations and begin to do some opponent work, We can also use the Young worker for dis- cussion circles and classes. I believe ‘t would be great help to many of our comrades, to discuss the Young Worker at some special meeting and miake proposals on how to improve tha Young ‘Worker, Some time!ago we spoke about cor- respondence classes. I believe now is the time to establish such circles, if we expect our comrades to become news reporters for the paper. must take up the Young Worker in the light of changing it to become an organ that will carry all the [news of the youth and in this wey make the paper @ mass youth paper. ‘The coming National Convention -