The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1934, Page 4

Page Four ¥. C. L. Pre-Convention Discussion Win the American Youth We, Not Fascism,W ill Win the Students-If W Guide NSL in Struggle of Students, Aid to Workers By WALTER RELLIS HERE are five million four hun- dred thousand enrolled high school students in the U. S. in ad- dition to approximately a million students in the colleges and uni- versities. Our League, we must ad- mit, has not fully recognized the importance of organization among this great mass of youth. In their excitement to win the majority of youth to a revolution- ary program, many of our student comrades have forgotten the young peopie with whom they come in contact daily—their classmates. ‘They have forgotten that it is nec- essary to lead the student youth in struggles for their immediate demands and for this reason they have not deemed it necessary to build a broad militant student movement in the high schools and | eolleges. We have instances (Milwaukee) where our comrades in high school, although they recognized the im- portance of leading student cam- paigns, did not see that it was nec- essary to organize the National Stu- | dent League. In other words, they did not understand the necessity for building mass youth organiza- tions as well as the Y.C.L. Comrades Don’t Know N.S.L. Program i In fact; many of our comrades, even those in school, are not at all acquainted with the N.S.L. or its program. That is why the condi- tion is repeated in school after school (where we have nuclei of the Y.C.L.) that no chapter of the N.S. has been organized. This ap- plies almost without exception to every district. of the Y.C.L., They have forgotten that the stu- dents can easily fall into the hands of the fascists if we do not carry on activity in the schools. They have forgotten that the students can be mobilized for imperialist war as well as against it, if we are not effective agitators. Experience has shown that the students are ready for struggle (the nation-wide student anti-war strike on April 13; the recent strike of the miners’ children at Kincaid Il- Imois High School against the use of scab coal, etc.). They require only experienced and consistent leadership. In scores of places (Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Min- neapolis, Pittsburgh, supply such leadership, if we will only take the trouble of explain- ing to our comrades the necessity and method of organization among the studenis. Student Fractions Not Sufficient Our leading committees must be- come thoroughly acquainted with the program of the N.S.L., in order that they may organize N.S.L. chap- San Fran-| cisco, etc.) we are in a position to} ere Really Active Flexible Line | Necessary In Y.C.L. Work! Bolshevik eieea rship| Must Guide Youth in Concentration | By LIL DENICH | 'T SEEMS to me that the goal of the Young Communist League | under Capitalism is to organize revolutionize the working cla 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 stremgth, methods and tac- | ties, 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- | trict is applying our line in the most absurd, mechanical manner. I want to deal specifically with | |my own experiences. I am a mem-| |ber 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 a 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- | |vade is naturally a capable organ- izer—but I’ve learned that it doesn’t |always work this way.) The di |trict gave very little correct guid- Jance, 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 a 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 a dance to raise money for | their fight for freedom. e panick-stricken youths are franticall: ing to escape the deadly fire. revolutionary youth took place a fe By WILLIAM JONES PART H. Our League in the Struggle for Internationalism ry OW shall we estimate our League's | AI struggle for international work-| |ing class solidarity since our Sixth | Convention of 1931? The last Con- | vention met when the first great Japanese offensive was launched | against the Chinese masses. In the| months and years that followed,| this attack was sustained and in- creased, During this period, blow after blow has been struck against the Chinese Soviets, financed and of- ficered by our “own” imperialist | government, The world wide impe-| rialist campaign against the U. S.| S. R. has grown. American im- | perialism has upheld the bloody op- | pression of the South American | peoples (supporting the dictatorship | of Gomez in Venezuela). Even to- | day the guns of American battle- | ships menace the people of Cuba in| The lynch attackeupon the Ne- | gro youth has greatly increased | during this period. The Scottsboro case, symbolizing the struggle of the | workers against lynch terror, has continued its death threat to the boys during these years. In the light of these, events we| must seriously review our past work | as we move forward to our Seventh | Convention, | It would be wrong to say that we | have completely failed in carrying | out our duties as a section of the Y.O.1.,, in the struggle for prole- tarian youth internationalism, Insufficient Work The League, under the leadership | ters and strengthen our fractions | youth center, printing raffle tick-| of the Party, has participated in| where the N.S.L. already exists, so that our comrades can give ade- quate leadership to the student movement. We must not be content with merely organizing a fraction within the NS.L. We must give our fractions constant supervision in order that the political and or- ganizational ability of our comrades can be improved. Too often our leading comrades consider it suffi- cient to call a fraction meeting of our students three or four times a year. Between these meetings the problem of building the NSL. is forgotten, and sometimes between these sessions the N.S.L. breathes its last. ‘That is what happened in Cleve- | land. N.S.L. chapters were organ- ized in several schools. No ade- quate perspective was set for the group; sufficient provisions were not. made for the training of new lead- ers. When a number of our leading people left school, the N.S.L. left . with them. The leading comrades in Cleveland must be held respon- sible, as must the leading comrades in several other places where simi- lar occurrences took place. In Cleveland, in Pittsburgh, the N.S.L. died out under the very noses of members of the National Commit- tee of the Y.C.L. Only Y.C.L. Can Guarantee Strong N. Ss. L. We must remember that only the local Y.C.L. can insure the perpet- uation of the NS.L. The chapters cannot be built on a firm base (this applies, of course, to every mass or- ganization) by organizational let- ters or an occasional organizer from the national office of the NS.L. Students are willing to struggle directly along the workers’ front as well as against war and fascism and. for their own immediate in- terests. They are motivated to this by several reasons. Some few have become class conscious and fully understand the importance of every Struggle which the working class “ages. Others have a social atti- sade. They wish to see how a strike m™ conducted, and in the process of seeing they become involved in the struggle. They picket with and talk to the workers and as a result of ‘these experiences they become sym- Ppathizers to and supporters of the workers’ struggles. Almost invari- ably, these people learn a great many class lessons and eventually , of them find their way into revolutionary movement. Children of Strikers in Schools Must Be Won Most important, however, is the attitude of the student sons and daughters of striking workers. These have a stake in the strike and, therefore, will give their whole- assistance. (The example _ Mt Kineaid, Ti, is an excellent one.) | ets, posters, running here and there. | Of course the big dance was a | flop, money was lost, a youth cen- | | ter was not rented. | Why were these activities fail- |ures? Because they were uncalled for at that particular time. Because the comrade organizer had no organization below to make |these a success. Because she did| {not concentrate really, to build| jyouth sections in the shops that | | would lead and educate the young | | workers along our lines, but took the easiest way out and involved | j herself and the committee in a lot of nonsense, work which the situa- | | tion 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 a} fraction? This fraction to map out| a 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 a lousy parasitic class. If we work hard, consistently, and in a determined Bolshevik manner, it may take some time, but we would get there. | These youth can easily be recruited into the National Student League on the basis of support to their par- ents’ struggles. The N.S.L. on the West Coast gave immediate support to the strike of the longshoremen. Leafiets were issued at several col- Jeges calling upon the students not to scab (at the University of Cali- fornia the football coach recruited scabs among the students), and to give their full support to the strik- ers. In Los Angeles delegations of students went almost daily to strike headquarters and were received en- thusiastically by the strikers, The leader of the NS.L. there has become surprisingly popular among the strikers. As a result of this fraternization with the workers the N.S.L. was able to turn over a number of con- tacts to the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union. Since the N.S.L. is so popular among the strikers we have secured the assistance of the workers in organizing the N.S.L. in the high school which their chil- dren attend. In this way we shall possibly build a strong N.S.L. in that school (similarly. we must gain contacts for the N.S.L. from’ the fathers and mothers in the reyo- lutionary movement). | @ wrong line on our part, | national solidarity. |held in New York on May 30th movements and actions against the | imperialist policy of the American | government; in demonstrations and} struggles for Negro rights, for| Cuban liberation, for the defense | of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union, against the fascist | terror in Germany. This is true,| and to the credit of the League and! its leadership. | However, in the spirit of self-| criticism, we must register profound | dissatisfaction with our struggle during this past period. This is the starting point. Our weaknesses do not flow from Our in- | tentions have been good. But this| does not satisfy us, by a long shot. | What have been our weaknesses? Internationalism 1, We have not organized masses | of youth for this struggle. Even| where we have led and participated in mass struggles of the youth we have not infused these economic battles with a spirit of internation- alism. Many examples could be given of this. We have not, known how to connect up the economic Struggles with the fight for inter- Some achieve- Cuban students being mowed down by machine gun bullets. The This dastardly attack on the Cuban | ly insufficient, unsystematic. There ly crowding into a corner, attempt- w days after May Day, when the BATEY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1934 students were demonstrating against the brutal actions of the Wall Street-controlled Mendietta government which broke up May First | meetings and parades throughout the island, STRUGGLE AGAINST U. S. IMPERIALISM ments were made in establishing in| strikes and unemployed movements fighting solidarity of Negro and white youth. ven here, however, we have only Skimmed the surface. We cannot rely on the united struggle by itself to cleanse out the stink of white chauvinism, We must go deeper into the problem. We haye not solved certain ob- stacles which our comrades face in their daily work. For example: How to really connect the factory or un-| employed concentration with the} struggle in solidarity with the Ger- man masses or for the defense of the Soviet Union. 2. Great underestimation has | existed im our ranks (and leader- ship) of the need for struggle agianst the role of U. S. imperial- ism in China—or in Cuba (much nearer home). We must admit that we have done very little, concretely, in the fight against colonial op- pression by “our” governnient. 3. Our struggle for the interests of the Negro youth has been total- are entire sections of the League which have not taken a leading role in the struggle for Negro youth rights. Despite the good work of some units and sections, the League as a whole has been disgracefully lagging behind the Scottsboro boys, Herndon, etc. A totally insufficient number of Ne- gro youth have been drawn into the ranks of the League. The struggle against white chauvinism within our ranks has been marked by its unsystematic and irregular char- acter. During the past period a certain good development has been seen in the greater and more leading role of the white Y.C.L.ers in the strug- gle for Negro youth rights. Cer- tain splendid examples of this have been shown (Dorfman case), Never- theless, much more must be done in this respect. Real mass activity, of an organi- zational and agitational character, has not been carried on in popular- izing the achievements and position of the Soviet youth and in the struggle for the defense of the Soviet Union. ‘We even had such cases where | various comrades tried to omit the slogan of “Defense of the Soviet Union” in order to have a “broader” united front conference against war! (New York). Today everyone must admit the leading role of the USSR. in the struggle for world peace. VI. Tasks of Our League in the Struggle Against Nationalism and Chauvinism 1, Of greatest. importance is the organization of Marxist-Leninist education throughout the entire League. This has been merely spoken about until it has become almost @ meaningless phrase. Given as a in the fight for} such a system of education is still non-existent. The reason for this weakness is not only underestima- tion, but a failure on the part of the central and district leadership to work out the methods in apply- ing this educational system. The education of our members is left solely to chance or their own ini- tiative, with only a few irregular classes Nnd schools established. And even those schools which we have conducted (especially in the dis- tricts) have suffered from a lack of well planned curricula. 2. The content of our interna- tionalist propaganda must be greatly improved. We must first more clearly indicate the class character of nationalism and pa- triotism. Let us take the question of the struggle for markets by American imperialism. At best we only show who benefits from this policy, or if we do speak about who suffers we only mention the colo- nial peoples. Whereas we can show clearly (even in dollars and cents) how such a foreign policy reduces the living standards of the Ameri- can adult and youth workers (through inflation, wage cuts, taxes, ete.). And then another question: American airplane factories have produced hundreds of planes used in the murderous Chiang Kai Shek drives against the Chinese Soviets. The workers are told that these dits who terrorize American and “innocent” missionaries. What have we done to tell these workers the truth, to give them facts about, the | heroic Chinese revolution, to stop the shipment of planes for such Purposes? We must shamefully ad- mit, “Nothing!” Fight For Negro Rights In our propaganda for Negro rights we correctly show the class character of white chauvinism in dividing the workers, etc. However, we generally fail to supplement this of the upholders of white premacy, A recent editorial in the “Young Worker” correctly points out that in our League we do not debate on Negro “inferiority.” At the same time we must (and it is not diffi- cult when connected with the class struggle) take up in our mass work the arguments advanced by back- ward white young workers under the influence of white chauvinism and disprove them. We must clearly | show, on the basis of real examples from life, the source of such ideas and prejudices. Joint struggle of Negro and white youth will be ten times more effec- tive if we uproot our present ideas of spontaneity (“all race hatreds will be burnt out in the heat of struggle”) and carry on at the same time clear mass education against the theories upon which white su- serious task by our last Convention, chauvinism is based. NEW YORK.—Proving by exact instances—times, places and dates —a member of the Young Circle League, the Youth Section of the Workmen's Circle, Socialist-con- trolled fraternal order, writes to the Daily Worker, of the splitting tac- tics of the Young Circle League leadership and the Lovestonite ren- egades from Communism. % The National Youth Day dem- onstration referred to was the powerful parade and demonstration last. | The letter, in full, foliows: Clarence Hathaway, Editor Daily Worker. Dear Comrade: At a recent meeting of the com- mittee consisting of delegates from the four Young Circle Clubs (Youth Section workmen's Circle) affil- jated to the American League Against War and Fascism, it was unanimously decided to do all in our power to get as large a turn- out as possible from the Young Circle League to the National Youth Day parade and demonstration. We decided upon certain concrete ac- tions, including the handing out of Young Circle League Member Exposes the Splitting Tactics of Lovestonite-Renegades ® the American League call to the N. Y. D. demonstration, at the Young Circle boat-ride, May 27th. Morris Stone, a Lovestonite, and a delegate from the Carlisle Club, was present at the time. Three days later, at a meeting of the Carlisle Club, Stone was called upon to report on the May 13th, N. Y. D. Conference, called by the Youth Section of the American League. He thereupon started a lengthy tirade against N. Y. D. and the Ameritan League, including the reading of a Y. P. S. L. leaflet giv- ing their violently distorted story of their request for a united May 30th and the final break. He con- cluded with a plea that the Carlisles endorse and attend the Socialist- coritrolled demonstration May 30th. He failed! Fail to Split In 2nd Club The same tactics were pursued by another Lovestonite in the Upton Sinclair Club. This one, despite the | fact that she was present when the club unanimously re-endorsed its stand on the American League (re- taining membership and full en- operation), after a Young Circle League spokesman from the office had delivered a two-hour tirade against the American League also did her best to persuade the club to participate in the Socialist-con- troled demonstration May 30th rather than in the N. Y. D. dem- onstration. She also failed miser- ably! In the meantime we learned that another Lovestonite in one of the clubs had warned the Young Circle Leegue national office that leaflets were going to be distributed at the boat-ride, These are the kind of tactics be- ing used by the renegades of the Cc. P. in the Young Circle League to win over the membership of the clubs to a militant struggle against war and fascism—in fact this is ex- cellent proof that the Lovestonites are interested only in splitting a united fight agaimst war and fas- cism! But the fight for the united front goes On—all obstacles placed in our path by the Young Circle League “highet-ups” and by the Loveston- ites will be brushed aside and we will conquer in thé end. planes are to be used against ban-| | | | by clear answers to the “arguments” | ‘hat we must carry through our| And about our struggles for the defense of the Soviet Union: In our popularization of the Soviet Union we speak about the advantages of youth under workers’ government, a little less about the Soviet Peace policy, and the necessity of follow- ing the example of the Russian workers in overthrowing capitalism. But we fail to point out and ex- plain the role of the Soviet Union as the fortress of the world revolu- tion, the defender of the interests of the entire mass of workers and toilers in all countries and colonies. This omission was glaring in ar-| ticles published in the “Young Worker” on the occasion of recog- nition by America. We do not point out the internationalism of the So- viet youth which was formulated by Comrade Stalin. “The spirit of internationalism must always be kept active in the Young Communist League. The successes and the failures of the proletariat of our country must be associated, in the minds of the Young Communists, with the suc- | cesses and failures of the interna- | tional revolutionary movement. It is essential that our revolution | in itself, but as a means and an | aid toward the victory of the | proletarian revolution in all coun- | tries.” (Problems of Leninism.) And this fact, which we either) omit or slur over in our mass prop- | ganda, must be raised first and foremost in rallying the youth for the defense of the Soviet Union. When we show (which we can) that the very existence of the So- viet Union, as pointed out in the brilliant speech of Manuilsky at the | 13th meeting, is the greatest wea- pon in the world-wide struggle of the toilers against oppression, then it 1s clear that we can rally great masses of American youth for sup- port and defense of the USSR. 3. To seriously speak about| achieving this great task means agitation and organization against capitalist nationalism among the masses of youth with whom we| have no contact today. In the fac- tories, ‘first of all, and in the big capitalist-controlled organizations. For example, could we not carry on | mass agitation within the “Y’s’) against the role of the Y.M.C.A. in China today—basing this on the past counter-revolutionary work of the “Y” during the last war, in Russia (1917-1919) and Hungary? Can't we expose the role of the Christian missionaries in the colo- nies (especially in China)? Or cannot we organize the Negro! youth in the “Y's” (there are many) for the struggle against the Jim-Crow policies of the “Y” lead- ership, their role in the Scottsboro case? Not only is this possible, but wide movements could undoubtedly be organized. 4. In our propaganda it is necessary to show the youth how the policy of working-class interna- tionalism will benefit the youth within the United States. We must be careful not to show internation- alism merely as a_ self-sacrificing ideal. ry We must show the ruinous re- sults of the policy of capitalist na- tionalism. For example: The de- struction and limitation of crops, destruction of livestock, tremendous waste and ruin of natural resources, are the results of “New Deal” na- tionalism. We can and must stim- ulate among the youth a great hatred of the policies and character of capitalism which cause the ruin and plunder of the great natural wealth of America, and the wealth created by the labor of past gen- erations of workers. We can show how this wealth, under the rule of the workers in a Soviet America, would bring the most wonderful benefits of “life, liberty and happiness” for the youth. And in this connection we must more corestety tell the youth what our internationalist presram, and a Soviet America, wou’ mean for the youth (wages, hours, vaca- tions, education, sports, culture, ete.). Our coming convention will only be successful in rallying the League for the fight against hun- ger, fascism and war, if we struggle not only against the forms, hut the roots of this ques- Comradely A YOUNG CIRCLETTE, tien—the ideologies of national- must not be regarded as an end ‘are located in industrial centers, | have to be the driving force, guid- for the Revolutionary Way Out! ee oT Ta Problems of Youth Movement in the ° Mass Organizations Fail to. Recruit Negro| Youth and Work in | Factories By DAVE GREENE HE last year has witnessed quite a growth of working class youth organizations. We have upwards of | 10,000 youth today organized around | our adult mass organizations, the) Lithuanians, the Finnish, the Uk- | ranian, the Russian, the I.W.O., the Hungarian, etc. These youth have been organized around a class struggle working class program. | The building of these organiza~ tions has brought with it many problems of growth, as well as problems of policy. I want to dis-| cuss here some of the major weak- nesses common to these mass or- ganizations which must be over- come if we are to go forward in} building these organizations into mass organizations, following the leadership of the Young Communist League in the struggles for the needs of the youth. Face to the Shop The growth of these organizations has not been due to a consistent organizational plan with a view to- wards penetrating the factories and winning the youth there for our or- ganizations. Concentration is an unknown factor insofar as these or- ganizations are concerned. With the possible exception of the Youth Section of the I.W.O., where some feeble efforts were made in this direction, the leadership of the youth organizations has failed to tackle this problem. iL In one particular instance, a membership campaign plan was is- sued by one of the National Youth Committees calling upon the mem- bership to take part in a drive to increase the membership. This plan, a two or three page document, never once mentioned the recruitment of young workers from the factories. Only once in the whole document was the mention made of young workers, | The excuse was later given that the majority of the membership are students and therefore it was im- possible to recruit young workers, This argument does not hold water. The branches of this organization such as Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, ete, in many cases not far from important plants and factories, where results could be obtained pro- vided the membership in these branches correctly orientated in this direction. Many of these youth groups have young workers in important indus- tries, steel, mine, stockyards, auto, munition plants, ete. These young workers can become an important instrument for concentration work for the building of the mass organ- ization through work in the factory. They also can become the basis in many places for the building of the unions. The Youth Section of the I.W.O. in its last campaign with only some feeble efforts in this direction—suc- ceeded in changing the character of the recruitment from some 60 per cent of students as against 40 per cent young workers to close to 85 per cent of young workers re- cruited. In the coming campaigns to be conducted by the mass youth or- ganizations, one of the central tasks must become that of educating the membership to the importance of concentrating their energies to- ward penetrating the factories and winning the young workers from the factories for our organizations. In this respect, the Young Com- munists in these organizations will ing and directing this all important work, linking it up with the build- ing of our revolutionary unions, with the building of opposition groups in the right-wing unions. es Negro membership in the mass organizations is a very small one. This is not an accident. We find in the leading committees a serious underestimation of the SR care our organizations, To cover up the failure to react to this problem, wa get the following answers: “We are Lithuanian youth, we are Ukranian/j youth or we are Finnish youth, and our task is to win the youth of these particular nationalities. 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 expres 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 lan- guage papers—something that is ale most completely lacking at the present time. It must be expressed in the recruiting literature gotten out by these youth groups (the Lithuanians omitted this question completely from their recruiting leafiet). This question can very easily and effectively be lnked up with the problems of combatting the “nationalistic” language organe 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 the | 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 di- rectly with participation in the struggles of the workers. Such a consistent educational program is as yet lacking although some steps forward have been made in this di- rection, especially in the Youth Sec- tion of the I.W.O. There is too much of a tendency toward abstract “education.” The educational activity must center around the problems facing the youth, unemployment, war and fascism, 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 (we have now 8 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 tions, to include music, art, ete. There is a definite need for the or- / ganization of choruses, or bands and orchestras, of the development of dramatics, etc. Reo ae | INALLY, a general weakness to be found in the work of the mass organizations is. the lack of a con- sistent policy in regard to the lan- 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 mobilized by the fascists demonstrating against the Soviet Union. What is the Ukrainian toilers youth section doing about it—or what has it dgne in the past to win these youth a\ay from the fascists? 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 combatting 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 I.W.O, in New York has carried on some effective work in the Young Circle League (youth section of the Work- men’s 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 functic fractions— the steel rod that supply the backbone to the work of these or- ganizations—as a guarantee that fight for Negro liberation, on this ‘basis winning the Negro youth for these organizations will move in the correct direction. -——— ADVERTISEMENT -—— being laid, ism and chauvinism, First Woman Sports’ Director at Unity Ever since Ruth Lorrgan came to Camp Unity as its fitst woman sports’ director, the camp has heen in upheaval. Even the fishes in the Lake dive as deep as possible when the dynamite blasting in the athletic field booms from the lake to the hilltops, “It's the rocks,” Lorrgan explained. “They aren’t ordinary ones, and we aren’t going to have an ordinary athletic field when we're through next week, either.” Lorrgan went to New York on a shopping orgy, and returned with a carload of new equipment. In addition to ping-pong, handball, baseball, basketball, volley, swimming, boating, etc., Lorrgan is introducing a number of new sports. Water polo, horseback riding, deck tennis and shuffle board will be among them. A new concrete tennis court is boxing, medicine ball, Ruth Lorrgan says the sport program begins early in the morning with setting-up exercises. night with moonlight hikes, blindfold boxing, vice-versa nights and what-not planned for the various evenings. (P, S.—She can be escaped. The lake is a mile and a half long, and the camp is surrounded by hills.) [See Advertisement on Page Two] It continues into the : Seumnintenmeinietelaammmenmmntos teenie re chee