THE MILITANT Saturday, May 24, 1930 THE YOUNG VANGUARD The Breakdown of the Mexican League exited to the penal colony in the Pacific The Plan of Action Already The Rank and File Is Ominously Silent!
were deported from the country, five com In the rades (of whom four were members of the and one of the were The period from April 1929 until Aug. Secretary should be named. and that all 180 of the same year when the 111 Congress political functions should be carried out Ocean and the of Mexico was reof the Young Communlet Federation of collectively by the duced to complete impotence. The mass Mexico was celebrated. was one of rapid Immuiately the deficiencies of the The feeling which one experiences in demonstrations were few, rickety and inthe Young Communist League these days progress for the Mexican Communist Youth new were to be observed. The effective. In the midst of all this, after is that of a man trying to lift himself by noven. ent. From a small number Of nondifferent theses approved at the congress organizing the expulsion of the writer of his bootstraps. There seems to be a trefunctioning unit composed mostly of pea were not sent to the units or even to the these lines from the Party sad the mendous strain, a terrible commotion, much sand with a discrganized central appar regional committees, All of the work of for his criticism of the line in Mexico and atus. an organization of 660 effective memshouting mingled with many threats, but the fell into disorganization as no disagreement with the general splitting amidst all the fury there stands the League bers in over 30 units and a central exec. one knew where or how to begin. All the policy of the Comintern abroad and greastill tugging violently at its bootstraps.
utive in which half a dozen departments scolding of Matlin and the nearness of sing the slides for others, Matlin fled cowEach successive resolution appears more functioned regularly was built up. During the Imminent workers and peasants rev. ardly from Mexico, without so much as dismal than the preceding one. In every this same period. is well to observe, olution could not get the new apparatus to notifying the Central Executive Committee.
sphere of activity nothing but failures and the Communist Party of Mexico was a sin function. The only work that not beExpulsions Continue defeats stare the League in the face. The tegrating and losing one important posi come completely demoralized was the press At the present time the expulsion fever membership turnover has assumed the tion after the other. In the trade union and Pioneer work. Delegates were no continues to rage full blast in the character of a rationalized factory.
and anti imperialist movements, and also longer sent to the Interior to carry on of the which seems to be about to in the Workers and Peasants Bloc that direct work with the units and with the result in its expelling itself. It may be in Do More Work had been formed opportunistically through masses.
teresting to note that the present of the concessions to the petty bourgeois directThrough all the discordant noise and Knowing that an anti militarist cam of Mexico is composed of one aldin, shrill and relentless, rings one penorg of the National Peasants League (Gal paign would be certain to bring down a ternate, named in the congregs, and two etrating strain: We lag behind, we beVan and Co. still more severe repression of the move comrades, both them quite incapable of The national plenum of the of hind, we continue to lag behind, we never ment by without the authorities, and national direction and who were not electthe Party was obliged to recognize in July counting on any real mass support. this seem able to stop lagging behind, we must ed at the congress.
1929 that the youth federation had a bet work was given not only preference by There is still hope however, not lag behind but we do lag behind, lag This lies the but was actually turned into lag. lag behind.
ter status than the Party and it was This strain has inany in the reorganization of the Young Comvariations but all have the same theme.
generally accepted that the had the principal task of the organization. The munist forces in Mexico under the banner more effective members in its organization spirit of adventure always found in the of the International Left Opposition. When The puny League bureaucrats, devoted disciples of Browder and Foster, are not in than the Party itself.
youth was appealed to, and the comrades the present Left turn of the Comintern in different parts of the country vied with takes its inevitably sharp Right turn, and The Apparatus Men Get Basy the least, however nonplugged. They have one another in seeing which lical could the sane young Communist elements in a remedy for everything. You must do Ar this stage, preparations for the III get the generals exasperated first.
Mexico (and there are many realize the more work! they thunder to the memberNational Congress of the of MexNo sooner had the campaign been com correctness of our position, we may hope ship. And then to show that they have ico were made and a representative of the menced than the repression struck with even heard of such a strange matter as for a rapid improvement of the situation.
Young Communist International, comrade Leninist analysis in determining the cause full force. In a period of about two months Those who have striven for the building up Mat in appeared on the scene.
all the leading elements of the ight lar of the of Mexico will not stand for failures, they add: We must fight there had been several minor struggles on gest urban locals were imprisoned, includ quietly by while the organization is smashbola the Right and Left dangers. They technical questions between the of ing the whole with the exception ed under the combined blows of the governhope to conceal their impotence behind a the and the of the in screen of theoretical verblage.
of one comrade, besides many Party and mental reaction and the Centrist bureaucall of which the personal political interests trade union leaders. About 20 foreigners RUSSELL BLACKWELL To be sure, the Right danger is the racy.
of Sormenti, representative of the Parmain danger, they say. But there is also ty EC. in the corresponding organ of the 90 called Left danger which stands the were to be Sormenti as a main barrier to be overcome in gucutilized the of the as a cessfully combatting the main danger, the big stick to win his ends in the On Tuesday, May 14, at p. at a (collection boxes were given to each unit Right danger. Resolution and Plan general membership meeting of the New of the Party.
on May 8, and only five units bad returnAction of National Executive Committee very weak political thesis, destruct York disir lot of the Young Communist ed their boxes thus far, Shohan asked Young Worker, May 12, 1930. Life, it Ive in its analysis of the past work of the League took place. read in one of the whether they used the money for movies seeing, is indeed most complicated. And YF. and with proposals for the im last issues of the Militant an article about or to pay their rent. in his whole speech the road in the struggle against the Right mediate commencement of numerous new the last united front May Day he NEVER EVEN ONCE CRITICIZED THE danger is most devious. With so many polltleal tasks was presented by tbe conterence. In that article it was stated LEADERSHIP. He didn even bother to different varieties of social fascists, time representative of the I, who, it goes that there was hardly any discussion from take a vote to approve the plan of Action. is certain to produce new dangers. Then withou. saying, had a very deficient know the floor, etc. Now at Y. member Now will ask some of the older memthe alarm will have to sound, and it will ship meeting which is called to act on bers in the League what has happenledge of the situation, the strength and be observed that we lag behind. The In Plan of Action given out by the ed? Iave they become robots and stopped resolutions will have to bristle with warn.
posalbtitles of the youth federation.
this thesis it was proposed to commence at pne would think that there would be ad thinking? Where are Fanny Rothman, ings like these: There is also the so called once the formation of youth sections in equate discussion.
Freema Katz, Ben Harper, Nusstaum. Middie Danger which stands as main But the fact is that there was NO Eda Eleman, Morris, Bindler, Kucher, Mae the unions, agrarian organizations and in obstacle to be overcome in successfully comthe Red Ald, the organization of nuclei DISCUSSION from the rank and Ale mem Kuperman, Friedman, Shavelson, slipjan batting the socalled Left danger which bers. Of course even you might not believe (Harlem. etc. in the army, the organization of a National stands as a main barrier to be overcome Sports Federation of a League of Youth It, 80 will explain what took place. First, will end by quoting from a speech in successfully combatting the main dan.
against imperialism, and bo call at an Shohan, the District Organizer, reported delivered to the Third Congress of the ger, the Right danger.
early date a national convention of the Red for about an hour. When he was through, Russian L: Communist who would The League membership must call a Pioneers. It was declared Imperative that we vere supposed to have minutes dis dream of boasting of his Communism on halt to all this idiotic Jabbering and crimthe commence immediately all of cussio. for each speaker. Well, the first the basis of the ready made conclusions inal phrasemongering, all of which is inthese tasks.
was a comrade who spoke on the Young taught to him, without performing the most tended only to conceal the bankruptcy of When the opposition group continued Worker in the name of the District Com serious, the difficult and persistent work, the Stalinist leadership.
in its demands that definite stress be laid mittee. Then a comrade on the Needle without understanding the facts of which The Plan of Action trades, who made an announcement that he should be extremely critical, would be on the more important work of organizaall the comrades should leave the meeting a miserable Communist Indeed. Let this tion, and the trade unions, and that the The socalled Plan of Acton, this latest and go to the general needle trades frac be the guide for every member.
anti militarist, anti imperialist, young peainnovation with which the Steubens, the tlon meetin in Manhattan Lyceu here RING Harveys, and the Greeng are mpting sants league and youth section of the Red Ald be considered not of immediate impor Bedacht was reporting. Then the district to cover their recent miserable failures, tance with practical rejection of the last anti director took is three minutes to give All members of the Young Comunist cannot be realized with the present false some instructions about giving out leaflets policies and opportunist regime.
three the guardian of the Holy Grail League are invited to write articles to the It will from Moscow threatened us with expulsion to the fleet. He also reported that catur Young Vanguard on the condition the be as successful as the last membership should we insist on carryng the points of days mobilization was a flop. Then two finds itselt today. The surest way drive whch it was claimed recruited 100 more, the great unknown. John Steuten new members.
difference to the floor of the congress. After to stop the wrecking tactics of the The resoluson on the some minor changes regarding the criticism and Sam Reed each gave us a speech a Plan of Action says: Every unit must be bureaucrats is to expose them before the plece.
of past work, the draft thesis was accepted.
made to function so that they can hold the membership In order to prevent a split in the Federa After this Shohan too the floor with gains made in new members, and not lose young workers for the League as we did tion, the opposition group agreed not to out asking the members whether any disVe are sure nobody will accuse us of not bring the question up at the congress. cussion is needed and summed up.
during the last membership drive. And taking life seriously when we say that Shohan, of the district stated The congress took place without any We were separated into fractions, that is, needle trades, food workers, etc. and upon leading the Dally Worker (5 17 1930)
opposition to the line of action laid down at a recent membership meeting: This we laughed till we collapsed. That irre drive ust not be like the last drive where by he presidium which was controlled by were supposed to join the 49 pressible humorist, Harrison George, writes Matlin and Sormenti. Velled accusations a start in the membership drive.
we recruited 200 members on paper. The there: The Commuinst Party has nothing adoption of such high sounding titles as were made against the liquidationtst. League Members, Wake Up!
to hide from the workers. It publishes its Plan of Action and shock troops can social democratic and anti Communist think it about time the League mem opinions, it programs, its resolutions, 80 not make the present drive any diterent tendencies, of the oppositionist comrades bers woke up. It has gone far enough every worker can find out just what the than the last.
and by employment of true Stalinist methis bureaucratic way of conducting work. Communists stand for. It is going to hold The members of the must be thods, such as declaring that foreigners Shohan in his report, speaking about the a national convention next month and be alert.
could not form part of a Central CommitThey must not permit themselves unemployment work of the L, Bald: ing a really (emphasis in original Ed. to be deceived.
tee. the new and were They must try to find As far as the League is concerned, it is democratic organization it conguits its Perhaps realizing that the new out what is wrong, and what is all this a one hundred percent tallure.
members on the thesis drawn up by the unceasing lagging behind all about. They would have to work under the Just think, after Shohan, criticizing Central Committee on the Economic and must study the viewpoint of the Left Opdictatorship of some Party or international the rank and fie, making insinuations that Political situation. This fellow vill be position representative and for fear of developing Some are already doing this.
the death of us yet lan darahin it was decided that no General unit organizers have misappropriated funds GEORGE BAY Aamed.