YOUNG COMMUNISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 50, 28 February 1923, Page 11

YOUNG COMMUNISTS.

ACTIVITY IN SYDNEY. REBELLION* TALK. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, February -3. Although action was taken by the Government against the Communist Sunday Schools in Sydney more than a year ago, there seems to be a renewal of the schools' activities here. What is to be known as a Young Communist League is to be formed, and in a manifesto just issued, there is a recurrence of tbe seditious and rebellious literature.

The youngsters in their manifesto to the •'workers of Australia" set forth that the constitution of the League states that its purpose "shall be to organise and educate the young workers to an understanding of their true position in capitalist society, to work for the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a 'Workers' State." This State

"will only function until all shall be absorbed into the working class, when all the need for any form of oppression of one class by another shall disappear. This classless form of society is Communism, otir present aim."'

It is set out that the membership shall consist of young people who subscribe to the league who are between the ages of 14 and 26. Every applicant for membership "shall have expressed his or her willingness to abide by the rules and regulations of the organisation, and to take part in the activities and to submit to the discipline of the league."

Members are to attend study classes and join trade unions, where, it is stated, there is plenty of work ' for them to do in making them Communist in character. It is stated that special attention must be placed on the Press as a means of help in the work.