YOUNG COMMUNISTS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17701, 1 March 1923, Page 10

YOUNG COMMUNISTS.

LEAGUE IN NEW SOUTH WAIES. Craoit ora owjf cowtßSKanmirr.) SYDNEY, February 22. The ohildren of the Communist Sunday Schools of New South 'Wales, of which thero are several! are to be formed into a Youug Communist League. In accordance with the custom of the Moscow Communist International the youngsters have issued a manifesto to "the workers of Australia." It states: "All the world ovev to-day the workers are being faced with the moat intolerable conditions. Everywhere there is unemployment, and the workers are being forced to the lowest level of starvation to pay for the war brought about by the economic conditions resulting from the struggle of the master class for new markets. Here in Australia, where the conditions are relatively favourable, the men who fought the war in which thsy and their class had no interest are now starving on the streets." t And so the manifesto proceeds. It says that, in Russia things are different/ and describes the capitalist States as for the protection of the few who own the means of production, against the many who have only their power to labour. It deals with "the class struggle," and says that the Labour Parties serve merely to patch up the weakness of the system. Then, the manifesto ; states that everywhere tlw young wprkera are being subjected to the most ruthless exploitation. Owing to their youth '.and the cheapness of weir labour,, they are being used to displace parents. ■ ■ The constitution of the Young Com--munisl League of Australia states that its purpose "shall be to organise and educate the young workers to an na-, derstanding of their, true position in the 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, in to tho 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, our present aim. Members are to attend study classes and join trado 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.