YOUNG COMMUNISTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18801, 2 March 1923, Page 9

YOUNG COMMUNISTS

LEAGUE IN' NEW SOUTH WALES.

(From Oue Own Correspondent.) ’ SYDNEY, February 22.

Tho children o£ the Communist Sunday schools of New South Wales, of which there are several, are to bo formed into a Young 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 over to-day the workers are being faced with tho most 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 tho struggle of the master class for new markets. Here in Australia, whore the conditions are relatively favourable, tho men who fought the war in which they and their class had no interest are now starving on the streets.” And so the manifesto proceeds. It says that in Russia things are different, and describes tho capitalist State as for the protection of the few who own tire means of production, against tho many who have only their power to labour. It deals with “ the class struggle,” and says that the Labour parties servo merely to patch up the weakness of tho system. Then tho manifesto states that everywhere the young workers are being subjected to tho most ruthless exploitation. Owing to their youth and tho cheapness of their labour they are being used to displace parents. The constitution of the Young Communist League of Australia states that its purpose “shall be to organise and educate the young workers to an understanding of their true position in the capitalist society, to work for tho abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a Workers’ State.” Tins State “will only function until all shall be absorbed into tho working class, when all tho 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 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 ho placed on the press as a means of help in the work. '