The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21

the faltering, vacillating policy OF the
Central Committee, which has mani
tested itself particularly in its attitude
upon the trade union question. will
recall only the hesitant attitude of the
party leadership towards the workers
congress, the weak action for gaining
admission into the trade unions and
for capturing them.
Must Face Our Errors.
Comrades, l regard It as essential
that you should be quite clear as to
what errors and weaknesses are to be
overcome so that the party may be-
come really consolidated and in the
highest degree capable of action. The
party will never overcome these err
rors If you declare that every success
full action is due solely to your own
work and that every weakness is a
heritage of the old Central Committee.
If you do so you will be saying in one
and the same breath that you are both
impotent and almighty. Greater tasks
are facing our party than ever before.
We must be prepared for them.
Aiming for the Struggle.
1t is very possible that the world
situation will very rapidly become
acute. An acute situation may arise
with extreme rapidity in Germany,
since the Preparations agreement and
the basis of the Experts Report is
working in this direction. We must
exert greater energies than ever in or
der to win over the masses and to
fling them into the fight under our
leadership. The party has begun to
arm for the forthcoming struggles by
its agreement with the Communist
parties of the neighboring countries.
1 welcome this feature.
But we must not forget in our in
lternational mobilization that imperial
ism must be defeated by the proleta-
riat in their own country. Therefore
the proletarian masses in Germany
must be modified have so far heard
nothing of the concrete slogans and
measures that this necessitates. More
over the .proletariat must find allies in
order to overthrow the domination of
the capitalist class. What is our at
titude towards the national question,
the peasant question, and towards the
question of the Electromagnetic?
Where are the practical concrete de-
auctions from our policy?
The United Front, How?
The present situation lends in
creased importance to our attitude to-
wards the proletarian united front. It
is certainly one of the most important
duties of the World Congress to reach
complete clarity on the subject of the
united front, tactic the eliminating
point Of which is the workers and
peasants government. Neither the re-
port of Comrade Zinoviev nor the
discussions have dealt with sufficient
clarity with the question as to how
the united front is to be concretely
carried into effect Comrade Zinoviev
spoke in the manner of a Bible or
ton of the Fourth Congress is to be
understood. l frankly declare that it
has not been explained how the united
front is to be put into effect.
"Have Done With Words"
On this subject l hold with Luther:
Have done with words" The resolu-
tions of the World Congress must be
regarded as authoritative without ex-
plantations or comments. When they
no longer sufficl they must be
changed. We need unambiguous texts.
If we permit explanations written by
Zinoviev independently, or by Zinoviev
misled by Radek, and are content with
his opinion as how resolutions are to
be understood, then we must recOg-
nize the right of other comrades to
interpret in their own way the resolu-
lions of the world congress. This must
not be, in spite of our great respect
for the chairman of the Communist In
ternational. 1t will lead in practice to
the breakdown of unity, the break
down of party discipline.
Union for Life and Death.
We must clearly understand that the
united front must be union for life
or death of all proletarians who are
rebels against the capitalist profit
system and the bourgeois state, firm
revolutionary fighting brotherhood un-
der the leadership of the Communist
Party. Two preliminary conditions are
necessary for such united front.
Firstly, that the Communist Party must
be a firmly consolidated, disciplined.
centralized unit with unshakable prin-
ciples and convictions. II must never
conceal it's true character. In it's &C.
tions 1t must never allow itself to be
bound by considerations of other par
ties. II must always act with extreme
firmness and independence as the
revolutionary leader Of the masses.
The second condition for the united