The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-26

published in the Eteenpain, Finnish
Daily, Worcester, Mass. Dec. 81
N CCORDING to the custom in the
"A communist movement, the central
executive committee of our party has
started before the convention a gem
eral discussion on party questions and
the tasks confronting the party This
discussion has two purposes. First,
to get the attention Of the member
ship to their own party, and, second,
to have the membership express their
wish and their criticism on the activ-
tiles Of the party and it's units.
Before all, the fact must be estab-
lished. that the party has in every
way made progress during the year.
Its membership has increased, the
circulation of party papers has grown
and the Importance Of the whole par
ty is bigger. One Of the reasons for
this progress, is the fact, that the par
ty Is now the only representative of
a clear cut class struggle among the
labor organizations in this country.
AS consequence of this fact alone
the w. P. has the best opportunities
to become a large political mass or
ganization. However, such organiza-
tons are not built in a day, especially
not on the American soil. ALI the
traditional obstacles, that a strictly
revolutionary movement meets in this
country, must be understood and cor
rectly estimated, and on the other
hand, in the midst of the most ardent
enthusiasm and optimism, the infant
age of our movement and party must
be taken into consideration. The w.
P. has not yet acquired the experience
which is an important condition of
progress and which will be gained
thru the practical work.
Let us go straight to the point.
Aside from this general progress, our
party activities still manifest some
weaknesses owing to the young age
of the w. P. The coming party con-
vention will have to pay attention to
this, in order to find the remedies. 1t
is clear that not all the party units,
nor the membership as a whole, are
the proved and enthusiastic Commun-
lists, that they should be. Our whole
movement is still in it's propaganda
phase and the activities confronting
1t do not harden the membership, nor
do they show the same sacrificing en-
thusiasm as in other countries, where
the conditions make it possible. Owing
to this, many members take their
party duties very lightly having little
regard for the common villa cen,
tralized party. In this respect, taking
into consideration the situation under
which we are, real Communistic re-
sponsibilty can be developed only thru
suitable educational work.
But our party has weaknesses Of
an other kind, too. The higher units
Of the party and the leadership need
in many respect to be remedied. The
whole history of the American Com
munist movement shows, that it has
suffered from the weakness of its
leaders, splits, inner struggles and
factional politics, which have not al
ways been directed towards the com
mon good.
We have published recently a re-
port of the latest grouping and pol.
icies of c. e. C. We declared out
right: we were angered at this un
ceasing splitting and grouping of G.
z. G.. and also at the production OF
theses before every convention.
The existence of these different fac.
lions in the C. e. C. does not show
up only before conventions. Also be-
tween conventions the quarrel goes
on among the membership. Some
person or group, interested in new
policy" drafts his theses and starts
the quarrel, and soon the fight is in
full swing. Then again "the situation
is changed" and it is necessary to ex-
plain 1t. The c. e. G. of the party
must do something else than draft
theses: 1t must do something else
than split hairs on questions that only
after a decade will be important. It's
members must stop fractional politics,
the basis Of which many times may
only be the question who will become
a member to the next C. e. C. The
playing politics for the sake Of politics
should be stopped.
Now there is difference of opinion
on the question in what relation we
should stand towards farmer-labor
party. 1t is permissible to disagree
on clear question like this
we believe that at the present time
thNere has been no need to draft diff