The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-11

danger of a split. Our Polish COM
rades asked why we were in such a
hurry to shake off the old Central
Committee. Surely it is obvious that
If we had hesitated at all the split
would have become inevitable. The
crisis was so severe that we may con-
slider it to have been solved fairly
easily. (severing: Quite true!)
Then as to the other controversary
with the Extreme Left" At a mo-
ment when we had no idea how things
might turn out we had to act, and
even to over-rate the dangers bit.
Even now we do not know its nu-
merical strength but we do know that
they are mensheviks turned inside
out. At the moment, part of the prob
lens have been solved. The new Cen
trail Committee will repulse this liqui-
dation from the left" and l hope it
will successfully manage them.
German Trade Unionlsm.
There are still very great difficulties
in connection with the question on the
Trade Unions. The Central Commit
tee must resolutely suppress any at
tempt at revising" the Frankfurt res
olutions, and to speak Of leaving the
trade unions. Nor is the parliament
tary position simple. In both the
French and German parliaments, we
have a situation similar to that which
Lenin used to call the Pendulum"
situation, where our group can at
times have the decisive vote. This is
bound to produce tactical difficulties
for us both in France and in Ger
many. The Germans have also neg
lected the work among the peasants
This must be made good. / could
quote a number of other minor tasks,
but l shall not do so. The German
Party has proved itself to have a
robust constitution which has with
stood the onslaught of serious dis
eases. If the body had not been so
sound and proletarian, we would have
had still greater difficulties. If the
ultra left again try to emerge, we will
resist it. If the old left" deviation
on the trade-union question arises
again, we will also resist them. The
situation between ourselves and the
Central Committee of the German
Party is amiable and satisfactory, but
there are no reasons why we should
not combat any errors if they arise
We combatted the 'lefts" and we will
do so in the future. The German
Party like every other party has the
right to criticize the executive. 1t has
made more than good use of this right.
We have no use for blind followers.
But the German Party also has no use
for an executive which does not
openly say what is to be said. The
executive may and will criticize and
rectify what it thinks necessary. 1
believe that the left elements, which
are in the majority in the German
Party, will admit that we acted cor
rectly when the question of new tao
tics in the trade-union movement was
raised. Some may have believed that
the executive intended simply to hand
over the German Party to the ultra
lefts, but they will now realize that
they were mistaken. The executive
did no such thing and will never do
such thing. We did always fight
for Leninism even in the German
Party. We are quite pleased that the
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this.
The czecho-sIovak Communist Party.
Now for the Czech Party. l have
already touched on this question and
have not much more to add. INhave
the impression that the Czech Party
lacks constant energetic revolution
airy leadership. They work spasmodi-
cally When on elections or some
thing Of that sort-there is a revival;
when it is finished-they go to sleep
again. There is no constant revolu-
tionary leadership. l think that the
Czech Party has much to learn. The
Central Committee should have fresh
proletarian forces infused into it. The
revisionist elements which are still in
existence must be rooted out. While
have some hopes that Comrade Hula
will rectify the errors, have no such
hopes for Vanek. There are elements
in the Czech Party that are almost
incorrigible centralists. We need
have no doubts about the good inten-
tons Of Comrade .Smeral. But we
must demand the elimination of the
errors exposed in the passage of the
Polish resolution which / quote, an
error which has been uprooted in Ger
many and in the whole Communist
international. And this error has also
to be eliminated in the Czech Party.
More attention than hitherto must be
paid to the national and peasant ques-
tions-this applies particularly to the
Czecho-slovakian party.
POLISH COMMUNISTS
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