The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-08
SOUTH SLAVIC
SECTION, ". p,
IN CONFERENCE
Ranks Are Consolidated
For Communism
By L. FISHER.

rlILy-lVe u646BdJ6S from all paris
Of the country gathered /at the Sec
ond National Conference Of the
South Slavic Section Of the Workers
Party here to review the work of
the past year and to lay plans for
future activities.
The delegates realized the ire
mendous tasks before them and
went to work in all seriousness. The
problems before the convention
were: How to consolidate and
strengthen the ranks Of the South
Slavic Federation; to determine. the
attitude towards those that left the
party during the struggle within the
the federation against opportunism
and petit bourgeois theology; In
crease the trade union work and
carry out the party policy all along
the line.
Membership Increasing.
The report Of the secretary show
ed an increase in membership. Over
200 new members were brought in
since the last conference, and "a new
branches were organized. The mem
bership is active in every line Of
party activity, especially for the
Labor Defense Council and The
DAILY WORKER. Great achieve
ments were made in the campaign
for the protection Of the foreign
born workers.
About 30 per cent of the members
are in the labor unions, mostly in
the u. M. w. of A., but that was
not quite satisfactory to the conven-
ton and efforts will be made to get
every member who is eligible for
membership into UNION.
Comrade c. E.. Ruthenberg, who
represented the Central Executive
Committee of the Party at the con-
ference, gave a report on the party
activity and explained the party pol
icy that vas adopted at the last
party convention and at the enlarg-
ed meeting Of the Executive Com
mittee of our party. In the course
of his speech he made it plain that
every party member must engage in
some party activity, otherwise he. is
not a good Communist. He traced
the development of the Labor Party
and our attitude towards it, showing
that our Party bad correct policy,
which was nothing else than the
American application of the United
Front Policy, adopted by the leader
of the World Revolution-the Com
munist International He said that
the members must not only carry
the party policy into practice, but
they must also understand it. In
regard to the struggle within the
Federation, he said that the bureau
fought for Communism. while the
former editors, Cvetkov and Com
pany, represented an opportunist
tendency. His speech was heartily
greeted by the whole convention.
True Communist Duties.
Comrade Fisher showed in his re-
port on the economic and political
situation, that the aggression of
American Imperialism and the agri-
cultural crisis in the United States
gave the Communists an extraordl-
nary opportunity to work for an
alliance between the workers, far1n-
ers and oppressed nationalities in
the struggle against exploitation,
reaction ard oppression. In this
struggle, the industrial proletariat
must take the lead. This the Com
munists must not forget.
The delegates took lively part
in the discussion on every point on
the agenda, especial interest being
shown in the questions of the Labor
Party, the Federated and tie third
bourgeois party.
A telegram expressing grief over
the death Of our great leader. Com
rade Ienin, was sent to Moscow.
A depI1tatioa from the "opposi-
ton" came to the conference and
submitted certain conditions for
their return to the ranks of the
party. The convention elected a
committee which, in conformity with
the representative of che Central
Executive COMMITTEE of the party
drew up a reply to the effect that
evcry expelled member, as. well as
those who voluntarily left the party,
if they were sincere, should go to
the respective branches and make
an application for re-admissicn. To
every such application special con-
sideration will be given by the
branch and by the Central Executive
Committee of the party.
The policy of the bureau in its
fight against the former editors was
unanimously approved by the con-
vention.
Unity Prevails.
Never in the history of the South
Slavic Federation was there Such a
unity Of theology and uusnimity Of
decisions. Last years convention
was very stormy, there being three
factions pitted against each other,
hut traces Of that bitter fight could
not be found at this convention. The
petit-bourgeois theology Of Cvetkov
and Kutuzovich has been urrooted
and there are no signs that it will
ever be revived again. The dele.
gates left the convention with a firm
determination to increase the work in
the branches a hundred fold, to
liquidate the remnants Of the old