The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-19
Statement Of the Central Executive
Committee Of Workers Party
Of America.
To the membership of the Party.

COmIdueS. we are on the eve OF
big developments. The successful con-
Summation of the June 18th Conven-
ton will mean a gigantic stride for
ward in the life OF the American
Labor movement. It will also in
crease manifold the prestige and in
fIuence of Communist ideas eand con-
sequently of the Workers Party.
And yet it is only gradually and
slowly that our membership is awak-
ening to the realization of these i'm
mense possibilities. This statement
and appeal to the party is issued in
the hope that it will accelerate this
process and thereby enable the party
to mobilize all it's resources and ener-
gies for the impending task and carry
it out.
Internal Conditions for Our Success.
The Central Executive Committee
fully realizes the conditions that must
prevail in the party in order that our
present labor party campaign may be
crowned with success. These internal
conditions are:
u The membership of the party
must be fully conscious of the nature
of our task as well as of the strategy
and tactics to be employed in the
realization of these tasks.
p The membership, or at least its
overwhelming majority. must have
complete confidence in the ability
and competency of the C. e. G.
81 The entire party membership
and party organization must give
whole-hearted and unstinted support
to the leadership of the Gee.
Actual Situation in the Party.
The Gee is glad to say that our
membership has reached a pretty
thoro understanding of the general
nature of our immediate task and OBJ
jectives regarding our labor party
campaign. The thing, however, that
is yet to be achieved by our member
ship is just as thoro grasp of our
strategy and tactics.
This is just as important as clear
understanding of our objective. To
define at any given moment the inn
mediate objective Of Communist
Party is hard enough to be sure. But
when this objective has been defined
correctly, then the entire success of
the struggle to attain it depends upon
the correctness Of the strategy and
the tactics applied.
On this point, on the point Of strate-
gy and tactics in our labor party
campaign, we still find in the party
lack of sufficient clarity and under
standing, with the result that the
party organization does not respond
readily and quickly enough to the
leadership of the Gee, and that in
few instances party units have actual
ly deviated from the established
party policy.
We also find in the party at present
a clear manifestation of an organized
factional opposition. Irrespective of
the merits or dement's of its case,
the harmful effect of such organized
opposition upon the fighting ability
of the party cannot be successfully
disputed.
The Study of Strategy and Tactics.
The Central Executive Committee
wishes to impress upon the party
membership the vital necessity Of
studying party policy with particular
regard to the strategy and tactics in
volved. We have already become &C
customed and pretty wen trained to
analyze party policy always from the
point of view of the fundamental
Communist principles. This is great
achievement indeed. But we have
yet to learn to analyze the means and
methods for the realization of our i'm
mediate objective: that is. the art of
strategy and tactics.
Toward this end we recommend a
critical and careful study of the last
thesis Of the G. e. c., also the thesis
of comrade Lore and Olgin and the
reply thereto by comrades Cannon
and Bittelman, the recent speech OF
IL n..AI n.