The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-22
Workers Communist Party


permeates American trade unionism
of the commodity concept Of labor
unionism which still pervades Ameri
can labor union officialdom.
6. Towards Stability Of Leadership
The unity declaration of the centra
executive committee has laid the basis
for far broader composition of party
leadership than our party has yet had
The final leadership of our party, tc
the extent that one can speak of tina,
leadership, is not yet definite. Leader
ship must be developed thru activity
thru tests in practice. Such leader
ship our party is now only crystalliz
ing. The Comintern and the central
executive committees unity resolution
only indicated the line of development
of our leadership, but this indication
in itself is a powerful agent for unity
ing our party ranks as we'll as the
leading strata
7. The Attitude to the Comintern.
Last, but not least, we find that the
new attitude which the large majority
of our party is developing towards the
Communist International makes pos
sible the genuine unification of our
party on a correct political basis. The
basic political line of demarcation di-
viding our members today is to be
found in the attitude towards the
International. On the one
hand, the decisive majority of our
now, more and more,
views the Communist International as
a world party placing at the disposal
Of every one of its sections the COM
posite lessons and experiences of all
its sections-as the real leader of the
entire international Communist move
ment On the other hand, a decreas-
ing section of our membership still
takes an incorrect attitude towards
the Comintern, views Comintern de-
cisions thru social democratic spec
-acles. The experiences of the var
ious parties with such fundamentally
wrong estimates of the role of the
International show beyond
question that this attitude, if main
Iained, logically leads away from the
Communist International.
To larger number of our members
than ever before, acceptance of Com
intern decisions now means execution
in deed as well as adoption in words
by means Of a resolution. There can
be no greater driving force for the
unifcation of our membership than
this new, correct orientation for many
of our members in their attitude
towards the Communist International
The Need for Party Unity.
THE need for the unifcation of all
4 Communist elements requires nc
emphasis. Specifically the factors
for the organic unity of the
party are the following:
Unifiestion-The Road to Recon
struction.
1. The party has been weakened
considerably by the recent struggles
over policy and leadership The
party cannot recover and advance un
less unification of all the elements
standing for the line of the Comintern
at full speed.
2. Unless we secure unity without
of all those who hold the
Comintern above everything else, we
will not be able to break the isolation
in which our party still finds itself
We will not be able to mobilize oul
full resources and energy for major
mass activities, for activities by oul
members in the ranks of the non
Communist proletarians, unless we
end the period of our party's life in
which the center of attention of oul
members is found in the field of inner
party controversy. The long period Of
factional strife has tended to develop
an ingrown, a subjective, outlook il
our ranks. We must turn our eyes
toward the masses. No trade unior
campaign, no labor party campaign
no trade union unity campaign, il
short, no campaign in which large
numbers of non-Communist workers
are to be stirred into motion, can b'
even attempted, let alone succeed
without the unification of our mem
bership on the basis of unqualified ac
tive support of the Comintern's polio
les in every field.
3. Our party has, until the last con
vention. been for many months in ;
state. of factional siege. We must re
store Communist normally in GU
party. Democratic Capitalization will
remain a hollow phrase unless all o
the elements having a correct attitud,
towards the Communist international
are unified, are working on a basis o
Consequently, the normaliz
ing and democratizing of our party
are a prerequisite to the success o
our party's campaigns which require
the full mobilization of our best forces
IL is Immediately necessary IN unroo