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

party pEOAuOl6S Tue iuSOlO6lCdl uOluO-
geneity and consequently the organ
national unification of our member
ship
8, Greater Political Clarity.
THRU our long discussion and with
4 the considerable help of the Com
munist International the party has
been able to clarity for itself many
fundamental questions. We need but
cite the labor party problem. The
labor party issue is not a temporary,
passing issue for the American work
ing class. Therefore, it is a major
issue, fundamental problem for our
party. Who is there today in our
ranks who can deny that the party is
now in position to avoid errors from
the left as well as from the right in
the labor party campaigns which we
will yet wage before we see the Amer
lean working class succeed in estab-
fishing mass labor party, in declar-
ing it's political independence from
the bourgeoisie? 1t is clear that, at
least for some time to come, the labor
party question will not prove a source
of dispute in our ranks. With the
realization of common political view
point in its fundamental aspects
towards so basic problem as the
labor party, our leadership and mem
bership are certainly much more
firmly welded ideologically.
q. The Role Of the Party.
Our membership now has far bet
ter understanding of the role of the
party as the leader Of the working
class army. Our membership today
realizes with considerably greater
clarity the menace of the theory of
mass spontaneity, the dangers of the
party bowling before the moods, SEN
timents and reactions of the masses.
We now appreciate more sufficiently
the need for the party's taking into
consideration as objective factors the
moods, sentiments and reactions of
the masses while at the same time
fulfilling the role of directing, guiding
and turning these attitudes of the pro-
letariat into revolutionary channels. !,
In short, today most of the party
leadership understands better the tao
tics and strategy of keeping closer to
the masses without at the same time
allowing ourselves to give up our po-
sition of pointing out in advance to
these masses the course of economic
and political development. We now
know better how to lead the masses,
how to be in advance Of the masses po-
litically without at the same time los
ing contact with the army of the pro-
letariat whose vanguard we must be-
Temporary downward trends of
working class political develc--aats
do not today breed as much pessimism
and passivity in our ranks as they did
in November, 1924, after the presi-
Dental election. On the contrary, our
leadership today, .refiectng an advance
in the political maturity of our mem
bership, tends to consider such down
ward trends in the political develop
ment of the working class as added
reasons for intensifying the partys
activities to revolutionize the work
ing class.
Here we have a basic element in the
development of correct, a homo
geneous Communist political theology
in the ranks of all the layers of our
membership. This fact is of para
mount importance as force for or
ganic unity in our ranks.
5. A Correct Trade Union Policy.
In the main, except FOR a section Of
the former majority group, a large
proportion of our membership and the
decisive majority of our leadership is
now headed towards correct Com
munist policy on the trade union field
the field of activities which must re-
ceive our increasing and major atten-
ton. The dangerous misconception of
the very purpose of Communist activ-
fly in the trade unions is rapidly los
Ing ground in our party. The notion
that the basic objective of our cam
paigns in the trade unions is to win
offices in the labor unions is losing
ground, at an accelerating pace, to
the fundamental, correct Communist
concept Of winning over ideologically
increasing sections OF the organized
proletariat.i
Concurrently with the development
Of this understanding of the primary
purpose of our trade union work we
can also notice the fact that the tend
ency in our ranks to consider trade
union work as special art of Sc
lected group of experts has been SER
iously undermined. The attitude that
trade union work is the monopoly of
a handful of particularly ordained
comrades is only the reflex in our
ranks of the craft concept which still