The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-12

ted the party work from above, while
the party has been relatively small
in membership and weak in it's work
ing ability. In this unnatural situation
the leadership of our party has the
time, and in this arrangement of its
work it is compelled to overload the
ability of the membership with pos
sible and impossible daily dec
larations, orders and demands.
This is done in a manner where
even the best of the member
ship does not have the time to
acquaint itself with all the declara-
tions, not to say anything of carrying
them out in practice or getting larger
masses acquainted with them. On the
other hand it seems that the leader
ship of our party has always been
afflicted with form of leadership
mania, which it attempts to apply to
every possible and impossible act, and
which governs all the declarations of
our party and it's instructions in man
euvering. While we should endeavor
and be able, with the superiority of
our activities and our work among the
lower strata, to earn the confidence of
the proletariat and leading position
in its struggles, it has instead been
characteristic with the leadership of
our party to seek, thru newspaper de-
clarations, organizations which it may
lead, which as such is childish and in
most cases sets up great obstacles
to the work of those members who
endeavor to build and strengthen the
party up from the bottom.
Thinking over the past tactics of
our party, the supernatural centraliza-
ton of forces in it's governing organs,
the waste of our economical abilities,
and on the other hand our leader
ship" maneuvers, we recall a certain
seagoing vessel and it's command. For
its pride and for attracting outward
attention special fog-horn or whistle
was placed on the boat This whistle,
when blown, took all the steam from
the boilers. When the whistle was
blown the propeller stopped turning.
When it was necessary to proceed in
a storm and fog, the propeller always
ceased to turn because all the power
was consumed by the whistle. Just as
Impossible as it was for the command
Of the vessel to get the propeller of
the ship to rotate by shouting to the
firemen sweating in the coal bunkers,
just so impossible it is to get the con-
struction work of our party to make
progress by declarations and DEGREES to
the sweating membership of the party
Everything must be arranged proper
tionately.
We are fully behind the viewpoints
presented by the majority to build the
party from the bottom upwards. We
might use the words of Lenin, ito
build grain by grain" But we are of
the opinion that the first duty is to
cleanse the party's working machinery
of all factional fights, entailing untold
work and financial expenses, and of
pork-barrel" politics, which sad fea-
lures stamp their impression into
every move by our party machinery
and make full success difficult in
every attempt. We are of the opinion
that it is necessary for the member
ship to pay more attention to the reg.
ulation of the work of the c. e. c.,
its working program and it's econ
omical policies, until we have reached
the stage where the groupings which
have been in effect with all their dis
astrous results shall disappear, and
we shall have an effective well CEN
tralized and capable c. e. c., which
shall dare and shall be able to use the
rights it has enjoyed in the past
among the membership in a manner
that will gain their confidence.