The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-18
TheReorgarization Of the Workers Party
LETTER no EHE E. FROM THE COMMUNLST INTERNATIONAL

WHAT Importance can a party have
" what part can ii play in the no.
litical life of the country, if its deci.
sions remain only pnr paper. are not
carried into effect, and assert no in.
huence on real affairs? The marty
must know how to act, counting upon
the whole of its membership and The
nelp OF its organs. For that purpose
its organization must be united and
centralized one. If its organs and
members act in an isolated way each
after its own fashion, it is hopeless TO
expect useful and desirable results
Moreover, the party must be able to
bring the masses into the movement
which demands that its structure
should be such that it's organs can
penetrate deeply into the non-party
mass of the workers, exert influence
ever them, organize them for the
struggle, guide their organizations and
also introduce the decisions and slo-
gans Of the party into those organiza-
tons.
The present organizational struc-
ture of the Workers Party is not
adapted to these requirements. Those
advantages which centralized activity
bring a working class party are abb
sent in the Workers Party. 1t does not
even possess real single guiding
party center capable of directing the
activities of the party as a whole, nor
does unity prevail in its ranks. A
party of the working class can, if it
has centralized party organization,
simultaneous lay duties upon the
whole. party and direct the whole of
its forces towards putting them into
effect. The result is a situation in
which the party is able to carry out
its policy firmly, uniformly, and with
out distortion, in all parts of the coun-
try and in all organizations in which
the party has its members, and, in
fact, everywhere where the members
of the party come into contact with
the non-party workers and peasants.
The federal structure of the Workers
Party stands in the way of such sue
kcessful conduct of its,work. Each of
its II national sections represents al
most a separate and independent party
within the Workers Party, enjoying
a large portion of independence in re-
lation to the leading organ, the Cen
trail Committee. The National Sections
have their own district otown, and ma
tional bureaus they summon their
own conferences and collect their own
membership contributions. The fun
damental organizational requirement
of party defending the interests of
the whole working class, namely, that
the decisions of the leading party or
gans should be carried tout by all the
party organizations, is TO a large ex-
tent dependent in the Workers Party
on whether the national organization
are willing or not, toscarry out the
corresponding decisions of the supe-
rior party bodies. Therefore, unlike a
centralized party, the Workers Party
as il is at present constituted, is not
a party of united action The party
members of the various national sec
1 tons are not fused together into one
whole, but divided among themselves.
They do not discuss questions inter-
esting all the workers and the whole
party. They live the exclusive life of
their own national minority, or of its
working class section, so isolated from
the American workers that they even
do not sufficiently know the direct in
terests of the whole working class of
the United States. AS result, in
stead of unity of onsinstead of gem
eral decisions which would unite and