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certain districts will not say that /
am doing this for factional reasons. I
will try to be just as impartial as pos
sible
Holding Up Good News.
One of the most interesting proofs
of the lack of understanding Of the
role Of the Communist press and its
relation to the party was disclosed in
very important struggle on the Pa
cific coast, struggle important not
so much because of the number Of our
comrades that were involved or in the
numbers of non-party workers in.
volved, but because it was an instance
OF the correct application of Commun-
list tactics in the trade unions and was
continuation in the Pacific coast
labor movement of the struggles that
we have been waging in much larger
and more important industrial centers.
l refer to the expulsion of our com
rades from the Seattle Central Labor
Council on the grounds that they were
members of our party and to their
successful fight for reinstatement. 1t
was a week or ten days after the attack
had been made on our. party by the
trade uniop bureaucracy in this impor-
tant city on the Pacific coast before
the DAILY WORKER received one
word or one line about the struggle
from the comrades involved and. II
was necessary for the editors of the
DAILY WORKER to send a number of
urgent kilograms before we could get
our own comrades to tell us what was
happening. We carried the news. of
course, as well sz we could, but we
were compelled to rewrite the news
OF this clear-cut Communist struggle
was not then the realization that these
struggles are not local ones and can.
not be localized but that it is lust as
important and sometimes more impor.
tant that we carry the news of these
local struggles to the hundreds of
thousands of workers in other centers.
And only thru the Communist press
can the correct stories and interpreta-
ton of these struggles be had.
Another instance: In the city of
New York-and speak now of the
present, not only of the past and /
can only hope that / am not describ.
ing the future. It is almost impos-
Side to secure from the New York
comrades stories Of the struggles OF
the workers in New York. II appears
to me that the New York party looks
upon the Communist press, our official
organ, at least as something having
but little connection with the strug-
giles of the workers outside of our
party and particularly neglect TO 70.
port to us the struggles of workers in
which our comrades are not taking
part. We get plenty of reports from
New York of mass meetings about to
be held and what the speakers said
at these mass meetings, and speaking
for, think voicing the unanimous
opinion of the editorial staff of tba
DAILY WORKER, it is impossible TO
tell from these stories whether the
speakers spoke to themselves or TO
several hundred workers. In the strug-
gle OF the needle trades a short time
ago, in the millinery trades l believe
1t was, or Of the waist makers. from
10000 to $4,000 workers being in.
volved, it was five days before we
could get any news except what we
rewrote from the New York Times
The same thing has been true of doz-
ems OF other happenings, and so far as
the ordinary routine daily events of
the lives of the workers in the shops
and factories is concerned, there is no
evidence in our press that the New
York comrades understand that it is
out OF these struggles that are welded
the broad class struggle. These small
struggles for jobs, conditions, wage in
creases, etc, these struggles develop
into the armed struggle for power.
Circulation Weakness.
In Boston the party was conducting,
or attempting to conduct, a campaign