The daily worker., 1925-08-29

ZIG COUNcUtton OI INc WOTRCTS
(communist) Party for the Central
Executive Committee as follows:
DERMIT me to preface my report
with few remarks as to how the
report of the Central Executive Com
mittee should be approached and how
it should be considered. We have
heard a good deal during recent months
about Marxism and MARKHAM meth
DDS and think that the convention
here should approach the report of
the Central Executive Committee
from the point of view of Marxians
and not in the manner in which tho
G. E. G. has been dealt with so far
by some comrades in our party. What
mean by this is that the final result
+. committee should be judged and an
alyzed on the basis not only of the
policies of the committee but also
on the conditions, Of the objective
conditions in which the party had to
carry on its work. It is very import
ant before we proceed any further to
keep clearly in mind the following
facts; That the objective conditions
in the United States during the last
20 months were extremely unfavor-
able for the quick growth of our
party. 1t is sufficient for me to men
tion only few Of the more import
ant facts. One Of the most outstand-
inc ic tho fonf fhnk NJ
talism succeeded in stabilizing itself
to certain extent to liquidate, truly,
at the expense of the masses, but to
liquidate the very severe agrarian
crisis and also to stabilize partially
the industrial situation This, com.
rades, is the basic fact During the
20 months in which the present G. F
G. was in Office, there were no severe
crises, no severe disturbances and no
big mass struggles of the American
working class. 1t is this background
that must be kept in mind continual
ly when We analyze our activities dur
ing these 20 months.
A SECOND fact, of secondary i'm
a portance, is the depressed mood
of the American workers. Now this
is a factor which nobody can over
look and surely not a Communist
Party. Communist policies, or in the
formulation Of Communist policies,
the mood of the working masses, their
readiness to fight and struggle is a
basic factor and when you realize and
when you understand, comrades, that
during these 20 months the general
characteristic of the mood of the
American masses was one of depres-
sion, was one of unwillingness and
unreadiness to offer real resistance
to the attacks of the capitalists, you
will understand that this second fac
tor considerably influenced the prog
ress, the development Of our own ac-
tivities. The third factor, is the
sweep and then the going down of
the LaFollette movement. In my re-
port l will go into detail and will
analyze what this movement meant as
far as our party was concerned. But
it is without doubt that this sweep of
LaFollette movement and its compar-
0IANC uCACdt III INC pICSluculldl cleC-
tions, seriously hampered the prog
ress also of the Communist movement
of the country. Then the very Sc
we're attacks and prosecutions against
our party and our comrades in other
labor organizations.
These four outstanding objective
facts in the situation created an ex-
tremely unfavorable condition for the
development and quick growth of the
party. Having this in mind and If
you add to this a continual internal
fight that lasted nearly 20 months, |
you will understand with what condi- |
tions and difficulties our party and cen
trail executive committee had to con-
tend with during these 20 months.
E,OR the purpose of my report, COM
IL A.