The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-13

The Chicago membership meeting
OF the Workers (Communist) Party
held Wednesday evening at Northwest
Hall to discuss the reorganization and
bolshevization of the party, after four
hours of discussion, voted unanimous
ly for a resolution offered by Comrade
Ruthenberg on behalf of the Central
Executive Committee. The resolution
pledges full support of a united mem
bership to the C. r. G. for the cam
paign to reorganize the party on the
shop nucleus basis and for the Bolshe-
vization of the party and the liquida-
ton Of Loreism, and declares that the
latest decision Of the Communist In
ternational on the question of the
groups within the party leadership
lays the basis for the unifcation and
development of the party.
An amendment which raised the
question of alleged removals and re-
placements, offered by Comrade Arne
Swabeck as an addition to the c. Z. c.
resolution, and which Comrade Foster
asked to be passed together with the
resolution, was voted down by vote
bf 225 to $50, after which the C. E. c.
resolution was passed unanimously.
IN Ruthenberg Speaks
" Comrade c. f. Ruthenberg, general
secretary of the party, in reporting on
behalf Of Central Executive Commit
tee, stated that the whole question to
be considered could be summed up
with a single word: "Bolshevization."
The process of Bolshevizing our
party, he said, is part of the life of
the party in the past The Bolshe-
VIKING of Communist Party is not
accomplished merely by number of
measures taken. at a certain time,
but is a long process which goes on
from the time of birth of the party.
In Russia he had observed that altho
our Russian comrades had been carry
ing on the work of Bolshevizing their
party for twenty-five years, neverthe-
less they still found it important to
Bolshevize their party.
Every step toward clarifying the
minds of the members and developing
within the party Communist leader
ship,-all of this is part Of the pro-
cess of Bolshevization
This process, said Comrade Ruthen-
berg, extends in our party thruout its
history during the past six years, and
particularly during the past year and
half or two years. Our purpose in
coming here is to prepare for greater
steps. The goal for which the present
leadership Of the party will strive, is a
tremendous acceleration of the pro-
cess at this time.
Three Phases of Development.
Our party, which was six years old
at the time of our recent convention,
said Comrade Ruthenberg, has gone
thru in that six-year period three
phases of development In 1919 there
had been organized a group of mem
bers of the socialist party who had
been influenced by the event of the
Russian revolution to break with the
opportunist leaders. This group was
organized on the basis of the differ
ences between the socialists and the
Communists, between those who did
and those who did not understand
that the aims could be attained only
by revolutionary methods, thru armed
instruction and the overthrow Of the
capitalist state. But the Communist
Party in 1919 did not understand how
to connect its revolutionary ideas and
propaganda with the everyday strug-
giles of the masses. In other words,
we were a sectarian propaganda Soc
iety teaching the workers the necess-
ity of armed instruction in the final
stage. This period was about two
years, during the underground life of
the party, and the underground exist
ence increased this tendency.
The second phase can be said to be-
gin with the organization of the Work
ers Party at the beginning of the
year 1922. In this phase we not only
became a Communist Party as distin-
guished from propaganda sect, but
we were beginning the work of Boil
shevizing the party thru learning the
way to connect out activities with the
struggles Of the masses, learning to
apply Communist principles to the
struggle; we found the way to
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