The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21

unity and in the frst instance to
arouse support for the Anglo-Russian
Unity Committee.
n LII OF thse campaigns are natpr-
n ally carried on along the lines of
our united front tactics. However,
and this must be emphasized, the ques-
ton of what organlzational forms
these campaigns must take would be
determined by actual conditions Of the
struggle. AS long as any or all of
these campaigns are in their agitation
and propaganda stage, these cam
paigns are to be conducted by the
Workers Party in it's own name. 1t is
only when the agitation process is
far enough, that is, when it succeeds
in creating a mass movement of any
proportions involving large numbers
of non-party organizations, that we
shall resort to organizational means
on a united front basis such as, call
conferences, organize committees, etc.
Strengthen the Party.
LAND in hand with these cam
/ | paigns must go on the work of
building and strengthening our party
internally. l need not spend much
time on the proposition to shop nue.
lei. 1t is decision of the Communist
International. 1t is a decision also of
our own party. What is necessary is
to get the party membership to accept
the decision not only in words but in
deeds. We must see to it that the re-
organization on the basis of shop nue.
lei is transferred as soon as possible
from the sphere of mere discussion
and propaganda to the sphere of ac-
tual organization. Every party unit
has duty to perform in this case.
am sure that the Russian Federation
will fulfill its duty.
IN concluding the general part of my
| report 1 wish to say that now more
than ever the problem of developing
militant left wing in the trade unions
and of establishing our leadership
within that left wing is of supreme
importance to our party. Now and
for some time to come the main field
of class struggle, tho by no means the
only field, are the trade unions. Aside
from the general Communist principle
that we must win the trade unions in
order to achieve our historic mission,
the present situation in the United
States makes it doubly important that
we strengthen ourselves in the trade
Union movement. These are our front
line trenches and it is there that we
must concentrate to establish our
selves in the labor movement of the
United States. We must look upon
this work as upon the work of estab-
Fishing our first base from which we
shall be able to extend our activities
into the wider fields of class strug-
gle. We consider it the duty of every
unit of the party and particularly Of
our language sections to make every
member of the party a member of a
trade union, an active participant in
the left wing, Communist leader in
the daily struggles of the workers in
the shop and in the union.
The Russian Section.
.NOU will permit me, comrades, to
| speak a few words on the situation
in the Russian Section. In approach
Ing this subject / cannot abstain from
making a comparison between the con-
dition of the Russian Federation of to-
day and that of six and seven years
ago. There was a time, and most of
you comrades remember that time,
when the Russian Federation was the
leading section of the Communist
movement in America. 1t was leading
not only by virtue of its numbers but
also by the fact that it was the most
active and intellectually alive section
of our movement.
Since that time great changes have
taken place. Large numbers of Rus.
sian Communists and Communist sym
pathizers migrated from the United
States to Russia. The center of grav-
ity has been moved from the Ian
guage sections to the center of the
party with the result that the Russian
Federation no longer plays the part
in our movement that it played years
ago. However, we shall all remember
that the Russian Federation was prac-
tically the pioneer in the building OF
our movement, that without its efforts
and sacrifices it would have been i'm
possible to bring about the formation
of Communist Party in America at
the time when it was actually formed.
The Russian comrades may we'll take
pride in this fact and derive from It
additional faith and enthusiasm for
the future work in our party
XkIE must not, however, close our
wv eyes to the fact that Communist
influence among the Russian speak
ing workers Of the United States did
not grow as fast as it should have
grown. Nor has the Russian Section
succeeded in increasing its member