The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-22

was only yesterday uncritically de-
nounced and attacked by the two fac
tions as deviation is today, equally
uncritically, promoted as Bolshevist
measure.
We have now seen our party go thru
long series Of these cherished ma
neuvers which have brot upon our
heads the derision of the whole labor
world, and loss Of morale OF our own
membership, certainly proof that
they did not represent Bolshevist tao
tics, all of them having been repudi-
ated by the Comintern. This is true
of1nearly all spheres of activity dur
ing the short period Of our existence
as the Workers Party, under the adj
ministration Of both the present ma
jority and the present minority.
Ihgdt1is impossible to account for our
ineessant failures as due simply to a
long series of casual mistakes; no, at
the bottom of it all is the political in
stability Of our party caused by the
theoretical and practical confusion Of
our party leadership.
EE} The National Committee in the
Cs-NeedIe Trades.
But. organizationally the greatest
hayoc was played by the punitive ex-
petition of the c. E. C. into the Ma
ttOnal Committee.
r While the G. e. c. is ready to for
give itself any number of mistakes-
mistakes leading to class collabora-
ton, and isolation. and ridicule; mis-
takes that were made when there was
ample time for elaboration; mistakes
made officially; mistakes made by
| comrades who have all the leisure and
facilities which the highest office in
the party can give; mistakes that are
not compensated by any success in
mass leadership-the National Com
| mittee, composed of rank and file
workers who not only had to direct
their work but had to raise from the
workers in the industry thousands of
dollars to meet the most necessary
expenses in their stupendous task of
calling scores of meetings attended by
thousands upon thousands Of workers
and distributing over a million leaf
lets5 this National Committee found
its leading members denounced by our
own party press, and was generally
treated with extreme harshness
The c. E. c. found it possible to
maintain for some months two paid
party officials in New York for the
express purpose of fighting the "devia.
tionspnOf our own comrades on the
National Committee; but when in
times of acute crisis the National
Committee, fighting the employers and
the yellow bureaucracy, appealed to
the c. 2. G. for financial assistance,
they found invariably deaf ear.
Forrefusing to ally themselves with
either faction the comrades Of the Ma,
tional Committee are being punished
denounced and prosecuted by both fac
Altho they have been unjustly dis
credited, and the party factions de
moralized, they are now the actual
leaders Of the first great fight ever
waged by, the Communist movement in
the class struggle of America.
Our comrades are winning position
afterpesition in the fight, without any
compromise of revolutionary princi
pies. GFhe Sigman and the Breslau.
Heller machine in the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union are
crumbling before our eyes; the Kauf
man machine in the Furriers Union
has been completely routed; the Schle
singer-Forward machine is facing a
serious internal dissension.
AS a consequence thereof the For.
ward has lost in the last two months
10000 readers, and the Freiheit has
gained about half of that number.
The fight led by the National Com,
mittee has already added greatly to
the prestige Of our party, resulting in
a compact mass following organiza,
tionally of 10000 workers, and ideolog.
ically close and constant contact with
/ many times that number, and will
yield further organizational results
among the trade union elements, a
consideration always stressed by the
Comintern.
But every wrong prognosis, even
every mistake committed by individ.
ual comrades without the sanction OF
the National Committee, every mis-,
taken decision that had to be made
on the spur OF the moment without
chance for previous consultation,
every chance suggestion made in pre-
lfminary party discussion, is snapped
up, perverted, enlarged, attributed to
the whole National Committee and
served up to the party membership
/ with relish, as the only thing worth
while to discuss on the industrial field
le, The Two Leading Groups-or
~ the Political Field. A short analy
sis of the leading groups in our party
| will greatly help us to understand the
reason for the continuous conflict and
confusion. II will also reveal why
feven orders OF the Comintarn hava N n