The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-30


mass is not Communist, but they are
dissastisfied-(e emphasis mine-J. S.
They accept the Communist leader.
ship because the Communists are the
only ones who come with a positive
program.
mot once was confronted with
the following questions at meetings"
You criticize the program of the lefts,
we'll what is your program? What
do you answer to the proposal Of the
lefts?' To answer that things must
remain status quo is of course no
answer for a socialist. II 1t Is an an
sWer as some believe, It must be in
corporated in a program proclaimed
by an organized group around which
the mass Of Impartial members can
gather" (Close of the quotation-em-
phasis mine-J. s.
So the socialists are going to or
ganize fractions. They are going to
adopt program. But already we
were told that this program will be to
uphold status quo, only that it will be
embodied in OVERWHELMINGLY in
the policy of class collaboration. Class
collaboration as the policy and the
use Of armed gangsters Of the Beck
erman school as the enforcers of this
policy,-this is what the mass of
workers who are confronted with wage
cuts, injunctions, open shopperism,
can expect from the socialists and the
socialists fractions in the unions. The
writer is evidently very frank, when
he says that to fight against the con-
servatives, the socialists did not have
to organize and carry on their work
Systematically, but now when the
Communists make up the opposition,
painful and systematic organization
lis necessary. This clearly follows
from the political line of the Socialist
Party. Against conservatism, against
capitalism, no struggle but against
the Communists, against the revolu-
ton, against the new order, and for
the capitalist system, the socialists
will organize; they will ally them
selves with all the forces of reaction;
they will assume the leadership in the
fight to maintain the bourgeois order.
These two reactions to our organ
ization may lead some comrade to
the conclusion that we must there
fore not form nuclei, slacken in the or
ganization of fractions, as this only
Increases the activity of our enemies.
Others may be of the opinion that we
must not call to the attention of our
comrades the increased activity of fac
tory spies, as this may brighten some
of the comrades and they will slacken
in their activity in the shops. Both of
these arguments must be dismissed.
The first one would logically lead to
the conclusion that since organization
on our part inevitably leads to the
consolidation of the enemy forces, we
must do nothing. AS Communists we
know that this is ridiculous. We
know that with the conscious van
guard, our party, leading the strug.
giles of the workers, and the inevitable
contradictions of capitalism at work,
we will succeed in organizing the ma
jority of the workers for the revolu.
ton. This can only be done thru the
conscious Intervention Of the van
guard-the Communist Party. To
preach passivity as a solution for the
consolidation Of the enemy forces is
tantamount to giving up the strug-
gle, or adapting the fatalistic attitude
that the revolution will come newt
ably even if there is no party unity
ing and leading the struggles Of the
workers.
The second viewpoint that we must
not acquaint our party membership
with the activities of the employers.
and the spying agencies as well as call
this to the attention of the entire work
ing class, is viewpoint that would
make Of our party an ostrich burying
its head in the sand. Only by calling
these facts to the attention of our
party membership and the entire
working class will we be able to de-
feat the attempts Of the bosses to fire
the Communists out of the shops.
The answer to the consolidation of
he enemy forces must be a more in
.ensifed and systematic organization
Of our forces, a greater and more
.horo training OF our party member
ship as to how to carry on Communist
activity in the shop and defeat The
gents and spies OF the bosses. Ere.
iEent conferences OF nuclei organizers
md comrades engaged in large factor
es where the spy system is most
highly developed must be instituted
50 that the entire party may profit
from any one experience that our