The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-27

to us, the Headers, for this it is necessary
that the organized workers learn to follow the
growing indications of a split (such indications.
have always existed and will always come up
in every mass parity that they react conscious
ly to these Indications estimate the events in
Russian or foreign backWoods section from
the standpoint of the interests of the whole
party, from the interests of the movement as
whole. The author is correct three times
over when he emphasizes that much is given
to the party center and much will be demand
ed of it. 1t is just for this reason that it is so
necessary that the whole party should edu-
cate for itself systematically, quietly and un-
ceasngly, the people in the center of the party,
that it should be able to read as clearly as its
own palm the whole activity of every candidate
for this high post, that it should be acquainted
with their individual peculiarities, with their
strong and weak Sides with their victories and
defeats The author makes remarkable keen
comments which are obviously based on rich
experimentation certain reasons for such de-
feats and just because these comments are
SO keen the whole party should have the use
of them. The party should always see every
defeat even the partial defeat" of one or
another of its leaders" Not one politically
active person has gone thru his career with
out defeats of one kind or another, and if we
speak seriously of influencing the masses, of
gaining the good will of the Masses we should
strive with all our powers that this defeat
should not be hidden in the stuffy atmosphere
of the small circles but that they should be
brot forward for the judgment of all. This
seems at first glance inconvenient, it must al
ways be felt as insulting to one individual
leader or another but this false feeling of in
convenience we must conquer; this is our duty
to the party and to the working class. In this
way and only in this way do we give to the
whole mass of influential party workers land
not only to occasional circles or groups of
them) the opportunity of knowing their lead
'ers and of putting every one of them in his
proper place. Only wide publicity can correct
all narrow, one-sided, capricious adeviations,
only this can transform the sometimes silly
and ridiculous ''pros and cons" into useful and
necessary material for party education.
Light, more light. We need an immense con-
cert; we must work up our experiences in or
der to justly assign the roles, to give to one
the sentimental violin, to another the raging
counter-bass to third the stick of the direc-
tor. | hope the kind invitation of the author
to a hospitable exchange of opinions in the
party organ will be realized in all party pub
LEGATIONS. May everyone judge our "squabbles
and trifles' about unharmonious notes"
which are shrill in the opinion of some, or false
in the opinion of Others or (broken) in the
opinion of a third group. Only from series
of such open arguments can there be attained
a really harmonious group, only on these con-
dtions will the workers be put in such a state
that they cannot fail to understand us, only
then can our "staff" depend on the really good
and conscious will of its army, which win fol-
low the staff and at the same time direct it.