The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-29

Continued from last issue.)
The UnOrganized.
1t doesn't mean that when speak
of the B. of l.. E. and their impor-
lance that l neglect the unorganized
textile workers, the unorganized rub
Der workers, or am forgetting the
de-unionized miners. Comrades, to
make such charges is what we call
a slip of the tongue, which occurs in
the pre-convention periods and during
the convention, but won't occur after
that.
In reference to the organization Of
the unorganized: The comrades of
the former Opposition want more
clarity. They say there has been in
sufficient emphasis on this question.
What did / say and what has been
the policy of our Party? Real organ
ization of the unorganized came for
the first time in the history of our
Party, following the policy which l
presented here not as an individual
policy, but as a policy adopted after
very serious differences and divisions
with the comrades of the former OPP
position. I refer you to the Decem-
Der, 1925, plenum when the comrades
of the majority of this convention
proposed the organization of the tex
tile workers in Passaic and the COM
rades of the Opposition told us not
to be dual unionists, to keep off
the grass" so to say, the grass"
of the United Textile Workers.
don't want to be a historian, but l
will remind Comrade BALKAN of the
bitter disputes we had in the Decem-
Der plenum until we arrived at the
correct policy of organizing the I'M
organized.
Who Shall Organize Them?
What did l say? Comrade lack
says we are wasting our time. In
lacks opinion we propose that we
shall go first to the bureaucrats and
ask them to organize the morgan
lied workers, and if they don't or
ganize them, we will take chance.
We say nothing of the sort. We know
very we'll the bureaucracy is opposed
to the organization of the morgan
!zed. But the fact that we know it,
doesn't mean that the workers in the
unions, the workers controlled by the
bureaucracy, know it. We base our
nolicies on the objective conditions.
x very important factor of the OBJ
iactive conditions is the subjective re-
sction of the masses following the
bureaucrats. If you cannot see this,
Comrade lack, l say the Party must
try to help you in this respect and
the Party along with the Comintern,
will help you as has been done in
the past.
What about this? Are we going to
the bureaucracy We go to the unions
which exist and ask them to try to
organize the unorganized. Comrades,
Communists must have a certain
amount of self-confidence, but Com
munists must never have conceit,
Communists must never see them
selves as above the rest of the work
kers, as gods leading them. The
problem Of organizing the morgan
lied is not a simple problem. And l
say again, do you consider with all
respect, with all appreciation for the
1900 Communists organized into our
Party that 10000 Communists alone
could organize twenty million work
crs in the United States in the face
Of the opposition Of the organized
trade union movement, in the face
of the lethargy at certain times Of
the unorganized masses, in the face
Of the capitalist reactionary govern
ment, the most powerful reactionary
government in the world?
Communists in Forefront
What is the role of the Commun-
lists? The Communists must be the
lightning-rod, the driving forge; but
the Communists cannot be and will
not be the only force working for the
organization of the unorganized. We
must be the leaders. We must be the
iEspirers. We must give the policy,
the position, but we cannot have a
monopoly, and our objective is to get
into the campaign to organize the
unorganized as broad a section of
the working class as possible. And
if you say that means basing your
self on the organized workers and
reglecting the unorganized that is a
fallacy.