The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-11

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the calling of the April strike and
for the formation of new union.
vi. insufficient Appreciation of
Leading Role of Party and
Failure to Build 1t.
The political Secretariat of the
ECCI found it necessary to state
in its letter of April 18th to our
Party that it deems it necessary
to call attention to. the tasks
of the Party in the sphere of lead
ership of the growing workers mass
movement; the Secretariat further
stated that our Party "has now as
its major task to mobilize ando to
organize the workers under its BAN
ner against the capitalist offensive
1T is Immediately necessary to
intensity the theological and organi-
rational preparations of the Party,
especially the local Party organiza-
lions to enable it quickly to mobilize
its forces and means and thus to
make it ready for leading role in
the developing class struggle"
The insufficient appreciation of
the leading role of .the Party and
the failure to build the Party which
this letter called attention to, is one
of the main, characteristics of the
Lovestone group. This is shown by
the following facts:
1.-Overemphasis on labor party.
Slowness and delay in deciding upon
and announcing our own election
campaign. Lovestone article. April
Communist" Delay in acting on
minority motion of February goth
for mobilization of Party for our
own election campaign). Allowing
SIP to enter field first.
2.-The Panken, Bearak and Mil
waukee cases Support of Socialist
Party candidates).
3.-The tendency to make our
Party into mere instrument for
organizing a Labor Party Mime
sota), describing our election cam
paign as an "organic part of the
Labor Party campaign" Love-
stone).
4.-Tendency to look upon our
own election campaign as of less
Importance than the Labor Party
campaign.
5.-The tendency to look upon our
4 Party merely as the left wing in
farmer-labor organization drumming
Party candidates in primary cleo
lions without statement that they
are Communists). (Minnesota).
6.-Resistance to Party leader
ship in trade union work. Needle
trades).
l Absolute denial of Party lead
ing role Curriers' Union and work
ers' delegation to the USSR).
8.-Failure to carry on genuine
Communist education and training
-opportunist confusing of mass
workers education and the educa-
ton of the Party membership and
training of Communist cadres.
workers Schools).
9.-Failure to build Party in cam
paign.
10.-Failure to create Party ap-
paratus for women's work and per-
hitting foreign language organiza-
tions, consisting mostly of house,
wives, to take the leading role de-
spite repeated demands of the In
ternational Women's Secretariat.
+ 11.-Refusal to print Swabeck's
pamphlet on internal Party organi-
cation and Party building.
12.-Sectarian approach to Party
building neutrality-suspicious. of
Party building work from mass
work..
13.-Non-recognition of Party role
in Women's Work. 1.-THE working
women will march to power through
trade unions, through clubs, house
wives organizations, through coop
erative leagues, and through a labor
party" First issue New York
working Women" 1929.
14.-The official organ of the
Party, the Daily Worker, affords a
devastating example of the under
estimation of the role of the Com
munist press as "the collective or
ganizer of the Party and the mass
es" as described by Lenin. AS an
organ of Communist Party the
! DIV is seriously deficient. There
has been a systematic liquidation of
I Communist political writing in the
DIV to the point where its Com
munist character has been weak
ened. Comrade Minor, the editor,
made motion in the Political Com
mittee on April 10th, 1928. to per-
nit the publication of articles con
both sides Of the controversy" with
the IWW and against the establish
ment of an anti-war department in
the paper April LIST. Instructed to
publish articles against Shipstead,
Comrade Minor was obliged to make
a motion to turn over to the Agit-
prop on the ground "of the almost
total deprivation of the Daily Work
err of all political writers at the
Il
present time. :" One of the chief
political writer's of the Daily Worker
for the last five months has been
Comrade Nearing, whose articles,