The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-01
Reporting on the Sixth World Congress
BY Fred Ellis

the Party, altho the factory work
and unskilled work generally is per-
formed almost wholly by Mexicans
in Los Angeles and the surrounding
region. Negro work is almost en-
tirely neglected and in general work
among factory workers of any sort.
Attitude to Right Danger.
Another interesting matter to re-
view was the attitude of the various
districts to the report on the right
danger and measures to be taken
against it. The districts which have
presented the greatest number of
right errors and demanding the
greatest amount of attention from
the Geo in correcting such errors
are California and Minnesota. In
California, the mention of the right
danger and right errors provoked re-
sistance and hostile reaction. Thus,
comrades demanded to know of the
reporter why the numerous errors
of the California district were re-
ported and discussed before the Com
intern. In spite of the fact that the
Geo repeatedly directed the Cali
forniai district to have a discussion in
the units of opportunist errors, such
as the error made in the unemploy-
ment leaflet and in various pacifist
leaflets, the reporter found that no
such discussion had been held. Com
rades complained that no discussion
of these errors had been held, but
that they were discussed over in
Moscow. There was sharp resist
ance against any attempt to draw
lessons from these errors at. the
membership meeting.
In Superior, the northern sub-dis-
trict of Minnesota, the. reaction Of
the comrades to the discussion of
the right danger was much more
wholesome. The local comrades re-
quested the privilege of taking
leadership" in the criticism of their
own errors, and made an excellent
job of it. Practically all leading com
rades and rank and filters as well
who participated in the discussion
analysed in Communist manner
the errors that they had made in
the Shipstead case, the Coolidge COM
mittee, the Farmer-Labor Party, and
the republican primary fight and
declared that they recognized the
need of further pressure from the
Gee and the Comintern and constant
guidance to prevent the recurrence
of right errors and to develop Boil
shevik line. The workers from the
Iron Range and other parts of the
district greeted this self-critical dis
cussion with the greatest enthusiasm
and the resolution endorsing the de-
cisions of the Sixth Congress of the
Comintern was adopted unanimous
ly. A copy of the resolution adopted
by the Superior, Detroit, district
which is typical of the kind of reso-
luton that was adopted in all meet
ings where there was a report on
the Comintern Congress is printed
below:
"The general membership meeting
of Detroit, after listening to the re-
port of Comrade Wolfe on the Sixth
World Congress of the Communist
International expresses it's full
agreement with all the work and
decisions of the congress and pledges
itself to carry out whole heartedly
the policies and instructions en-
bodied in these decisions.
"The membership meeting greets
the adoption of the program of tn:
Communist international which is a
powerful Marxist-Leninist theoretical
weapon and which creates a firm
basis for struggle on world scale
for the realization of the dictator
ship of the proletariat.
Correct Estimation.
"The World Congress reviewed the
work of the last four wears Of de-
velopment and struggle Of the In
ternational revolutionary movement
and gave correct Marxist-Leninst
analysis of the present world situa-
ton. The congress noted certain