The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
BY EARL BROWDER.

Very quickly the course of events
in the United States is confirming
with iron logic the correctness of
the decisions of the Sixth World
Congress, and of the Open Letter
and the Address of the Comintern
to the American Party. Gastonia,
Elizabethton, the New York strikes,
the wave of activity that is stirring
the workers Of a hundred centers,
the wide response to the TUEL
Cleveland Unity Convention, the de-
velopment of shop committee move
ments-all witness the sharpening
Of the class struggle and the grow
ing rehabilitation of the workers.
The fastening of war preparations,
the frantic gestures of "pacifism"
which are a part of thee prepare
tons, the vicious campaign against
the Soviet Union especially in the
reformist press of the world, the
tremendous sharpening of the issues
dividing the imperialist powers
these things are now becoming clear
to even masses Of non-party work
ers, in the light of the fundamental
explanations given almost a year
ago by the Sixth World Congress,
and elaborated for the American
Party in two historic documents.
That the United States occupies a
position of central Importance in all
phases of the international crisis of
capitalism, which is feverishly sharp
ening, must by now be clear to all.
In this situation, we must rapidly
intensity and complete the readjust-
ment of our Party and its work,
and must proceed with the energetic
application of the new line given us
by the Comintern.
Liquidating Past Errors.
If the main orientation of the
Party has been rather thoroughly
changed, and this is an accomplished
fact; if the most persistent obstacle
in the past to the healthy develop
ment of the American Party, the
faction groups and struggles, have
now been completely smashed on
all sides, which is also the case-it
is still impossible to say that the
past errors have been liquidated
thoroughly. 1t is still necessary to
press even deeper the process of a
self-critical examination, as con-
dition for the full understanding and
execution of the new line. Our
understanding of the Address, Open
Letter and Sixth Congress decisions
must be deepened by concrete ap-
plication in judging all details of
past work and future tasks.
For former members of the min
GRITTY faction, it is especially neces-
sary to concretely understand the
correctness of the Comintern criti-
cisms directed against their mis-
takes. 1t is easy to accept the criti-
cisms directed against those with
whom one has been in political
struggle; but harder and more i'm
portant is the task of self-criticism.
Nor is there lack of material for
this self-criticism.
There is, for example, the ques-
ton of the former minority reserva-
lions to the Sixth Congress. 1t must
be clearly established by the COM
rades concerned (of whom the writer
is .one) that the minority declara-
ton at the Sixth Congress was a
major political error, but effectively
serving not the struggle against the
Right danger, but becoming an in
strument in the hands of the Right
elements against the line of the
Sixth Congress. The very fact that
the minority comrades thought it
necessary to make such a special
declaration, demonstrated lack Of