The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-10

litically and organizationally. The
Party Committees must have active
representatives on all League Com
mittees and visa versa. The Party
must assist in the realization of the
slogan: "a League Unit Wherever
There Exists a Party Unit" Par
ticularly in the present period of the
danger of imperialist war, must the
Party consider one of its major tasks
the building of the Young Workers
(Communist) League. The Party
must in cooperation with the Young
Workers (Communist) League take
up in earnest the work among the
armed forces. This work must be
carried on Systematically and not in
the haphazard manner carried on
thus far. Primary attention must be
directed to work among the armed
forces actually engaged in war. The
failure to carry on work among the
marines in China and Nicaragua,
while some forces were sent to work
in the army and marines, was a seri-
Gus mistake. The Party and the
League must build nuclei among the
armed forces, and allocate expert
enced comrades for this work.
Greater attention must be paid to-
wards the building of the young
Pioneers"
IL Democratic Centralism and
Party Discipline.
Party Democracy. Our Party, like
all sections of the Comintern, is
based on the principle of Demo
cratic Centralism." These principles
are:
Election of all Party organs
from nuclei Executives to the Geo
at general meetings of the Party
members or at conferences and con-
ventions.
Irregular reporting of the
Party committees to their constitu-
ents, and regular reporting of the
lower bodies to the higher bodies.
acceptance and the carrying
out of the decisions of the higher
Party committees by the lower, strict
Party discipline and immediate and
exact application of the decisions of
the ECCI and the Central Commit
tee of the Party.
Amy Party committee whose
activities extend over certain area
are considered superior to the COM
mittees whose activity is limited
only to certain parts of this area.
5.-The discussion on Party ques-
tons can be carried on by the Party
members only until the proper Party
committee has decided upon them.
After a decision has been adopted
by the Congress of the Comintern,
the ECCI, the Party convention, or
by the leading Party committee, it
must be carried out Internationally
even though some of the members
or some of the local organizations
are not in agreement with the de-
cision.
Democracy is not a fetish for a
Communist Party. We are Party
that conducts revolutionary strug-
gle and we cannot always practice
broad" democracy. There are pc
RODS when it is impossible to have
regular democratic elections, as for
example, during an extreme period
of "illegality," war, etc. The prin-
ciple of Democratic Centralism is
applied in each instance in such a
manner that the Party can best carry
out the tasks before it.
There must be established a great
er responsibility on the part of the
1unctionaries and leading committees.
Irregular reports on all activity,
greater attention to the payment of
dues, and remittance to the national
office, no financial campaigns with
out the permission of the Gee, and
no assessments on the membership
without the permission of the CEC.)
The Gee must work out the finan-
cial system of the Party in such a
manner that the present system of
ticket selling will be done away with.
While there must be the strictest
observance of the Party centraliza-
ton, there must be less centraliza-
ton of the political and other cam
paigns of the Party. There must be
developed a greater initiative on the
part of the local organizations so
that in times of intense class con-
flicts when in the event of the local
organizations becoming temporarily
isolated from the center, they will
be able to act on their own respon-
sibility within the limits of the
Party discipline.
The Party must guard against the
development of bureaucratism in its
ranks. This will be accomplished b,
the drawing in of the bulk of the
membership into activity, by thu
building up of the Party committee.
and departments, and by the devel
opment of local initiative. The shift
ing of the Party base to the factory
nuclei and the proletarianization O.
the leading organs of the Party will
be one of the best guarantees in thi
direction, together with the strictes
observance of the Party principle o
Democratic Centralism and Irol
Discipline. Likewise there must b.
practiced a merciless self criticism
in the Party, all errors and devia
tons brought to light, so that tn
masses of the Party will learn VIII