The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-24

The struggle for worling class policy IN
the cooperative Increment, noW going ons
among the Finnish 1Uorkers, deals avith such
fundamental problems of the entire aoorklng
class, and auith such an important section Of
the revolutionary avorkers' Increment IN the
United States, that it becomes document Of
ritol interest to the entire Increment. The
Daily Worker has Just receired the author
lied English translation, and hastens to pub
lish it for the benefit of all revolutionary
acoykers. as aceU as for the Finnish Increment,
qvhich already has receiued it 3, the Finnish.
: (Continued)
Halonen tries to accuse the Communist
Party of wanting to convert the cooperatives
into it's auxiliary organization" This is
deliberate play of words. having two entirely
different meanings. Cooperatives are the
auxiliary organizations of the working class
in the sense expressed, for example, in the
declaration of the cooperative delegation of
the SovetsUnion at the meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee of the International Coopera-
tive Alliance in Prague February. 1929,
viz: that "cooperatives under the capitalist re-
gime can play only the role of auxiliary or
CARNATIONS. supporting the working class in
its struggle for emancipation" But the CO.
operative organization, of course, is not an
auxiliary organization of the Communist Par
ty in the sense that the latter may dictate to
it las it might for example. to its nuclei or
fractions) as to what it should or should not
do. Absolutely false is any assertion that the
Party has the object of destroying any such
proletarian mass organizations if it cannot
control them Halonen knows quite well that
the relation of the Conlintern parties to the
cooperative movement is analogous for ex-
~. Il de do ,,r,ioy, ~
CARNATIONS. Although the Party is the high
est form of proletarian class Organization
as Lenin taught us--this does not in the least
mean however, that the non Party mass or
CARNATIONS as. for exannle. the trade unions
cooreratives, ETC., should be formally subjected
10 Party control.
"The question is merely. that the members
of the Party belonging to these organizations
should use their influence and do their best
to ensure that these non-Party organizations
come closer to the Party of the proletariat and
f~eelv recognize its political leadership"
(Stalin: "Lenin and Leninism.") All Party
members belonging to non-Party organiza
ton form. fraction within it AMI advocate
the Communist viewpoint at it's meetings.
1t goes without saying that not only Com
munists and non Party workers can partici-
pate in the cooperative movement, but also
workers belonging to social-democratic. syndl-
calst and other organizations. But Halonen
draws from this simple fact the totally in
correct and dpportunist conclusion, that the
cooperative movement must maintain an i'm
partial attitude" IN relation to all these "ten-
denotes" "Impartiality in relation to the var
ious workers groups"-says he in the organ
of the Central cooperative, N. Sis some
thing quite different from impartiaity in re-
lation towards social classes and to the class
struggle" These various workers groups
meaning the socialist party and the present
IWW-are apparently working class Gown"
movements and various tendencies of the
labor movement" BY such crude trick this
Communist" juggler converts black into
white; he converts the traitors of the cause
Of the workers withsa wave of the hand into
defen 'ers Of the workers cause! In relation
to the houreeosie. anrarently. he is also
supporter Of the "class struggle but he does.
not seize the worst agents of the bourgeoisie