The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05
By BETTY GANNETT

ganizGtion is unity of action, but of course,
all action is useful only because and to the
ertent that it advances and does not retreat,
to the ertent that it intellectually combines
the proletGriat and lifts 1t up and does not
degrade and 1Oeaken 1t. Organization auth
out ideas is an absurdity aOhich in practice
concerts the Vorkers into miserable hangers
on of bourgeoisie IN poaUer."-Leniu on Or
gGni2dtion.
TO apply Lenin's formulation to the activity
of the language comrades in the fraternal
organizations, we find serious right devations.
Many of our language comrades still living
in the years prior to the World War. They
fail to recognize that the language organiza-
lions built up must serve as link in the
volutionary chain-a link which will draw these
language workers closer to the working class
movement.
The Communist Party aiming to extend its
influence and leadership over the masses of
the proletariat, lays its major emphasis on the
organization of the workers in the factories At
the same time it does not neglect the workers
found in the various language organizations.
Therefore, these language organizations must
be class organizations, organized to serve
definite purpose, help develop the class consc-
BUSINESS of the language masses and strengthen
the working class. This must be the funda-
we find resistance on the part of the language
comrades to draw in these organizations into
the general working class movement In many
cases the national spirit is fostered the gen
eral campaigns of the Party are not brought
in; and he masses of language workers in
CARNATIONS under bourgeois influence are COM
pletely neglected. The policy of least resistance
is followed.
In Philadelphia.
This is clearly exposed in many Of the ac
Invites of our language comrades in Phila-
delphia. Since the reorganization of our Party,
which eliminated the language declarations and
made of our Party a more homogeneous whole,
the Party is today paying more attention to the
correct orientation of our language work than
ever before. With the result that there is I'M
covered whole nests of right elements who re-
sist the new line of the Party.
The foreign-born workers in the Philadel-
phia district are found predominantly in the
basic industries mining, metal, textile, marine.
These workers feel the brunt of capitalist ra-
tionalization with it's effects upon the workers
and suffer from the burdens imposed upon them
by capitalist exploitation - low wages, long
hours unemployment, etc. These workers have
revolutionary traditions-the struggles of the
European working class and the revolutionry
upheavals following the World War. In the
United States, large sections of these same
workers are under bourgeois influence. The
fascist organizations have within their ranks
tens of thousands of language workers right in
the district ideologcally and organizatlonally
under the influence of the bourgeosie. With
the increased attacks of the capitalists against
the foreign-born workers, with the growing
readiness of the workers to struggle, these
foreign-born workers not under our influence
arc beginning to fight back these attacks. If
our language organizations would follow the
correct policy these workers could be won away
from these fascist organizations and bound up
with the international working class move
ment.
The German Fraction.
The German comrades in Philadelphia spend
their major time in the Friends of Nature-a
cultural organization - and manifest serious
right wing tendencies. Removed from the Party
because they do not participate in the general
work of the Party and even in many cases
do not attend unit meetings, we find that the
German comrades even fear the introduction
of the Trade Union Unity League into the Ger
man organizations. Their argument is that to
inject militant trade unionism into these or
CARNATIONS is premature, head on collision
policy, which would have disastrous effects.
The German workers in Philadelphia are found
in the textile and metal factories. Altho there
are serious remnants of social reformlsm eX-
listing IN their ranks ana Cney nave d HoIe
privileged position than the other workers of
Kensington, yet in the Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers they comprise the left elements and
would respond to militant policy. But our
German comrades do not see this. They say
first cultural activity and gradually we can
draw the German masses closer They do not
see that the German workers are becoming
radicalized because Of the oppression in the
factories and the betrayal of the American
Federation of Labor and are looking to us for
leadership.
In the Armenian fraction an even worse
situation exists. Atho numerically the Ar
menan population in Philadelphia is very in
significant yet there about 5000 Ar
menians, the majority of whom are workers In
the american Committee to Help Soviet Ar
mena," which organization practically does not
exist in Philadelphia today, we find that our
comrades captivating to the nationalist
spirit of the Armenian Electromagnetic and
fail to bring out clearly the role of the or
ganization. Working among small group of
Armenians, the majority of whom petty
bourgeois, they failed to transform this Or
yanization into an integral part of our general
ampaign for the Defense of the Soviet Union
and connect up the achievements of the workers
Of Soviet Armenia with the struggles here
With the result that in the organization itself
there exist hostile elements to the Soviet Union
but loyal to Armenia, whether it be under the
government of the Gar or the workers rule
v No serious effort has been made to reach the
Armenian workers, many of whom are found
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