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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18
By LEON PLOTT.
What Inner Party Democracy Means


One of the outstanding characteristics of
Communist Party is its principle of inner
Party democracy The principle of inner Party
democracy presupposes: the election of all
leading communities from the bottom up, the
right to criticse all Party mistakes, and the
discussion of all questions facing the Party
by the membership. Thru the principle of inner
Party democracy we increase the conscious
ness and the activity of our membership not
only by having our members express their
opinions in considering Party questions, but
also by their participation in the leader
ship and execution of our Party's tasks. The
Party cannot develop unless its members
discuss Party problems and take a critical
attitude to the mistakes and weaknesses of
the Party. But what are the limits of inner
Party criticism? How far can comrade 60
in his freedom of criticism? This criticism
must be limited to certain definite condi-
tions, namely, under no circumstances to de-
vate in our criticism from our Bolshevik base
and not to destroy our organization founda-
tions. Our criticism must be revolutionary,
constructive and to the point. In the past
in spite of our long discussions and debates,
we did not have real criticism. In the past
criticism was understood factionally and was
utilized not to correct the mistakes COM
mitted by the Party, but only for group
struggle. We must be against such criticism.
The feminist conception Of criticism is:
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We said that Social Democrat, if he really
consciousness of the preletariat, must ego
among all classes of people" This gives rise
to the question: How is this to be done?
Have we enough forces to do this? Is there
a base for such work among all the other
classes? Will this not mean a retreat or
lead to retreat from the class point of view?
We shall deal with these questions.
We must "go among all classes of the
people," the theoreticians, as propagandists,
as agitators and as organizers. No one doubts
that the theoretical work of Social Democrats
should be directed toward studying all the fea-
lures of the social and political position of the
various classes. But extremely little is done
in this direction compared with the work that
is done in studying the features of factory life.
In the committees and circles, you will meet
men who are immersed say, in the study of
some special branch of the metal industry, but
you will hardly ever find members of organiza-
tions Obliged as often happens, for some rea-
son or other, to give up practical work) especi-
ally engaged in the collection of material con-
corning some pressing question of social and po-
litical life which could serve as means for con-
Quoting Social-Democratic work among other
strata of the population.
In speaking of the lack of training of the
majority of present-day leaders of the labor
movement, we cannot refrain from mentioning
the point about training in this connection also,
for it is also bound up with the economic" con-
ception of "close organic contacG with the pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18
feminist Conception of Party Questions

1T is necessary that every Party or
ganization shall pay much attention, that
the absolutely necessary criticism of the
weaknesses and mistakes of the Party,
or analysis of the practical experiences of
the Party and mistakes committed, etc.,
shall not be directed on the criticism Of
groups, which have built themselves ON
some sort of platform, ETC., but on the
criticism of all Party members" Lenin
at x Congress, c. P. S. W.
AS Bolsheviks, we not only can, but we
must, severely criticise everything that repre-
sents diviation from Marxism-L eninism. At
che same time, the Party must struggle with
all the means at its disposal against this
freedom" of criticism which would represent
with itself freedom" to advocate social
democratic, petty-bourgeois views and anti
Party ideas in the ranks of our Party, which
would inevitably destroy its feminist founda-
ton. We therefore cannot speak of criticism
abstractly. Inner Party democracy presup-
poses only such criticism which is revolution,
airy constructive, having as its aim the
Strengthening of the authority of the PartyI
the strengthening of the Party thru the
elimination and correction of our mistakes.
(To BE CONTINUED)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18
By V. /. LENIN.

AS early as 1874 or 1845, Marx came to re-
alize that one of the chief defects of the earl
Ter materalsm was it's failure to understand
the conditions or recognize the Importance of
practical revolutionary activity. During all
his life, Marx, alongside of theoretical work,
gave unremitting attention to the tactical
problems of the class struggle of the proletar-
lat All Marks writings bear witness to the
fact, especially the four volumes of his cor
respondence with Engels, published in 1913.
The material bearing upon this still remains
to be collected, organized, studied and eX-
planned. Here shall have to be content
with very brief account of the matter, en-
phasizing the point that Marx justly consid-
cred materialism with this side to be incom-
plete, one-sided and more dead than alive. The
fundamental lines of proletaran tactics were
laid down by Marx in strict conformity with
the general principles of his materialist-dialec-
tical outlook Nothing but an objective
count of the sum total of all the mutual rela-.
.tionships of all the classes Of given society,
and consequently an account Of the objective
stage of development of this society," as we'll
account of the mutual relationships be-
tween it and other societies, can serve as the
basis for the correct tactics of the class that
forms the vanguard. All classes and all coun-
tries are looked upon not statically, but dy-
namcally, l. e., not as motionless, but as in
motion (the laws of their motion being de-
termined by the economic conditions of ex-
istence of each class). The motion, in it's turn,
is looked upon not only from the point of view
of the past, but also from the point of view
of the future; and moreover, not only in ac-
cordance with the vulgar conception of the
"evoutionists," who look merely at slow
changes--but dialectically. SIN such great de-
velopments, twenty years are but as one day
and then may come days which are the con-
centrated essence of twenty years." wrote
Marx to Engels. At each stage of develop
ment, from moment to moment, proletarian
tactics must take account of these effectively
necessary dialectcs of human history, utliz-
ing, on the one hand the phases Of political
stagnation, when things are moving at snaips
pace along the road of the so-called peaceful
development, to increase the class conscious
ness, strength, and fighting capacity of the
most advanced Glass; on the other hand, con-
Quoting this work in the direction of the
"fna aims" of the movement of this class,
cultivating in it the faculty for the practical
performance Of great tasks in great days that
are the Concentrated essence Of twenty years"
Two of Marks arguments are. of especial i'm
portance in this connections one of these is
in the Poverty Of Philosophy" and relates
to the industrial struggle and to the indus
trial organization of the proletariat; the other
is in the Communist Manifesto" and relates
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18
LENIN ON THE ROLE OF A
COMMUNIST PARTY

letarian struggle" The principal thing, OF
course, is propaganda and agitation among all
strata of the people. The Western Europea |
Social Democrats finds their work in this fiel
facilitated by the calling of public meetings to
which all are free to go, and by the parliament,
in which they speak to the representatives OF
all classes We have neither parliament, nor
the freedom to call meetings, nevertheless we
are able to arrange meetings of workers who
desire to listen to Social-Democrat. We must
also find ways and means of calling meetings of
representatives of all and every other class OF
the population that desire to listen to Demo-
crat for he who forgets that "the Communists
support every revolutionary movement" that
we are obliged for that reason to emphasize
general democratic tasks before the whole peo-
pie, without for a moment concealing our So
calistc convictions, is not Social-Democrat.
He who forgets his obligation to be in advance
of everybody in bringing up, sharpening and
solving every general democratic question is
not Social Democrat. A
'But everybody agrees with this. the in
patient reader will exclaim-and the new ind
structons given by the last Congress of the
League to the Editorial Board of "Rabacheye
Dyelo," says: "All events of social and poll
teal life that affects the proletariat either
directly as a special class or as the vanguard Of
all the revolutionary forces in the struggle for
freedom, should serve subjects for political
propaganda and agitation 1.-TWO Congresses,
p. II, our blackface.)
Yes these are very true and very good words
and we would be satisfied if "Rabacheye Dyelo"
understood them, and if it refrained from say.
ing in the next breath things that are the very
opposite to them. Surely, it is net sufficient
to call ourselves the vanguard it is necessary
to act like one we must act in such way that
all the other units of the army shall see us, and
be obliged to admit that we are the vanguard.
And we ask the reader: Are the representatives
of the other units" such fools as to take
merely our word for it when we say that we are
the vanguard"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18

chal' whlpplng-rod exploitation of the rural
proletarlat by the big feudal nobility" Dur
ing the period from 1864 to 1870 in which the
epoch OF the bourgeois democratic revolution in
Gerany was being completed, in which the ex
plotting classes of Prussia and Austria were
fighting for this or that method of combating
the revolution from above, Marx not only con-
demned Lassae for coquettng with Bismark,
but also corrected Wilhelm Liebknecht who
lapsed into 'Austrophilism" and defended par
ucularlsm. Marx insisted upon revolutionary
tactics that would fight against both Bismarck
and "Austrophilism'' with equal ruthlessness :.
tactics which would not only not conform toI
the wishes of the "conqueror" the Prussanl
Junker, but would renew the struggle with HIM
upon the very basis created by the Prussian
military successes GB,iefWeehsel, VOL III, pp.
1874, 1876, lat, 179, 204, 210, 215, 41s, 437, 440,
AID. In the famous Address issued by the
international Workingmen's Association, dated
September 9. 1870, Marx warned the French
proletarat against an untimely rising; but
when, in 1871, the instruction actually took
place, Marx hailed the revolutionary initiative /
of the masses with the utmost enthusiasm saw
ing that they were "storming the heavens"
(Letter of Marx to Kugelmann). In this situa.
tion, as in SO many others, the defeat of revo.
*Briefe an Kugelmam, Berlin, Viva 1927.
letter dated April IL, 1S71-Ed
lutionary onslaught seemed to Marx. from the
point of view of dialectical materialism, from
the point of view of the general course AM.
the outcome of the proletarian struggle, lesserV
evil than would have been retreat from posi-
ton hitherto occupied, surrender withouts
striking blow, such a surrender would I
have demoraised the proletariat and taken the
fight out of it. Fully recognizing the import
ance of using legal means of struggle during
periods Of political stagnatons, and when
bourgeois legality prevails, Marx, in 1877 and
1878, when the Anti-Socialst Law had been
passed in Germany, strongly condemned the
revolutionary phase-making' of Most; but he
attacked no less fiercely; perhaps even more So,
the opportunism that, for a while, prevailed
among the leaders of the German Social-Demo-
cratic Party, which failed to manifest spon-
taneous readiness to resist to be firm, revo-
lutionary spirit, readiness to resort to un-
constitutional struggle in reply to the ANTI
Socialist Law (Briefwcchsel, VOL w, PIP. 3e7,
404, 41S, 422, and 424; also letters to Sorge.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18
To the League for Socialist Propaganda
in America

the opportunists who should be expelled
from the Party, especially now, after their
traitorous conduct during the war. If in every
given crisis a small group lat present our
Central Committee represents such a small
group could act and push the masses to the
revolution, this would be very good. In all
crises the masses are unable to Immediately
get into action, they need the support OF small
groups in the central organs of our Party.
Right from the beginning of the war, since
September, 1914, our Central Committee ham,
mered into the masses, not to listen to the lie
of the "war of defense" that they must break
with the compromisers and the so-called jim
go-Socilaists" (this is what we called the So
cialists who at present stand for the "war of
defense") We think that these centrallst
measures of our Central Committee were use
full and necessary.
We agree with you that we must fight
against craft unions and for industrial unions,
ie for big centralized trade unions and for
the most active participation of all Party mem
bers in the economic fight and in all trade
union and cooperative organizations OF the
working class. But people like Mr.. Legion in
Germany and Mr. Gompers in America we con-
slider bourgeois, and their policy is in our
opinion not socialist but a nationalist policy
of the middle class. Messrs. Gompers, Legion
and their like do not represent the working
class. They represent only the aristocracy and
bureaucracy of the working class.
Your demand that the workers should come
forward" in Masses has our full sympathy.
The German Revolutionaries and International
sts-Socialists have the same demand. We are
trying in our press to define more IN detail
what is to be understood by political mass
action"-as for instance the political mass
strike (Which is very frequent in Russia), the
street demonstrations and the civil war which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18

Nor: The excerpts printed belo,0 arc
taken from Lenins famous brochure, "Whut
is to be done?" a0hich is included IN Volume
w of the Collected Works of V. I. Lentn,
just published by the International Publish
ers, SSf Fourth Avenue, NelU York. This vol-
une, published IN tao parts, includes all the
,oritings of Lenin bet,0een 1900 and 1903,
and covers the formative period Of the Rus
sian BolShevik Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18
Tactics of the Class Struggle

Editors Note: The following selection is
taken from Lenns essay on Karl Marx, writ
ten originally for the Russian encyclopedia
Granat, in 1914, and soon to be published by
international Publishers in the Imperialist
War, constituting Vol. XVIII of Lenins Col
lected Works.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18
Letter from Lenin to America

In the middle of November, 1915, Lenin
Teceiued a leaflet of the American League
for Socialist Propaganda the contents of
1chicb qOere proof of t he internatiOnaliSt
course of the League. In ansaOer to this,
Lenin sent lengthy letter to the League an
aChich he enclosed the international Leaf
lets" of the ZinmerlUald Lett, and the
pamphlet Socialism and War" The tert
published by as is only part of Lenin'S letter,
the first part being lost:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18

Not only hns the bourgeofsis
forged the weapons that bring
dentb TO itself, II has also called
INTO existence the men who are 70
wieid those weapOns-the modern
WORKING elass-the proietarfnns-
MARI Mnf1 tCommubIss Manffestep.
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Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party U. S. A.
43 East 125th Street,
New York City.
|, the undersigned, want to join the Commu-
mist Party. Send me more information.
Address Observation-Disclosures. city.
Occupation Age.
Mail this to the Central Office, Communist
Party, 43 East 125th St., New York, N. Y.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-29
Nancy Carroll In
New Role at Arcadia

Every now and then an actress
accustomed TO playing only light
roles tries her hand at emotional
acting and becomes more famous
overnight.
That is exactly what Nancy Car
roll, Americas "Sweetle. has done
l.. The Devils Holiday. which
opened with a midnight matinee at
the Arcadia theater Saturday night.
IN her latest effort. this light
hearted Irish lass has established
herself as one Of the leading emo
tional actresses Of the day. She not
only has added new laurels but
many more fans and admirers.
A good part OF the credit for the
success Of The Devils Holiday
should 60 Ia Edmund Golding. His
directing was masterful. He IS the
same man who wrote and directed
The TreSpasser." In which Gloria
Swanson attained new heights.
The story Of The Devils Holt
day" was written especially for Nam
cy Carroll by Golding after he had
watched hel work for the first time.
1t is an absorbing tale Of Halle
Hobart. professional good girl who
SCOTS at sentiment. scorns love and
schemes to get more than her share
out Of life at the expense Of men
whom she handles ruthlessly.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-29
HoAywood;s New Bdrkies Bring Dog Actors
With Human Voices to the 7aLbp Screen
BY DAN THOMAS
4 Service Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, June %
Wool -. wool 80. woofl The
"barkies" have come to Hollywood!
In case you haven't seen some OF
these comedies. the dog actors walk
erect. wear human clothing and
speak in perfect English. human &C
tors being employed as doubles
for the dialogue, Of course.
Their stage has been dubbed by
studio employees Us Dogville and Il
is just that. For in Dogville the
dogs reign supreme. They have
their own dressing rooms indi-
vidual cages for stars and two large
ones Or extras. Their own ward
robe Is filled with clothes made Ia
fit them. And the stars have their
own chairs on each set, just Us hui
man celebrities do.
Directors Sell Idea
The dogs were gathered on the
M-G-M lot by Zion Myers and Jules
White, q couple OF enterprising
young directors who hit upon the
idea Of making q series OF all-talk-
ing dog comedies. They went TO
Harry Rapf, M-G-M executive, who
Immediately signed them TO make
six pictures. Only four az those
six have been completed. but their
contract has already been extended
TO include an additional six films.
Directing q dog comedy isn't quite
as hard as one might suppose but
10 does require q great amount Of
patience Myers told ne.
Dogs are good actors. however.
Once a dog knows what you want
he is extremely eager to do the
thing right. we have found the
dogs very intelligent and they seem
70 thoroughly enjoy their work
The greatest difficulty experienced
so far has been the experimentation
Of voices. When scenes are h~.ng
shot the dogs are made To bark III
places where dialogue Is desired.
Then the picture is run off i'm the
projection room with the human
doubles speaking the lines. And
each line must correspond to the
number OF lip movements made by
the dog.
Zach Knows His Master
II is intensely interesting to watch
the filming OF a scene with g dozen
or more dogs. Often there is n reg
ular bedlam OF noise with an ar the
trainers shouting at their respective
dogs. But each dog seems to rec0F-
nize his masters voice and acts ac-
cOrdinglv.
The pictures all are made on
miniature stages which have been
furnished with miniature furniture.
Consequently when the films reach
the silver screen the dogs assume
the proportions az human beings.
Each Of the films also has an
honest-to-gosh story behind it.
There's more than Just a bunch OF
dogs doing tricks. They have their
stories and play them out. For in
stance, there II The D0gville Muir
der Mystery" which IS a satire on
The Bishop Murder Case" with dog
actors that seemingly have human
voices.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-29
Tense Moments In
Journeys End

What many have termed the best
OF all the war plays. Journeys
End, is the feature attraction to-day
and tomorrow at the Mission thea
ter. r. c. Sheriff's world-famous
drama comes To the screen as an
~all-dialcgue production.
Neither the rOwdy nor the sensa-
tional side Of war Is charted l
Journeys End" Mr.. Sheriff has
merely set forth the human side.
not only a. he saw ID. but as he him
self felt il while at the front. There
Is the whiskey-guzzling Captain
Stanhope, a great fellow and Y brave
leader OF his men, who privately
admits that he would be scared t0
death OF IL all If he wasn't stecpe-
in rum every time he faced the
enemy. And the kindly understand
ing, p~ipe-smOking Lieutenant Os-
borne, a former school master. who
reads Alice in Wonderland before
going on q raid. And the unruiliFd
Lieutenant Trotter, who likes his
bacon lean and prefers strawberry
to raspberry Jam. And Second
Lieutenant Raleigh, who has Just
come out and can't comprehend I'D
all as yet, And Lieutenant HILBERT,
shamming sickness to hide his fear
and the others.
The likes and dislikes, the emo
tons and the effect OF this Shiny
existence cit the front on the nerves
OF these men make the tremendous
story OF Journeys End. Colin
Give p%ortrays StanhOpe and others
in the cast are Ian MaClarcn. Billy
Bevan, David Manners, Anthony
Bushell. Charles Gerard, Thomas
Whitley, Warner Klinger, Jack
Pitcairn and Robert Affair.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-29

fortunes Of a young heir to wealth
who Is sent to New York by his
guardian uncle to be schooled in the
ways Of the willy world. The teach
ers whom the uncle Wisely chose for
this Job are three gorgeous "Follies"
girls.
Tie girls are pledged to refrain
from vamping Buddy but they
can't help falling for him. Neither
can two other cuties whom he meets
I'LL his spirited Eall.vanting around
Gotham. One day a group from the
"Fcilies' comes To the girls pent-
house apartment to rehearse a new
song and dance number. Buddy"
interrupts the proceedings by pro-
posing one he wrote himself. The
producer likes it and buys it from
Buddy Meanwhile Buddy" has
fallen hard for one OF his teachers.
After q series Of amusing adven-
lures i'll which music and song play
2 big part. Buddy wins the girl.