The daily worker., 1930-10-23
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How to Tame CrOcOdiles
By JORGE

Half the pleasure of running this column
would be missing unless we attracted a GER
tain percentage of protests. The gentleman
who thought we should be consderate of dogs
and cats, is matched by few who urge US to
be kind to DOS.
BY and large, for every anxious bureaucrat
(onlv such, or those influenced by such, have
protested) there are a dozen letters which
NAV be summed up in the phrase: More
strength to you!" from rank and filers.
A number have requested-and for this we
add a few lines-that other irresponsible prac-
tices be exposed. Some have said that we
should castigate "the whole party on the
ground that ''everybody's to blame,' etc But
to blame everybody is really to blame no.
body; no one is held responsible and the job
of correction looks so big that tackling it ap-
pears hopeless
We don't fall for that line at all. We begin
where we begin and intend to go through with
it if it breaks leg. Without such stubborn
persistence on concrete issues nothing is done.
For years our Party has been talking about
the evil of bureaucracy, and equally on the
need for financial responsibility
And as long as these subjects remained abb
stract and dead in our resolutions and theses
all the bureaucrats supported the flight" on
ary hurrahed for responsibility.
But the minute the Central Committee de-
cided to get down to cases, panied but smoth-
cred howl arose. It's all right to expose bu-
reaucracy, but not definitely identifiable bu-
reaucrats. Irresponsibility must be stopped,
"but not mine"
Comrades who put on an air of concern 'for
the Party" give us list Of political reasons
why crocodiles should not be imported from
the Soviet Union: They're foreign crocodiles,
and America is exception" We've heard
such arguments before-from Lovestone.
Then one of the funniest things is that we
can poke fun at the Secretary of the Secre-
tariat, without attracting the thunders of
Jove, but his doorkeeper gets a fever and
wants us suppressed.
Doubtless a Communist candidate for u. S.
Congress feels dismayed when he is taken to
task in the middle of the campaign for being
thoughtless about paying accounts or even pay
ing attention to them. But it is precisely op-
portunism that hesitates between the injured
dignity of one, or few, and the permanent
benefit of the working class and its party. If
it is really the Party that concerns comrades,
we give them sure-fire recipe for recovering
their sacred prestige. A speech should con-
tain the following elements:
"The Communist Party holds it's members
responsible before the working class. It is
the workers party and not the property of it's
officials, matter who they are. When
Party member in the Soviet Union is caught
stealing he is promptly shot. Here, even an
irresponsible attitude toward proper account
ing is publicly censured before the workers.
so that the workers can be sure that the Com
munist Party doesn't stand for responsibility.
For example, here in the Daily Worker / am
openly reprimanded for neglect toward Daily
Worker accounts. And the Party was correct
in bawling me out this way. This is the iron
discipline which prevails for the good of the
whole class which the Party represents. Com
pare this with the individualistic boodle-
seeking ciques that make up the republican,
democrat or fake socialist" parties. And be
sure that if elected I will be held responsible
by the Communist Party before the working
class, openly criticized in the Daily Worker if
my actions or words are not 100 per cent for
the workers. This is the guarantee to you
workers that what say before election will
be carried out. Vote Communist"
Such an antidote is sure cure for any croco-
die bites.