The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
PRE-CONVENTION DISCUSSION
Fight Against Right Danger Not Over

to leave the workers of Cliffside and go to
New York to the demonstration. When the
question of distributing the special May Day
issue of the Daily Worker was brought up,
they revoted and refused to have anything to
do with the Daily Worker Only when they
were threatened with expulsion did they take
1000 Daily Workers, of which 500 were dis
trbuted. Only three comrades participated in
the distribution; the rest claimed they would
lose business, because every one in the town
knew them. The workers claimed that they
would lose their jobs. AS far as getting sub
scriptions for the Daily Worker was concerned,
they fatty refused, using the same excuse.
The Section Committee, after thorough dis
cussion on this unit decided to take organiza-
tional steps: % We reorganized the whole
unit and elected an organizer and the rest of
the functionares; ~ we expelled the boot
logger (3) we called all those that resisted
the instructions of the Section, to the Control
Commission; az we instructed the unit to get
out of the saloon Immediately and find another
place to meet; (5) to sell and get subscriptions
for the Daily Worker; (6) to organize Trade
Union Unity League; () to check back the
activity of the comrades; ~ to have a meet
ing every week and not twice month; (9) we
appointed the organizer of the unit to run
as Congressman in Bergen county; (10) that
every comrade get convention stamps accord
ing to the decision of the Central Committee,
in order to have a right to vote.
They formally accepted the decisions of the
Section. But they did not carry them out.
For instance, only one participated in the sale
of Daily Workers, and sold nine for the first
time in front of a factory. One the question
of convention stamps, they brought up the ar
gument that the new dues system of the Party
forbade any tax or assessment. The rest of
ho ah0ta or
instance, on the question of the Congressman,
not only did they refuse to sign the petitions
but also told the workers Of the town not to
sign because the candidate was not capable
to be Congressman!
All the instructions of the Section and the
new methods of work of the Party, these COM
rades found too radical. They Immediately
called a special meeting, before the regular
meeting, excluding the Unit Organizer and in
GLIDING the expelled bootlegger. At the next
regular meeting, which was held in the same
saloon, at which l was present, presented an
order of business from the Section Executive
The groceryman, Stevens, Immediately got up
and proposed an order of business which had
been prepared at the secret meeting, and stated
that the majority proposed it. These COM
rades were told that only Party organizers
have right to present an order of business
Their order of business had nothing to do
with the present activity of the Party) The
answer to the Section Organizer was, eff you
don't like this order of business you can get
the hell out, and if you don't, we will kick
you out This unit has been ruled by us for
fifteen years and no one will rule it but our
selves! | had to appeal to the few workers
who were there to leave the meeting and have
a meeting in place where we can take up
Party problems and not language problems.
What does this show? First, that the men,
bers were left alone for fifteen wears with
out any leadership from the Section or the
Party. Second, in the language branches there
are still remnants of federationism. Third
the Lithuanian Bureau must be severely criti-
sized for not bringing the message of the
Party to the Lithuanian workers, in order to
educate them as to the structure and general
campaigns of the Party
We cannot call these elements "right wing
ers," but nationalist open social democratic
elements who have no place in the Party. We
must also criticize our District for not paving
more attention to State which has the most
basic and war industries, in which thousands
of proletarian elements, ready to come into our
revolutionary unions, are working The
Party must send the most capable comrades
into New Jersey and must help out this State
not only through the sending of colonzers but
also financially.
The main fact to be stressed is that the Sec
ton Organizer and Section functionaries must
see to it that they direct the work of the units
personally. This must also be applied to the
District Executive members who must check
up activities of the Section and activities of
every unit in the Party. Only then can we
expect from the lower units the carrying out
of the instructions and decisions of the higher
bodies.
The right wing elements will be swept aside
during the process of this work and the revolu-
tionary struggles that are ahead of us and new
proetarian elements will replace them. The
Party will then be able to mobilize the major
ity of the working class for the final over
throw of the system and the establishment Of
workers and farmers government.
FORWARD FOR A MASS COMMUNIST
PARTY UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF
THE G.. l. AND C. c..