The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-29
PRE-CONVENTION DISCUSSION
Fight the Right Danger in Practice

Daily worker Drive, May ISL, ElecCion CALL
paign). The centralized leadership of the Par
ty is being resented and resisted-and letters ]
and appeals are flying thick to the National /.
Fraction Bureau, just like before reorganiza-
ton There is a terrible fear of oyerstepping
the narrow boundaries of these organizations,
too much "stewing in their own juice" too
much seeing only the few sympathizers in the
clubs--and not the tens of thousands of work.
ers in organizations under fascist influence.
In many instances they capituate to and are
lead by petty-bourgeois elements.
Negro Work.
These right practices are not limited, how
ever, to these two fields-they can be found
in every phase of our work. White chauvinisn
in our district is practically eliminated, but
there is still serious organizational under
estimation of Negro work in many places. We
all recognize the Importance OF youth and
women in industries Negro, youth and women
always go together in our reports and discus
sions) but there is neglect of both by the
Party We speak, more and more, of factory
work. of concentrating both from the inside
and outside, but there is no check-up on many
instances on the comrades who are working
there, no systematic holding of meetings, lit
erature distribution. Decisions made at
every meeting-but good portion remain on
paper All of the district leadership speak of
the shop nuclei, but except for one or two
cases mighty little is done in practice to build
and strengthen them. Plans of action are
being worked out with quota for a certain
period of time, but many times it only re-
mains paper
The same holds true for the conduct of our
unit meetings The new members who come
there find out that the meetings start late,
last too long, they are dry and non-poltical
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and fail to carry on the work, discipline is
not enforced-and these opportunist practices
drive many of them out of the Party.
AS to the drawing in of new forces to lead
ership, we are all talking about it, incorporate
it in our speeches and resolutions, but most
of the districts, sections and nuclei are afraid
to take chance with proletarian COM
rades, they stick to the DID, constantly thin
ming cadre-and at the same time complain
about the lack of forces and are bombarding
New York for functionaries. Long speeches :,
are being made against bureaucratic Methods
about polticalzing our comrades, but thel
speeches are many time so long, delivered q
in high language with super political"
Technology, that the comrades have neither
the time nor the courage to take the floor. A
Communist must be man of the masses, said
Lenin, with whom one disagrees, but when
it comes to mass work, to build united fronts
from below MAY Day, Election Campaign,
etc. or to draw in non-Party workers into our
bridge organizations QL.D., W.IR, F.S.U)
our cleft" sectarianism, another form of OPP
portunsm, shows its full face. AS to Party
discipline, the foundation of the Bolshevik
Party organization, it is seldom enforced al
though there are daily threats about "other-
wise you will be called before the Control
Commission" which does not only undermine
the Control Commissions authority, but makes
joke out of the very conception of disciplinea
itself.
There is no need to further elaborate on the j
thousand and one manifestations of the right
danger in practice. They exist all over and
must be eliminated. Unless we overcome this
gap between our words and deeds, the making
of decisions and their execution-the discrep-
ancy between our great political influence and
organizational weakness will never be elimi-
mated. Unless we defeat opportunism in prac-
tcei, our Party will fail to organizationally
utilize the raising wave of the class-struggle.
We must become the leader and not the tall
end of the masses; must organize, lead
and politicalize the struggles that will inevi-
tably arise in the future.
In order to do that, the entire Party, by
thoroughly discussing the thesis, must fully
understand the line of our C. C. and take de-
finite steps to Bolshevze our methods of work
and to crush the right practices. This means
the raising of the political level of the Party,
the overcoming of mistakes and weaknesses
through a wide and ruthless self-criticism,
which is coupled with the determination not to
repeat them; the activization of all members
and the checking up on their work by thei
nucleus executive; the elimination of CIRCULAR
leadership and direct supervision and gud-j
ance by the higher committees; the drawing
in of new proletarian forces into leadership
and the completion of the turn towards the
factories, towards the transformation of the
Party units to shop nuclei. The slogan of Boil
shevize the Party is timely one and will con-
tnue to be SO. Defeat the right danger and
the opportunistic practices, and we will gain
and keep new members, build the T.U.U.L. and
other mass organizations, thus securing the
subjective conditions for the building of mass
Party, fighting for the leadership of the major
ity of the working class.
2. 1t did not draw in thousands of workers
. in the unorganized shops. There is still a
feeling among the skilled trades that the fight