The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-02
PRE- CONVENTION DISCUSSION
Not Only Self Criticism But Also
Self-COrrectiOn!

and organizational error, which, if repeated,
> will lead not only to the Party's reliance on
spontaneous response" of the masses to the
slogans of struggle of the Party, but to the
Party losing its ability to mobilize and lead
the workers in struggle.
The Question of Spontaneous Action.
The question must be put fundamentally:
u Can the masses attain the revolutionary
goal through spontaneous action; or must the
Party organize them through struggle for i'm
mediate issues and lead them through more
and better organization, greater consciousness
and militancy to the overthrow of capitalism?
p Can the Party expect to organize for the
revolutionary liberation of the masses if it
continues to fail to plan cOncretely, carry out
and lead in organized manner the masses in
demands and demonstrations for immediate is
sues? 81 Can the Party and the masses learn
to approach the revolutionary goal in organ
lied manner if there is continued repetition,
with little correction, of basic weaknesses and
errors?
Many of these defects are due to the type
of district and section committees and nuclei
functionaries and bureaus This must be radi-
cally changed in the elections of the coming
conventions, at which live, young, militant, new
elements who have made the turn and are
quickly responsive to rapid changes and new
situations, must be elected to responsible posi-
tons.
Check-Up and Control
Secondly, the Party must, from top to bot
tom, at last institute a regular system of
check-up and control. The time has come when
we must know exactly where we stand: our
forces strength in the unions, general support,
work done for the Party press, building up
mass organizations, etc.
Finally, the Party must learn that organ
ization for demonstrations like March Sixth
and May First is not mere mobilization for
a certain day, but entails the building up of
permanent organization, establishing the Party
press The Party has not yet learned how in
the process and just in the swing of organ
izing the masses for a specific demonstration,
the best conditions exist for building up the
revolutionary unions, the Party press, the
workers defense, the LID. F.S.U, WLR.,
etc, for building up the Party The. Party
still conceives of the building up of these or
CARNATIONS as distinct and separate cam
paigns.
This is serious mistake. March Sixth and
May First afforded splendid opportunities for
doing all of this work, which would not only
have made the demonstrations even more i'm
posing, but would have left permanent organ
ization in many shops and factories.
Coming Tasks.
The Party now faces many union conven-
tons, the July As Unemployment Convention,
August First. These are all part and parcel
of the campaigns carried out ON March Sixth
and May First. They are not separate cam
paigns, but must be integrated as parts of
one another and particularly of the election
campaign, which must be their immediate
climax.
If this is not done, the Party will develop
good agtprop qualities, but will not organize
and mobilize the masses in organized manner
for the struggle. The Party will not establish
itself in basic industry; it will not reach the
masses of Negro, women and young workers.
The errors of March Sixth and May First
must be corrected at once ideologically and
organizationally. Not only criticism and self
criticism, but also correction and self-correc-
ton.