The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26

Party organizations at which no more nor less
than five comrades voted in favor of the Party.
But soon after that the District Control
Commission of the Party began to work with
great vigor in Superior, and has by now ex-
PEELED a great part, if not majority, of the
former members. 1t is obvious that all such
sudden wholesale explosions cannot be consid-
cred final, not at least until each individual
case is separately looked into and examined
once more. The Political Secretariat resolves
that such an investigation shall be carried out
Immediately The cases of all such members
who have erred and therefore excluded from
the Party, and who sincerely wish to follow
the line of the Comntern and the Party will
be submitted to new thoroughly impartial
examination to be effected together with the
Central Control Commission. The striving to
rid the Party as quickly as possible of incor-
rigible right wingers is quite all right. But
even when it's question of incorrigibles it is
necessary to isolate them from the member
ship. Otherwise too many members might too
easily be expelled from the Communist Party
of U. S. A.
Comrade Matti Tenhunen, who together with
Comrade Puro has been invited to explain to
the lit-Secretariat these conflicts, is one of
the few leaders of the workers cooperative
movement in the United States who have
manned true to the Communist Party On ques-
tons of the cooperative movement he has
fallen into several right errors (overestimation
of the significance of the cooperatives under
capitalism), and has not recognized with suf-
ficient clearness the difference between the
second and third period of postwar capitalism.
The last mentioned mistaken view of Comrade
Tenhunen is doubtless closely allied with the
fact that-although he took sincere stand
against the most dangerous forms OF the Pep
per theory of American exceptionalism' has
has not yet completely uprooted this wrong
and dangerous view within himself-a view
which, as shown in the last Open Letter of the
Comintern, served as starting point for the
former minority faction Ito which Comrade
Tenhunen also belonged). But as for his mis-
takes in regard to the cooperative question, it
must be taken into consideration that both
the leadership of the American Communist
Party as we'll as the organs of the Comintern
have in the past issued instructions on these
questions which are unclear and very defective.
Comrade Tenhunens big mistake that
he was passive in the struggle between Halo
men and the Party instead of energetically and
unhesitatingly fighting for the Party and
against Halonen, which can be regarded In no
other way but Cancellation Comrade Tenhunen
was right when he demanded of the Party
Executive first of all theological preparation
in the question of Halonen's expulsion, but
Comrade Tenhunen himself did not prepare for
this in the press with the clarity required by
the political situation. 1t is true that in deal
ing with the question in the fraction of the
Cenral Cooperative, he voted for the demand
of the Central Committee Secretariat, but he
spoke against it, Comrade Tenhunen has con-
sequently reasons for learning, much more
thoroughly than he has so far, to differentlate
between the matters of primary and secondary
Importance of politics. This time the struggle
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lance not only the right danger in general
but its present concrete, Halonenist form. Com
rade Tenhunen has come out against other
forms of the right danger, but he has not
called for fight against the Halonen right
wngers.
He has not done all he could to defend the
authority of the Party Executive and thus of
the whole Party. This is due to his mistrust
of the activity of Comrade Puro and the Fin
nish Bureau, which he regarded continuation
of old fractional activity. But there is no more
reason for this mstrust Factionallsm is dead
and buried old sins must not be recalled by
eithe- side, and no one must allow mistrust to
interfere with the strengthening of the entire
Communist front. Comrade Tenhunen, who, as
well as Comrade Puro, adheres Internationally
and unreservedly to the standpoint set forth IN
our letter, assures US that he is ready to work
actively for carrying out this correct view I'M
der the leadership of the Central Committee
and its organs. Since this is the case, no one
in the leading organs of the Party must har-
Dor unfounded mistrust of the activity of Com
rade Tenhunen, in the sense of implying that
he wants to undermine the leadership of the
Party.
The Party Executive must from now on de-
vote closer and more regular attention and
care to the development of the Finnish men,
bers and organizations in general and especi-
ally to the leadership of District 9. The fact
that the Minnesota District has in the past
wear been for months without district or
ganizer could not but partly be the cause of
insufficient struggle against Halonen's devia-
ton The proposition should be considered
whether sub-district bureau should not be
set up in Duluth under the leadership OF sub
district organizer who knows the Finnish Ian
guage Special care should be taken with re-
gard to the editing and the circulation OF the
central organ of the Finnish workers, the
/ Tyomies, and the new publication, Viesti The
Tyomies will be able to fulfil its important
mission in the proletarian class struggle only
as Communist mass paper. The Party on no
account deprves non-Party workers possessing
stocks of the Tyomies, of the right to decide
in regard to affairs of the paper, or the Tyo-
mics Association. The Finnish workers of the
Central States must definitely guard their
paper so that it may never fall into the hands
Of the opportunists.
Finnish Party comrades of the United States!
The distant and semi-federational connec-
lions of your organization with the Communist
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