The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-09
FORWARD TO GREATER
STRUGGLES


unified and aroused upon this line. The Par
ty understands the line and believes in it.
The Party has made a decisive turn in this
direction. The experiences of August First
last year, of March 9Th and May First this
year, of the Unemployed Convention in Chi
cago on July 4th, of the numerous union con-
ventions, of the work in the South, are all
evidence of this fact. That the Party is not
deferred by difficulties is amply demonstrated
by the way in which Party and tens of thou
sands of workers have made banners of wild
ened struggle out of the dead bodies of our
comrades, Katovis, Levy, Gonzalez, and Wciz-
enberg; with more than a hundred leading
comrades in prison, with sentences running
up to AZ years, and thousands of victims of
police beatings, attesting the sharpening of
the struggle which only steels the determine
ton and fighting ability of our Party as the
leader of the working class.
In the field of actual achievements of mass
organization, the building of permanent or
ganizational forms for the rapidly growing
political influence of the Party, things are not
so favorable. The growth of the T.U.U.L. and
its affiliated unions is much slower, and does
not keep pace with the rehabilitation of the
workers and growth of their activity. This
gap between organization and influence pre-
sents the Party with its most dangerous prob
lem. The T. u. U. L. Recruiting Drive, which
had set its goal as $4,000 new members by
July 1st achieved only about one-fifth of this
amount. This weakness in organizational
problems of mass work. was also reflected in
the discussions of the convention, which lacked
the necessary concentration of organizational
experiences, lacked the dynamic quality which
would have made every delegate go from the
convention with the knowledge of just how
others are solving the problems, as we'll as the
r. to 10 fiyoI +ho
and each industry. This weakness requires
that the entire Party shall concentrate its at
tention upon overcoming it,
Bringing Forward New Leading Forces.
A most important part of the solution of
the problems of mass work, lies in bringing
forth new leading forces, both in the Party
and in the trade unions. This lesson the
Party is learning, but still too slowly. Thus,
from the recent Party recruiting drive, we
have drawn approximately. 40 per cent of our
active unit and section leadership in the most
important districts. But where this promotion
is not taking place, there the mass work is
tagging behind proving decsively that just
this promotion of new, fresh proletarian ele-
ments is absolutely necessary to go forward
and perform our tasks.
How far is the Party, as yet, from properly
attacking this problem of promotion of new
forces, was revealed in the convention when
the time came for elections to the Central
Committee. The most complete canvas of all
district delegations for nominations of work
ers from the shops, fresh elements, for the
Central Committee, failed to bring forth any
adequate number of nominations. This re-
Elected first, remnants of the old prejudice
against placing new elements in leading posts;
second, lack of intimate acquaintance with
the thousands of members in the shops, on
the part of leading district comrades; and
thirdly, a still entirely inadequate percentage
of members in the decisive shops and indus
tries in the country. All of which brings forth
quite sharply that problem of cadres, of the
promotion of new leading forces from the
ranks, without which none of our tasks can
be successfully accomplished.
Advance in Negro, Youth and Agrarian Work
Special reports and discussions on Negro,
Youth, and Agrarian work. marked new step
forward by the Party in each of these fields
In each of these, the concrete problems of the
work were clarified, while theoretical con-
fusion, deviations and vagueness, were COM
batted effectively. In each, also, the formula
of the struggle on two fronts, against right
and cleft" deviations, was proved to be ap-
plicable and necessary. Special articles, as
well as the reports and discussions of the con-
vention, will be printed on each of these ques-
tions, to bring the convention results to all the
workers.
Closing the Old Books-Forward to Mass
Struggles.
The convention closed the books upon the
old outlived factionalism of the past and
sealed the Party's successful political and or
ganizational fight against the Lovestone rene
gades. 1t approved with one voice, and with
enthusiasm, the declaration of the Central
Committee reporter, that the Party has but
one policy to the renegades, namely, unconii-
tional struggle against and destruction of
these enemies of the working class
Liquidatng the last remnants of the out
lived past, the convention unanimously ad-
dressed itself to the Comntern with the re-
quest "to reconsider in the light of the
changed situation in our Party its correct or
ganzatonal step of taking Comrade Bittel-
man for work in another country and to per-
NIT him now to return to work in the Commu-
mist Party of the U, S. A."
The convention closed with complete unfit
cation, on the political line of the Central
Committee and the Comintern with confidence
and enthusiasm sen ling the delegates forth
to their work, with deeper, keener realiza-
tion of the Communist tasks in this period of
wars and revolutions
The tasks of revolution that are placed be-
fore the various sections of the Communist
international, are in some respects placed
with particular sharpness before the Commu-
mist Party of the u. S. A. The coming revo-
lutionary crisis of capitalism, rapidly ma
turing, will also place heavy tasks upon the
working class of this country. The workers
can meet these tasks only then when the Com
munlSt PARTY brings into life throuph con-