The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
By l. ILIJEVIC
(Jugoslav, Buro.)

NON5SStSN'' DNAS'f
CINCE the Address of the Communist In
ternational to the membership of the Com
munist Party, U.S.A., up until now, marks
milestones of progress which no one can pos
siby deny, and yet if we were to examine our
achievements and to pass over them without
comment, we would be covering up many of
the weaknesses, shortcomings, and mistakes;
and by so doing we would be submitting part
of our past and would thereby decrease and
minimize the gain achieved thus far. Particu-
larIy this applies to our language fractions
and language fraction work as a whole. The
tempo of events since the CT. Address has
been going at a fast rate, the economic crisis
in this country and the crisis of world CAPT.
talism brought many tasks before the Party
and its sections and auxiliary organizations,
many of which were not understood and because
of this were not carried out.
1t was not sufficient to agree with the new
tasks confronting our movement as whole.
1t is now not sufficient to understand these
tasks, if by understanding them we do not
carry them out in practice. We all see that
there is rehabilitation of the masses and have
felt it so in the present crisis; the Party has
recognized this and endeavored to utilize the
entire Party forces in the channel of the new
tasks and problems. Yet the response while
so far as application of the line of the Party
and the carrying out of the present tasks APP
plies to our fractions. The reorganization of
the various fractions on the new line has but
begun In the Jugoslav fraction Lithuanian.
Ukranan and others show this weakness very
much in fact there is tendency to minimize
the Importance of this reorganization which
tendency must be combatted with every possible
energy.
Unemployment Struggles.
The present unemployment situation as part
of the deep going economic crisis has not been
fully realized by the fractions in utilizing
various auxiliary organizations for the unem-
ployment movement and demonstrations. 1t
must be borne in mind that great part of the
foreign born workers are engaged in the heavy,
basic industries of this country, and in order
that the Party may be able to carry out the
tasks to the fullest extent the fractions must
reach these foreign born workers through the
available fraction apparatus and connect them
with the general Party campaigns. Correct
understanding of the present third post war
period and the tasks of the Party means APP
plication of those tasks in every organization,
in every working class center of the Party.
Our fractions have shown decided weakness
in their laxity to connect the Party campaigns
with those organizations that they have con-
tact with OF influence over.
This is noticed in the Chicago District in
failure of our Language Fractions to give ade~
quate support to the miners strike; but few
have carried this campaign into the mass or
CARNATIONS. The Importance of LID. and
WIR work also was minimized.
One of the most serious dangers in the Ian
guage fractions at the present time is the lack
of pushing the Party policy among the mass
organizations. The present recruiting drive,
the unemployment struggles have not been
given a systematic attention by the fractions.
Many mass organizations controlled and partly
controlled by the Party fractions have not been
utilized to the utmost in this very important
work Many of the comrades feel that it would
be lessenng their position in these mass or
carnations by coming openly and sharply with
the Party line 1t is just such an attitude
which causes and contributes to our weakening
and losing influence in the language mass or
carnations 1t is high time that we get over
the age old presumption that auxiliary organ
izatons are not "ripe" for direct Party prop
uganda by that they would have to be some
sort of an intermediary medium where the Par
ty line is to be introduced from a iberast
point of view. This had its good sides before
but we are approaching condition where any
round about method only serve the social
democratic ends and against the Party and the
whole movement. 1t is not through pacifist
methods that we are going to win the work
der to shoulder on the way to the victory of