The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-20
STRUGGLE AGAINST RIGHT
WING IN COOPERATIVES
AND THE TASKS OF
THE PARTY

cratlc CnQue RUE ann MS theory Oh neuIldI-
ity" as the theory of the bourgeoisie against
the interests of the workers and poor farmers
in the cooperatives. Our Communist fraction
and the revolutionary opposition, despite the
fact that they were allowed only five minute
speeches. put very clearly the role of the work
ing class cooperatves in the proletarian class
struggle. In their program and in various
resolutions which they prepared for the con-
vention, the revolutionary position was made
clear
As a result Of our fight. the revolutionary
opposition has been crystallized and greatly
consolidated 1t is now the task of the Party
to continue the fight against the reformists,
social fascists and renegade elements in the
cooperatives, to win over the masses for the
line of the Communist International and to
draw the cooperatives more closely to every
class struggle of the working class.
In order to do this, we must link up our
work in the cooperatives with the work
amongst the unemployed. Our fractions must
fight to make the cooperatives show their soli-
darity with the unemployed workers, by &C.
lively participating in their demonstrations, by
granting credits to unemployed workers and
strikers, selling food to them at cost prices,
etc.
In the same way, our fractions must fight
to make the cooperatves assist strike move
ments and show class solidarity with the strik-
ing workers, assist them financially, giving
donations from their surplus and goods on
credit and participating in their demonstra-
tions and meetings wherever possible.
1t is also of the utmost Importance that our
fractions emphasize the necessity of the CO.
operatives assisting in the organization of the
unorganized workers into the TUUL and into
new revolutionary unions and at the same time
drawing new members into the cooperatives
from the ranks of these basic proletarian ele
ments in the heavy industries and thereby
strengthening the cooperatives with sound
proletarian elements,
In this period of the sharpening contradic-
lions between the imperialist powers them
selves on the one hand and of the prep
arations against the Soviet Union on the other
hand, our fractions must strive to make the
cooperatives actively participate in the strug-
gle against the imperialist war and in the de-
Tense of the Soviet Union.
Cooperatives also, as working class organ
zations, must be won for participation in the
defense of class war prisoners, and for the
building up of "a mass workers defense organ
ization, the international Labor Defense, and
help it in its work.
The duty of the Communist fractions in the
Operatives is to work for class participation
CT the cooperatives in all the struggles of the
workers under the leadership of our Party.
1t is absolutely necessary that this struggle
ganst the right wing be linked up with these
tasks. Only this way will we be able to win
over the masses in the cooperatives for the
1i1o of bo oOH obi fhoa1 il, thn n1acc
struggle. Only in this way can the coopera-
tives be made organs of the class struggle.
In order to accomplish these tasks, the &C
cooperative department must be made to func
ton regularly. 1t must establish close con-
nection with the CT cooperative sections and
with the cooperatives of the Soviet Union. The
&C Cooperative Department must study CO.
operative questions thoroughly and organize
local cooperative fractions and through them,
establish close connectins with the revolution
airy left wing and with the masses in the CO.
operatives.
Every district committee must establish
cooperative department and pay close atten-
tion to the cooperative work Especially must
this be done in those districts like District
and others, where there are many working
class cooperatives.
Inc 11rSt duty OF tne communist IrdcIlOnS
is, to win the revolutionary left wing and the
progressive elements for the Party program
in the cooperative field.
The Party must Immediately start an eff
fective enlightenment campaign and discus
sion of the CT letter in the Party press. Espe-
cally the Party language papers, FINNISH
Jewish, ETC., must explain in detail the letter
of the Political Secretarat of the CT and the
role of the Communists and revolutionary
workers and poor farmers in the cooperatives.
Also wherever they control, or have influence,
our fractions must start local cooperative
house or shop organs for the membership,
utilizing them in furthering the revolutionary
line of the Party, by linking that up with the
local questions, etc.
Discussion must be organized in every Party
nucleus and in every Communist fraction in
the cooperatives and from this the discussion
must be taken up to the other working class
organizations and finally to the shareholders
meetings of the cooperatives.
The Party must also issue cooperative liter
ature. such as "Lenin on the Cooperatives,"
ETC., in English.
While our immediate aim is to defeat Hal
omen and his followers in the working class
cooperatives, and to continue the struggle
against the alliance of W,arbasse, Alanne. and
Halonen, our general AMI main objective is, by
our activities in the cooperatves, to win over
the masses of workers and poor farmers for
Communism. And in order to do this, we
must study this question and find ways and
means in our educational and organizational
work and by correct tactics, to convince, by
our work in the cooperatives, the rank and