The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11

of the omen opp6ctunists, it also brings to light
the hidden orpogtunist tendencies within the
Party. The right danger was not eliminated
by the expulsion of Lovestone & Co.; and to-
day it finds its most dangerous expression in
underestimation of the crisis and its conse-
quepces. Now especially all manifestations of
this opportunist tendency must be mercilessly
combatted, exposed and eliminated from the
life of the Party.
In the present situation especially danger
Gus are the following forms of the right-wing
danger; (al underestimation of the crisis and
the tendency to deal with it as merely stock
market crash; CD recognition of the crisis but
failure to adjust the daily work to the demands
of crisis situation, particularly slowness and
inadeeuacy of the trade union work. and ne
glect of the new forms of struggle of draw,
ing in masses into activity and leadership
slowness in modifying and organizing the I'M
Employed (c) failure of the Party press ade-
quately to portray the crisis and systemati-
caly inform the working class; DAILY
Worker, and especially the language press)
I'D inadequate attention to organizational
tasks, both by Party and revolutionary unions
(e) not serious, and sometimes frivolous, at
titude toward preparation of strikes and or
ganization of mass struggle. Generally the
Party has Jagged behind the quickly develop
ing events.
%. The crisis does not require any change
of those main slogans which were slogans for
whole PERIOD and which are confirmed by all
development. The main direction of the
struggle was summed up by October Plenum
as the struggle against naturalization and
war, the winning of the majority of the work
ing class through participating in and leading
1Y,ie
Party. But in the situation of economic crisis
the Party tasks are presented in sharper and
more imperative forms, thus raising our every
day struggles to higher level. The struggle.
against naturalization must be raised to
struggle against the attempts of the bour-
geosie to make the workers pay for the crisis,
which must be directly linked up with struggle
against the Hoover Green united front of en-
ployers' bourgeois state and social feformists.
The struggle against the speed-up must be
developed not only against employers, but also
against the reformist trade-unon bureaucracy
the state and the developing fascination ten
denotes. The struggle against the war
danger, which becomes more concrete and
near, must be sharpened and deepened in the
same manner. The Naval Conference must be
the occasion for sharp and well-organized
campaign throughout the Party press and by
mass actions, anti-war conferences, etc.
against the war danger, and the Conference
opposed in detail in its war preparations.
"a. A very serious opportunist danger exists
in the trade union work. The working class
answer to Hoover, which already brings forth
big strike movements, finds many important
sections of our movement dragging at the tail
of events, immersed in routine work. unable to
rise to the situation and take the lead in or
re and
them into revolutionary channels. The situa-
tion created by the economic crisis creates new
opportunities for, and imperatiyely demands
energetic work in the building, up of the
new revolutionary unions, active participation,
organization, and leadership of all of the
economic struggles of the workngclass, and
creation of the united front of all workers in
the shops, and tie unemployed; but these OPP
portunities cannot be fully realized unless we
make sharp turn in our methods of work. Our
trade union leadership and its methods, partic-