The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-16
sv GILL Dunn.
From a Speech 81 Ike Convention
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At the last Hi1a-~a 4. pr party emphasis VS.
placed upon th-es principal sucs. Mist, tie
mobilization o. the Party sog the auiIdiny Of
the Red Trade Unions; second. the struggle
against the Right danger, ami third, the ques
ton of developing now forces, ned cadres
In my opinion, comrades, these major joints
have not been sufficiently emphasized in the
discussion at this convention.
What do mean when we say: mobilize
the Party for building the Red Trade Tn ons?
l do not think, comrades, tina; we can have
modified the Party for building the reyolu-
tionary unions in the steel and Metal industry
when we have simply turned COmrade Over
gard loose among three or four million metal
workers. That is what it amounts to. And
want to ask those comrades who are in charge
OF the Party work in the Steel and metal in
dustry what mobilization did you carry out for
the organization of the National Conference of
the Metal Workers Industrial League, and the
reply to this question will show situation
which must be called to the attention of this
Convention and the whole Party in the sharp
est manner. 1t is an alarming situation. 1t
represents actual retreat from the basic in
dustry of modern capitalism.
Basic Industries.
The same is true in other decisive industries,
such as Coal and Metal mining and AutOmO-
bile. For instance comrades, the National
Convention of the Auto Workers Union is held
in Detroit, There are only SO delegates pres
ent, and these representing little or no organi,
cation, right in the center of the most concen-
trated proetariat in the United States | cite
this instance to show and TO prove before the
whole Party that far as actual work is con-
cerned, actual carrying out in everyday prac-
tice the main line of the Comintern. that our
Party approach is almost frivolous. Facts are
facts comrades, and one of the accomplish
ments of this Convention will be that no longer
will comrades be able to convince the Party
of the correctness of their line by speeches and
resolutions. In our day-to-day work, especially
of building the mass trade unions, is where
the correctness of the line will be shown the
strength of conviction, the depth of Under
standing.
Certainly, comrades, our Party is not based
inside the decisive industries and one of the
reasons for this, perhaps the main reason is
that there is in the Party a very definite op-
position to work inside the factories. l could
cite any number of concrete instances to show
this. And where does this come from? This
comes from the deep-rooted opportunist tend
ences that have not yet been corrected. 1t is
quite clear, comrades, that in every District
of the Party we took a little too much for
granted in the struggle against Lovestoneism
and its expression inside the Party. We took
too much for granted when we carried on
discussion, published many articles. removed
some comrades. But the fact of the matter
is that we simply began the struggle against
opportunism, against the right danger, and then
dropped it before the struggle had been carried
through effectively. The result was that we
only skinned the surface, we SKINNED off the
opportunist skum that arose to the surface bu.
we did not dig deep into the Party to root out
the tendencies that are there.
What is the conclusion from this, comrades?
1t is that the Party cannot be modified for
building the Red Trade Unions or for work
inside the factories without at the same time
carrying on a struggle against opportunist tend
encies and expressions And when we look
into the work in the various Districts we see