The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

remains the main danger and against left sec
tarianism which encourages and strengthens the
right danger The right danger expresses itself
in the Party mainly in the tagging behind the
struggles, in opportunist passivity in shop work
in the weak struggle against the war danger, in
the insufficient bringing forward and establish
ing leadership of the Party in mass struggles
and the weaknesses in the fight against social
refornlisrn, for the organization of the Negroes
and for the defense of the foreign-born. and in
such errors as the united frot from the top in
number of districts in connection with the
Scottsboro case, attitude in the early stages of
the campaign toward Pckens, in an entirely
insufficient struggle against the bourgeois and
ferormist leadership of the Negroes, an under
estimation of the significance Of the develop
ment Of the strike movement and the miners
strike in particular the part Of most districts
in weaknesses in struggling against the Music
movement in Southern Illinois and the concep-
ton on the part Of some of the Illinois COM
rades that the leadership Of this movement was
progressive, etc. and in left" sectarianism which
expresses itself chiefly upon inner orientation,
lack of work in the refornlist unions on the
ground that these masses cannot be won for
struggle, weak application of the united front,
running at the head of the masses (as the con-
into condition where the mass political strike
could be raised as practical slogan, the raising
of the 7-hour day as a practical strike demand
in the dressmakers strike under the existing
conditions, etc.
II. Building the Party. The 18th Plenum of
the Central Committee emphasizes that at the
present time the entire Party must recognize
the need for building up the Party (organiza-
H.
membership in the decisive industries in the
factories, recruitment of large number Of mem
bers, etc. as an important next step for the or
ganization and leadership of the mass struggles.
The building of the Party must become an IN
tegral part of the preparation and leadership of
mass struggles The realization of the slogan
of build the Party in mass struggles means par
ticularly Strengthening the mass organization Of
the Party in the heavy industries and big fac
tories and in the districts in which these indus
tries are located
'The building the Party on a mass scale
necessitates that number of misconceptions
that prevail with regard TO the role of the
Party in general and particularly during strikes
be clarified. The most important of these
misconceptions are:
81. That the Party can be built only after
the strike and even then only when the work
win all the demands.
"2. That during the strike the members of
the Party working in the strike and in the
union organizers and leaders of the strike,
cannot and even must not take up simultane-
ohsIy the task of building the Party
"S. That during the strike the individual
leading members of the Party entirely ex-
empt from working within the Party nucIei,
district committees, etc.,
Il. The limitation of the functioning of the
Party organizations during the strike to the
point of liquidation of the regular functioning
of the nuclei district committee, etc.
IS. That the Party must work only through
fractions and not come forward as an indie
pendent force among the mass of the strikers,
and at the same time failure to organize even
the fractions.
"The above tendencies expressed sometimes
openly but more frequently by a failure to
carry out the tasks on the plea of other press
ing matters, are in practice denial of the
leading role of the Party, and if adhered to
would make impossible not only the building
of the Party but the conduct of the strike sue
cessfully we'll The role of the Party is
particularly important at the present stage
of the development of the crisis of ten capital
list system with the increasing role of terror
and social demagogy" Politburo Resolution
Of July 81
IL. The problem of building the Party is the
problem of independent leadership Of the mass
struggles, and the building Of Party organiza-
tons in connection with it. is the problem Of