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

ted into new territory hitherto untouched.
Local unemployment councils and branches
have begun to take root in The localities, ON
the basis of detailed work, attention to needs
of individual families in conditions of starY-
alton, of dramatizing typical cases, by organ
lied practical work of feeding kitchens food
collections, etc., for their members and most
desperate cases of starvation. Especially i'm
portant results have been achieved in the
struggle against evictions.
c) An important change has begun to take
place in the Party's work in modifying the
masses in struggle for Negro rights. Even
during 1880, while work mainly in
the field of agitation and propaganda, our in
fIucite was growing steadily among the Negro
masses With the Yokinen trial early in 1881,
which dramatiEnd the struggle against white
chauvinism within the ranks Of the workers,
a turn began to struggles upon specific con-
crete issues. The Scottsboro case was seized
upon by the entire movement, without hesita-
ton a rallying point for this struggle, with
brilliant success in rousing hundreds of thou
sands of Negro and white workers to active
protest and struggle. The Camp Hill share
the Scottsboro case, brouGened and deerened
the movement by bringing forward the fIclda-
mental land question and agrarian revolution
In the South. The Chicago massacre of Au-
gust 5, combined and unified two fundamental
currents of the mass movement, Negro rights
and the struggle against evictions and drama
tized the unity of black and white workers.
The deep-going nature of the struggles have
exposed before the Negro masses the treach-
erous nature of their petty bourgeois mis-
leaders (N.A.AC.P. and churches). The condi-
tions for the Transformation of the relation
of forces among the Negro masses have dew
eIoped where Party and its program has
become the central question.
These facts prove that our Party in certain
specific instances and to certain degree, has
learned ito mobilize the masses for struggle for
their immediate demands" in the three most
important fields Of work. But the result in re-
lation to the tremendous objective possibilities,
are still very small and unsatisfactory In spite
Of growing mass influence, expressed in street
actions involving hundreds of thousands Of
workers, our organizations, and especially the
Party grew very, very slowly in membership.
Especially is this unsatisfactory condition seen
in the field of penetration of the big factories,
gress in building shop nuclei, except in the mine
strike area where results have still to be proven
while there is even retrogression in some dis
tricts. Shop and mill committees and grlev-
ance committees, arc beginning to develop only
in certain coal and textile areas and even here
with unsatisfactory firfnness and tempo, wlile
in most fields they are still entirely unknown
in a practical sense. The revolutionary trade
unions, while no longer declining in member
ship, are growing very slowly. The Unemployed
Councils, with a few exceptions of broad mass
organizations with active life, are still on the
whole organizations of only the most active ele-
ments. The struggle for Negro rights polite
ally highly successful has given very limited
organizational results.
This situation is so serious that 1t requires
sharp turn by the entire Party in our methods
of mass work and organization. These very I'M
satisfactory conditions, which exist even in those
fields where we have best learned and applied
the lessons Of the 18th Plenum Of immediate
and especially economic demands, evidently re-
quire a remedy which goes deeper than mere
repetition of the 18th Plenum or better learn
ing of its lessons. At the 18th Plenum we must
establish what is the next link in the chain,
by grasping which we will be able to overcome
those weaknesses which have been brought to
light since our 18th Plenum
8. The main inner enemy against which we
must concentrate Our fire tGdsy, in order 10
make the next important steps forward to win