The daily worker., 1932-09-20
Problem of
CadreS in
the Party
Continued From Yesterday
BY TZIRUL

We still frequently see in the
G. I. Communist internationally
sections inability to make an ade-
quate use of promoted advanced
workers for important political ac-
tivity under c. P. leadership. The
Communist Parties still have ca
dres that are too weak numerically,
and yet the movement of the pro-
letarian masses is expanding and
the need of Communist leadership,
as we'll as the work involved in it
are growing. This discrepancy Is
one of the reasons why many Com
muniSt Parties in capitalist coun-
tries have not yet been able to give
an adequate lead to the growing
activity of the masses.
CHOOSING CADRES FROM
NARROW CIRCLE
The tendency Cnherited from
the social democracy to restrict
cadres to narrow circle of people,
has not yet been overcome, and
this frequently leads to insufficient
contact between some parts of the
Party apparatus and the rank and
file Of the Party.
THE Conlintern and its sections,
supported by the main mass OF
Party members, have succeeded in
forming in all the most important
G. I. sections fairly steady lead
ing kernel that carries out the line
of the Comintern. This was at
tained through ruthless struggle on
two fronts; against left sectarians,
especially against Right opportu-
nistS who had come to us from the
social democratic parties under the
influence of the revolutionary up
surge. New cadres consisting OF
workers have taken the place of
people who turned out to be OPP
portunists and were expelled from
the Party. While in some Parties,
in the first years of their existence,
their Central Committees consisted
almost entirely of intellectuals and
people of free professions, workers
constitute an overwhelming ma
jority in the present Central Com
mittees. This improvement in the
social composition of the leader
ship of the Party is noticeable,
for instance, in the G. P.'s Of
France and America. AS to the
C.P. of France, there was only one
manual worker among the "a
members of the first &C. whereas
there are 40 manual workers among
the 81 members of the present &C.,
including 20 factory workers.
The newly formed leading kernel
has gained sufficient experience in
leading work to be able to ensure a
definite continuity in the leader
ship Of the Party. But this process
of establishing stable Bolshevist
cadres is not yet complete in most
of the Parties, and still requires
considerable work and attention.
FEW LEADING FORCES
CONNECTED WITH FACTORIES
There is g certain improvement
in the composition of district COM
mittees in a number of Parties, but
more is required in this direction.
This applies above all to the con-
nection of these organs with the
factories of their district. There are
comparatively few members from
the factories in the District Com
mittees, and where there are any,
they seldom come from the chief
factories of the district, but rather
from the small or less important
factories.
FACTORY WORKERS NOT IN
THE DAILY LEADERSHIP
These comrades from the fac
tories are not drawn in suffi-
cient measure into the daily lead
ing work of the Party committee.
The entire work of the Committee
is generally done by paid function
aries, frequently by only one secre-
tary or two or three committee
members, whereas the comrades
from the factories are only invited
to meetings, and not always that.
as the meetings are generally held
during working hours. This is one
of the reasons of the inadequacy
of Party work in the factories.
THE WEAK SPOT.
In all Parties the weakest sec
tor OF the cadres are the middle
and lower organs-the district and
nucleus cadres of the Party. AS
long as the Communists Parties do
not work seriously for the consoli-
dation of the local and nucleus
organs Of the Party, and do not
also strengthen district (provinciaD
leadership, do not concentrate on
the factories definite change in
the work generally cannot be ex-
pected.
(To BE CONTINUED