The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-05
TOWARD Revolutionary Mass Work S H If22Eyr99SD
BETWEEN THE 18th AND 18th PLENUMS
: By W. W. wEINsToNE

determining factor in the outcome of war. To
mobilize the forces of the Party and the working
class to prevent the outbreak of a new world
slaughter and if we fail in that, to organize our
forces to successfully transform the war into
civil war. And we note that not only is the
Communist Party Transforming its methods
striving to transform its methods, called upon
to transform its methods but we see all the
forces OF present day society regrouping them
selves reshifting themselves as part Of the prep
arations of the new world war. We see it in the
ranks OF the bourgeoisie, the employment of new
methods to deceive the masses, we see it in the
ranks Of the Socialist Fascists in the appnca-
ton OF new maneuverS naneuverS for which we
were not prepared, which we did not fully I'M
derstand, were not aware of, did not feel and
many times reiterated and surrendered to it.
We see the working class also in flux, growing
more active the Negro masses stirring, conser-
vative workers in motion, and under these cir
cumstances are we not called upon to make a
change in the situation in the Party can we
afford to remain fundamentally in the same
groove as we have in the past. Not at all. 1t is
not a question, as seemed to be implied in the
remarks of this or that comrade, whether or not
we have gone forward. Who can doubt the fact
that we have gone forward? Can we dismiss
the significance Of the National Hunger March
and the STRINGS Of the workers around this
hunger march, the echo it found in the ranks
OF hundreds of thousands of workers. Or can we
underestimate additionally the significance of
the Kentucky struggle or Of the events in Pitts
burgh or of the demonstrations that have &C.
CURED? Are these not pluses?
But we cannot measure with this yardstick,
we cannot put the question-have we advanced,
have we improved here have we gained some
members, have we grown little in the trade
unions? The question which is put now by the
entire conjunctre Of events, by the demands
made by the war situation, raises the question
whether we have made the essential change in
the situation Of the Party. Whether we have
been able to locate the Party, which is the van
guard OF the working class among the decisive
sections, whether we are able to organize the
working class for the decisive class struggles
that stand before us and when we view the
question, in this light then we will see what a
tremendous task we have to fulfill.
Some comrades confronted with the tremen-
dousness OF the situation with the repetition of
the fact that we have called for the turn from
time to time that we have recorded the neces-
sity for the turn in our resolutions and have not
made it-Some comrades ask the question not
just just in these words-is it not possible to
give us formula, some key with which really
door to the masses. Is it not possible after SO
many years Of good intentions, efforts, energy,
to give us some magic with which really we can
arouse, organize the masses, and establish the
turn that is called for by the resolution of the
Communist International?
But unfortunately, we are not able to give
such formula. The situation really is not so
simple. Yet in sense the resolution of the
Communist International to which I should like
to refer in one part particularly, emphasizes the
formulas which we must adopt and apply if we
are to make change in the situation. After
describing the tasks which we have before U.s.
the Communist International declares, in order
that the Party be in position to carry out
, these main tasks of struggle against the eco
nomic offensive, the struggle for the needs of
the unemployed and the fight against imperial
list war--it says
"The Party must give careful attention in
all its work to the application of a correct mass
policy. This correct mass policy consists in
developing the mass struggles of the workers,
the working women and the young workers, on
the basis Of their immediate economic and po-
liticaI needs as they arise from their life and
work, from the conflicts with the employers,
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