The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-28

have sought systematically to eS-
tablish STRONG PERSONAL
BONDS with the workers in the
decisive industries and factories
and have failed TO concentrate our
forces in suchc way as to estab-
fish such bonds. The Party pre-
seutS itself not as a Party of the
masses, but a Party for the mas
ses. It has not won the confidence
of the workers as its practical
leader, has not stood forward as
the organizer of the seIf-actiyity of
the workers. awakening, their mi
tiative and occupying such a posi-
ton and ,nattitude which would
make the masses see in the Party
its vanguard. .~
"The leadership of the economic
struggles il which we have been
engaged SHOWS that we must over
come number of major obstacles
to the development of our mass
work. These obstacles are sectar-
ianism, bureaucracy and the atti-
tude which does not see that they
are enemies which we must fight in
order to win the masses, the atti-
tude which fights as if we were
living in political vacuum.
I'VE have fought very little or
not at all against sectarianism and
bureaucracy, the main obstacles in
mass work. Nor have we systemat-
ically struggle again. the right
danger, the main daner.N Without g
a stern unrelenting fight against
tire right danger, sec!ar.anism and
bureaucracy-c cannot be overcome.
Comrades: We stand in the
midst of an ever sharpening crisis
which has not yet reached its bot
tim. New attacks are already under
way. A neR wave of wage cuts.
relief culs, Increased taxes and
above all we stand before the dan
ger of a new world war. All con-
ditions demand that the Party SER
lousy carry. through the turn to
mass work, to dir il self of the
paralyzing Influence of seetarian
ism ard Bureaucracy ard take up
concentrated, activity to lead the
mass struggles, fightip gintenseiy
and ccnvincjngly against the bOur
geois dcE1agogs end especially the
A. T. Of L. leaders and socialists
for the u4assecs}
BreWder Analizes War Question
In discussing the capitalist often
sive against the workers and prspar-
alton for an imocriaIst war, Com
rade Browder said:
Upon the basis of this unprece-
dented, deep-going crisis we have the
sharp, swift Developments in inter-
national relations. We have the world
on the brink of q new world war
No country in the world except the
Soviet Union has escaped being
deeply engulfed in the economic cri-
sis. Capitalism has not one single
stable point OF support in its strug-
gle to find way out. The widest,
fiercest attacks upon the standards
of the masses; provided no halt to
the deepening. Of the crisis.
Japan by the seizure of Man
chmia, started a chain of events
which is already.out of all semblance
Of 0pntrol by the imperfalist world
and which win Inevitably engulf the
entile world in war.
"Doas this mean that we take a
3atalistic approach to the question of
war, that its forms and date are
fixeil by forces entirely. outside our
Influence? No, on the. contrary. We
more and more insist upon the po-
sitive role of the Communist Party
On determining the development of
history. We ere not passive objects
Of the historical process. We are one
of the forces which make history and
direct history. Our function is to
understand the progress of events in
order to change and control them.
we have to intervene on the stage
of world politics as an effective fac
tor AND, this il. possible. Small as
our efforts have been in the strug-
gle against war IN the past weeks,
we have already proven chat the C.P.
u. S. A. is "a factor ana that with
proper BolsheVik work it can be
thousand times more effective. The
demonstrations which we organize
against the Japane 2 consulates in
Chicago and Seattle and the En-
bassy in Washington played a role
far beyond the direct number of
workers that were involved and show
us that we have not yet even begun
to imagine the cemendous mass pos
sibilities that are, Inherent in the en-
ergetic application of the slogans we
have put forth"
Analysing the, political causes of
the Party weaknesses in the struggle
against war, Comrade Browder dealt
with and answered the attacks made
upon the Partys ,anti-war slogans by
the Socialist party and the renegades.
He showed in detail that the attacks
made against our Party are precisely
the same as those made against Le-
min in 1920. Such attacks are the
inevitable weapons of the opportun-
lists of all shades against the Boil
Shevik line in the struggle against
war. (The section Of Comrade
PROVIDERS speech dealing with the
1,ar danger and {be Partv's slooape