The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-09

But it is clear that the Party does not fully
realize the significance of all this. We do not
entirely appreciate the changing attitude of the
masses towards our Party. There remains too
much OF the old feeling Of Sectarian isolation.
There is not enough OF Bolshevik confidence
in the ability of the Party to lead the masses,
not enough OF realization that the Party is in
fact as well as theory, becoming the real mass
leader. At its worst this sectarian hack vi g.
ndence results in the development OF theories
or the practice, that the masses of workers just
beginning to wake up must pass through the
stage OF Social Fascist organizations and illu-
sions before they are ready for Communist
leadership.
All this is bound UP with and greatly wors-
ened by our generally sectarian approach to
mass work which the resolution of the recent
Plenum of the Central Committee so sharply
corrects; the failure to concentrate upon shop
work and shop organization, the sectarian han
ding of partial economic demands in the every
day struggles Of the workers, the formal and
sectariau application Of the united front tactics,
ETC. All these Sectarian methods and viewpoints
prevent the Party from coming forward effec-
lively as the mass leader of the workers.
1t is necessary that these sectarian tenden-
cies to overcome as quickly as possible. The
Party must fundamentally improve its mass work
outlook It must make the turn that the COMM
tern has so long insisted upon. 1t must reso-
lutely come forward as the leader of the workers.
All its mass campaigns must reflect the new
turn. Only in this way can the Party rise to the
height of the great tasks and opportunities con-
fronting it in the present situation Of rapidly
growing struggle and rehabilitation of the work
ing class
The Election Campaign and the Struggle Against
Social FaScism.
Especially must the Party throw all its forces
into the election campaign and make deter
mined effort to apply the new methods of mass
work The developing campaign will not only be
a great opportunity for the Party, but also
severe test. 1t will demonstrate to what extent
the Party can free itself from sectarianiSn and
Journalism, to what extent it is conscious Of its
leading role in the sharpening class struggle
The election struggle, better perhaps than any
other Of our present mass campaigns, will most
clearly indicate our ability or failure to really
understand and apply the resolution OF the
Central Committee Plenum.
Our enemies are keen1y awake to the situation
and we must be also Demagogues of all kinds
are busy to confuse and misIead the awakening
workers. The Socialist Party aims to utilize the
election campaign to rebuild its scattered forces
1t is throwing all its energy into the campaign
McAliister Coleman expresses their sentiments
when he says: 1.-THE Socialists go into the strug-
gle of the presidential campaign, knowing very
well that such an opportunity as now presents
itself may not be repeated in their fe-time'
Our Party must be even more awake to build
itself, to lead the workers in effective struggle
against the bosses and their Social Fascist
agents.
The coming election campaign offers our Party
the opportunity for the greatest mass moblza-
ton in its history We should be able, if we rise
to the occasion, to greatly stimulate the strug-
giles and organization of the revolutionary unions
and the minorities in the reformist unions;
vastly strengthen our unemployment work and
our work among the Negroes; we should be able
to make the fight against war and for defense
Of the Soviet Union real issues among the Amer
lean working class; we should be able easily to
triple or quadruple the membership of the Party
and the YCL, and we should be able to enor-
mously increase our vote. The election campaign
should mark turning point in the life of our
Party. ~ we can appreciate its opportunities and
properly mobilize our forces it should carry us
far along the road to a mass party and really
establish our Party as powerful factor in the
American class struggle.