The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-07


allow of complete publication in the Daily
Worker. Therefore it is necessary to make a
digest of this resolution in order that the
line may be clearly understood by the mem
bsrship and the workers generally.
THE New York resolution points out that the
resolution of the l4th Plenum of the Central
Committee applies with especial force to the
District. 1t emphasizes the following tendencies
as being especially strong in the District:
I. Sectarian tendencies-lack of personal daily
contact with the masses and mass organizations.
.. Inner orentation--lack of persistent day
to-day MISUNDERSTANDING of Party relation
to mass work
5. OpportuniSm, both Of a right and lei &c
acter
4. Bureaucratic methods Journalism through
out the district section and unit leadership.
s. Extreme weakness in the Negro work.
After pointing out the political and economic
situation in the district, which shows that in the
State of New York and New Jersey, which en-
brace one-eghth of the population of the coun-
try. there are one-fifth of the unemployed in the
country, the resolution declares that employment
is declining in New York at very rapid rate,
while wage cuts are taking place on all hands.
The crisis is especially felt by the Negro workers.
90 per cent of whom are unemployed.
Denagogy is extremely strong in the District,
beginning with Roosevelt and Moore, governors
OF New York and New Jersey, and the local rep
-resantatives, such as Mayor Walker, who on the
one hand make denagogical proposals, and on
the other try to shift the burden of the crisis
onto the shoulders of the workers and poor
formers.
In face of this situation. the workers are
carrying on a struggle. Many strikes have
taken place in the district led by the T. U. u. L.,
and also other spontaneous strikes, led by the
A F. L., which they have sold out.
The terror of the police is increasing, while at
the s~ros time the enemies of the working class
in the .abor movement, tn A. F. of L. bureau
Gratis the Socialist Party, the NIusteites and the
rsnegades, come to the front in order to help
the bosses in their activities against the workers.
Shop work which is the center of the work
OF the Communist Party, is weak in the District.
Although the number Of shop nuclei increased
from in December, 1881 to sc, they embrace
only $50 members, or about s per cent of the
membership. The weakness of the shop work
was revealed particularly in the May Day dem
ohstration, which showed how sectarian the dis
trict is and isolated from the masses of the
workers in the shops
The sectarianism is shown by the following:
1. The Party members do not know the griev-
ances of the workers in the shops.
?. They have no faith in the workers willing
ness to struggle against wage cuts, lay-offs,
Worsening conditions
3. Wage cuts are announced but the Party
members do not react.
4. Strikes break out, but the Party members
are Indifferent and take no lead.
5. Shop nuclei build no organization in the
shop and conduct no struggle.
6. Being isolated from the workers, even pre-
mature strikes have been provoked, which are
manifestations of left opportunisrn
7. A complete failure to link up the demands
OF the unemployed with the employed workers
and also to take up the grievances of the laid-off
men.
8, The revolutionary unions are also sectarian.
The United Front is misunderstood, is not ap-
piled correctly and is very narrow. This was
shown particularly in the Paterson and the
dressnlakers strike The Marine Union has
made some slight progress but it is so insgni1-
cant that we cannot say there is any real adj
vance yet. Where, on the other hand, we
get contact with the workers in the shop and in
building shop groups, work has been conducted
properly on the basis of the daily contact with
the workers. struggles have been inaugurated, as
for instance, in shoe and fur.
8. Isolation from the masses leads to failure to
take independent action and leadership in the
struggles of the workers belonging to the A.
F. of L. unions such as in pocketbook printing
and building.
10. This general isolation is extremely strong
in the unemployed work There are no mass
unemployed councils, no recruiting of new lead
ership. This is due to bureaucracy, both i'll the
center and in the sections. The T. u U. L.
also does not recognize its role in the Unemployed
movement.
IL, Owing to failure to carry on a ruthless
campaign against white chauvinism and a lack
of understanding of the Negro question, ignor-
ance of the role of the Negro reformists and
improper approach to the Garveyites the Negro
work is in very dangerous situation.
H. The Y. G. L. shows the worst form of
sectarianism and is completely isolated from the
young workers in the shops and the unem-
ployed.
Bureaucracy, Journalism Inward Tendencies
Sectarianism is product of bureaucracy, for
nalism and lack of self-criticism. Being mani
fest in the District it is especially strong in the
Section Committees which are removed from
mass work and therefore are barrier between
the District and the units of the Party
Bureaucracy and Journalism in the District
have been evident in:
l. The formal manner of concentration.
2. Continued circular letters and bulletins
which do not take up the daily problems of the
sections and units.
g. Formal approach TO the question of shop
work and functioning of fractions.
Formal approach to the question of social
fascism
S. Formal decisions on unemployed and Negro
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