The daily worker., 1933-08-12
By EARL BRoWDER.

OUR Party is approaching its 14th
" anniversary. On this occasion the
whole membership should participate
in a review of our past development,
and get a deeper understanding OF
the great historic meaning OF the
cmergenee, development, and growth
of the Communist Party. This is
necessity of a very practical kind.
we need it to arm ourselves for the
big tasks now facing us.
A Bolshevik Party is not created
overnight by the adoption Of res
olution. Our Party was born as the
child of tremendous mass struggles,
out of the world shaking events OF
the postwar years, out of the mass
struggles of the American workers
and out Of the ner-struggles IN
the Socialist Party, the remains Of
which went the path of the Second
International, the path of servants
of imperialism.
FOURTEEN years ago our Party
L emerged. no longer only a ten
dency" within the reformlst ). r.
but a revolutionary party, hewing out
its own revolutionary line with the
help of the world movement, of the
Communist International which was
born only few months before our
Party.
The first ten years of its existence
was a period of gathering experience,
Of mastering the fundamentals OF
Marxist-Leninist theory Of inner
party consolidation, of stabilizing the
party's political line. This period
closed with the throwing off Of the
burdens of the Trotskyist elements,
and of the right-wing which became
renegades under LoYestone. The Open
Letter of the Communist Interna-
tional to our Party OF 1929 closed
the period of inner struggles and con-
solidation, and opened. under con-
ditions of the world economic crisis,
the new period of Bolsheyization Of
our Party.
Since 1929 our Party has progressed
and consolidated itself in many
phases of its life. But it still has
not made the decisive steps Of Boil
shevization, which is involved in be-
coming a. real mass party rooted in
the most decisive sections of the
workingcla5s. in the basic industries
and big factories.
The rcco13 Open Letter to the
Party, is1ued by the Extra Ordinary
Party Conferences. marks the deter
mined mobilization CT all our forces
to really begin this fundamental
change.
The Opsn Letter will be understood
mitch betteT. especially by the men,
bers who have joined since 1926
tthese constitute over $4,000 cut of q
total of 10000, if they will begir
seriously to study all available mate
rials about the history Of our Party
The entire history of our Party
and the entire situation in the coun-
try and in the world. combine tc
place on our order of business today
the most urgent task Of carrying tht
Party program to the broadest masses
and winning them to our support.
Two features of this work, mo
important at the moment than al
others, must be especially empha.
sized. These a. :, RECRUITING NEW
MEMBERS. and IMPROVING THF
DAILY WORKER AND EXTEND
ING ITS CIRCULATION.
Without bringing into the Party neV
thousands and tens of thousands O
members, it will be impossible tt
meet our duties. Thousands of work.
ers are already anxious to join us
but they don't know how, and w
do not help them. The first task il
to bring into the Party every homes
sympathizer and follower, and theI
to follow that up with systematic re-
cruiting on planned basis, at thu
concentration points of Party work
Equally important is the multipli
cation of the circulation Of THI
DAILY WORKER. This can no longe
We left to the spontaneous and un