The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-21
With the Strike Wave and Rehabilitation of Masses
The Open Letter of the Party Remains in Full Force

DAILY WORKER, we have to say
that we have very serious danger
signal in the fact that in five weeks
of our financial drive, we have got
20 per cent of the goal that was set
20 per cent. I think this is the
worst showing of any financial drive
that the DAILY WORKER ever had,
and at moment when we have the
broadest mass contacts that we ever
had in the districts, when we have
the best paper we ever had. This is
a defect of the organized, planned
work of the Party.
must say a few words about the
youth. Every time we have a
Plenum we talk about the youth and
then the next time the subjecr comes
ur is in the next Plenum. We are
not making progress in building the
Y. c. L., in spite of tremendous OPP
portunities. We have seen re-
Spouse of the young workers when
they are given a chance to respond.
They are in the forefront of the radI-
calization of the working masses. We
see this in every strike movement
taking place today, in the basic in
duStries. Young workers are the most
active elements in these strikes. We
see this in the Anti-War Congress,
where out of the 2,s16 delegates, 500
or more went into the youth section
for the special meeting and provided
one Of the liveliest and most political
and active sections of the Congress.
Youth from all sorts Of organizations
and all kinds of tendencies, we were
able to weld them together under our
leadership-our Y. G. L.
But the Party does not lead this
work and it does not help this work.
We must give political assistance TO
the youth, show them the way ana
help them to solve their practical
every day problems and give to the
youth cadres the basic bolshevik
education and training. The youth
must become conscious Of these spe-
cial needs of the youth and must
begin to function as the leader OF
the youth. There is every oppor-
tunity in the world to root the Y.
G. L. in the shops, in the trade
unions, in the mass struggles that are
now taking place.
The new organization that we
helped form is the Anti-War Con-
gress, which we intend to help make
the rallying center for the whole
broad mass movement against war
and against Fascism as one of the
first orders of the day for the Dis
tricts, and not only for those districts
which had delegations in the Con-
greSs but for all the Districts.
Today this question is on the order
of the day more than it has ever
been before. The Congress gave an
e7S~'loHt foundation for building a
united front movement in every To-
cality. Political direction must be
given to this. A minimum of Or
ganizational forces must give their
attention to the practical tasks of
getting this movement together and
we must actually organize broad
united front on the basis of the re-
evolutionary program adopted in the
New York Congress Against War and
Against Fascism in every locality.
We have a foundation which is
broad enough to include the largest
number of workers that we have ever
approached. We have proven that
these workers can be won on this
issue and there can be no excuse if
this work is not developed in every
district. Further, this Anti-War
Congress and the other work that We
are doing has proved the possibility
of penetrating into the ranks of the
Socialist Party, and this is of the
greatest political Importance for us
today.
On the issues of war and fascisr,
the Socialist Party is today in the
process of ferment and differentia-
ton, which opens wide the door for
us to go and win wide sections of the
worker members and followers of the
Socialist Party. The possibilities OF
successful work inside the A. F. of l..
were never so good as s.Ns1 are today.
The question of struggle for Social
Insurance, the struggle for the unem-
ployed demands, the building of the
unemployed organizations, and the
movement for unification Of all the
unemployed organizations Ia the
country, are being neglected.
There is work being done, there are
struggles ta'-ing place, but it has
fallen too much out of the center OF
consciousness of the Party with re-
sultant weakening politically in this
work, tagging in its extensions and
particularly very little progress in
the building of the unity movement
OF the unemployed, except In those
outlying territories, where we have
won over large mass organizations
to the unemployed.
These are questions which must re-
ceive the systematic political atten-
ton of the Districts.
1t is necessary to devote some at
tention, also, to the farmers work
We have very healthy growing mass
movement among the farmers. and
let me give you some news: There
is going to be National Conference
Of the farmers in Chicago on Nov
18th to 18th,--a National Conference
of the Farmers Committee Of Action
which will play considerable role
in the political development of the
farmers. 1t is necessary to ask the
Districts to give some serious atten-
ton to getting delegates from the
farmers movements that exist ir
every one of the Districts present al
this Plenum.
Now want, in conclusion, to SPEAK
about another problem. Not II ra-aH
what was said before, but to bring
forward the problem of recTultirg g.
the central political task Of the Party