The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-16

0pmens OF new leading forces, In
the main tasks OF our Party is az
follows:
THE wide development of new
cadres of workers; the establish
ment Of really collective working
leading bodies of our movement
and the improvement of the work
of these leading bodies by the
drawing in Of new capable working
class elements"
The opening paragraph of the short
statement of the Central Committee
which accompanied the Open Letter
in the Daily Worker said:
You should read this letter care
fulIy-study every line. Apply the
critical examination it makes of
the work of the entire Party, to
your own work, to the work of your
fraction to the work of your Sec
ton or district committee. Use
this letter as a real weapon to
overcome all obstacles that stand
in the way of improving our Com
munist work IN THE FACTORIES,
among the unemployed, in the mass
organizations"
The Seventeenth Meeting of the
Central Committee has been held.
The question of developing and
training new leadership from the
ranks of the Party and the unions
especially was once more given special
and urgent emphasis. The Resolu-
ton states:
ut Is necessary more boldly to
draw into leading positions the
new, fresh wo-kers-actives that de-
velop in the struggles, in order to
replace those who have shown
themselves unable in practice to
carry out the Open Letter"
Some comrades seem to have the
opinion that only experience in strug-
gle Is necessary for the development
OF leadership. Consequently active
workers are more or less left to shift
for themselves in the matter of theo-
retical training in connection with
their practical tasks.
They make mistakes and in many
instances the sharpest criticism is
leveled against them. After one or
more of these experiences quite a
conclude that the RESPONSE
bilities Of leadership are too great
for their abilities. They either drop
out Of activity entirely or become
rank and filters again.
Lenin explained that revolutionary
political understanding does not
come spontaneously. If it did the
role Of the Communist Party would
be quite different. Revolutionary
political understanding is brought to
the working class by the Communist
Party and its organizations working
among the working class, organizing,
teaching. reviewing experiences,
establishing a clear line of struggle
for the working class on the basis
of its practical problems and the
main line Of the analysis of capital
and the strategy and
tactics Of Ma-xist-L
Agitation and Propaganda
1t is not sufficient that general
agitation and propaganda be carried
on. The work must be specialized.
1t might be well here to state again
the definition of agitation and prop
agenda. Agitation is designed to
acquaint large numbers of workers
with one or more special issues and
arouse them to action on the basis
Of particular issues. Propaganda is
intended to put number OF the
basic principles of the revolutionary
class struggle before a comparatively
small group of workers and convince
them Of the living truth of these
as the foundation for all
struggles OF the working class against
the enc. oachments of capital and
for power.
The successful conduct of the daily
struggles and the connection of them
with the struggle for power is not
possible without Communist leader
ship. 1t is therefore of basic i'm
portance that the active workers in
the factories, mills and mines. on
The docks and railways, in the unions.
should be educated Systematically in
The principles of Communism, its
strategy and tactics.
What is the situation disclosed by
survey conducted by the Agitprop