The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-28

our Party, in this historically favor
able situation will become the de-
cisive mass Party of the American
Proletariat, or whether the bour-
geoisie with the help of its steal
fascist and fascist agents will Sue
coed in disorgaizing the mass move
ment and keeping it down."
Further along the Letter states:
'It is time that the entire Party
should understand that without
solid base among the decisive ele-
rnents of the American workers, the
Party cannot lead the revolutionary
struggles Of the working class and
free them from the influence Of
the social democrats and the buur-
geoisie which still prevails among
the decisive elements Of the work
ing class, however favorable the
conditions for our influence may
Lower Units Unaware of Meaning of
Open Letter
In connection with this problem of
the American Party which the Open
Letters deals with in these lines,
wish to show that the lower Party
units at least in our Section are still
not aware that the Open Letter &C
tually means anything to them in the
way they carry out their day to day
work.
I believe that the following incident
proves either that the Party members
in our unit have not read the Open
Letter at all or if they did read it,
they did not understand it or else
they openly defy the Party on the
correctness Of the policy of the Party
as outlined in the Open Letter.
Appea Ito Native Americans
Our unit decided to have an affair
"a bunco party--for the benefit Of
the DAILY WORKER. A committee
was elected to arrange the affair.
AS part of the publicity for the affair
someone sent in an announcement Of
the affair to the DAILY WORKER
in the words: %yetcherinka is being
ranged by Unit II at 224 West 18th
Street to s: o. m. Excellent music,
good eats. Admission ten cents"
When I read this in the DAILY
WORKER and although I belonged
to this unit, I was dumbfoundedl
thought some mistake had been made
and that some other organization
had planned an affair on the same
day we had arranged our affair, not
knowing what ''vetcherinka" might
mean.
At the following Party unit meet
ing when a report on the money
made at this affair was made, I
borught forward my ideas on this in
cident. I criticized this method Of
carrying on our work, saying that
although this in itself is small mat
ter, and that possibly no great
amount of money was lost and no
great harm done this time-that put
ting an announcement in the Daily
Worker Can English paper) in the
Russian language is a reflection OF
the whole attitude of our uni toward
our work and an attitude which is
exactly opposite to the spirit and
meaning u JIG Opc1l iCbbCls III al
our agitation and propaganda we
should keep in mind that we want to
appeal to the native Americans as
much as possible in order to wean
them away from the capitalist poison
which they are accustomed to swal-
low. In order to do this we can only
do this by using their own language.
1 believe that any affair given for
the DAILY WORKER should not
only be used as a means of raising
funds, but all such siciai affairs
should be utilized in reaching and
holding workers as synlpathizers and
future Party members. These affairs
can be the means OF reaching some
workers who can be reached no
other way-but surely not in Russian
or any other foreign language they
don't understand.
However, when I brought out these
things in the unit only one or two
members could see that these tactics
were wrong. In fact, one Of the lead
ing comrades, attacked me quite hst-
eddy, stating that L was causing hard
feelings, which again shows a lack Of
understanding on the necessity Of
self-criticism within the Party and
shows also tendency to take a per-
sonal attitude toward criticism which