The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
PARTY LIFE
Cleveland Must Spur Work
To Gain Open Letter Goal
Right Opportunism, Especially Brazen in
Election Campaign, Must Be
Sharply COmbatted
Sharply Combatted
By JOHN WILLIAMSON 3.

portunity and increase mass purchas-
ing power"
But even in the Communist pro-
gram and campaign for Mayor In
Cleveland, we find outstanding weak
nesses which explain very clearly the
decrease in votes. The platform
omitted all mention Of the NR.A.,
although this should have been the
political kernel. Not single mass
struggle among any strata Of the
workers was initiated and led against
the direct effects of the MIRA. on
the workers, during the whole cam
paign. The Communist election cam
paign was not taken into the trade
unions or shops or the Small Home
and Land Owners.
The election platform was merely
partial demands, without single
reference to the revolutionary way
out of the crisis-of connecting the
everyday struggles with the overthrow
of capitalism and the bourgeois state.
These Right Opportunist theories
and practices served as direct OBJ
stacles to developing mass struggles
of the workers. The District Plenunl
branded them as such and undertook
to explain them thoroughly to the
membership.
A third contributing factor TO the
unsatisfactory situation since the
Open Letter was the failure to carry
through the policy of concentration.
Outlook for Mass Struggle-Party
Can Lead
The District Plenum, while stating
the situation in the Party so sharply,
emphasized that there was no basis
for pessimism. To fail to recognize
in the leading communities what
every member feels would be an
ostrich policy and would not clear
the way for decisive change.
The Ohio District of the Party OUT
lined a series of modest tasks, in
accordance with the Open Letter ana
the 18th Plenum Resolution, which
it is determined to carry through.
With the help of the &C., certain
organizational adjustments were made
to help create the prerequisites for q
collective leadership, with close ties
to the bottom of the Party and SEN
sitive to the moods of the workers.
In important sections, series Of new
elections have taken place, to create
the same basis in the bottom Of the
Party.
Through t<rning more attention to
the steel and metal industry (Cleve-
land and Youngstown, developing
struggles among the unemployed
cleveland, Columbus, CincinnatD
extending the circulation Of the Dali
Worker, beginning intensive training
and the establishment Of q WORKER
School in Cleveland, giving close at
tention to the Scovill territory and
developing struggles for Negro rights
based on specific discrimination in
Cleveland as well as the basic prob
lens Strengthening the Party organ
nationally Especially Cleveland d.
Youngstown, Akron and II possible
East Ohio)-and building the Party
from among the broad masses Of enl-
ployed and part time workers, as the
guarantee OF solid foundation, OF
all its mass work, the District Plenunl
is determined, if it secures the as
sistance each concentration district
must expect from the &C. to go for
ward in mobilizing the membership
to successfully carry through thes<
first steps in achieving the tasks OF
the Open Letter and the 18th Penun
Resolution