The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13

the Party has not adhered to fixed course for
overcoming the main weaknesses of the Party
allows itself to be driven by events and does not
work out carefully with the comrades of the lower
organizations ways and means for the carrying
through of resolutions and checking up on their
execution. The result is that we talk about fac
tory and trade union work in countless resolu-
tons, without carrying this work out
1T Is. time that the entire Party should under
stand that without a solid basis among the
decisive elements of the American workers. the
Party cannot lead the revolutionary struggles of
the working class and free them from the influ-
ence of the social democrats and the bourgeoisie,
which still prevails among the decisive elements
of the working Glass; however favorable the
dtions for our influence may be- 1t is idle chatter
to talk about the revolutionzing of the working
class by the Party unless the Party conquers a
firm basis for itself among the miners, metal and
steel workers, railroad workers. auto marine and
textile workers.
1t is idle chatter to speak about the leading
role of the Party without establishing contacts
with the decisive strata of the workers, mobz-
ing these workers and winning them over to our
side. Talk about the defense of the Soviet Union
and struggle against imperialist war is nothing
but empty phrases unless systematic work is
carried out in the war industry plants and in the
ports; talk of struggle against social fascism is
nothing but empty phrases unless the struggle is
carried on from day to day in the big factories,
in the reformist unions and among the unem-
ployed. 1t is nothing but phrase mongering to
speak about building up the Party and the revo-
lutionary trade unions without doing this among
the important bodies of workers, in the big fac
tories, in the important industrial sections. 1t is
idle to talk about the necessity of cadres
without developing them from among these very
sections of workers.
THE working class will be in position to fulfill
L it's role the most decisive class in the
struggle against finance capital, as the leader of
all toiling masses, only if it is headed by Com
munist Party which is closely bound up with the
decisive strata of the workers. But Communist
Party with very weak and inadequately func-
tioning organization in the big factories and
among the decisive sections of the American, in
dustrial workers, Communist Party whose en-
tire policy, whose entire agito+ion and prepa-
ganda, whose entire daily wc ; not concen-
trated on winning over and mobiizing these
workers and winning of the factories Commu-
mist Party which, through it's revolutionary trade
union work, does not build highways to the broad
est masses of workers, cannot lay claim to a
policy capable of making it the leader of the
working class within the shortest possible time.
NHE necessary concentration of our work on the
most important factories does not of course
in any way mean that we should allow our work
among the unemployed to slacken. In carrying
out this main task should not for an instant
lose sight of the fact that we represent the in
terests of the entire Glass; and that, especially
under the present conditions the unemployed
constitute factor of greatest revolutionary i'm
portance. One of the chief tasks of the Party is
the organizing and modelling of the millions of
unemployed for immediate relief and unemploy-
ment insurance and the linking up of their strug-
giles with the struggles of the workers in the big
factories-full time, as well as part-time workers
especially now, in view of the introduction of