The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-12


that force capable of leading TIE
struggles of the American workers.
Staff Isolated
81 know that the comrades Of tAe
Districts have many complains
against the Daily, many of which ars
justified. The paper has not been
, able to fulfill its functions But
here, comrades, we have to bear II
!, mind that there are also reasons for
this. We have had situation where,
to begin with, the staff of the paper
has been isolated almost completely
from the life of the Party as it de-
yeloped from day to day. Likewise
from the life of the workers. We
have also had a situation where the
staff of the paper we're. Journalists
who were never deeply rooted in the
mass struggle5 of the workers, but
came to the paper with very litt}e
experience of these struggles.
Secondly, we have not had close
living political contact between the
Daily Worker and the districts OF
the Party. The districts of the Party
today send us little news item in
which they will tell us about one
or another demonstration that took
place in their district. These are
important, comrades, and the Daily
Worker must find ways and means
of getting this material into the
paper. But there are things that
are even more important than these,
and that is that the comrades real
" read the paper and give to the
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opinions of the manner in which
we handle each question that comes
I up.
Workers Advisory Committee.
How are we going to do thiss
| We cannot do this merely in the
editorial Office of the paper We
have TO introduce policy, all the
way down the line, which ties up
| the paper closer to the masses OF
workers One Of the things that
we have to carry out is the build
ing up of a Workers Advisory Com
mittee, organized from the factories
and trade unions, that will meet to
discuss the problems of the paper.
We want to build up a real repre-
sentative committee of workers who
will come to us not for just an oc-
casional meeting but who will meet
regularly with the leading COM
rades, to help us very quickly car
ry through this change"
Furthermore, under the direct
and personal leadership of the
District Organizer of the Party in
every district-and particularly in
/ the concentration districts, there
must be set up a Workers Advisory
Committee that will meet not less
than oncec a month with the Dis
trict Organizer, to discuss the man
ner in which the Daily Worker has
reflected the struggles of the work
FRS the needs of the workers etc.
! On the basis of this discussion, the
District Organizer must assume per-
sonal responsibility for seeing that
full report is sent to the editorial
/ Office of the Daily Worker. This
/ is necessary, comrades, if a real
change is to be brought about in
the paper, Furthermore, this is ne
cessary if you are going to develop
Daily Worker consciousness in the
districts and build the paper as
1 popular mass organ.
What sfNew DEAF Means
Comrade Browoer in his main RS
port TO the extraordinary party con-
ference speaking on the new DEAF
said, sit represents the rapid de-
velopment of the bourgeois policy
under the present phase of the cris
sis, the sharpening of the class strug-
gle at home and the eminence Of
the new imperialist war The new
deal is a policy of slasting the liv-
ing standards at home and fighting
for markets abroad, for the simple
purpose of maintaining the profits
of finance capital. 1t is policy Of
brutal oppression at home and for
imperialist war abroad 1t represents
a further sharpening and deepening
of the world crisis"
Browder listed the main featurea
q the new deal" as the advance
Inent of: Cd classification; 60 in
flation; 80 direct subsidies to fin
ance capital; "a taxation of ths
Masses go the economy program;
CO. the farm program; CD military
! and naval preparations, and (8) this
movement toward authorization, d.
rect and indirect of labor.
Weakness To Overcome
Pointing out weaknesses which
must be overcome, Browder declar-
ed: I'VE have surrendered our plan.
ned work to the pressure of daily
incidental problems Of everyday life.
We have become captives of spon-
taneity instead Of masters Of the de-
ve,opment of events" To overcome
this, he pointed out, the open let
ter called for decisive turn to the
shops, to the basic industries, to q
decisive strengthening of our base
and activities among the employed
workers in the basic industry" at
the same time increasing activity
among the unemployed.
Concluding his report Browder
said:
! If We maintain Bolshevik unity
of purpose and effort, if we estab-
lish a real party democracy and will
fight theoretically we will really
carry through the task of winning
the masses. 1t depends upon you.
The only guarantee for the carry
ing through OF the line is to arouss
and activize the membership. That
is why this special conference hagg
been called This is why we propoS
ed to issue tli3 open letter 10 thr-
Party" ~
/ A resolution Oh the Agrarian Quet