The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-02

The letter from A. G. emphasizes
two points:
1. That the Open Letter does not
offer a concrete plan for expand
ing the work of the Party.
We want to discuss some OF the
points. Does the Open Letter provide
the key by which the Party can over
come the present situation and move
forward on the road towards becom-
ing a mass party? The Open Letter
analyses the facts that the tasks laid
down in the 14th Plenum Resolution
adopted by our Party last April,
which included "the organization of
a firm basis among the decisive strata
Of the American workers." THE con-
solidation and strengthening of the
revolutionary trade unions, especially
among the miners, steel and metal.
textile and marine workers." "the de-
veloplnent of the movement for un-
employment insurance; ''the trans
formation of the Daily Worker into a
mass revolutionary paper; "and the
establishment of collective leadership
and the development of wide cadres,"
were not carried out.
The Open Letter gives the reasons
for the failure to carry thru these
correct political tasks and states:
every Party member must now
understand that it depends on cor
rect policy and above all, the ex-
ecution of correct policy, whether
we will be able to mobilize the
masses of workers for struggle and
whether our Party, in this historic
cally favorable situation, will be-
come the decisive mass Party Of
the American proletariat :"
| But the 14th Plenum resolution had
| emphasized this. Here we find the
14th Plenum Resolution outlined:
"In order that the Party be in a
position to carry out these main
tasks, it must give the most care
full attention in all its work to the
application of correct mass policy.
This correct mass policy consists In
developing the mass struggle of the
workers, the working women and
the young workers, on the basis of
their immediate economic and poll
tical needs, as they arise from their
life and work, and conflicts with
the employers, reformist bureau
Gratis, the state. etc. This means,
furthermore, that these struggles
must be carried through on the
basis of the activities of the masses,
and that the tasks of the Commu-
nists are precisely to develop and
organize this activity and initiative
OF the masses
But why were not the tasks laid
down by the 18th Plenum carried out?
The Open Letter to the Party answers
this:
Why Resolution Was Not Carried
Out
Because in the Party, and part-
cularly among the leading cadres,
there Is deep going lack Of poll
tical understanding of the neces-
sity for strengthening our basis
among the decisive sections of the
| American workers. From this fol-
lows the fact that the leadership
of the Party has not adhered to a
fixed course for overcoming the
main weaknesses Of the Party, al
lows 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 thru Of resolutions and
checking up on their execution.
The result is that VIC talk about
| factory and trade union work in
countless resolutions, without carry
| ing this work out"
/ The Letter then proceeds to ex-
7 plain why it is important to con-
centrate the forces of the Party upon
The decisive sections of the American
oroletariat, upon the decisive indus
tries-and in the first place by. pick