The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
Abstract Speeches,
Resolutions Do Not
Help in PartyWo

Iof struggle. 1t seems that the latter
is more correct. This, of course, is
only one case; but there are many
more distortions of the correct line
Of the Party which are hindering the
real struggles for the majority of the
workingclass, not in resolutions and
in speeches but in actual everyday
work Of the Party.
Although the New Jersey district
contains industries Of a basic and war
character such as heavy metal, chemi-
cal, oil, marine (Hoboken is a strategic
transatlantic seaport, dye, (Which
can overnight be converted into war
4 industry and which has already been
placed under the supervision of Col
Haskell of the U. S. Army, the New
Jersey district has not yet started
concentration at these points. This
means that the main tasks of the
Open Letter have not yet been tackled
seriously.
In the report Of the T. U. U. l..
organizer. who is himself personally
responsible for concentration on these
tasks they were not even mentioned.
Comrade F. who is young
capable conrade, is the T. u. U. L..
organizer in New Jersey. He made a
Sub report for an hour in the Plenum
to the report of the District Organ
izer. This sub report was an abstract
defamation about the necessity of
winning the majority Of the working
class. And he quite sharply that is
in sharp criticized the com
trades from below, from Paterson and
other places for not building the
trade unions But comrade F. forgot
that in New Jersey there took place
number Of strikes in important in
dustries; that there exist concrete
Shortcomings, either in leading the
strikes, or in attempting to lead the
Strikes-by the Party, the revolution
larry unions Therefore there was
some kind of disproportion between
lComrade F's abstraction and the
discussion from below. Let us say for
example the problem in the Judica
shop, where the main issue is the
struggle against speedup, where medi-
eval methods Of exploitation exist.
The Ford plant, with its many
problems after the strike, the Patter-
son issue and the necessity of build
ing one union, and many other basic
but not highfalutin' problems that
WITHOUT solving them
How can it happen that a district
was in continuous struggles, and the
organizer of the T. U. U. L. does not
try to help in the solution of the
problems that arise in these struggles.
The reasons for this are: first that
Comrade F. was not sufficiently down
below and had not enough patience to
listen to rank and file comrades and
did not attempt sufficiently to ex-
plain what shall be done. Secondly,
certain tendencies to command in
stead of showing by example how it
is possible to do simple everyday
Communist work in the trade unions.
Thirdly. that Comrade F. UNDER
estimated the knowledge and ability
of the real growing, workingclass
young elements in the 1eadership of
the Party. Therefore he didn't pre-
pare his report.
We are taking Conrade F. as an
example. Not because he has to- be
Iremoved, or discredited. But on the
contrary, it is necessary to help such
comrades in overcoming their mis-
takes. We can help them only by real,
Bolshevik self-criticiSm,
It is important here also to speak
Of The rYyYos{fpr1 aF 10 n,
the League. The League by doubling
its dues paying membership has
shown that it is moving ahead.
The Party instead Of talking vaguely
about guidance to the Y. G. L. should
instead carry out some simple con
crete tasks. The Party has about
80 members who are Of League age. A
concrete step in helping the Y. G. L.
would be for the Party to select about
20 of this number and assign them
to work as Party members in the
League. This selection should be
made as far as possible from Party
shop nuclei so as to carry out the
directive of building a Y. C. l.. shop
nucleus inside of every Party nucleus
In the preparation for section, dis
trict and the national conventions, it
is necessary to carry out real strug-
gle against abstraction. The struggle
against fasciAn, war, the struggle to
win the majority of the workingclass,
are not phrases. Only by repeating
them, we are not struggling against
anybody. In every section, in every
district there are concrete ex-
pressions of the growth Of fascism,
of the preparations for war, Of
the betrayal OF the A. F. of L.
leaders, city administrations, and
THAT task is-to arm the Party. This
means that every Party member must
be armed with knowledge and ex-
perience, so that ne will be able TO
become an organizer, leader Of the
every day struggles Of The working
class