The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
The Cleveland Convention
Guarantees Strengthening
Of Mass Work

TNFE Eight National Convention Of the
Communist Party, concluded Saturday
night in Cleveland, was by far the greatest
and most significant in the Party's history.
Comrade Earl Browder's report to the
convention for the Central Committee,
which will appear as a special supplement in next
Saturdays Daily Worker, was a most clear and
forceful analysis of the problems at present con-
fronting the working class movement Of our ex-
periences and of our tasks. This excellent report
in itself would have provided a guarantee for
very fruitful convention.
The decisive factor however, in determining the
outstanding significance Of this convention was the
changed composition of the delegates and, above ALL
the firm ties which very obviously bound these dele
gates to the masses of the toiers. Taking the re-
port of Conlrade Browder as the foundation these
delegates brought their experiences from the Shops
factories and mines, from the trade unions and the
unemployed organizations, from hundreds of strug-
giles of the masses for improved conditions, for
equality for the Negro people, against fascism and
war. 1t was this reflection of the changed compo-
sition of the Party of the changed relation of the
Party to the masses, that furnishes the guarantee
that the convention discussion will not remain on
paper but will deeply influence the struggles of the
toiling masses during the coming weeks and months.
Therein lies the conventions great significance.
The convention, with the rich report of Com
rade Browder with the co-reports of other Central
Committee members on special problems, and with
the great experiences of the delegates gained in the
fierce class battles of the past year. hammered out
the policies strategy and tactics Of the revolutionary
working class movement for the next period.
AT THE same time the new Central Committee,
"A composed of 90 members and six candidates. was
charged with the responsibility of more theoretically
than ever before rallyng the Party as whole for
the realization of the convention decisions To guar
antee the Strengthening of Central Committee lead
ership ID new comrades were drawn into the COM
mittee-district and section organizers trade union
leaders leading comrades in Negro work, workers
from the basic industrial centers, ETC.
The work of winning the masses in the decisive
induStries-steel, coal auto marine textile railroad
metal meat packing ETC.; the strengthening of the
revolutionary opposition work in the A. F. of l..
unions and the Independent unons the building of
the class struggle trade unions of the T. u u L.,
the broadening of revolutionary activities among the
unemployed in the struggle for social insurance for
relief, against forced labor, etc.; the further ex-
tension Of the Negro liberation struggle increased
attention to the job of winning the young workers
and the women; the Strengthening the Party's work
among the agricultural laborers and poor farmers
the central tasks in the struggle for the immediate
needs Of the and against fascination and war
will go forward at an increased tempo as result
Of the Cleveland convention.
TIE success of the convention in fact is itself
reflection of the improved mass work of the
Party following the Extraordinary Party Conference