The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
Party Life
Party Committee
Criticises n. Y.
Union Fraction


Criticises n. Y.
Union Fraction
CECTION 2, District 2. of the Com
y munist Party, functioning main
ly in an industrial territory, recog-
nizes that unless it understands and
becomes a factor in the problems
and struggles Of the workers in the
section, it will not fulfill its tasks
as a section Of the Communist
Party; as leader OF the workers in
the shops and localities.
Within Section 2 territory some OF
the largest A. F. of L. Unions have
the bulk Of their membership work
ing. One of the most important of
these is the needle trades, with both
the revolutionary and A. F. Of L.
Unions controlling large sections OF
the workers; thereby raising some
of the most basic problems con-
fronting our Party at the present
time, namely the development of
revolutionary oppositions and the
united front.
In this situation, Section 2 can
become an active factor through
proper coordination between the
Party Section as such and the trade
union leadership, both in the rev.
dictionary unions and A. F. Of L.
and through the establishment OF
proper working relations between
the shop and building nuclei (of
which Section 2 has 60) and the
Trade Union fractions.
ALTHOUGH much effort on the
n part of the Section leadership
has been made to achieve this CO.
ordinated activity, little progress has
been made. There is still evidenced
a considerable amount of resistance
on the part of the mass organiza-
ton leadership to the establish
ment of such relations. There is
still insufficient clarity on the role
Of the shop nuclei, for instance, as
the basic organization of the Party
which discusses and acts on all
problems in connection with the
shop; we still have not learned how
to bring forward the Party in our
every day activity.
There still does not exist that firm
conviction, necessary, that the Sec
ton Committee of the various Sec
tons must and can become the
leaders in their territories. This
situation where important political
problems are not discussed with the
section committees, but as in the
case Of the mass organizations in
our Section-particularly the Needle
Trades Union-but are discussed d.
rectly with the district; is injurious
to the development of the Section
Committee.
If the Section Committee on the
one hand would push itself forward
through an intensif1cation of its
mass activities; and if the mass
leaderships Of our Party-the union
functionaries would orientate
toward the development of the Sec
ton Committees and TIE import
ance of involving these leading
Party bodies in their day-to-day
work, the building of shop nuclei;
the organization of firm and active
fractions; the recruiting of workers
from the unions into the Party;
would present an entirely different
picture today.
AS one means of drawing the Sec
ton into the mass work of the trade
unions, the section convention de-
cided to include in the section lead
ership some of the leading trade
unionists, feeling that such a lead
ership composed of the best COM
rades of the section proper as well
as from mass organizations should
result in well planned and rounded
activity.
put what are the actual results?
~ Out of three union functionaries
elected to the Section Committee
and one assigned as a District Rep
resentative to the Section, only one,
Comrade Albertson attends meet
ings regularly Comrade Koretz and
Comrade Fleiss feel that a strike
situation warrants their staying way
from meetings, instead OF using
their membership in the section
committee to draw the section into
these strikes.
Comrade Potash, assigned by the
District Committee as representa-
tive to the Section has not attended
one Section Committee meeting
Comrade Potash has been informed
that unless he did so, open criticism
will be made against him in the
Daily Worker.
Upon Comrade Potash's failure tc
attend a very important meeting Of
the Section Committee where the
problems of the oppositions of LocaI
% Of the IL.G.W.U. were discussed
the Section Committee decided tc
carry through its decision to openly
criticize Comrade Potashs action.
! In view of the situation brief,
described above and in view of the
urgent necessity Of drawing tht
Party membership as a whole il
discussion of these very importan
problems, our Section presents these
through the Daily Worker. We hops
this will result in constructive dis.
cussion which will lead to improve.
ment in our work.
Section Committee,