The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-04
PARTY LIFE
JugosIav BurO Calls for
UprOOting of Opportunism
Must Develop Comrades Organizationally and
Politically To Carry Out Open Letter
By LoYEN

The experiences in the work Of our
fractions show that our comrades are
not yet politically and organizational-
ly prepared to carry out the tasks
Of the Open Letter as outlined in
the six months plan Of the Jugo-
slaV Central Buro. For this basic
weakness the Central Buro is pri-
marily responsible, because it did not
undertake an energetic campaign
amongst the membership to popular
lie the Open Letter and break down
the sectarian and opportunist ten
denotes that are deeply rooted in our
membership, and to develop con-
seriousness among the comrades for
the systematic drawing into the Party
Of new factory workers.
Many of our Old forces are per-
meated with sectarianism and oppor-
tunism. For this reason it is the
main task of the Central Buro to
carry on a political and theological
struggle against opportunism in our
fractions and to consciously concen-
trate on drawing into the Party new
factory workers from strikes, and
from the struggle of the unemployed,
and in this manner to create the
organizational guarantee for carry
ing out our concentration tasks.
Must Mercilessly Unmask
Opportunism
The most effective methods of
struggle against opportunism in our
ranks is to mercilessly unmask OPP
portunism with concrete examples
For this we have sufficient material.
In District 8 COhio), where at
tempts were made to recruit new
members into the Party, the real
causes why our fractions are not able
to carry out the tasks of the Open
Letter were revealed. In all steel
centers in Ohio, where our Party
carries on concentration, the frac-
tons were instructed to select new
factory workers and call them to q
special meeting, at which a repre-
sentative of the Central Buro was to
speak and ask them to join the Party
In Farrell, Pa, to this meeting our
comrades called two opportunists
who left the Party after the adoption
of the Open Letter, declaring that
they cannot carry out the Party tasks
In Youngstown, Ohio, the comrades
had nobody" to call to this meeting.
In Cleveland, Ohio, the Jugoslav
District Buro was SO busy" that it
had mo time" for such a meeting.
Only in Campbell and Masillon, Ohio,
where we have new comrades in the
Party, was this question taken seri-
ously and meetings we're held there
where we recruited few new workers
into the Party.
Sectarian Opportunism
What conclusion can we draw from
these concrete examplesp Here is
manifested the old sectarian oppor-
tunism, the isolation of our comrades
from the masses of workers, lack OF
confidence in the working class
which is the main hindrance to the
development of mass struggles and
the drawing Of new members into the
Party.
This sectarian opportunism showed
itself especially in Farrell, Pa, where
we have a dozen old comrades, who
during the last five or six years years
have not brought a single new men,
Der into the Party. The whole orien-
tation Of the comrades in Farrell dur
ing the period of several years has
been-not into masses-but away
from the masses. They have up I'M
til recently, until we forced them
maintained the hall of the workers
club in Massury, Ohio, where we have
only a few Jugoslay workers, and the
main mass of the Jugoslav steel work