The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
PARTY LIFE
importance Of Fractions in
Building Mass Organizations
COmrade Hits Lack of Fraction Work in SYRIA
cuSe; Suggests -Four Months Plan


which assure correct tactical Lead
ership. Fraction work is q very iIl-
portant link in the Party task Of
building mass organizations. Alert
and good work on that field is
necessary to become a mass Party
and the leader in the approaching
revolutionary struggle.
knew it would be hard job TO
get the comrades working, but with
Bolshevik stub6ornness and passion
I was convinced We would make
headway. The fractions were or
ganized and the comrades, accord
ing to their ability, assigned to
their work. To every fraction sec
rotary was given the above plan
with the control task book IN order
to write down the progress of their
work and by this enable the section
fraction organizer to control at any
time the activity of the fraction. 1t
is understood that the fraction
should meet regularly at least once
a week. All problems concerning
the mass organizations should be
discussed thoroughly in order to give
correct guidance and sponsor initia~
tive, to make he meetings Interest,"
ing and wo K all the time in The
interest of the life and the program
of the organizations. Bring, in an
alert and intelligent way. our Party
line forward in order to win The
confidence of the majority of the
members, showing them that the
interest of Communist is the in
terest and the benefit of the whole
working class. BY doing correct I
Bolshevik work the fraction will be
able to win the mass organizations
to support any political and eco
nomic struggle led by the G. P.
Up to now the work has gone for-
ward very slowly. The comrades
have not yet grasped the necessity
Of doing fraction work. Some do
the work too mechanically, forget
ting that the plan is for general
guidance only, that it must be flex-
ible, that a Communist has to be
alert to fiEd at all times the right
methods of work and Of approach.
Those comrades who started frac-
ton work "frec tion conscious, and
took the work seriously, have OBJ
tanned results. The membership in
creased, the life of their mass Or
carnations grew more active, with
a pronounced political trend. That
elbows that real fraction work will
build mass organizations and bring
the Party forward as the leader OF
the masses in general.
Not One Fraction
The greatest weakness in our
section is that we have not one
fraction in the trade union move
ment, and this explains Why our
Party had no influence at all dur
ing the last strikes in Syracuse.
1t must be sharply criticized that
of our entire membership within
the section only per cent are Or
ganized in the Trade Union. What
wonder thas we can not root our
selves in the masses. How can we
tell them to organize in unions
while our comrades stay econom-
ically unorganized? That means, IN
other words, that the majority OF
our Party members are not Trade
Union conscious yet. We have to
make strong attempt to change
this in order to be able to build
Trade Union fractions.
In our last District COMMITTEES
meeting I listened very carefully to
the reports of the comrades and
almost every one complained that
through neglected fraction work
many defeats had occurred. But
none of the comrades dealt con-
cretely with the problem, not one
offered plan which could give to
the comrades organizational guid-
ance The leading comrades COM
plain very much about the neglect
ing of fraction work in the district,
but they failed to give an assigned
comrade the floor on that question
because of lack of time.
Perhaps this will help the other
comrades to accomplish better frac-
ton work. Other comrades doing
fraction work should tell about their
experiences in this column. In this
way we will learn to avoid mis-
takes and carry on real Bolshevik
fraction and mass work.
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