The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
By t. N. CARLSON


simultaneously with the rising
strike wave, the role of the foreign
speaking language organizations be-
comes ever more important. Very cor
comes ever more important. Very
correctly, our Party has taken some
important measures already in order
to improve the work on the Ian
guage field. The Party has given ire
mendous help and guidance to our
language organizations in BolShev-
izing them and bringing them closer
to the Party and the labor move
ment as whole.
Comrade Earl Browder, in his ex-
cellent report to the Eighth Con-
vention, stated the following:
1--WE must set for our language
buros and language newspapers the
task of raising the political standard
Of their work, to draw their mem
bership much more intimately into
the main stream of the American
class struggle, to actiYize it, to bring
forward new leading oadres, and to
speed the process of q Bolshevik
Observation-Disclosures is, the weld
ing Of united proletarian mass
movement that transcends all Ian
guage and national barriers"
Here In nutshell, Comrade
Browder has shown to us what is
expected from the Party members
in the language field. The next
stop is how can We put these words
into practical deeds. Of course. it
is not an easy task. A very close
cooperation of the District and sec
ton leadership is necessary in order
to improve our language activities.
The District Six (Cleveland)
Party plenum recently dealt very
sharply with this problem. Comrade
Williamson, District Organizer of the
Party, analysed the whole situation
very carefully and the Plenum
passed a strong resolution in con-
nection with our language work.
The District Plenum emphasizes
the Importance of work among the
broad masses Of language speaking
workers still untouched because of
the basic political and organiza-
tional weaknesses of our work in the
language field. At the same time,
we are determined to overcome the
present unsatisfactory situation in
the language field, which results in
the energies of the Party on this
important sector being diverted
from the central problem of lead
ing the mass struggles of the work
ers and improvement of shop, union
and unemployed work. ETC."
What are the main shortcomings
in our work among the foreign born
masses? First of all, many of the
language comrades, even our lead
ing members in the district frac-
tons, seem to be self-satisf1ed with
the present situation. These COM
rades say that The Party asks too
much from us. Is this correct?
OF course, not. What is the Party
asking from us? The Party asks us
to raise the political standard" of
our work, and to bring out mem
bership much more intimately into
the main stream of the American
class struggle"
But, exactly, when the Party de-
mands this from us, then we say
that the Party is asking too
much" This proves that we have
widespread opportunist and sec
tartan tendencies existing within
our language organizations, and we,
as the Communists, do not carry
on the fight energetically enough
against such wrong tendencies. We
are rather feeling that it is much
more comfortable" to stay in the
same groove where we have been
for few decades And when the
Party is asking us to line ourselves
and to help to line up the masses
Of unorganized foreign-born work
ers, into the battle front of the
American workers, then we resist
and say that, what have the "out
siders to do with u.s."
Every member of the Party, every
Communist knows that our Party is
not an outsider" who comes and
disturbs our internal peace" But,
the trouble with us is this, that
we do not carry on ceaseless