The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
PARTY LIFE
Some Important Problems
VLGnguGge Organizations
Writer Points to BrOsUder's Report to 9th G. P.
Convention, Urging Vide Political Advance

struggle against these wrong ten
denotes. We have not uprooted the
widespread federationism that is
still existing stubbornly within the
language organizations. This wrong
tendency takes such forms that our
comrades do not keep intimate con-
facts with their respective section
and district leadership of the Party,
but rather look upon their national
language buro as the only leader
which has the final word on every
detailed question. OF course, 1t is
evident that the national buros are
very important Party committees,
but on the other hand, it is wrong
to have a negative attitude towards
the section and district committees
of the Party.
Why is it that we have such strong
opportunist tendencies in the LAM
guage field that often these tenden-
cies come open as pure anti-party
expressions? One of the main rea-
sons is that very seldom one finds
any symptom of self-eriticism,
either N the language press or in
our meetings. Our comrades feel
enjoyed, however, when they read
about self-criticiSm In the Daily
Worker, or the elf-critieism IN the
o. P. of the Soviet Union. But, with
us, in the language field, 1t would
be considered as an "abuse" and
insult" if we should enter into
such practices. This Is a sort of
remnant of the past that still hangs
heavily upon our shoulders. We
have not BolShevized ourselves in
the way of creating healthy self
criticism in the language field. This
results that we have a habit Of
covering up" our mistakes and
shortcomings. We repeat the same
mistakes over and over again and
no one learns to avoid these mis-
takes because they are not criti-
cized in the open. How should we
be able to weld a united prole-
tartan mass movement" as Com
rade Browder advises us, to tran
scend all language and national
barriers?" 1t can be done only under
the leadership of the Party. 1t is
necessary to transform our words
into everyday deeds. 1t is necessary
to organize our work in the Ian
guage field in such way that every
Party comrade can give more time
for the most important political ac-
tivities of the Party. Let us have
less time wasted on all sorts of I'M
necessary inner activities of the
mass organizations by our Party
members. Let us give chance for
the non-party comrades to show
that they can make just as good
coffee, just as good roast lamb, and
take care Of selling tickets and any
other routine activities without
having the most developed Party
members to capture" these activ-
tiles. Then we will see than an
Immediately change can be made.
I do think that in many cases,
our language apparatuses are too
top heavy, while the membership is
rather small Entirely too much Of
energy is required for the upkeep
of the offices and full time func-
tionaries, who are very busy mo-
bilizing the membership of the Ian
guage organizations to their inner
activities, instead of involving them
more into shop, union, unemployed
activities, etc. We have a number
of instances where our language
comrades have had shop unit for
several years in certain important
factories (steel, automobile, etc.
and these units have not grown in
size, neither in their activities.
These are O. few of the sore spots
where the change Is required very
rapidly. Instead of wasting all of
the time of our comrades on the
inner activities of the language or
CARNATIONS, we must be able to or
ganize Our work in such a way that
we have time enough to broaden our
work among the new strata of un-
organized workers, and also among
the reactionary-led mass organiza-
lions. If we are able to do that,
then we can be sure that the entire
outlook of the language organiza-
tions will be turned towards revolu-
tionary every day activities.