The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
IN STRUGGLE AGAINST FAsCISM AND WAR MUST
WIN LEADERSHIP OF WORKERS FROM REFoRNIsTs

sections Of the Communist Inter-
national to tight persistently for the
realization Of the united militant
front with the social democratic
workers in spite of the treacherous
leaders.
The 18th Plenum made q general
review Of the whole problem of mass
work OF the parties and came to the
conclusion that it is necessary to call
for genuine reorganization Of the
whole of the mass work, a re-exarni-
nation and oyerhauling of all phases
Of mass work OF the parties, espe-
cially the work in the factories and
the trade unions. The factories and
the trade unions represent the weak
est sector Of the parties in all CAPT
talist countries. This is certainly
true for us in the United States. The
Open Letter which our Extraordinary
Farty Conference addressed to the
Party concretized the whole problem
Ter America. Our Open Letter can
be taken as the chief directive fer
our Party in connection with the 18th
Plenum of the E. C. G. I. There is
nothing to be changed in IL at all
in the light of the 18th plenum. The
18th Plenum resolution puts furCher
emphasis upon all direetives con-
tanned in our Open Letter, chiefly on
the need for concentrating upon the
most important strata Of the workers,
the most important industries, the
most important factories, and the
creation of Party strongholds in the
factories as the basis of all our work.
To carry trough this task, and with
1t the struggle against Right oppor-
tunism, as well as against Left de-
viations, the struggle for the line o..
The Party, is the basis of our activity.
Our task is to gather the allies of
The working class, organize the farm
ers and direct their struggles, to win
the broad sections of the impoyer-
l5hed petty-bourgeoisie, to carry
through these activities by the most
concrete and energetic application of
the united front tactic, especially to
develop the revolutionary trade
union movement in all its forms, the
Independent leadership Of the econo-
mic struggles, the development of
the struggles Of the unemployed. as
the basic features Of the Party's
work, as the object for which all OF
cur concentration is carried through.
In our own experiences in the
development Of the united trent we
nave slgnalized in the Open Letter,
the danger Of farmer aborism. In
our experiences We have found this
danger becoming sharper. II we had
been more alert and more active in
the political struggle for the line of
the Party and the DEVELOPMENT of
our various united front activities.
we should have been better prepared
to counterfeit immediately the steps
hat are now being taken by the
Musteites for the establishment of
their American Workers Party"
which is one Of the subdivisions Of
the farmer labor tendencies in this
country which will be an outstand-
ing feature of Social-fascism. The
Socialist Party is going through a
process Of 0isinterration and re-
orientation. 1t will in all probability
merge with these other groups and
tendencies into the farmer laborite
movement in the United States. The
degree to which this danger crystal
Lies on a mass scale viii be deter
mined by how bad or how well we
work. We can win these workers
directly 70 the Communist Party.
They do not need to go through
schools Of reformisnl and social fas-
elSm III order to come to us. By
proper united front work, by proper
penetration of all OF the mass or
carnations, by a proper struggle
against opportunism. against Ieftlst
distortions, We can win these workers
directly to us.