The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-22

EARL BhOWnEH; Reports n the
Eighth Convention Of the Com
munist Party, l2s pages, Price
10 cents.
Reviewed by
NJ. ]. OLGR
IT WAS my good fortune to listen
l to Comrade PROVIDERS speech
when it was delivered at the Cleve-
land Convention. With intense in
terest 500 delegates listened to the
report. There was absolute silence
in the hall Three hours passed,
Nobody budged. There was A spell
over the audience as one chapter
of the report after the other was
unfolded by Comrade Browder.
I have read his speech as pub
lished now in pamphlet form. The
reading makes even 2 stronger i'm
preston.
Comrade Browder is most read
able. In this respect he follows
good example-thst of ComTade
Stain. Whether in such theoreti-
cal works as Foundations of Lenin-
ism" or in such political reports as
the reports to the 18th and nth
Congresses Of the C. P. U.S.SR.,
what Comrade Stain has to tell is
eouched in the simplest and most
| lucid words, which even the plain
est worker can understand. In like
manner. every worker can under
stand the report Of Comrsde Brow
der.
The report is the clearest and
most succinct statement of the sit
uation in which the Communists
work, and OF the aims and sctivi-
ties Of the Communist Party The
Communist Party must not he hid
den away from the masses, The
Communist Party has no interests
/ different from the interests of the
working class. The Communist
Party must make it clear to every
worker that it is fighting the bat
| ties Of the exploited and the OPP
| pressed. The Communists must,
therefore, keep their organization
and their activities open before the
broad working masses. This is ex-
actly what Comrade BIowder's re-
port does. II opens wide before the
working masses the organiza ton,
the activities, the plans, the tasks
and the strivingS Of the Commu-
mist Party, This is what we are.
This is how We think. This is where
we lead. These are our achieve
ments. This is how our organiza-
ton is built This is how We should
build in the future Every worker
who reads this report will have q
clear idea about the Communist
Party.
At THE same time this Is re-
port that leads, report that
shows the Communist functionaries
and the Communist rank and file
what we have achieved and what
We have to strive for. 1t is, in the
first place, report Of four years
activities after the Seventh Con-
vention; secondly and mainly, it Is
a report Of the nine months activi-
ties after the Extraordinary Confer
ence last July 1t records what has
been accomplished and what must
be accomplished with the aid OF
| the Convention. But Comrade
Browder speaks rot only to the
Communists, but also to the broad
est masses of the American work
ers This mass character Of the re-
port springs from the fact that
while addressing himself to the
leaders and functionaries Of the
Party, he does so in such clear and
convincing terms that it is no more
a report to the Party leaders, but
also a discussion Of problems with
everyone interested in the labor
movement.
| The report combines the general
with the concrete. Comrade Brow
der speaks about the general situ-
alton of capitalism, about the gen.
ersl crisis of capitalist economy, He
draws parallel between the capt.
talist world and the Soviet Union;
he speaks about the war danger and
fsscisn, and about the inevitability
and necessity Of the socialist revo-
luton. All these are broad. breath
taking perspectives. These broad
perspectives and all-embracing
problems. however. are linked up
with such concrete and everyday