The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14

under our leadership is the only broad, unity
ing force and the only section of the unem-
ployed with a clear and consistent program. 1t
has a growing cadre of the best leaders of the
unemployed movement. If we will give it the
proper guidance, with persistent, systematic sup
port, it can in the coming year organize mill
lions instead of the present hundred thousands.
Since the 7th Convention, we have made an
other important addition to the list Of mass
revolutionary organizations. This is the mutual
benefit society, International Workers Order.
Since the Open Letter, the TWO, through its
membership campaign, has multiplied itself,
and now contains about as 900 members. Even
more important it has built strongholds among
the workers in the basic industries and has ex-
tended beyond its foreign language sections by
recruiting native-born American and Negro
workers. The Two. has before itself the prob
lem Of how to consolidate and further extend
it's mass membership, without lowering its pre-
vious high standard of revolutionary activity,
of political education of its members, especially
through involving them more directly in the
class struggle.
Surveying the whole field of language mass
organizations Including the Nv %, we find in
20 language groups that these mass organi5a-
tions have grown from about $4,000 in 1880 to
organizations led by Communists large gains
have been made in building revolutionary OPP
position movements inside the reformist Ian
guage organizations, on which it is difficult to
give reliable statistics. The Party's foreign
newspaper circulation has increased from no.
900 in 1880 to 1871 900 in 1884. Most of this in
creased circulation has come within the past
year. 1t is clear that the language press is by
no means keeping up with the extension of the
language organizations. We must set for our
language bureaus and language newspapers the
task of raising the political standard Of their
work, to draw their membership much more in
timately into the main stream of the American
class struggle, to activize it, to bring forward new
leading cadres, and to speed the process OF
Bolshevik ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS u.s. the Welding
Of a united proletarian mass movement that
transcends all language and national barriers
Especially important for stabilizing the lower
Party organs and mass organizations has been
the program for BolShevizing our financial
methods and accounting. A special sub-report
will be made on this question. 1t is not a
technical question. 1t is of first class political
Importance. Bolshevik planning, budgetng and
a strict responsibility are being instituted. This
must become the universal rule. There must be
no loosening up on this question.
scores OF Sfraller mass organizations nave
arisen in the past year, each serving some
special need, and each contributing to the gen.
eral strengthening of the revolutionary move
ment. We have no time to review them all
here, important though many of them are
Special mention must be made Of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense which has won many
serious political victories in this period chief
among them the conduct of the ScottSboro case.
The I. L. D., however, lags seriously behind in
organizational consolidation and in the syste-
matte development of its whole broad field Of
activities More serious political guidance must
be given by the Party to the work of the Com
mtnist fractions in the I. L. D. 10 overcome
these weaknesses. The Communists who partici-
pate in the broad non-Party organization Of the
Friends Of the Soviet Union, have done good
work there. Only handful of Communists are
in this organization, but they have rallied around
1t the most varied circle of sympathizers, indi-
viduals and organizations which was demon
strated in an excellent mass convention held
recently in New York CITY, The many other
organizations, which we will not go into in de-
tail, one and all can find the road to strengthen
themselves, to improve their work to study the
methods of our Party in the larger fields Of mass
work, by mastering the art Of Bolshevik self
criticism, and detailed study Of their problems