The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1929 ~ rage ‘imree DRAFT THESIS ON THE PARTY ORGANIZATION For Proletarianization and for a Bolshevik Party Organization (Continued) of the Leading Party Organs. The leading organs, especially in the lower units (factory and street nuclei) are not working properly; in many cases merely performing the technical functions and not the lead- ing and controlling functions. Seri- ous attention must be devoted to the selections of the leading organs of the Party. The social composition must be radically improved by draw- ing in more proletarian elements from top to bottom in all leading committees. Negro proletarians and working women must also be drawn in to a much larger extent. The Central Executive Committee and the DEC’s must help to create better leading committees capable of ful- filling the Party tasks in the present period. Leading Committees must be es- tablished in all the Factory and Street nuclei (nuclei bureaus). The nucleus bureaw is to be elected at the membership meeting of the nuc- leus and is to consist of 3 to 7 mem- bers depending upon the size of the nucleus. As a rule, the nucleus bur- eau should be elected for a period of 6 months and during this period is to make a complete report to the full meeting of the nucleus at least twice, giving the results of its ac-| Were left to themselves to lead the | tivity. Jeomrades who are eligible and who |those comrades working: in indus- |within them. |gram and policy for the work in | tematic manner. The street nuclei The Convention in-ja rule are not carrying on the Party |among Negroes. The special resolu- 4. Building Up and Proletarianization |©2 not join a trade union, while structs the CEC to work out a pro-|work in the neighborhood in a sys-| tion being prepared for the Party convention will outline in detail the |litically and organizationally. The|has also helped to undermine the Party Committees must have active Party discipline, especially among representatives on all League Com-|the new members. The bad compo- servedly the decision of the 6th World Congress which states that ip the-present period of the war danger, \tries where no:union has yet been the language organizations and to|}must assist the factory nuclei in established, do not join the union|work out concrete organizational|their territory and generally carry \nearest to their trade or take steps | proposals to strengthen the direction \through the formation of shop com-|of the language fractions by the | |mittees in their factory, to lay the |Party Committees. |none exist. [basis for the building of a new union.) Great care must be taken that the | 7. Building the press and the dis- |The Party must carry on a broad comrades elected for leading work in tribution of Party literature. ideological campaign to enroll every the language bureaus have the cor-| Daily Worker. The Daily Work- jmember into a union, and also adopt \rect Party line and are freed from|er, the central organ of the Party disciplinary measures against those) | establishing factory nuclei jon factory activity with the aim of | where | it is nec y to tighten up the dis- cipline of the Communist Parties and that the Minority must completely subordinate itself to the decisions of the Majority. The “two party system” in our Party, the circulation of caucus documents, the holding of caucuses must be rooted out. The Party must concentrate all its energies in fighting the war danger, program for this field of work. The {mittees and visa versa. The Party sition in the Party (intellectual and | general thesis has also given consid- must assist in the realization of the|petty bourgeois elements) also erable attention to this work. jslogan: “A League Unit Wherever largely responsible for the failure to The chief organizational tasks |There Exists a Party Unit.” Par- | maintain the discipline of the Party. upon which we must concentrate in| ticularly in the present period of the} Every Party member must recog- the next period are: |danger of imperialist war, must eee eee et allure #0) maintain ae Fam iti ‘f role- | Party consider one of its major tasks | stricte: arty discipline means the eee Roe ee Ge building of the Young Workers |undermining of the Party, and is |(Communist) League. The Party serving the best interests of the |must in cooperation with the Young | enemy. is | | tarians into the Party. | where a great deal of white chauvin- who sabotage the decisions of the Party to join a union when the pos- sibility exists. The fractions in the trade unions [are in a very bad state. They have |received no attention during the past |year from the Trade Union Depart- }ment. The comrade who was elected |by the CEC as the Trade Union | Fraction Organizer, has been doing ‘other work for practically the entire period and the comrade appointed in |his place has not yet taken over this |phase of the work. The Fraction | | Bulletin was abolished since the last |Party convention and not a single communication was sent by the |Trade Union Department to the |Party organizations on the building jand the leading of the fractions in jthe trade unions. | During this period, the Districts | trade union work of the Party. There jall remnants of “federationism.” The|must be strengthened ideologically. ism exists, we must make no com- |bureau of the CEC and the Districts; The paper while it has greatly im-| Promise with the prejudices of the |must render regular reports to the proved in this respect and this was | white workers. White chauvinism | \recognized in a unanimous motion | also exists among the ranks of the \respective Party Committees. | The CEC. representatives of the |Language Bureaus must also render jregular reports of the condition and jwork of the Bureaus among the “Masses. | We must fight against the ten- dency of the workers’ clubs in the | various languages under our leader- | |ship, for the formation of a national (center. Work in Other Workers’ Mass Or- ganizations. Party members in the yarious mass organizations, co-opera- tives, cultural organizations, sports jorganizations, etc., must form frac- tions and carry out the policies of the Party in these organizations. The Party Committees must see to it that the respective departments that are responsible for the work in these lorganizations, direct and lead the The convention establishes that the/W@S no connection between the Na-|fractions politically and organiza- next body following the nucleus tional and District Trade Union De- tionally. shall be the Section and that the sub- |Partments. The work in the Miners’ | The Communist fraction in the district and city and sub-section shall| Union, the Textile Workers’ Union International Labor Defense must be abolished. Under this system, a|#nd the Needle Trades, was conduct-| propose the reorganization of the Section will be either the division ©d directly by the Political Commit-|I. L. D. on a factory basis, and con- of a larger city, a single city or a/tee With the assistance of the CEC |crete plans for making the I. L. D. number of cities with the larger city |"ePresentatives for the different in-/a broad mass organization. as the center of the Section. This new division of the Districts into ydustries. | The work in the old unions was Similarly the Party fraction in the Workers’ International Relief Sections makes it necessary that much neglected during this period., (WIR) must propose the broadening after DEC shall divide its territory |The correct orientation of the Party 2nd building up of the WIR as aj.) in accordance with this convention towards greater attention to the or- Permanent relief organization. passed by the Polcom is still far from satisfactory. Too often errors of a non-Communist character creep in to the paper. To overcome this l|great danger, the Party must allo- cate additional forces to the Daily that will make it possible for the ditor to carry out more effectively ithe line of the Party. The strength- \ening of the Daily Worker is an im- imediate problem that the Central |Executive Committee must solve. | The Daily Worker must fight against the tendency that prevails among some comrades that the cen- tral organ of the Party cannot be a/ mass paper and maintain its Com- munist character. Just the opposite is the fact. To the extent that the Daily will follow a Leninist policy and reflect the struggle of the work- ers, will it become a mass paper. The Daily must establish a network of Party correspondents, who will report regularly on the life and ac- tivity of the Party. In order that the Daily reflects the struggles of the masses, it is necessary to broaden the workers correspondents manifold. This work must be followed up systematically and be organically connected up the basic struggles of ‘the | Party. decision and submit its proposals for ganization of the unorganized and/§, Party Campaigns and Systematic, The Party must pay much greater approval to the CEC. Exception to, the building of new unions, were not Organizational Work. attention to the circulation of the this structure may be made only made clear to the Party in relation’ It is a fact that the organizational |Daily Worker., Every Party mem- with the permission of the CEC. |to the decisions of the 9th Plenum results achieved by the Party in the|ber must be a reader of the Daily. The leading organ of the Section Of HCCI, and the 4th Congress of mass campaigns are small in com-|Every Party member must consider is the Section Executive Committee |the RILU. parison with the importance of the|it a primary task to secure readers. which is to be elected either at a} We must strengthen the Trade/struggles. Aside from the reasons|Every Party fraction in the trade sction conference consisting of rep-|Union Department, establish | resentatives of the nuclei, or at a sec-| Proper connections of the Trade tion, there are a large number of or-|tions, must secure readers for the tion conference consisting of repre-| Union Department with the District) ganizational weaknesses that are re-| Party central organ. The comrades sentatives of the nuclei, or at the) Trade Union departments, popular-|sponsible for this failure to achieve |who read the foreign language press general membership meeting of the|ize the Party Trade Union policy| the possible results within the limits|must bear in mind that the Daily section. The committee should con-| among the membership, build the|of the objective situation; chief | Worker is the organ of the entire sist of 5 to 9 members and 2 to 3/ Party fractions and make a drive among these are: Party. candidates. The Plenum (full Sec-|for the enrollment of every Party} 1.—Failure to properly prepare in| The tion Executive) elects a bureau of 8 mez:ber in a trade union. The Trade advance. brought into every struggle and its to 5 members. No other organs (such| Union Department must also pay| 2.—Failure to mobilize the entire |circulation built in that manner. as secretariat) should exist in the| greater attention towards the tying|Party membership, factory nuclei,)| The Daily Worker Sustaining Fund Section Executive. The bureau of Up of the shop committees with the |fractions, ete. ‘must be built up and the paper in Section must be approved by the | campaigns for the organization of the | 3.—Insufficient direction from the| general must xeceive full financial District Executive Committee. The unorganized. The politicalization of |center. \support of all Party organizations. Section Executive is to be elected for} our Work in the trade unions is one | 4.—Failure to tie up the immediate, Special attention must be paid to one year. The Section conference|of the major tasks. |struggles of the workers sufficiently the building up of the machinery for shall be called by the Section Execu-| Fractions in Language Mass Or- {with the political slogans of the the distribution of the Daily Worker tive with the approval of the DEC. | ganizations. The language federa- | Party. \so that in the event of the govern- In accordance with the statutes of |tions of the Party formally no longer| 5-—Lack of follow up of contacts ment making attacks on the paper, the Party constitution, the Section exist. But there is still “federation- Made during the campaigns. we will be in a position to distribute Committees shall have all rights as ism” in the Party. This manifests, 6—Failure to bear in mind the our paper among the mass of the leading bodies in their territory. It/itself both in the rights that the Necessity of Party recruiting in workers. is the political leader of the given|Language Bureaus take for them-|¢Very struggle of the masses. Party Literature. The Party must territory, working under the leader-|selves (sometimes even disciplining 7—Failure to keep the new mem- increase the publication and sale of ship of the District Executive Com-|Party members) and the nature of|bers admitted to the Party. literature. In this respect great head- mittee. |the work they conduct in the mass) The Party must consider as a/Way was made in the last year Daily Worker must be The leading organs of the District the |that arise out of the objective situa-| unions and other mass organiza-! shall be the following: 1—DEC (Plenum). 2.—District Bureau. 3.—Seeretariat. Names “Polbureau,” “Poleom” shall not be used by any of the Dis- tricts, There is only one Polbureau,| the Polbureau of the CEC. The District Executive Committee is elected at the District Convention| and should consist of 9 to 15 mem- bers and 3 to 5 candidates. Excep- tions in some cases, can be made} with the approval of the CEC. The frequency of the meeting of the Plenum will, of course, depend large- ly on the local conditions, but the full DEC must meet no less than 3 times during the year. The DEC Plenum is to elect a Dis- trict Bureau of 5 to 7 members which must be approved by the CEC. The District Bureau must meet at least once a month. The Secretariat of the District should be composed of the chief func- tionaries of the District: Organizer, head of Trade Union Department, head of the Organization Depart- ment. In some districts, as for ex- ample, the agricultural district, other arrangements may be made. This Secretariat should be called together as often as necessary, but at least once a week. The Convention instructs the CEC to work out detailed instructions for | the above mentioned questions. The Convention emphasizes again the ab-| solute necessity of proletarianizing all the leading committees, to draw in the best workers from the basic industries, among them Negro pro- letarians and working women. The decision of the Comintern to give an impetus to the promotion of work- ers to the leading positions of the Party must be realized with the greatest rapidity. ~ Every effort must be made to de- velop the initiative on the part of the lower organizations in the pres- ent period of the war danger, so that in case of difficulties, they will be able to carry on the Party work. 5. The Party Fractions in the Mass Organizations. _ TRADE UNIONS. Less than 50 organizations. It must be made clear that the | National Language Bureaus are the, ‘direct agents of the CEC, carrying ,out its policies. Likewise the Dis- trict Language Bureaus are agents lof the DEC's, These bureaus are appointed by| ithe CEC and the DEC and are re- sponsible to them. | The task of the Bureaus is to |carry out the line and slogans of the |Party in the given language mass, organizations, and among the mass- | ‘es of that language generally, The present state of affairs with regard to the work in the language | organizations is not satisfactory al-, though there has been improvement. The work of the fractions in the language organizations is in many | cases receiving no direction from the | Party committees and in some in-| stances, is deviating from the cor-| rect Communist line. There exist in \this country a very large number of | lenguage organizations—mutual aid, sick and death benefit societies, etc. These organizations have a large membership and while they are in some instances conducting activity against the interests of the workers,. hundreds of thousands of foreign-| born workers belong to these organi- | zations; and it is necessary to carry on Communist activity among them. These organizations in which there exists a great. deal of nationalism, | are very often dominated by petty- bourgeois elements, We must carry | on a fight to bring these organiza- tions close to the struggles of the workers “in this country, to utilize |them in our Party campaigns. These jorganizations can be of great ser- vice in the campaign to organize the unorganized. For the correct utilization of our |work in these mass organizations, it lis necessary in the first instance, that the Language Bureaus under- (stand their role and fight against ‘any “federation tendencies,” that fractions be the combination of Party members in a given mass organiza- tion, arid that there be no such insti- tution as a general language frac- tion in a city or section, Only in special cases and with the permis- basic problem, the eradication of the through the publication of a large Party and particularly in the South. The Party must carry on merciless |struggle against this prejudice and in the South take a decisive turn to orientate the Party organization on the Negro masses. Many of the ex- isting members in the South, non- proletarians, will have to be expelled and the Party there reorganized. 2.—The building of the Party ap- paratus for work among the Negroes in all Party organizations. 3.—Support to the ANLC (Amer- ican Negro Labor Congress) and the Negro Champion. 4.—Ideological campaign to mobil- |ize the entire Party to consider work among Negroes not merely a task for our Negro comrades, but of the entire Party. 9. Work Among Women. Some headway has been made in the past year in the work among women. In this field of work the lo- cal organizations were far ahead of the center, up to a short time ago. Recently, with the appointment of a national head for the Women’s De- partment, a beginning was made in the direction of the building up of the apparatus for work among wom- en, nationally, and a great impetus was given to the work among women throughout the Part Due to wrong policy in some of the Districts, and because of the composition of the women members of the Party, mistakes were made in some cases of emphasizing work among housewives as against work among working women. The chief immediate organizational tasks of the Party in this field of work are: | 1—The recruiting of working wo-| men into the Party. 2.—Complete orientation of the Party towards devoting the major attention to work among the work- ing women. 3.—The development of the Party apparatus for work among women in the factory and street nuclei, the sections, the districts. In all Party organizations there must be an ap- paratus for work among women, |The proletarianization of the wom- len’s committees and the apparatus for work among women and the ii clusion of Negro proletarian women in these committees. The present apparatus in many districts is en- |tirely unsatisfactory, as for example in the largest District in the Party, New York, where the majority of the District Women’s Committee con- sists of non-proletarians. 4.—The establishment of a Party) -|Communist Party. We are a Party| ilar charges, for new but similar per cent of the entire Party member-| sion of the competent Party com- ship belong to the trade unions. Con- | mittee can there be held a general sidering that there are housewives) meeting of all Party comrades of a and workers in industries where no given language, working in the union is as yet established, of the number of those eligible, a higher percentage belong to the trade tnions. But the Party cannot be satisfied with this condition. For in the first place, there are still many language mass organizations. It is necessary that a correct line be established for the work in the language mess organizations and above shortcomings. In the last election campaign, great headway was made in this direction. The orientation of the Party towards the factory, the building up of facto: nuclei, will be a great step in this direction. Thorough and carly preparations are necessary and the political and organizational aims made known to every Party member. The Party fractions in the trade unions and the other mass organiza-/ tions must be mobilized and directed by the respective cepartments. The slogans of the Party must be concrete so that they can be grasped | by the mass of the workers, and must | be connected up with the struggles} \and experiences of the workers in| each instance. The Party membership and all Party organizations must become | convinced of the necessity of build-) ing the Party as a result of every) campaign conducted by the Party. | In the Passaic strike, failure to bear this fact in mind is responsible for the small results achieved. In the miners struggle, the Pittsburgh dis-| trict resisted the views of some of | the leadinz comrades sent in for, snecial work there. to the effect that the left wing had to be built first and then we will build the Party. The District was therefore able to draw many hundreds of miners into the Party. Likewise, in Ohio, the Party succeeded in drawing many miners into the Party. Failure to pay proper attention to the new |members in the Pittsburgh district, \however resulted in many falling out. In the New Bedford struggle, the Party was able to enroll quite a number of textile workers into the Party. jcient attention was given to the building of the Party and very good opportunit‘es were lost. Not only must we learn to carry on systematic recruiting, but the Party nuclei must be in a position to hold the new members. They will | succeed in doing this only when they \become real live functioning units, carrying on all the work of the Party, participating in the struggles of the workers in the factories. The nuclei must pay special attention to drawing in the new members into activity and train them in the polit- ical and organizational tasks of every Party member. The street nuclei must become real street nuclei, functioning in a that the strictest discipline is estab- lished for the fractions working given territory. Today, they are too much like the old branches and as number of pamphlets, dealing with| Women’s paper. ; \the campaigns of the Party—War,| 5.—Ideological campaign to con- |Hlections, Mining, Textile, Soviet|Vince the entire Party of the neces- ‘Union, Negro work, Party organiza- sity of work among women, tion, ete. The literature published; 6 —Organization of women’s fac- must however, be more organically tory delegated conferences on every- tied up with the campaigns of the day concrete issues facing the work- |Party and must be published earlier | ing women and the political issues of than heretofore. Every Party mem- the Party (Fight Against Imperial- ber must consider the distribution of jist War, Defense of the Soviet literature a daily task. |Union, Organization of the Unor- At the same time, much more ef-/ ganized, etc.) fort must be directed toward the dis-| _7.—Increased activity and improve- |tribution of the theoretical literature|ment of the content of work among \eial system of the Party of our movement, and the Party| proletarian housewives and tying up membership stimulated to study the of these struggles with the working vorks of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and) women. the other founders and leaders of| 8W—Better contact with the Wom- our movement. en’s Secretariat of the ECCI. In order that we may develop our The Convention instructs the CEC literature publication, it is necessary to work out a complete program for that greater responsibility be devel- work among women. oped in the payment for literature 10. Building the Young Workers by the Party organizations. The lit- League. erature must be published at a price, The progress of the movement of available to every worker. the Communist Youth is in ; sense, 8. Work Among Negroes. ja sign of the growth of the ma- Since the last Party convention, turity of the Communist Party. The and particularly since the 6th World Party must devote much more atten- Congress of the Comintern, much t‘on to the building of the League, STATEMENT BY FOSTER, ARONBERG AND progress has been made in work giving it all possible assistance po-| | Workers (Communist) League take} It is necessary to conduct the up in earnest the work among the campaign of strengthening the Party armed forces. This work must be |discipline in the following manner: ‘carried on systematically and not in| 1—By means of systematic po- jthe haphazard manner carried on litical education among the Party |thus far. Primary attention must be | members, enlivening the nuclei meet- |directed to work among the armed|ings, development of practical ac- |forces actually engaged in war. The |tivity and the abolition of fractional failure to carry on work among the struggles. marines in China and Nicaragua,| 2—By means of imposing disci- whil¢ some forces were sent to work plinary punishment upon those who \in the army and marines, was a seri-!are mainly responsible and openly ous mistake. The Party and the violate the Party decisions and per- League must build nuclei among the |sist in doing so. armed forces, and allocate experi-| The convention instructs the Cen- ‘enced comrades for this work.|tral Committee to study more thor- Greater attention must be paid to-|oughly the causes for the looseness wards the buiding of the “Young in Party discipline and to work out Pioneers.” concrete measures, ideological and organizational in order to overcome this abnormal situation in our Party. Convention 1 11 Democratic Centralism and : Party Discipline. : Party Unity. The | Party Democracy. Our Party, like must put an end to the factiona all sections of the Comintern, is|struggle in the Party. The Mino based on the principle of “Demo- must accept and loyally carry out atic Centralism.” These principles | 2)) the decisions of the convention. All those who do not understand, 1.—Election of all Party organs and are guilty of failure to carry |from nuclei Executives to the CEC |out the decisions of the majority do at general meetings of the Party not understand how a Bolshe members or at conferences and con- |Party must work. Only in a Soc ventions. : Democratic Party can such practic Regular reporting of the be tolerated. The convention must Party committees to their constitu-|instruct the CEC to carry out unre- ents, and regular reporting of the lower bodies to the higher bodies. , 38—Acceptance and the carrying out of the decisions of the higher Party committees by the lower, strict Party discipline and immediate and [exact application of the decisions of the ECCI and the Central Commit- tee of the Party. 4.—Any Party committee whose Continued from Page One activities extend over a certain area'ly given away to favorite lumber are considered superior to the com- and mine baro mittees whose activity is limited Steel 1 ar 2. GREED BAD, ust Money. only to certain parts of this area. Furthermore, Taft himself, ha 5,—The discussion on Party ques- been for years the recipient of tions can be carried on by the Party | $10,000 a year “pension” from the members only until the proper Party Steel trust. He been repeatedly committee has decided upon them. charged with this After a decision has been adopted been able to deny it. by the Congress of the Comintern, is ostensibly for “public servic the ECCI, the Party convention, or|_ Taft's relations to the grafter \by the leading Party committee, it} Morse are illuminating. When M must be carried out unconditionally |W@s first convicted of mis' even though some of the members|™oney in his bank, and of jor some of the local organizations fraudulent entries in his books, jare not in agreement with the de-/ 88 president of the U. S., promptly cision, |pardoned him. A few years later Democracy is not a fetish for a) Morse was convicted again on sim- never sion |that conducts a revolutionary strug-|¢rimes. Ha, gle and we cannot always practice Wards attorney-general in Harding’s “broad” democracy. There are cabinet, and a close political asso- y Daugherty, after- pe- riods when it is impossible to have ciate of Taft, admitted on the wit- regular democratic elections, as for|Ness stand that artificial and harm- ‘example, during an extreme period hemorrhages were produced in of “illegality,” war, ete, The prin se by a physician to gives ciple of Democratic Centralism is|8tounds for his pardon as a “sick applied in each instance in such a ™an, about to die.” Daugher' manner that the Party can best carry ,—____ out the tasks before it. ‘“ . * ” 4 There must he established a great-| “SAlvationists” Send er responsibility on the part of the functionaries and leading committees. Bramwell Blessing as (Regular reports on all activity, Plan to Grab His Cash greater attention to the payment of | dues, and remittance to the national!’ LONDON, Jan. 9.—Meeting be- office, no financial campaigns with- hind guards in uniform, in a whi out the permission of the CEC, and) painted fortress at Sunbury, no assessments on the membership here, the grand council of the without the permission of the CEC.) | vation Army with true religious The CEC must work out the finan- hypocrisy sent a unanimously in such @/adopted message of “good will” to jmanner that the present system of “General” Bramwell Booth, head of | ticket selling will be done away with.|the church and custodian of i Pasko ica ois pe the sere millions of dollars worth of property 0: arty centraliza- “5 lott there must be less centraliza-| « Ree eu Pealiontat ae jtion of the political and other cam- “general's” sister avanwalitis paigns of the Party. ‘There must be|pooth of America, who aaetiras \developed a greater initiative on the| discharge the. aged Bramwell aha |part of the local organizations s0/ Jet eontrol of he teas caer: that in times of intense class con-|* ‘thesatten perclicDe? ey t this |flicts when in the event of the local meeting. If Bramwell aa ae 19 jorganizations becoming temporarily | votes out of 63, he keeps in his own jisolated from the center, they will possession the loot of innumerable bs able to act on their own respon- expeditions to wheedle pennies from | aoa: the limits of the the poor in slums all over the world. TAFT; HATES LABOR carry on a campaign for the Defense of the Soviet Union, Fight the Capi- talist Offensive, Increase its activity n the orgai tion of the unorgan- ized, organize the struggle of the unemployed, increase its organiza- tional tasks outlined in this thesis To the extent that the Party will carry on activity around the main political tasks, improve the Party composition, orientate its work to the factories, build the Party apparatus and leading committees, improve the conduct of ma campaigns, strengthen its work in the trade unions, and the other mass organi- zations, build the Party press, cen- tralize the language activity, exer- cise self critici and put an end to factionalism, will the Party be able to go forward in the winning of the masses for the platform and slogans of the Party; to that extent will the Party be able to go forward under leadership of the Comintern; to the realization of its final aims—the establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. ructs the CEC res for the gency appara- in detail the ination of legal tus, and to work methods for the com and illegal activiti SAYS 4 gave away the trick beca promised $25,000 for getting M out of prison, and was paid only $4,000 of it. ' “Kill the Bolsheviki.” Taft’s attitude towards the labor movement is a matter of record. The Methodist Social Service Bul- letin for June, 1919, quotes him as saying: “You cannot deal with the Bol- eviki in any other than thpu their own system. Their doctrine sis the kind of doctrine that brooks no answer. The only way to de th them » kill them off.” Taft in a cial decision in the American Steel Foundry vs. Tri- city Central Trades Council case rulad that the union has no right to have more than one picket ‘at each factory door. He has issued or endorsed countless injunetions against labor unions. He granted the Bedford Cut Stone decision, making it illegal for a union to xe when scab products are given t to work with, if these products have crossed a state line. Hall Johnson Choir to Feature A.N.L.C. and the Champion Dance The famous Hall Johnson Choir, under the exclusive direction of Wil- liam Gassner, is one of many big features announced for the evening of January 22nd at the Renaissance Casino, 138th St. and 7th Ave., Ne- gro Harlem. The occasion will be the Solidarity Demonstration Dance junder the joint auspices of the Ne- | gro Champion and the American Ne- gro Labor Congress. Entertainment and dancing follow. Tickets are now on sale at the following places: Negro Cham- pion’s office, 169 West 188rd St. (phone Harlem 5643); New Masses, 39 Union Sq.; Workers’ Bookshop, 26 Union Sq.; Tattler office, 2396 |Seventh Ave., and in Washington, D. C., at Gale’s Bookshop, 817 18th St. N. W. | The Party must guard against the | development of bureaucratism in its ranks. This will be accomplished by the drawing in of the bulk of the) |membership into activity, by the! VOICES O BITTELMAN | building up of the Party committees For the Sake of Clarity. In the Election Campaign, insuffi- | In the Daily Worker of January 9th, the Central Executive Com- mittee published a statement under the caption “Pay no attention to destructive factional rumors.” In this statement, the CEC conjures up a series of rumors (of which there are many more afloat pro and con) and then heatedly warns the Party against them. The Central Executive Committee statement refers to a coming letter from the Comintern to the American Party. It raises this question in such a confusing manner, that it is necessary to state the matter correctly. The facts are as follows: It is a matter of common knowledge in the Polcom that the Comintern is now preparing a very important political letter to the In the Poleom meeting of January 8th, Comrade Lovestone definitely stated that he had positive knowledge of the American Party. preparation of such a letter. In view of the fact that this letter is being prepared, and being convinced of its great importance to our Party, the Minority of the CEC proposed that the Party elections be postponed until the arrival of the letter, so that the Party member- ship could be guided by its line. Comintern. The CEC Majority voted down this proposition whereupon the Minority submitted its proposals to the We protest against the raising of such issues before the Party as the CEC does in its statement. The inevitable effect of such a method must be to confuse the Party membership in the midst of the elections. ARONBERG. BITTELMAN. FOSTER, | and departments, and by the devel- | opment of local initiative. The shift- | jing of the Party base to the factory | nuclei and the proletarianization of | the leading organs of the Party will | \be one of the best guarantees in this ‘direction, together with the strictest \ observance of the Party principle of |Democratic Centralism and Iron Discipline, Likewise there must be practiced a merciless self criticism jin the Party, all errors and devia- tions brought to light, so that the masses of the Party will learn who \are the tried leaders. | Party Discipline. The discipline of | the Party is not in a satisfactory | state. The attendance of meetings is | hardly more than 50 per cent, and | |Party members take lightly the de- \cisions of the Party. 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