The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1933, Page 8

Sr aan Page Four broad struggle against forced, labor and: the militarization of the unemployed, in the press, through meetings, demonstrations. strikes,, rais- ing the slogans: ‘For the abolition of all forms of forced labor’; “Against the militarization of the unemployed”; demanding “trade union rates upon all public works” and organizing especially within the labor camps and among the workers on public works, the struggle for these demands and for their grievances. 3. For the cancellation of debts on mort- gages, taxes and rents of the great masses of farmers: for the abolition of the slavish ex- ploitation of the share croppers. 4. The organization of the struggle against the reduction of veterans’ disability allowances and for the payment of the bonus. 5. For equal rights and resistance to all forms of oppression of the Negroes and for the right of self-determination for the Black Belt. 6. Struggle against all forms of terrorism, denial of freedom to strike, speech, press, and against all forms of persecution and deporta- tion of foreign born workers. 7, Against German fascism and for the re- lease of all proletarian political prisoners. 8. Struggle against a new imperialist war and intervention against the Soviet Union and against financial and military support of Japa- nese imperialism. The campaign and the mobilization of the workers for the stru¢gle on behalf of these de- mands must be esrried out by al! Party organ- izations, above all by the factory nuclei. The factory mu sri the center of our Party and trade union. work in carrying on this struggle. All leading Party bodies must first of all set themselves the task of coneretizing these de- mas ceordance with the conditions in the partic factories, sections and districts. The organizing of the struggles of the work- img class for these demands must he carried eut on the basis of the united front, in which the Party must always have the initiative. The united front tactic consists in organizing and mobilizing the workers, regardless of Party or tvade union affiliation, religion or color, for common struggle in behalf of their most im- mediate and urgent demands. In the factories and trade unions and among the unemployed we must help the workers formulate their de- mands concretely and effectively, really adapt- ing them to the immediate demands of the workers. These demands must serve to develop their solidarity and class consciousness, and bring the broadest masses of workers into ac- tion. * * * 6 wer systematic application of the united front in the big factories is of decisive significance in the question of leading strikes, the establish- ment of a united fighting front, and in tearing down of the barriers between the revolutionary workers and the masses of other workers. The decisive factor in carrying out this united front is tireless revolutionary everyday work among the workers, in order to prove in every question the correctness of our slogans and our proposals for action. * > * ya systematic day to day work in the fac- tories is the necessary condition for all serious preparation of strikes and for the launching of strikes at the proper moment. The workers will have confidence in us as strike leaders only if they see that we take every necessary step for the careful preparation of strikes, selecting the proper moment for the declaration of the strike, firmly welding the united front of all workers before and during the struggle through fighting organs based on proletarian democracy, and if they see that we mobilize all moral and material assistance for the strikers and know enough to call a strike off at the proper moment if the mass of strikers are not able to carry the struggle further. There must be no repetition of such cases as those in Warren, Kentucky, and Allen- town, when after the strike was lost the Party and the revolutionary trade unions left the work- ers to themselves and failed to carry on any work - whatsoever. It is only by adhering to all these conditions in the preparation and leading of strikes that strikes will serve to strengthen our position among the masses of workers, that the confidence of the workers in us will be firmly established, and the readiness of the masses for further struggles will be increased. * * * HE united front tactic must not be limited to special campaigns or activities which we aban- don because we have not succeeded at once in ers for struggle, in con. - [I ese ase they do not at once 4 working es from the reformist attempt at \ \ 24 “The American Party must. mobilize the massea and. concentrate chiefly on the struggle: 1. For social insurance, against wage cuts, for immediate relief for the unemployed. 2. For assistance for the ruined farmers. 3. For equal rights for the Negroes and the right of seli-determination for the Black Belt. 4. For the defense of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union. It is necessary to carry out the decision on the turn in the work of the Party and the Trade Union Unity League.” — (Resolution of the Twelfth Plenum of the E.C.C.1.) leaders. The united front must also not lead to the subordination of the revolutionary policy to that of the reformist leaders in the name of a so-called “united front”. The united front de- mands an uninterrupted, patient, convincing work to destroy the influence of the reformists and the bourgeoisie. The rejection of the united front proposals of our Party for the immediate urgent demands of the workers by the reformist leaders must impel us to make even stronger efforts to organize a common fighting front in the fac- tories, mines and among the unemployed masses, with the workers who are under the influence of the reformists. The Party must in the everyday work clarify the workers, in a popular and con- crete way, on the principal difference between us and the reformists. The Party must prove to the workers by its practical work that we are the vanguard fighters for a united struggle and that the reformists are the splitters and disrupters of the struggle ) Persistent Struggle Against Sectarianism oe ORDER to get the Party now firmly rooted among the decisive elements of the American workers, it must in all seriousness carry out the concentration on special factories, districts and sections. The center of gravity of Party work must be shifted to the development of the lower organizations, the factory nuclei, local organiza- tions and street nuclei. It goes without saying that it is our task to place ourselves at the head of every movement which breaks out spontane- ously in the country, and to lead such movements, or where the reformist leaders stand at the head of a movement, to work for the building of fight- ing organs of the masses, independent of the bu- reaucrats, in order to aid the masses in the expos- ure and replacement of the reformist leaders. But unless we tenaciously concentrate our work on the most important industrial centers, we cannot build up a stable Party and revolutionary trade union movement, capable of resisting all blows and persecutions by the bourgeoisie. The German Communists offer us the best example of this. , It is only because the CP of ‘Germany is closely linked up with the decisive sections of the German proletariat that it is able to carry on its struggle against German fascism uninterruptedly, in spite of brutal fascist terror. « The Party is confronted with the task of drawing in the young workers in the class struggle. This demands that an end be made to the underestimation of youth work, and of the necessity of putting up special youth de- mands. All Party organizations, especially the factory nuclei, as well as the fractions in all trade unions and mass organizations, must organize youth sections and give active sup- port to the Young Communist League. Every Party factory nucleus must help to organize a nucleus of the Y. C. L. In order to effeetively carry out this turn to the decisive sections of the American workers, it is necessary to carry on a persistent struggle against the sectarianism which expresses itself in all Party and trade union work: which con- tinues to be one of the chief obstacles to the _establishment of firm and live contacts with the decisive masses of workers. This sectarianism expressed itself above all in the lack of under- standing of the necessity of the Party and its leading organs for carrying through the turn to mass revolutionary work, to develop broad revolutionary unions and unemployed organ- izations and to build the basis of the Party in the most decisive industries. This sectarianism - can be overcome only if the Party carries on a continuous struggle against the main danger, namely, Right opportunism as well as gppor- tunism clothed in “left” phrases. é y ‘ * * 3 _ when the American f = : DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1933 a ee TNS crime’ -before ‘the Party. and . revolutionary movement, and would only help our enemies in their struggle to destroy the Party. The Party “iatist watch closely that, FIRSTLY, no fac- tional opposition is developed against the lead- ing organs of the Party, and SECONDLY, that not a single Party functionary, whether he be in the leading organs or in the lower organiza- tions, misuses his position to carry on factional methods of work. If such manifestations ap- pear, the leading organs of the Party and all organizations must decisively combat and liqui- date every such factional attempt, not shrink- ing before the removal of incurable factional- ists from the Party. It is only by vigorously preventing all forms of unprincipled factional struggle, and by energetically liquidating all factional methods of work, ABOVE ALL BY REALLY DEVELOPING COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, will the Party be able to make the necessary turn to the decisive strata of the working class and develop the proletarian mass struggle. But it must ‘be absolutely clear that positive criticism and PRACTICAL proposals, and COMRADE- LY. MATERIAL EXCHANGE OF POLIT- ICAL OPINIONS, for improving the work of the Party are a vital necessity for the Party and that all bureaucratic tendencies to inter- fere with such criticism and proposals, all bu- reaucratie intolerance of criticism, must be de- cisively fought. * * * AT the same time the Party must carry on a systematic struggle against the bureau- . cratic isolation of the apparatus from the Party masses, against the suppression of inner Party democracy, for the development of political life in the lower organization, particularly in the factory nuclei, for the development of thorough-going self-criticism, for the develop- ment of initiative in the lower organizations and for the imnrovement of its functioning cadres. Every Party member, and especially every Party functionary, must be a real organ- izer of mass struggle in his particular sphere of work. From this standpoint, the Party must judge the activity of its functionaries and must choose its leading bodies. All leading bodies, especially those in the sections, must reorgan- ize their work on the basis of the carrying out of revolutionary mass work. Revolutionary work is the task of the entire membership. The secretaries of the leading bodies in their work must not replace the work of the membership. It is their task to plan and organize the work together with the members, to give the mem- bers practical assistance in carrying out their tasks and to check up on the carrying out of these tasks. As delegates to all Party confer- ences, section and district conferences and above all to the Party congress, there must be elected comrades who carry on active mass | work and who have distinguished themselves in mass struggles. * * * “gona scnagit The Party has approved the esti- mation of the International situation given by the XII Plenum of the Comintern, stating that we are approaching a new round of wars and revolutions. Tt is time that we should draw from this declaration. the practical conclusions for our activity. The development of mass strug- eles depends to a great extent upon the speed with which we succeed in drawing the industrial proletariat into the struggle and in becoming the revolutionary mass Party of the American working class. * * * S IT POSSIBLE TO CARRY OUT SUCH A TURN IN OUR WORK? OF COURSE IT IS POSSIBLE. The members of the Party have shown in countless activities in strikes, in hunger” marches, demonstrations and in painstaking day to day work, that they are loyal and self-sacri- ficing revolutionists. Now all members and all Party organizations must at once proceed to determine how the work of the Party can be improved and what practical measures must be ~ adopted in order to guarantee and carry out the turn in the Party. ee * * ™HE discussion of this letter must not take place merely in a general way. Every nucleus, every organization, every Party fraction MUST LINK THIS DISCUSSION up with CONCRETE TASKS, working out ways and means how to bring about immediately a real turn in the entire work of each individual organization, for the carrying out of _ this turn. The leading organs of the Party are responsible to the membership, the membership is responsible to the leading bodies and is responsible to the American working |