THE COMMUNIST February 15, the organization began with an in officials for their Communist activities, attack of the capitalist government harder test of our membership. Each debtedness of about 2, 000, taken over the program of the party has been de But capitalism will face a new organi party member who engages in the acfrom the National Organizing Com clared illegal and the party organiza zation, stronger and more dangerous to tivities of the organization must do its interests.
so with the understanding that he is mittee and the Left Wing Council and tion is under the ban.
closed this period with assets of Our program states the fundamenThe Future risking deportation or imprisonment. 11, 705. 48.
tal principles of the Communist Inter During the three and a half months This may mean a smaller party memDuring the same period the party is national. This program will not be of 1919 the party membership showed bership but it will mean a stronger sued five proclamations dealing with changed because it is declared illegal their spirit under the conditions of party.
important issues which arose in the by the agents of our enemy. Our pro open propaganda for Communism. Let us go forward under the new working class struggle. Four of these gram outlines the road that the work. The results were of such a character condition of our organization work were circulated to the extent of a milers must follow in order to achieve that they had a right to be proud of conscious that no matter what our lion and a half copies. Leaflet No. 4, their emancipation through the social them.
enemy may do, the Communist Move The State, Strike Breaker, was con revolution. We believe there is no The new conditions of the existence ment is invincible and we are marchfiscated by the federal government other road and will continue our propa of our organization will mean even aling forward to power and victory.
when on the press and before new ar ganda to educate the workers to a perfected the crisis had passed. Leaflet of the actions of the government of We Must Organize Shop Branches No. 3, Your Shop, attained the larg the capitalists.
e uit Pite is form of our organization Toy the communist Party was in mation as to the place of employment est circulation. Three editions, totaling over a half million, were printed can be changed, and must be changed, herited from the Socialist Party, so far of each member. This information Two pamphlets were printed, the to meet the new condition of illegal as the unit of organization was con should be brought together in the Manifesto, Program and Constitution, ity.
cerned. Most of the organization ex hands of the organizer of the city, who in an edition of 25, 000, which were The party organization must go un isted in the form of branches which will make arrangements to place the practically all sold, and Radek The derground. It can no longer expose had been expelled from or had left the members of various branches in one Development of Socialism from Science itself to the casy attack of its enemies. Socialist Party.
shop in touch with each other and to to Action. third pamphlet was in It must protect itself against attack the hands of the printer.
in every way possible.
It was necessary to use these units organize them as a shop branch.
of organization as the basis for the Where it is found that there are only This record of achievement during Open branch meetings should be dis Communist Party organization be three or four members in a certain a period of three and a half months continued at once. The membership cause they already existed, not because factory, these members should be conproved that the party had behind it should be divided in groups with a a membership ready to actively par group organizer in charge to keep they were the best form for the new stituted a committee for that factory organization.
and entrusted with the propaganda ticipate in the struggle to build up them in contact with the organization a strong Communist Movement in this and to control their propaganda activBranches made up of members of the there until such time as a shop branch country. The membership was not a ities. The distribution of leaflets and same nationality or members living in can be organized.
Until the work of transformation is membership in name only, but a mem papers and the sale of pamphlets must the same section of a city were well bership of active workers in the revo be so conducted as to expose the mem enough for a purely parliamentary or complete the present party units will lutionary struggle.
bers to the minimum of attack. All ganization such as the Socialist Party remain, but the beginning should be membership cards and charters should of such language branches which con made at once.
Until the party sinks In 1920 be destroyed. The details of the or sidered their work merely to promote its roots deep into the industrial life of With the year 1920 the party begins ganization plan will be communicated the social life of the workers of cer the country it will be unable to dea new existence. Through the deci to the party units through new chan tain nationalities, but they are not the velop power to influence the actions sion of the Secretary of Labor in the nels.
best form of organization for a party of the workers. The shop branches deportation cases and the action of The national organization will go out which seeks to organize the masses will give us the connections with the state authorities in indicting the party of existence as a shining mark for the for the revolutionary program of Com industrial life of the workers that we munism.
must have.
These branches still exist in the Every party unit is urged to quickly The Question of Unity with the communist Party: Even though some take up the question and act at onen TIC modification has been necessary to transform their branches into shop THE question of unity between the tion committee. Our manifesto, program through the new form of organization, branches.
Communist Labor Party and the and constitution to be effective for the the unit is still the branch. The most Communist Party came before a recent form of organization, in so far as it means only as the basis for a joint call, the important task that lies before the or Not the First Time meeting of the Central Executive Com underground organization and the basis ganization is to transform these termittee in the form of a report by the of admitting members, to go into effect at ritorial or language organizations into THETHER the Socialist Assemblymen are finally expelled at Executive Secretary, stating that the once. shop branches.
Albany is a matter of little moment.
National Executive Committee of the The statement made by the National The Communist Party program em The capitalist class, through its repCommunist Labor Party had requested Executive Committee of the phasizes the industrial power of the resentatives in the Legislature, have a joint meeting and that it was his im in reply is not available for this issue. workers. The purpose of the Com definitely proven that the Legislature pression that unity could be achieved The proposal made, however, was as munist Party is to organize the power in the parliamentary state is a capitalfollows: on the following basis: of the workers achieve political Acceptance by the of the Mani1. The National Executive of the ist institution in which the enemies of festo, program and Constitution of the stated its view that there were no fun power. It is from the industries that in the constitution as are made necessary the and the and therefore in the shop that the party can come Communist position that the working Communist Party, with such modifications damental differences of principle between this organization must proceed. It is capitalism can sit only by permission of the capitalists thus justifying the by the new form of organization.
proposed that the two organizations unite. in contact with the lives of the masses class cannot emancipate itself through Combination of the Executive Committee It agreed to accept the Manifesto and of workers.
of five of the with the Central Ex Program of the Communist Party, but sugparliaments.
ecutive Committee of 15 of the Communist gested that inasmuch as the constitution Through the organization of shop The Albany incident is not the first Party as the joint Central Executive Com of neither organization was workable un branches the party propaganda will of its kind. What many liberals, and mittee of the combined organization.
der the new conditions, that it be left to reach those men and women whom the even some capitalist newspapers, are All other problems to worked out by the convention to draft a new constitution. party must educate to an understand calling a crime against representative the combined committee after unity is It proposed that pending the holding ing of its aims and organize to achieve achieved of a convention the two organizations those aims.
government was actually carried The Executive Secretary recom unite so far as possible through uniting through in Cleveland.
mended that the Central Executive of the Executive Committees and the na The shop branch is also best suited The Cleveland Socialists in the 1917 Committee enter into a joint meeting work.
tional offices, propaganda and defense to meet the existing conditions under campaign elected two councilmen in for the purpose of bringing about unity which our organization must work. an anti war campaign.
These two This reply was considered at a meet The members of the branch will be councilmen were expelled from the on the basis outlined.
This recommendation was rejected Party. motion to accept the pro munication becomes easy. Arrange platform promises and voted against ing of the of the Communist in touch with each other daily. Com city council, because they kept their and the following proposal adopted: position as to point No. was lost and ments for propaganda and organizawar legislation.
That in response to the request of the the following motion adopted: There was no howl about the crime Communist Labor Party National Executive That we reattirm our previous position tion in the work of propaganda is less then.
tion work are readily made. Detec against icpresentative government Committee, we elect a committee of three to inform this committee that if it is ready with instructions to our committee to make likely.
There was one result, however. The to accept our manifesto, program, consti such modifications in regar tution and form of organization as the stitution as were indicated in the discus The work of transforming the pres Cleveland Socialist local turned left basis for a call for a joint convention, we ent organization in an organization of and later came into the Communist agree to hold a joint convention, and for At the time of printing this issue of shop branches does not present in Party by practically unanimous action.
this purpose, upon receipt of its agreement, the party organ the matter has not de surmountable difficulties. Organizers Albany will help more workers along we are prepared to elect a joint conven veloped any further.
of branches should at once instruct the same road.
to the consion.