Investigation of Communist Activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 1United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
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Investigation of Communist Activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 1
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Communism -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
surgery there are no masses which the Party must win over and
organize for revolutionary struggle. It is another matter with
the big enterprises. Therefore the central question in the work
of every Party Committee is the question of systematically coming
to the assistance of the factory cells in the big enterprises. A
Party Committee which cannot provide serious daily help to such
factory cells, a Party Committee which cannot organize factory
cells capable of working in the enterprises, is a bad Party
Committee and the leading organs of the Party and the mass of
Party members should hasten to draw from this state of affairs the
necessary conclusions and as quickly as possible make a change so
far as such a Party Committee is concerned.
17. MOBILIZATION OF THE FORCES OF FACTORY CELLS
We must bear in mind with regard to the internal organization of
the work of factory cells that in all countries some members of
the Party working in the enterprises, do not wish to be members
of factory cells and do not wish to carry on Party work in the
factory. For example, in the documents of the Central Committee of
the Czechoslovakian Party on the preparation for the campaign for
the 6th March 1930 there is information from all districts that
when practical questions of the preparation for the demonstration
for the 6th March were put before the meetings of factory cells,
in many factory cells voices were raised to the effect that it was
impossible to do any work in the factory, and at a place called
Laza in Moravia, one responsible worker of a factory cell even put
the question in this way: “If the Party will guarantee material
help after I have been thrown out of the factory for taking
part in the demonstration, but if the Party cannot guarantee my
family and myself then I will not carry on Party work in the
factory.” Such moods among Communists working in the factory are
to be observed on all sides. There are Party members who agree
to pay membership dues, agree to come to a meeting once every
fortnight or once a month, in order to hear a report on the world
proletarian revolution, and vote for the platform of the Comintern
against the liquidators, the Trotskyists and all other renegades,
but are not willing to carry on recruiting work among the workers
of their enterprise, do not wish to prepare strikes in their
own enterprises, do not wish to call out the workers of their
enterprises to demonstrations, and so on. Every Party Committee
has to fight with such Party members in their enterprises. What
should we do with them? The most important task of the Party
committee consists in organizing all Party members working in
enterprises into factory cells and drawing them into the day to
day work of the factory. With regard to Party members who do not
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