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
in different mass organizations, as for example, in the ILD,
Tenants’ Organizations, W. I. R., and so on. Factory cells must be
composed of proletarians who are really the advance guard of the
workers of a given enterprise, devoted to the cause of Communism,
ready to carry out the directions of the Party, grudging neither
health nor strength, nor life, not being afraid if Party
interests demand it to carry out such work in the enterprise as
may cause the employer to throw them out of the factory, perhaps
the police to arrest them, and the courts to condemn them to
heavy punishment. In fact, only factory cells composed of such
proletarians can do great revolutionary work even though they
be very small. In one of the mining districts of Czechoslovakia
in 1930 there was such a case. The Social-Democrats organized a
meeting of miners. Only one Communist took part in the meeting.
Different questions which the Social Democrats brought forward
were considered. After a discussion in which the Party member
present at the meeting took the most active part, the meeting
decided to join up in the Red Trade Union. The Czechoslovakian
comrades will remember another case which took place in 1930 in
Prague. When the famous social traitor Vandervelde came there, the
Social-Democrats organized a big meeting at which about 30 active
Party members were present. Vandervelde delivered a long speech
pouring dirty water on the Communist International, the U. S. S.
R., and the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, nevertheless, not
one of the 30 Party members present at the meeting and there were
members of the C. C. amongst them, opened his mouth in protest
against the counter-revolutionary speech of the Social-Fascist
leader. It is perfectly clear that with activists like the
“activists” of the Prague organization, who were present at
Vandervelde’s meeting, the Czechoslovakian proletariat will not
win power but the Communist Party will be a shameful laughing
stock in the eyes of the proletariat and the proletariat, quite
rightly, will not listen to such “activists” and will not support
Party organizations which keep such “activists” in leading Party
work.
18. STREET CELLS
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