Circular Letter to the Finnish Branches and Members of the Workers Party of America from Fahle Burman in Chicago,

The annual congress of the Workers Party will be held in the very near future. The day has not yet been fixed but this will probably be done very soon.† The most important question before the congress will be that concerning the future tactics of the Party. The majority [Foster group] and the minority [Ruthenberg group] of the Executive Committee of the Party have elaborated theses or declarations on this question, which were published in full in the Daily Worker. The main paragraphs of these will be published in all newspapers. It is the duty of every Party member to become familiar with these theses, to study them and to form his own opinion on them for the forthcoming town and district conferences, and for the National Congress at which decisions will be made concerning future party tactics. Before explaining the attitude of the majority and of the minority of the Executive Committee of the Party towards this question, I want to impress all the branches with the necessity of taking part in this discussion of Party questions and to see to it that the opinion of the Finnish comrades should influence the decision to the extent which we should claim on the strength of our Party membership. The Finnish comrades form 40% of the general