ABSTRACT
Dear Comrade As delegate from the Communist Party of South Africa to the Fourth
Congress I was obliged owing to my wife’s illness to leave Moscow on 30 November last, thus missing both the concluding sittings of the Congress and also the advantage of a discussion with the new Executive or Presidium regarding our Party work and the general working class position in South Africa. I therefore write to you on several matters which might have been disposed of in the course of such discussion. I shall be glad if any reply you may consider necessary may be sent very promptly, as I contemplate, if my wife’s health permits, sailing for S Africa about the beginning of February. If the Executive Committee thinks any good purpose can be served by my coming again to Moscow on a flying visit during January, I can do so if I receive notice in time – preferably by telegraph. (Letter since received stating such visit
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(1) I have been proceedings of the Congress since I left. I see (South Africa)’ has been elected to the name in our party nor in contact with it. Our General Secretary in S Africa is Com. W.H. Andrews; and when I
~~~ left Moscow I asked Com. J. Campbell (who as alternate delegate
remained to represent S Africa at the Congress after I left) to propose Com. Andrews – for what it was worth – for the E.C. Whether it is he that has been elected and the name has got mutilated in transmission I do not know; Com. Campbell has not written to me, although I expected to have heard from him with a parcel of papers which he was to have sent after me to London. If it is Com. Andrews that has been elected, has Com. Andrews himself been notified of his election, and has he stated that he can come to Moscow accordingly? When last I heard from him he was still unable to get a passport to leave S Africa as he was still on bail on a charge connected with the Rand strike of last March; but he was considering coming to Russia as soon as he could get through those proceedings. Com. Kussinen, in consultation with Com. Ivon Jones, had tentatively suggested this course. I should be glad to know the actual position.
