The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-30
BIZ c. E. RuTHENRERe

outlines the one road the workers
must travel in order to secure high
er standard of life for themselves.
The platform does not represent a
plan conceived by some individual or
group of individuals as means of
securing relief from the existing evils
of the capitalist system. The program
offered by the Workers Party is a
Communist program rooted in the
economic development of the capital
list system and pointing to the new
social order indicated by the develop
ment of that system itself. The cen
trail point about the development of
the capitalist system is the develop
ment of large scale production which
brings thousands of workers together
in industry and makes of production
collective work rather than individ-
ual work.
So long as our system Of production
consisted of individuals working alone
or some employer working with a
half-dozen employees in a small shop,
a Communist system Of production
was impossible.
But capitalism itself creates the
basis for the new social order. Cap
italism, during the last half century
particularly, has been developing
greater and greater organizations for
production Of wealth. In place of a
few workmen in small shops produc-
ing shoes, we have great shoe fac
tories employing thousands of men
who collectively produce shoes. In
place of tailor working alone pro-
ducing garments, we have great gar
ment factories employing thousands
OF workers who create clothing.
Sharpens Glass Conflict
This development of the capitalist
system has created an industrial ma
chine consisting, on one side, of tens
of thousands of workers engaged in a
particular industry, who work for
wages. and on the other side. the re-
latively few capitalists who own
the industries and take the profits
from them but who usually have no
part in the work of production. They
own stocks and bonds which give
them mortgage on the life and work
of those who produce wealth in in
dustry, but themselves contribute no
thing to the work of production.
Given such an industrial system.
there can be no other outcome than
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workers employed in industry and the
owners of industry. The bringing
together of thousand workers in one
industrial establishment creates the
condition for use of the workers
power against the capitalist owner.
The very fact that these workers are
forced into close relationship thru the
collective processes of producing
wealth teaches them to unite in the
struggle against their exploiters.
Ten thousand workers scattered
over a city or several cities in small
shops employing five or ten workers
would find it very difficult indeed to
unite for collective action against
their exploiters, but bringing these
workers together in one great indus.
trial establishment, we have the con.
ditions which will naturally develop
solidarity and action as a group
against their exploiters.
In other words, the capitalist sys.
tenn creates first the conditions for
collective production in industry and
at the same time creates the organ.
ization for struggle against private
ownership Of this collective system of
production by bringing together
masses Of workers in industry.
Collective Production and Distribution
II we acknowledge that these are
the conditions which exist today in