The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-15


age the affairs of the country for an
other four years. What does II NEAR
Tor the workers and poor farmers O.
America? Increased aggression fol
the working class as a whole and z
smashing campaign of reaction to de
stroy the organized labor movement
Comrades and fellow workersI You
must have no illusions as to the kind
OF deal that you are going to get
now from American capitalism. II
you felt the months and years as pre-.
cedlng the last election as mere az.
erosion, you should expect in the
coming months a regular orgy of
oppression. If the past stands out in
your mind as a period of capitalist
reaction, you should now tune your
mind to regular triumph of "open
shop" and strikebreaking. Because
TINS is the beastly thing that Ameri-
can capitalism has again foisted upon
you in more open and defiant
manner.
A Challenge to the Workers.
The victory of Coolidge and Dawes
is challenge of defiance to every red
FLOODED, militant and self-respectinp
worker. 1t serves notice on the labo.
movement in unmistakable term
either to be good" and nice" or els
to get on its hind legs and-fght
Which do you want to happen
when way do you, as a class, stan
70 benefit more2 That is your prob
solving it, either. Your enemies will
not wait at your pleasure. They are
all prepared, all set for the oppor-
tune moment to deliver the striking
blow. Are you going to prepare?
The statement on the election re.
suits published by the Central Execu-
tive Committee of the Workers Party
on Nov. shows the way. 1t points
to the only possible solution of the
working class problems today. 1t is
more organization, more concentra-
ton of labor's forces on the economic
and political field for real struggle
against the against Open
shopper Dawes and Strikebreaker
Coolidge-under the leadership of and
in alliance with the Workers (Com-
munist) Party.
Glass Struggle Under the Lead Of a
Revolutionary Party-The Only
Possible Road.
The so-called "wise," the disillu-
stoned, and the weak will, no doubt,
say: No. The above is not the solu-
ton Why? Because the Workers
(Communist) Party is not yet strong
enough, not yet popular enough to be
able to mobilize the masses for an
immediate and successful struggle
against capitalist reaction. These pro
fessional pessimists and black-seers
will probably point to the small Com
munist vote in the elections, a vote
by the way, which the capitalist gov
eminent viii never take the trouble Of
counting.
And the ignorant and backward will
also say: No. Why? Because the
Workers (Communist) Party is toe
Red" too radical, too impossible tt
be the leader in practical, result-pro
ducing fights.
To which we reply: Bunk. If thu
above were true, then the American
working class would do well to imme
diately disband all its organization
and make up its mind that it is goinl
to be crushed. Because there is NJ
other organized labor group in Amer
lea, outside of the Workers Party tina
has any constructive program at all L
expose capitalist reaction immediatel,
effectively and practically.
And again. 1t 1t were true that tn
Communists and their party were S
much impossible" that the masse
will not turn to them for leadershi
even in the hour of bitter need and 1