The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-26

Importance for the success of the
proletarian revolution that it is abso-
lutely necessary to secure for our,
party and for the proletarian clas4
struggle the sympathy and support OF
the agricultural workers and poor
faFmers.
8. Work Amongst the Negroes.
The Negro masses Of America,
mostly workers and poor farmers, are
the most oppressed and prosecuted
section of the toiling masses Of
America. The cause Of the oppressed
Negro masses is the cause of the
Workers Party. We must extend our
activities among the Negro workers
and poor farmers, leading their
struggles against all forms Of race
discrimination, for complete equality
in industry, in the trade unions, and
all other phases of social intercourse,
and against capitalist exploitation.
We must emphasize in our agitation
among the Negro masses that their
only salvation as prosecuted race
and also as a part of the working
class, lies in the revolutionary class
struggle under the leadership Of the
Workers (Communist) Party.
4. Industrial Work -
In the future, as if~the past, the
task of securing the leadership of the
workers in the industries and mobiliz-
ing them for the struggle remains the
basic task of our party. To accom-
! plish this task our party must hasten
the reorganization on the shop nuclei
basis, which will give us direct con-
tact with the workers and an organi-
rational basis in the shops. Thru the
shop nuclei we shall be able to ac-
lively participate and win the leader
ship in the daily struggles of the
workers, and thereby extend organized
Communist influence in the trade
unions. The organization of the mill
tant left wing in the trade unions, as
one of the main means of revolution
izing the trade unions, must be carried
forward with renewed vigor and inten
sity. The organization of the unor
ganized masses must occupy an ever
larger share of the attention of the
Workers Party. We must realize once
for all that only the organized efforts
of the Communists, leading a militant
left wing, will succeed in bringing the
unorganized into the labor movement
and in Transforming labor's economic
organizations into organs OF revolu
tionary struggle, industrial in form
and based upon shop committees.
5. imperialism and the Dawes Plan
Driven by the development of the
capitalist economy of the United
States, the American ruling class is
fast assuming the position of the fore
most imperialist power in the world
American imperialism has already
lsubdued and brought under its domino
ton in various forms almost the en-
tire continent of America, North anC
South. Now, thru the Dawes plan
American Imperialism has made bic
for world domination. In consequence
Of this, militarism and navalism are
rapidly coming to the forefront in the
United States, which spells more op
preston for the working class and thu
danger Of new imperialist wars.
1t will be the duty of the Workers
Party to open the eyes of the Amer
can masses to the menace of Ameri
can imperialism, to the treacherou
role Of Gompers and the labor bureau
crazy generally in their support o
the imperialist policies of America
capitalism. The immediate task o
the party is to mobilize the Amer
can working masses against tn
Dawes plan and against the imperial
list and militaristic adventures Q
American capitalism in Central an
South America 1t will be the dut
Of our party to initiate movemen
of the entire working class on tn
American continent for defense @
the rights and independence of tn
small nations and for a unified sirius
gle against domination of America
capital.
6. Struggle Against Unemployment
AS unemployment develops upon
mass scale. which is definite and il
evitable result Of the growing contra
dictions of American capitalism, tn
party must take the lead immediatel
in stimulating, initiating, and organ
izing councils of the unemployed 1
cooperation with shop councils, trad
unions and other workers organizi
lions, upon a local, regional, and nj
! tional basis.
The following general principle
shall guide our participation in thl
campaign which must be closet
linked up with the general program
OF the party in all its phases; (a) III
employment is an unacceptable PHI
nomenon of capitalism and can b
abolished only by the abolition of tn
system that produces it; OBJ tn
struggle against unemployment mus
acquaint the workers with this fac
without dampening their ardor for tn
immediate struggles but rather inter