The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21

held last week In New York as au-
thorlzed by the Central Executive
Committee to settle important prob
lens directly connected with the
life Of NoVy Mir, daily organ of the
Russian section, adopted the report
OF the c. {. C. made by comrade
5lttelman by a vote of II to 2.
Great Improvements have been
made In both the Communist liter
airy character and financial condi-
ton Of NoVy Mir and the report of
comrade BitteIman details the
methods outlined by the c. (. c. to
accomplish this result.
COMRADES: This is special con-
~ vention. The Central Executive
Committee authorized the calling of
this convention mainly for one rea-
son. We felt that only by means of
a special convention of your section
can we have our Russian daily and
thereby enable the Russian Section to
develop and grow.
We were convinced so strongly of
the necessity of such a convention
that we felt justified in overruling
your bureau on this point. Your bu-
reau-this must be stated-was op-
posed to the calling of this convention
because the comrades did not believe
that the convention would help in this
ENxyap1v two
Committee thought otherwise and al
tho the convention must yet prove
whether il will really and definitely
save and establish Novy Mir, We
have no doubt that this will be
the case. We are convinced that the
responsible leadership of our Russian
Section gathered now in convention
will be able to solve the difficulties
of the situation and insure our party
a daily Communist organ in the Rus
sian language; that is, fighting mill
tsnt Novy Mir and living, function
ing organization of the Russian Com
munists in the Workers Party of
America.
Where Are We At?
IN approaching the problem of our
| party and of it's Russian Section it
might be well to throw just a glance
at the present situation.
You will notice that one of the char
acteristic features of the present mo-
ment is the almost complete absence
of any organized political opposition
in congress against the Coolidge ad-
ministration. Neither the democratic
party, which is supposed to be the
sworn official opposition, nor the So
called progressive bloc led by Sena-
tor LaFollette which is supposed to
be the genuine honest" opposition
neither of them are in any way op-
posing the rule of big capital as ex-
emplified in the administration of
Coolidge Surely the miserable little
struggles in congress over pork-bar-
rels and similar matters of state"
cannot be considered real political op-
position against the rule of big CAPT
tai 1t would seem as if the electoral
NiCIOil VI INC ACRuBAASdh PaAhy COAAA
pletely crushed the opponents or
would-be opponents of the capitalist
parties Even the farmer-laborites
who are supposed to be on the extreme
left of our bourgeois parties, even
they have shut their mouths as far as
political struggle is concerned.
THE only organized political opposi-
| ton to the rule of big land small)
capital in the United States comes
from the Workers (Communist)
Party. 1t will do US no good to un-
derestimate, or. for that matter, to
overestimate the significance of this
fact. 1t is becoming clearly appar-
ent that the only real opposition that
will ever be developed in the United
States against the rule even Of big
capital, in distinction from opposition
to capitalism as a whole, will come
only from the movement that the
Workers Party will be able to create.
OF course, as the class antagonisms
in the United States become sharper
and the position of capitalism less Sc
cure, we will find ranked against big
capital also the petty bourgeoisie. But
this will only happen inasmuch as the
Communist movement of America will
begin developing real strength to ex-
ert pressure upon the non-proletarian
classes and to drive them into strug.
gle against big capital In other
words the Workers Community
Party Of America. small as It is, is the
only force capable of developing the
movement against capitalism in the
United States.
THE victory Of the republican party
! in the last election resulted, as
we have foreseen and foretold, in in
creased capitalist exploitation all
along the line. Wage cuts are on the
order Of the day. Persecution of mill
tants in the labor movement has just
begun. The proposed child labor
amendment to the constitution Of the
Tfottad Cfafoa "a fufaarahla and inafQ.