The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

made a mass paper. The best talents
and energies of the Party must be
placed at the disposal of The DAILY
WORKER. The Gee must drop the
policy of assigning comrades on the
basis of who could be spared most
and not on the basis of ability and
usefulness. The DAILY WORKER is
the face of the Party today more
than ever before.
Party education: We have made
only the beginnings of the organlza-
ton of an apparatus for the estab-
lishment of effective Agitprop work,
Such an Agitprop Department is one
of the most effective means Of raising
the theological level of the Party.
This too is good antidote to fac
tionalism.
We must continue our efforts to
unity the Party in more energetic
manner than in the past.
A few words about pessimisln;-
Our Party will fight against any idea
or propaganda which maintains
there is no room for a Communist
Party in this country. We realize
there are tremendous difficulties, but
we will conduct sharp struggles
against pessimism and we will wage
relentless campaign against the
attempt to spread the ideas of the
bourgeoisie among the American
masses. Every day, despite all the
bourgeoisie propaganda, in spite of
all the terror Of the imperialists, our
Party is showing increasing capacity
to move forward and lead mass
struggles; for Communists must lead
in the separating of the working
class from the bourgeoisie in this
country The future holds sharp
class struggles in store for the Amer
lean workers. Even today, with all
the much-vaunted prosperity, there
are class struggles. And in these
class struggles our Party is showing
substantial and increasing capacity
of leadership.
1t is true that the bureaucracy is
still moving to the right. But here
we must remember that the very To-
gic of the bureaucracy's going to the
right at a terrific velocity is going
to hasten the development of a stu
alton where these bureaucrats will
stand out in the open, in the light,
before the masses, so that big mas
ses who are today opposed to us,
tomorrow when they begin to fight
for the most elementary demands,
or when the very craft unions which
exist today fight for their very right
of existence, those masses will rea-
lie that the Communists are their
true leaders, are worthy of leader
ship. Then the masses will come
over to us.
The present prosperity is not per-
manent. Nor is the present domina-
q ton of the labor movement by the
reactionary bureaucracy permanent.
1t is ridiculous to compare the dis
with the fate in store for our Party.
Our Party is free from the limita-
tons and errors of the IWW and SP.
We are becoming a Bolshevik Party
based on Marxism and Leninism and
are free from social-democratic and
syndicalist errors. We are free from
the errors of the trade union capital
lists. Only to the extent that we
are able to avoid such errors creep
ing into our ranks, is there hope and
future and a basis for successful
work by our Party.
There are forces in American i'm
perialism, yes even in this apparent
ly all-powerful American capitalism,
undermining American impefialist
supremacy. Let me recount very
briefly some of these principal forces
First, the United States is more
and more exporting manufactured
products. 1t is there becoming in
J.. creasingly dependent on the world
market
Secondly, the accumulation of capt.
tai and the concentration of owner
ship bring with them the proletari-
anization Of great masses thru the eX-
preparation of large sections of the
petty bourgeoisie and farming mas
SEES.
Thirdly, American capitalism is
developing parasitic character
American capitalism. because it is
becoming capital ma
ton to an increasing extent, is de-
veloping parasitic character, living
off other countries. This is source
of weakness and danger to the Amer
lean imperialists.
Fourthly, as result of the war
the rest Of the world owes America
over twenty billion dollars. Here
we have conflict within the bourgeoi-
sic because finance capital demands
!. the dropping of the tariff barriers
while the industrial capitalist in
. terosts demand higher tariff Those
who are not interested in the export
of capital, are in favor of higher
tariff. But the tendency is all in
favor of withdrawing the tariff bar
riers, which must bring in its train
\ a dropping of immigration barriers
This means a blow at the privileged