The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
l. Industrial Struggle and the Tasks
of the Communists.


1. Owing to the particularly rapid
Capitalization of capital that is TAX
ing place at the present time, the
growth of capitalist organizations
(trusts, concerns, etc., and the fu-
sion of these organizations with the
apparatus of bourgeois state power,
industrial struggles tend to assume
very quickly a political character in
which the forces of the proletariat
come into collision with the forces of
the bourgeois state. Under such cir
cumstances it is the task of the Com
munists to explain to the masses the
prospects of the struggle, to mobilize
as large sections of workers as pos
sible, to help in every possible way
to bring about their revolutionary
unification and to raise the whole
struggle onto higher plane.
Main Tasks for Party.
2. Communists and revolutionary
workers generally must base their
tactics upon determined and re-
lentless struggle against so-called
industrial peace" which is nothing
but one of the modern forms of sub
jections of the working class to the
bourgeoisie. Therefore, while the
mobilization of the masses must pro-
coed on the basis of concrete demands
concerning wages and hours the fol-
lowing slogans must be advanced
simultaneously: freedom to strike
against compulsory arbitration,
against social-democratic adherence
to wage agreements and, as a gen.
eral rule, for short-term wage agree
ments.
3. Mobilization of the masses on
a large scale, now more than ever
before, demands the rapid penetration
of big concentrated enterprises. To
bring about the utmost fighting
unity of the working class, to organ
ize the unorganized, to organize the
broad masses of unskilled workers,
to improve the state of organization
of the workers in big enterprises
this must be the central task of the
Communist vanguard.
a. The adoption of new forms of
attack against the working class by
the bourgeoisie is accompanied by an
orientation to the right on the part
of the social-democratic politicians
and the trade union leaders who ac-
lively support the tactics of indus
trial peace, impede industrial strug-
giles or betray them at the most cri-
teal moments. For that reason Com
munists must adopt tactics which will
make it possible to remove the re-
formists from the leadership of the
industrial struggle. The utmost must
be done to secure the initiative in
forming strike committees and to
place ourselves at their head.
Must Expose Reformists.
5. The task of the Communist
vanguard in each strike is: to mo-
Billie broad masses of the workers
on the basis of concrete slogans cor
responding to the given stage of the
struggle. This means that Commun-
lists must not merely try to put for
ward more far-reaching demands
than those put forward by the re-
formists but must expose the defeat
list maneuvers of the reformist trade
union bureaucracy to the masses by
being themselves ready for the fight.
| Every strike must serve as an arena
of struggle for leadership between
Communists and reformists.
Therefore, Communists must aim
above all to secure Communist lead
arship in strike struggles. 1t is essen
tial to mobilize the masses under
Communist slogans, to endeavor to
carry out our tactics through the
trade union organization. to expose
the treachery of the reformists at
every stage of the struggle and, if
conditions are favorable, to organize
,tr!kcs Notwithstanding the opposi-
I IN of the trade union bureaucracy.
For this purpose it is essential to
Sorm strike committees, of which we
must take the leadership and through
them ASSUME leadership over the
ITh,'le industrial struggle.
6. To be good Communist GER
ta:nly Dies not mean to advocate ar
immediate strike at all times and
under all circumstances. Particular
care must be taken not to abuse the
slogan of the general strike. Com
munists must be able to select the
right moment for the struggle, and
have clear idea of the correlat on
of forces; they must neither drag at
the tail of the masses, nor run too
far ahead of them. They must not
decide on strikes lightly, but having
decided they must make use of every
chance and opportunity that offers
to make the fight successful.
Under present conditions, when the