The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06
PLAN FIGHT ON US.
| MP M AS
ALL-AMERICA AIM
LOvestone, Foster Give
Program of Struggle
Coal Miner Tells Plenum
Of Big Strike


The plenary meeting of the Central
Committee of the Workers (Comnu-
nist) Party of America at it's open
ing session Saturday afternoon at
Irving Plaza Hall, 18th Street and
Irving Place, listened to the report
of the Political Committee of the
Party, delivered by Jay Lovestone.
executive secretary, on "The Present
Situation and the Tasks of the
Party" Immediately followed the
report on the situation in the trade
unions and the tasks of the Party in
the unions, delivered by VIM. 2.
FosLer.
Foreign Delegates Attend.
Delegates attending the session in
fraternal capacity brot greetings
from the Communist Parties of Mex
leo and Canada, respectively.
William 2. Foster as chairman of
the first sitting, called the plenum to
order, saying:
american capitalism finds itself
in grave difficulties. Three million
workers are walking the streets of
this country as unemployed. This
| plenary session of the Central. Com
mittee Of our Party meets at time
when capital is delivering an often
sive, attacking the wages, and living
standards of the workers. But these
attacks are not falling upon work
ing class which is unresponsive to at
| tack.
eve find everywhere an increasing
resistance on the part of the workers.
Discomfort is widespread, and the re-
sistance is found among the morgan
lied as well as the unionized. There
is a mood for struggle which demon
strates a rising spirit of the working
class. 1t is absolutely imperative to
organize the hitherto demoralized
workers, betrayed by their leaders of
the official bureaucracy.
"This will call for the utmost unity
in our Party in order to be able to
take advantage of every situation.
l believe the Party will be equal to
the task.
ne has DSSn
able to come before the Party with
unanimous thesis analyzing the
present situation correctly and funda-
mentally, and putting before US .
correct plan of action"
Canada Representative Reports.
Morris Spector, representative of
the Communist Party of Canada, brot
the greetings of the revolutionary
workers of Canada, saying that the
condition of the Dominion usually fol-
lowed about two years behind the
corresponding conditions in the
United States, but that in the case Of
industrial decline, the following was
more rapid than in the case of a rise.
prosperity" in Canada, said Spec
tor, has the character of leaving
many thousands of workers in a con-
dition of acute destitution, while $40
per week is the average weekly wage
for Canadian workers in Canada. The
real proletarian receives about rs
cents per hour.
"The Trades and Labor Congress"
he said, sis dominated by reaction
aries who put themselves on record
against recognition of the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics, against
any association of their name with
the cause of saving Sacco and Van
zetti, and who consider their chief
function to be to keep their orienta-
tion to Geneva.
"The British imperialists have IN
Canada propagandist of the econ
omic unity of the British Empire.
The bourgeoisie of Canada is doing
everything to prepare for the coming
war between Great Britain and the
United States. 1t has all the auto
nomy and as much national status as
it dares to have. Mckenzie King and
other leading bourgeois politicians
are lining up with the British bour-
geosie against the American bour-
geoisie. They broke off diplomatic
relations with the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics when the British
government did.
"The trade union bureaucrats in
1913 declared for general strike in
case of war, and reaffirmed this a
few months before the world war