The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-06

member, one must also be an active
revolutionary fighter in the class
struggle. But what do maintain is
this: every real Communist must be
a member of the Communist Party.
Without a Communist Party there
can be no Communist movement, no
real revolutionary struggle. The
Workers (Communist) Party is con-
Quoting the present membership drive
not on abstract principles and concep-
lions, but rather on actual work and
struggles. In the campaigns for tha
relief of the miners, for protection OF
the foreign born, for labor party,
for amalgamation of the trade unions,
for the liberation of the political pris-
oners, for the defense of the Soviet
Union, and in the fight against the
danger of the new war and against
American imperialism, our Commune
list Party is the leader. But let us
assume that every member of our
Party would think the same way as
many of our nearest sympathizers do
that it is possible to be a Bolshevik
without joining the Bolshevik Party
what would happen? There would be
no Party, nobody to organize and lead
the struggles in this country against
capitalism, no campaigns, no revolu-
nothing to sympathize with. Because
we have a group of workers who I'M
derstand the role of a revolutionary
Communist Party in the class strug-
gle, we have today the Workers
(Communist) Party and the Commun-
list movement.
Necessity For Labor.
The strengthening of the Commune
list Party of America has become the
greatest necessity of the entire labor
movement. Every revolutionary work
er can easily see that our labor move
ment is pushed against the Wall. 1t
is in the process of disintegration.
The very existence of the trade unions
is in danger; the bourgeoisie is carry
ing on the most open and systematic
offensive to crush them. The life of
the United Mine Workers of America
is at stake. Open the pages of the
ais tory of the class struggle in this
country and you will find example
after example where the labor move
ment had been completely smashed,
the trade unions wiped out of exis-
tence, and only after a long period
the workers would again begin to
gather their forces together, to or
ganize themselves and take up the
struggle against the bourgeoisie once
more. We are today on the verge of
such a complete humiliation of our
labor movement.
How and who can stop this disin-
5egration? Who can defeat the con-
spiracy of the ruling class against the
organized workers? Will the present
dership of the trade unions under
take this task! Will the socialist
party act as the center of the work.
5rs' stand AGAINST the onslaught upon
1 lie trade unions? ! am sure that no
sympatnIzsg "a our movement can be-
lieve in such a miracle.
COMMUNISTS Only Force.
There s IN one force in the work.
ng class of this country that can and
will have 10 p rforn The mission Of
allying the workers against the capt.
talist offensive. that is the Work.
ers (Communist) Party. But as it is
now, it is too weak to grapple effec-
lively with the great tasks before it.
It's ranks are too small. We are too
few. That is the reason why we want
70 get into our ranks every revolu-
tionary worker. Five thousan4 new
-Aempers tor the Communist Party
would be the greatest blow to the
forces working for the disintegration
and destruction of the labor move
ment.
Therefore, we ask and appeal to our
sympathizers to join our ranks, to be-
come an integral part of our move
ment and become Communists in the
real sense of the world-soldiers in
the great struggle to save the labor
movement, to repulse the capitalist
offensive and to make further adj
vance in the direction of the prole-
tartan revolution which will eventual
ly usher in working class rule in
America.