The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-23
Acceptance Speech

Dor party in the United States will
be filled with reformist illusions. But
in the present period, when we have
to break the masses from the old par
ties, it is step forward. On this
basis the Workers (Communist) Par
ty supports the labor party.
Build the Party.
Now, comrades, let me emphasize
matter of basic Importance for US in
the present campaign. That is the
building of the Workers (Communist)
Party. Tremendous tasks confront
our Party. I have already cited some
of the most important of these. Our
Party is small. Our Party is weak.
But, it must be made large and
strong. Our Party must be built up
vastly in order to carry on the great
struggles confronting it. This Party
building can be done if we but pro-
coed energetically along the proper
lines. Around our Party are thou
sands, tens of thousands, yes, l can
say couple of hundreds of thousands
of workers who sympathize in a gen.
eral way with our struggle. From
this great mass of workers, just
awakening to the class struggle, we
must draw new elements in large
amounts to fill up and build our Par
ty. In this way it can be made strong
to carry out the great tasks confront
ing it.
The presidential elections campaign
must be utilized definitely for the
building of our Party, and its press.
The campaign will be a failure if we
do not succeed in doubling the mem
bership of the Workers (Communist)
Party. (Applause.) And all that
have said about the necessity of
building the Workers (Communist)
Party applies with equal force to the
building of the Young Workers
League. applause In every strug-
gle in which our Party participates
we find that the youth, the young
workers, are playing an increasingly
important role. In the industries they
form bridge between the native born
workers and foreign workers. In the
new unionism that is now beginning
slowly to emerge the leaders will not
be the old fossils and reactionary figs
ures of the old trade unions, but new
elements recruited from the youth of
the country. We must build the
Young Workers League. (Applause.)
Comrades, just word in conclu-
sion. Let us go into the election
campaign in the sense that have ex-
pressed our tasks. Let us not be dis
couraged by the magnitude of the
problems confronting us, by the
strength and arrogance of the enemy,
by the weakness of our own forces.
Today our Party is small and the
parties of the capitalists are large
and strong, but the day will surely
come when the Communist Party will
be the only political party in the
United States. (Applause.) On that
day it will be the Party of the vic
torious proletarian revolution. Gap
plause.)
In this period the American work
ing class is relatively apathetic. But
forces are at work, forces bred of the
failures and contradictions of the cap
italist system itself, forces that drive
the workers into deeper oppression,
that will one day, sooner perhaps
than we realize, awaken them, radi-
calize them, revolutionize them and
prepare them for a real attack
against capitalism. Let us then build
our Party in the daily struggles and
in preparation for the revolution. Let
us make our Party into worthy
brother of the Communist Parties of
the Soviet Union, Germany, France,
England, Czechoslovakia, China, and
other countries, which under the
leadership Of the Communist Inter-
national, are gradually mohilizing the
working masses of the world for the
overthrow of world imperialism and