The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-07
WORKERS PARTY
MEET IS TOLD OF
COMING STRUGGLE
Dunno Talks on Present
Tasks of Labor


of the Political Committee of the
Workers (Communist) Party occupied
all of Sunday and Monday at the
plenary session of the Central Com
mittee of the Party which continues
today at Irving Plaza Hall, 18th St.
and Irving Pl., New York City.
Members of the Central Committee,
members of the Control Commission
and hundreds of Party functionaries
who crowded the hall, followed with
close attention the Political Commit
tee report delivered by Jay Love-
stone Saturday night and the discus
sion which ensued.
The first section of the full report
as embodied in the speech of Com
rade Lovestone, too voluminous for
publication in one issue, appears on
page two of this issue of The DAILY
WORKER.
Gitlow Reports on Conditions in
Western States.
Benjamin Gitlow, member of the
Secretariat of the Workers (Corn-
niunist) Party, reported to the plen-
cry session of the Central Committee
On the economic and politssal condi-
tions in the labor movement of the
western section of the country, of
which he had made an extensive tour
during the past weeks for the
Strengthening of Party organization
and to address mass meetings as well
as Party membership meetings in all
Important centers.
Referring to the analysis Of eco
mic conditions of the country as
whole as made in the unanimous
thesis of the Political Committee,
which he found in accord with his
findings in the western industrial CEN
ters, Comrade Gitlow said:
"The period of Coolidge prosper
ity' has now definitely come to
close, and especially is one impressed
with the truth of this statement when
making a visit to the west.
Cities Crowded With Jobless.
HIn San Francisco there are today
$4,000 unemployed, and the capital
ist press Of Los Angeles admits that
there arc 10000 workers unemployed
in that southern city of California.
"All over the west we will find con-
ditions becoming much worse This
is true not only in respect to out
right unemployment, but also in re-
spect to the increase of part-time en-
rloyment, and again in the matter of
reductions of wages. These facts go
towards substantiating the fact that
Coolidge prosperity is at an end and
that the workers are facing deep
going crisis.
"This condition opens up a period
of big struggles for the left wing of
the labor movement and especially
for our Workers (Communist) Party.
The San Francisco building trades
workers are on the eve of very i'm
portant struggle. The employers as
sociation and the master builders are
beginning an offensive against the
standards of the workers. The San
Francisco workers are beginning to
understand that this means that the
employers of that region will not
stop until they have smashed the
unions. At present the bosses are in
sisting that the unions must come
to an understanding with them which
amounts to submission to the open
shop and at the same time reduction
of wages. 1t is tacitly understood
that this means an offensive for the
general breaking down of standards.
"The attitude Of the officialdom of
the trade unions to this demand of the
bosses for IAN understanding is to
give in, to retreat, to accept the terms
of the bosses. But on the other hand
the rank and file wants to fight. One
can say that the workers in the main
are not ready to give up to the bosses
what they have won after many
years of struggle. But the labor
movement is divided on this ques-
tion: Shall we fight or shall we
give in? Have we a hope Of saving
something, or must we admit that we
are too weak and cannot fight?'
"The reactionary officialdom of
the trades unions does not put forth
any proposition of a fight for the
conditions of the workers. What is
true in the building trades is also
true in the International Association
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