The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-01

small Communist parties unified. Also I'M
der the Internationals guidance the Commu-
mist Party was brought out of its state of
illegal existence through the formation of
the Workers Party. This important step
prepared the way for the Party to take
part in the big strike struggles of 1922, in
the movement for amalgamation of the trade
unions, and the fight for independent politi-
cal action of the working class through the
formation of labor party.
Through these struggles the Communist
Party was learning the early lessons necess-
airy to the formation of feminist party.
Mass contacts began. Penetration of the
trade unions took on real character, and
participation in the actual struggles of the
workers drove the early sectarianism more
and more to the wall. The Party began to
learn the first lessons of work among the
super-eXploited Negro masses who will play
such large part in the struggle.
Thus the Bolshevization of the Party was
seriously carried forward.
The reorganization of the Party on the
basis of a shop nuclei and the abolition of
language branches worked TRANSITIONAL
ton so fundamental as to multiply the
strength of the party far beyond the pro-
portion of its membership.
Participation in strikes developed into the
leadership of strikes of some mass signifi-
canoe. To the tremendous lesson of the need
t owork in the trade unions was added the
great lesson of Communist leadership of
unions, of strikes, and then the great lesson
of the formation of new unions, the organic
al Of Lo ~
Party.
Historic conditions effectively, and the
development and Bolshevization of the Com
munist Party brought the Workers Com
munist Party before the working class as
the sole leader of great struggles that
for long period there has been no single
important struggle Of the workers against
the employers in which the Workers Com
munist Party has not been depended upon by
the workers for leadership.
The supreme task of struggle against i'm
perialist war and for the defense of the So
cialist Fatherland of the working class of
the world-the Soviet Union, brought deep
er feminist character to the Party. Here in
the most fundamental way the Communist
Party shows its development toward the
Revolutionary CudTdCIeF WHICH L6Hln ndQ In
stilled. The party that is not international
list in spirit and practice can lay no claims
to the names of either Marx or Lenin The
struggle against the imperialist aggression
on Nicaragua and all of Latin America, the
struggle for the Chinese Revolution, are
testing and at the same time developing he
Workers (Communist) Party as one worthy
of the standards set by the great Party that
Lenin forged in the fires of revolution.
The Workers (Communist) Party today is
engaged in these struggles. And to these are
added, as an inseparable part of the entire
fight on American and world imperialism
the revolutionary use of the national presi-
Dental election-rejecting Illusions rejecting
the opportunism of parliamentary reformism
and utilizing our participation in the capital
list democratic" elections for the rallying
and training Of the working masses in poll
tical consciousness, in class consciousness
and class struggle
The Workers (Communist) Party can on
its ninth birthday say without hesitation to
the working class of America: This is your
class party; this is the party of the class
struggle; this is the party of Lenin, the party
of the revolutionary MARKHAM movement
which will again put into action the program
of Transforming the imperialist war into
civil war against the capitalist class, and
which will remake the world into World
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics