The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-02
P PARTY MEET
OPENS WITH BIG
DEMONSTRATION
Celebrate Founding of
Comintern
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steer our determination to move for
ward on the path of Lenin."
Lovestone then referred to the
Party as the leader Of the Negro
masses, and declared that the Ne
groes following the line of Lenin
under the banner of the Communist
International, will yet speak to the
capitalist lynchers in the only langu
age they can understand, the langu-
age of revolution.
Tremendous bursts Of applause in
terrupted Lovestone turnout the
course of his speech.
Huiswood Speaks.
He then introduced Otto Huis-
wood, head of the Negro depart
alcnt of the Party. Huiswood de-
clared that the Negroes had already
shown in the Chicago race riots that
they know how and where to shoot
and now that they have gone a step
farther and grown class-conscious
they would yet fight. shoulder to
shoulder with the white workers for
the overthrow of capitalism.
Recalling that the Party was born
out of the struggle against i'm
perialist war, and for proletarian
revolution, struggle in which many
of its members were Jailed, Benjamin
Gitlow, member of the Secretariat,
declared that in the present period
of war preparations against the So
Wet Union, the Party will continue
to conduct struggle against i'm
perialist war, for the defeat of the
imperialist armies, including our
own capitalist army. At the same
time the Party will fight for the de-
velopment of revolutionary struggle
in event Of war and for the estab-
lishment of proletarian dictator
ship.
Gitlow pointed out that the leader
ship of the Workers Party has al
ways fought in the front ranks in
the struggle against opportunism,
when it manifested itself in the old
socialist party. Ruthenberg was a
symbol of this struggle which is con-
tinuing today, he said, when the
socialist party is feeling our blows.
1t is the growing strength Of the
Workers Party among the masses
of the American workers, he de-
clared, which is causing the socialist
party to act as the jailer of our
Party leaders. Gitlow declared that
the Workers Party is ready to
throw every ounce of energy into
the task of defending the Soviet
Union and again emphasized that
we have always supported fully the
Communist Party for the Soviet
Union, the leading Party of the
Communist International and will
continue to fight, together with all
other sections Of the Communist In
ternational, for the complete over
throw of Imperialism.
William z. Foster, member of the
Secretariat, spoke in appreciation
of Ruthenberg's services to the revo-
lutionary movement, which, he de-
elared, it is especially timely to re-
call in connection with the present
danger of war.
Emphasizing the role of the
American Federation of Labor in
the past imperialist war, the speak
er stated that we are now depending
upon the unorganized and the un-
skilled for developing a revolu-
tionary trade union movement.
He declared that the Party must
devote every energy to fighting So
cial reformism both in the. Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and as prac-
ticed by the bourgeoisie.
j, Louis Engdahl, recently re.
turned as American representative
to the Executive Committee of the
e. l., brought greetings to the Amer
lean working class from the work
ers and peasants of three mid-Asian
republics of Kazakistan, Uzbekis-
tan and Turkmanistan which he WIS.,
coast. The renewed cold spell in
Austria, Hungary and the Balkans
q a. 4o1 IA.