The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-27
The Tenth Anniversary of the
Communist Party

upon stormy struggle
Party of the United States The world correctly designated by
Lnn greatest socialism, period
of the decline of capitalism and of the poaran revolution
The world made plain to millions of workers the unbrdgeae
initiating the first stage of the world revolution created
reconabe forces had had his
IN the United States terrific va he % Of 6e revolutions
that its reflex this country only into the world
Opporun party but many
of the right wing leaders forced the early stages lip
service to its Notwithstanding achievement The overwhelming majority
OF the membership the socialist party rallied to the left
launched the left wing of
world revolution and pledged its allegiance thereto.
general party elections members the national
and elected overwhelming majority of the national committee
Germer 0nea q Goebe Co., counted the ballots and learned
pb i S and am @ % s a they sn
systematic campaign of wholesale expuons and suspensions of the
veno of the socialist these repudiated officials called
Chicago police from the hall duly elected left
wing delegates.
Two parties both adherng what they regarded the
danta Of n were @ @ e @ % t ] D from
product specific conditions affecting the development of the
specific in States, followed the
illusions of the leading of the Second
American socialist party proclaimed that participation in elections
revolutionary position paiamensm, the
position of completely rejecting parliamentary action The socialist
bureaucracy mpeled forces theoretically
OF the World as the only labor union organization which was
permissible for Communists work The suffered from
undaecta theory of separation of political action from
economic action.
In very existence
minang the infamous red raids of Wilson's attorney general
Mitchell Palmer New Years Day of 1920 Tens of thousands of
members practically all Party leaders thrown into
prison To that the uprepred for such attack
is to put the situation mildly 1t was not anticipated
by government initiated period legaty
existence This period entered without the
sembance struggle for legality Among other theoretical
nd hence organzana weaknesses did not then understand the
feminist method combining the struggle when oulawed by
of of work SnlsN''S"' WV" sA' S p'''~
During underground Communists suffering
energy
party that would
were in process coming in But was @ this
uionay quality essential to continuation of the struggle against
underground all Communist Parties
must to be- not but oten Communist Party welded
Only after difficult internal conflict successful attempts made
legality The 1922 landmark in the history of the Party
brought final liquidation of the
m to continue the underground existence in period where legality
pronounced departure from the past
effort though times hesang and uncea the part of
Party engaging activity The farmerbor campaign of 1928
accompanied intensified factonam
continued with varying degrees of intensity over period of six
aid International the during
the past ten been steadily welded into and more of true
spite Of Party
Bedford Paterson the needle trade struggles the bitter class battle
of the miners the period just past indicate the high lights of
the struggle the fierce conflict Gastona dramazes the
whole of this period in the United States this the
of the of capitalism, the United States
features that bringing about of
word
naturalization with
being the working the of
government every strike from inception taking
political involving struggle against cap
tast drive of the employers labor,
creasng the brutal forms of the increasing
fascination of the labor makes clearer the class
This drive capitalist naturalization generating ncrea
revolution enter the second decade of
existence the another world the central question
Attacks already being made against the
Socialist Fahand of the working class At such period the
lines Social reformm becomes openly
active the American Federation
Labor bureaucracy of the capitalist machine for suppressng
working class aiding the mpea place industry such
position can quickly be changed from peaceme to wartime
base. .
In period of tremendous accenuaton of all and
of capitalism, sharpening class struggles the
integrity of Communist is to the test is
such historical that weaknesses themselves
accident that this period such unprncped
faconas Cannon finding further place for their Careers
should under the banner
Tokyism into the of the Nor is difficult to
brings the
bourgeois ptandom and advenurm Pepper and Loveston