The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-06
CONVENTION is
GIVEN REPORT
OF WAR DANGER
Bedacht Tells of New
Imperialist Plans


Of the workers, and with prepara-
lions for military attack against
the stronghold of the international
working class, against the Soviet
Union.
Party Must Prepare.
The primary task before the
Party is the preparation of its
own organization for the motili-
cation Of the working class as a
whole to fight against this war
danger. The theological prepara-
lions Of our Party must consist
first of all in making the whole
Party conscious that we are not
only expecting new world war,
but that we are in the first and
preparatory phases of the war.
Next we must cleanse our Party
of all influences of pacifist and
bourgeois illusions and must guard
against opportunist and right err
rors as the most detrimental to
the campaign against the war.
The mobilization of the masses
of the working class Of the United
States.
The mobilization of the masses
of the working class of the United
States against the coming war must
be carried on with clear under
standing of the fact that the only
effective mobilization against impe-
rialist war is the mobilization for
the class war; The only force to
defeat the imperialist war is the
defeat of imperialism itself thru the
proletarian revolution. All the work
of our Party, therefore, must have
as its immediate aim the winning
of the working masses for more
militant struggle against the cap
italists and the utilization of these
struggles for the development
amongst these workers of class
consciousness and readiness for rev.
olutiozary struggles.
Must Rectify Past Errors.
In the past our Party has made
the error of understanding the war
danger by failing to understand the
immediacy of this danger. This mis-
take must be recognized and recti-
fled by immediate mobilization. The
war does not begin with the decla-
ration OIL war and with the begin
ming Ct hostilities, the-war begins
with the physical and theological
preparations for it. Only if these
preparations are made does the de-
claration of war and the beginning
of hostilities become a possibility.
The same applies to our anti-war
work. We cannot meet the exigen-
cies arising out of the entering of
the country and the government in
to an actual state of war if we
do not prepare for these exigencies
right now. This preparation must
have the form of thorough mobil-
ization of the Party and the use of
the Party machinery and of the
Party's influence for the mobiliza-
ton of the working masses for the
class struggle.
The problems and proposals for
the solution of these problems are
dealt with more in detail in the
draft resolution on the War Danger
submitted by the Gee to the con-
vention and published in the Daily
Worker of February IL.
Due to an error in the press room
of the Convention hall = section of
Jay Lovestone's opening speech on
the tasks of the Party was omitted.
1t follows the paragraph in the Daily
Worker which ends with the words
Tremendous applause). This sec
,ion of the speech follows:
"Since the last convention there
have been written number of the
best pages in the history of our
Party in organizing the morgan
lied. But only a beginning. Mum
erous tasks are confronting US or
other fields, and these must not be
neglected. At this moment, wher
there are developing, first and fore
most because of the world situation
sharpening contradictions even ir
the powerful American Imperialism
our Party will respond to these OPP.
portunities and mobilize the masses
for struggle. Under these condi
tions, where so small q section OF
the workers are organized anc
where the organized movement is
primarily under the control of the
trade union aristocracy, where We
have trade union bureaucracy that
is model of social reformism fol-
the bourgeoisie of the world, the
struggle against social reformisn
must be especially sharp.
sour Party is committed to =
campaign of merciless exposure anc
destruction of the A. F. Of L. bu'
reaucracy and for humiliation of its
influence on the working class Of
this country.
1--WE in the United States have g
socialist party which has been trans.
formed into an out and out bour.
geois party in many ways, in al
ways involving the interests of the
working class. 1t is no wonder that
Mr.. Willard of the Nation, in speak
ing at the New Leader dinner sale
that "in some ways everyone of US
is socialist, even Mr.. Morgan.
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