The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-09
RESOLUTION ON THE WAR DANGER

Tha December Penum Central Executive Committee of the
kers (Communis Party complete with the
sion the 9th World Congress the International ha
problem of combating approaching mperials the
eense of the u S. r. the fight against the intervention in
and the partition of China and the defense the Chinese Rev
uon and colonial uprsngs the principal international tasks
If the Communist the present time These tasks
must be linked up with the everyday WORKING class sugg
against the capitalist offensive and directed towards the struggle
for the dictatorship of the proearlat'
Congress of the estimation
the of the he's been borne by whole
of events In the last few weeks there have been such
the following in which preparations of America for war nave
ed the central roe Hoovers trip to the oumo
Project of Nicaragua the Senate report on
Ncaaguan canal project the plans for military intervention IN
Company fomenng by the United States of war
Bolivia and Paraguay the for Intervention by the
Argentine and by the League OF Nations IN the
vaParaguay faught with the possibility of
Id conflict the PanAmercan Conference at Washngton Cooidgs
message congress with its plan for $7000oOOo budget for
preparations his Arsce Day speech claiming world hegmony
ogg Pact the statement of the determination
put navy oong the frantic exchange Of diplomatic and
rapomac Brtaina these events of the last
clear that world period has already be-
and that the Workers (CommunsD Party must sound the alarm
rally the for struggle against impeaist war;
BASIC TASKS OF PARTY IN STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR
In the light of this nnence of world war and aggressive
the United States the two outstand
tasks of the Party at the present moment are:
struggle against imperialism and the mperialst
danger
The fight to maintain the BoIshevk line of our Party
against the influence of social reormm ngoism
p In other words the FIGHT arainst the Right danger which
today danger facing Party, and against Trot-
skyism
struggle against the danger and against the growing
yesyene of American imperialism the basic task of our Party
precedence all other matters must all
life activities the Party and must give immediate OBJ
the trade unions fraction work nucleus
h the working class youth Negroes the working class women
poor working and the activities of the Party in
Id All strike movements all struggles against wageuts injun
u.s. open shop the right against io soclal ega
the struggle against the harmful effects of capitalist rationaa
be linked with the basic srug
of the Party against imperialist war
The struggle against Right danger Troyism and the
ugge unity Party the Importance which
precisely because they in order to
ry for the struggle against
Imperialism and UNDER
man the danger oyermaon of the strength Of Amer
Imperialism and consequent pessimism defeasm and pasy
conception that there perspective for sharp class struggles
unionsm American
perasm still upward rnd failure to the role of the
a and the American Federation of Labor part of the
taist forces preparing for war; underestmaton OF the ann
ais struggle the Pary work the Negro pac
tendencies failure combat pacfism and ngsm and other
nfestaons OF ght errors ana must De rooted OUT e
ry they paray the Pary ability the struggle
anst the danger The Trotsk Cannon attack
the that because
which attempts poison the minds of the American workers
Party thus aiding imperialism its preparations for
the Soviet Union and undermining the authority of the Party and
Comnen the leader of the tong in the struggle
'ainst Imperialism
The of the whole Party with consciousness of the
mnence Of the danger an absolute necessity The Central
Secuve Committee convinced that not only the American work
aroused to the mmnencc of but the Party
really awakened The the
of speculation
relative matter OF
eate and of dayoday struggle against mpeast and
steps in preparation for it.
This basay approach has led to comparative neglect of
animperast work to failure give the danger prmacy
the shaping of the activities CT the every field of
Id in every department of Party
The Central Executive Committee calls the attention of the Party
these shortcomings and declares that the Central Executive Com
ttee and the Party must multiply MANIFOLD their efforts
American workers realization the situation
nd develop their will capacity struggle the mperia
Any failure this failure the major task before
Party and failure in basic duty to the working
BEGINNINGS OF A NEW WORLD WAR
The roots Of the present world situation
The growing anagonsm between the United States and British
Imperialism This is the basic antagonm between the mperialst
today and takes the place of the ntagnm between German
nd British Imperialism prior to the of 1914-18.
2 Growing aggression of u. S. imperialism Latin
This that
British capital to drive Latin represents
definite attempt to take of the Amer
continents for American capital establish direct financial
political and military control
Formation of imperaist powers for war
the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics Beside the
between the mperast stands the
mental of all antagonm of the mperast
the hand and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics the
the rreconclabe antagonism opposite
tween the mperaist their antagonsm