The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-26
The Open Letter and
the NeW Party Line

unless the resistance OF the working
class to the reduction of their stand
ard of living and the speed-up and
the intensification of labor, is over
come. The capitalist class realizes
full we'll that if the training of the
young workers as participators in
capitalist naturalization, in the ra-
tionalized factories is begun early,
if this process is carried on system
atically, their hopes are that they
will train such a labor force, such
a working class as to permit the
decentralization plans being carried
out successfully
Furthermore, we know that one of
the consequences of naturalization
is substitution of youth labor and of
child labor for adult labor. l have
seen some of the proofs from book
in the auto industry, that l believe
that the International Publishers
will soon put out, and there the
process of replacement of the adult
workers by the young workers is
recounted in great detail, and it
is very interesting study. The
auto industry in this respect is
pioneer in capitalist naturalization
insofar as measures the capitalist
class is already putting in. Young
workers, young girls, are being
drawn into the factories in all de-
partments, replacing the adult work
ers, replacing even formerly skilled
and semi-skilled workers. We can,
therefore, see that in the present pc
Rod, in every direction in which we
turn, we find the young workers
playing a tremendous role. The
question that our movement will
have to answer. which we are an
swering already at this minute, is
whether that role will be for the
workers, for freeing the workers
from the capitalist system, or for
the capitalist class. AS Marxists, we
know that it is inevitable that the
working class, and consequently also
the young workers, shall eventually
align themselves in the struggle
against capitalism. But we are not
fatalists. We know that this process
must be accompanied by conscious
action of the most advanced section
Of the working class organized in
the Communist Party. We know
that it is possible, thru proper mo-
bilization of the working class, to
accelerate certain processes in the
capitalist system. And our business
is to organize and to so direct our
efforts as actually to accelerate this
process and to ensure winning over
the young workers for the working
class, for the revolutionary move
ment.
Naturalization Draws Youth Into
Industry.
Comrades, the process of ration
alization itself creates the basis for
the winning of the young workers
to the class struggle. That is one of
the inevitable contradictions of CAPT
talism in the present period. The
efforts of capitalism to strengthen
it's position-and even success in
the economic strengthening of CAPT
talism, increase in production, ETC.,
this is leading to an extension of
the general crisis, to the general
crisis, to the general contradictions
in the capitalist system. And we
see that the naturalization in its
effect on the young workers actu-
ally accelerates the process of win
ming the young workers to class
struggle and provides the objective
basis for us to win the young work
ers to the Communist movement.
Let US state very briefly what these
results are.
First of all, large masses of young
workers az being drawn into indus
try from various categories,
from among the youth which pre-