The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-09


Quite the contrary. We see in the
United States the class struggle
growing ever more acute. New lay
ers of workers are being attracted
to the left wing. Strikes are break
ing out in various sections of the
country and the rank and file work
ers are making renewed efforts to
overthrow the bureaucracy as for
example in the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers and among the Illinois
miners.
The struggle of the textile work
ers in Gastonia shows how acute
the class struggle is growing in the
United States and only those who
are blind will fail to see that this
great struggle is bound to have its
repercussions in other sections of
the working class. The capitalist
class understands full we'll the
meaning of the series of strikes that
have been taking place in various
industries and they are reacting to
these developments of the workers
within increased terror. This was
shown in the food workers strike in
New York City where 1900 strikers
were arrested before the strike was
several weeks old. The mad system
of naturalization is driving the
workers to take up the struggle
against the employing class, and the
bourgeoisie recognizing this situa-
ton is making feverish preparations
to break the fighting spirit of the
masses by terror. This accounts
for the summary action of the courts
in dealing with workers, for the in
crease of injunctions, the sentencing
of workers through contempt of
court proceedings, the long term i'm
prisonment of workers for strike
activity and the efforts of the bour-
geoisie to reorganize their legal
system so that they can proceed
more swiftly against the working
class.
New Weapons of Struggle.
The developments among the
working class show the following
new facts:
First, the working class is adopt
ing new forms of trade union strug-
gle formation of revolutionary in
dustrial unions); secondly, the
workers are looking to the Commu-
mist Party for leadership in their
struggle; thirdly, the masses are
beginning to overcome the barriers
which have stood in their way of
unity (the solidarity of black and
white workers in Gastonia). The
Bolshevization of the Communist
Party which is now taking place is
not some isolated event but is part
of the entire process which is going
on in the working class and is linked
up with the tasks pressing hard
upon the Party of assuming more
vigorously the role of leadership of
the masses of the country. The op-
portunists in the Party resist this
Bolshevization process because they
completely fail to understand the
revolutionary requirements of the
third period and the need for Com
munist Party cleansed of the oppor-
tunlstic remnants of the past; OF
factlonaism, unprincipledness, OF
the old chaos and decentralization
caused by the devastating fractional
fight and the lack of firm discipline
and of tendency to follow in the
tail of the masses in place of lead.
ing the masses to through
careful and systematic preparation
through developing in the masses 6
confidence in their power, through
tactics relying upon the will of the
masses to struggle-all of which re
quires a well disciplined, a firmly
united Party following the revolu
tionary policies of the Communist
International.
Rights Fight Party Unity.
The right elements, however, d,
not aim to unite the Party but de
!, spite the crying need for such unity
are engaged in spreading all kind,
of pessimistic propaganda, are aim
ing to paralyze the execution of tn,
Address of the Comintern and there
by seek to justify their opposition
to the Address by campaign O
!. decentralization of the Party work
Under the guise of the slogan O
, democracy, Lovestone and those tina
: follow him seek the right to estab
lish factions within the Party AM
show the reactions of petty-bour
geois individualists to the deman,
: for greater Capitalization and dis
cipline. Like the Trotskyites the,
challenge the doctrine of the twenty
!. one points and the fundamental con
!. ception of Bolshevik organization
: which declares that the Communis
Party can lead the masses to rev
! olution only on condition that it con
tains within its ranks the van
guard of the proletariat, a member
ship consisting of self-sacrificing
: disciplined workers who are read
to subordinate themselves to tn
will of the majority and look upol
, themselves as members of a Worl
!, Party.
h What is Lovestone attempting t
: do? Without doubt to split the Par
3 ty. This was shown by the cabl
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