The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-04
Dear Comrades:

Party going.
From propaganda organization uniting chiefly immigrant
workers and having insignificant influence among
ers the Workers Communist Party beginning into
Party of political action guiding the political
actions of the most advanced and the most militant ranks of the
American proletara The Congress empha-
sized its resolutions this important feature in the develop
ment of the Party declaring that "a number of stubborn and fierce
class battles particularly the miners ske
mist Party stawart leader"
Precisely the period following the convention of 1927 the Party
has been acting with increasing frequency the awart leader of
proetast
fuence the native workers The furiers and work
ers strikes the miners strike the textile workers strike in New
Bedford and Fall River and the silk strike Patersonsuch is the
series of battles which the Workers Party of America has for the
first time the role of Party political action capable
of linking the economic struggles of the poarat with its poll
teal aims
had of fierce the
yellow American Federation of Labor and the most stubborn rs
lance the socialist party Of the best in the history
of the work of the Party during the last
However, Party making its first the
path the threshold between the old and the
new has not vet passed the turning point 1t has yet done little
shift its base from the immigrants to the native Americans
poyed the basic industries 1t has done still less in relation to
the millions of the Negro proetarat
Meanwhile, which will impose tasks
the Workers of America and will compel to take the lead
gigantic conflicts developing rapidly.
The aggressiveness struggle
k and the important of material throughout the
world is growing swiftly The election of Hoover as president
Imperialism resoutey embakng
which leads colonial of occupation and to extremely rapid
struggle between the United States and its chief
imperialist Britain American imperialism striving
monopost position world and politics and is be-
coming more and capitalism
and into the orbit of the growing instability
of world capitalism
The striving towards domination politics
lean Imperialism towards brutal capitalist ration
which throws considerable sections of the proeaa out
productions extreme overstrain of labor without
responding compensation colossal growth of unemployment
mion) general worsening of the conditions of the
working On the other hand leads towards tremendous CROWN
of which puts heavier burdens onto the shoulders Oh
ng All this and the of the terrific caames
of war uncertainty and insecurity in the entire
working this basis that the tendency towards radical
zaon of the American working class increasing that It's acv
ties its will to defend ITSELF places transform itself
will the offensive developing This drift towards
It now embraces chiefly unorganized especially those
which not reached their previous level after the de-
preston of the first half of 1928.
The Workers Communst) Party obviously still unprpared
great conflicts which will inevitably arise the basis
of the sharpening relations in the United States
past still weighs its present The relics OF the previous
period the greatest obstacle in the path has
to successfully the turning point and develops
possible time from numerically small propaganda
organization into mass political party working
class
This however which the whole objective situation
in the United States the entire postwar development
Imperialism places before Party This the chief und
decisive task to which all other tasks must be entirely
subordinaed.
The Workers (commun Party America has been for
years of foreign workers not much connected with
the political life of the country Owing this immigrant exclusive
ness two leading groups arose consolidated
Party almost uninterrupted struggle
for supremacy Party has been going between Them The
struggle was in principle and at times it
unpncd character At times assumed the appear
nce struggle principle but reality not
ey struggle of principles principles served chiefly to
tween groups conferred principles he attitude to-
Labor Party the question of trade union acc the d
substantial differences points of principle be-
the recorded times by the
ECCI well as by the Party itself
the w convention OF the Party
were unanimously notwithstanding the acute
cona struggle convention But when the convention
was became sharper than before
Further resolution of the presm of the ECCl on the
American question adopted July 1st 1927, states:
sThe objective difficulties the weaknesses of the Workers
contact with the
factors compicatng the situa
ton Workers (CommunisD Party. An insuiciently
strong Party the result of insufficient basis, the
members of the former language
groups with specific problems Of the class struggle in the
United the development of and factlona
struggles intensity of which WE SEEK in
VAIN TO EXPLAIN THROUGH SERIOUS DIFFERENCES
OF PRINCIPLE"
the fact that both adopted
unanimously February extensive theses concerning all vital
political problems well the fact that both
vi committed Right wing
Finally of the CT declared that the faconal
struggle theWore Communis Party of America lis not based
on any serious differences of principle"
Nor can fundamental differences be-
tween the Majority and the Minority OF the
Gee justify within the Party The differences be-
tween Minority the Gee do not beyond those
limits would make impossible to settle them without fac
iona struggle.
Majority shown tendency to underestimate the process
Of of differentiation in the ranks