The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-03
PREPARE FOR AUGUST FIRST

China, the imperialist rule in the Dutch East
Indies, carried on with the support of the
Dutch socialists, and the imperialst interview
ton in China, supported by the socialists of
every country, must be exposed and made
known to the American working class. The
campaign against social fascsm must be con-
Quoted energetically, particularly among those
workers who are still under the leadership
of Fascism and social fascsm.
The struggle against imperialist war and
the mobilization of the American workers for
August First must be carried on by a broad
united front from below. We must not limit
ourselves to the united front with the workers
in those organizations which are already under
the political influence of our Party. 1t is
especially necessary to draw into the united
action against imperialist war and for the de-
tense of the Soviet Union, those workers who
were hitherto under bourgeois influence, or
under the control of fascism and social fas-
cism. The Party, the Trade Union Unity
League and other revolutionary organizations
of the working class must make special appeals
to the rank and file of the A. F. of L. men,
bership, and where the socialist party has in
fluence and membership, we must appeal to
the proletarians who still follow the socialist
party. Our united front must be especially
established with the millions of workers in the
factories through the setting up of united front
committees in the shops. On this form of
united front we must place our main emphasis
and concentrate our main efforts. The Party
membership working in shops and in mass
organizations must see to it that delegates
are elected to the special united front confer
ences called for the united front preparations
for August First.
The united front action, which is the form
of mobilization the Party must use for August
First, if it is to be successful, must also in
clude unemployed and unorganized workers.
We must utilize the daily economic struggle
of the workers, particularly the struggle
against unemployment as means for mobil-
ization for our anti-war campaign and defense
of the Soviet Union. The economic struggles
of the workers against wage cuts, speed up,
bosses terror an unemployment must be de-
finitely connected with the political campaign
of August First. In order to achieve that,
our Party must concentrate upon the factories.
Definite political preparations for August
First must be the task of every Party member
working in shops. 1t will not be sufficient to
limit ourselves to a distribution of agitational
literature from outside. IT. will therefore be
noonssary to make every member an agitator
and organizer for August First. This calls
for special concentrated agitation in large
dustries holding of systematic factory gate
meetings, issuance of shop papers, dstribu-
ton of speakers, and other means of agitation
and organization.
If our campaign for August First against
war and for the defense of the Soviet Union
is to be successful, it must therefore result in
organizational strengthening of our Party and
the revolutionary trade unions. Recruiting for
the Party and the building of the T.U.U.L.
must go along with the campaign of August
First and its results. On August First espe-
cially, the Party, if it viii base its campaign
on the factories and mass organizations, will
have to give organizational expression to its
political influence This objective must and
can be achieved if the campaign is conducted
on the basis of factory work through the
medium of the broad united front.
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