The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
Some Conclusions from the
Chicago Convention

delegates in the most concrete form.
The second error amounts to the reputation
of the whole Comintern policy regarding allies
of the proletariat by refusing to recognize the
special interests, needs and demands of the
Negro masses, as minority still more op-
pressed and exploited than the white workers
and of course negates both in theory and prac-
tice the necessity to organize the white work.
ers for struggle for these demands as well as
combining the struggles of the Negro masses
themselves to the narrowest basis.
In practice this theory divides the white and
Negro masses, perpetuates white chauvinism,
liquidates the slogans of full social, economic
and political equality and the right of the
Negro masses to determination to the
point of separation.
This error was dealt with at length both in
the fraction meeting and the special Negro
conference held following the convention. No
disagreement was openly expressed at either
one of the meetings but the discussion-and
especially the two opportunst outbreaks under
the severe pressure of actual mass work.
shows that the social and theoretical roots Of
white chauvinism are still deeply embedded in
our Party and that an unceasing struggle must
be varied on to destroy them, that this struggle
must take the form of open sef-criticism and
correction before the working class, in the
struggle and part of it.
The newly elected National Committee, of
which eight are Negroes and majority from
the decisive industries, with the fullest CO.
operation required from all national industrial
unions and leagues, Trade Union Unity Gem
trail Councils and the Party Committees, has
as its main task to use the impetus given to
the struggle of the unemployed masses by the
convention for the speeding up and CONSOLE
dation of the campaign for making September
l Labor Day. day of mass demonstrations
nationally, of closely uniting the struggle for
social insurance, against evictions, against all
vagrancy laws, for immediate relief for the
unemployed, with the building of the class
struggle industrial unions, of making the
struggle for Work or Wages a struggle con-
Quoted by organized workers--employed and
dnemployed-of uniting the struggle for the
action program of the Chicago convention with
the whole struggle against naturalization and
the danger
We must not repeat the mistakes made fol-
lowing the Cleveland Convention of the Trade
Union Unity League-the mistake of not
broadening our agitational and intensifying
our organization work from the first day after
adjournment, the mistake of not mobilizing all
available forces, of failing to systematically
draw in and develop new forces from the
struggle itself.
August l, international Fighting Day
Against Imperialst War, must find the Ma
tional Council of the Unemployed and every
industrial union in the center Of the struggle.
Then follows September /, and then the second
national convention of unemployed to be held
in October.
All of these events are jewels Of the class
struggle that must not be picked out of their
setting They are all connected by the de-
velopment of the class conflict, by the deep
ening economic crisis, by the whole series Of
sharp class battles, by the growing need Of
open fighting against the starvation offensive
of the capitalists and their government.
Mass agitation, mass organization, mass
struggle! When the October convention is held
it's thousands of delegates should represent .
vast network of unemployed councils in all the
basic industries, it should mark the inclusion
of $4,000 more proetarian fighters into the
ranks of the T. U. u. L. and its affiliated
unions, it must be made into high point Of
the election campaign of our Party.
These are our next tasks in this sector Of
the struggle for winning the majority Of the
working class for Communism.