The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-23
For a Workingclass Policy in the
Co-operatives
Fred Ellis

of the crisis by means Of pressure on the work
ers. To preserve the dividends, each indivi-
dual worker is speeded up to the utmost so that
the greatest possible output may be obtained
with the least possible amount of labor power.
As a result, the permanent army of unemployed
is constantly growing, which automatically
helps capital to squeeze down the general wage
level. In addition to that the centralized or
CARNATIONS of big exploiters in the various
spheres Systematically slash the workers
wages and cut down expenses on safety meas
ures, labor insurance, etc. Dissatisfaction is
growing among the broad masses of workers
under this fierce pressure. As time goes on,
the workers are bound to defend themselves
because they are not only suffering from the
curse of the present starvation wage, but also
from the menace of further cuts, unemploy-
ment and the fear of unemployment, in brief,
from the precariousness of their own existence.
Un1er such conditions the workers cannot
help becoming radical and being in favor of
a more irreconciable class struggle. Ferment
is beginning Labor is beginning to strike, no
longer allowing itself to be checked by the
dictionary labor leaders, corrupted by the bour-
geolsle. The strikes in Gastonia and Illinois,
etc, are forerunners of big battles. But strike
is, in the opinion of capital, now "sin against
the holy ghost" The bourgeoisie is now dis
closing how beastly it really is when strike
hits its pocket. Glass terror gains in ferocity
in the factories, the streets, the courts, and
all over the country. Bourgeois class rule in
. every country is more and more becoming naked
and bloody fascist tyranny. This is the more
so in time of strikes and demonstrations of the
unemployed (Gastonia, New York; Therefore.
under conditions when the tension of class an
tagonism is unboundel, many strikes, which
aODarontlV 1par "a 1irh
pretexts, may become of great political i'm
portance, and suddenly turn into powerful
class combats AS ferment is increasing and
growing, the political mass strike is placed on
the order of the day. Under such conditions
the struggle between the working class and
the capitalist class for power inevitably comes
to the forefront. The fighting experience of
the working class grows in these conflicts, so
does its hardened organizational strength and
Its revolutionary consciousness. The trend of
the revolutionary labor movement is generally
heightened in these struggles.
The development of the third period which
has recently begun proceeds in this direction.
1t leads the working class to great and bitter
struggles IN which victory is undoubted, which
victory, however, cannot be secured without
the greatest exertion of forces and the heaviest
sacrifices. There is no easier way open for the
relentless struggle. Anyone who says that
there is an easier way out, fools either others
or himself
The Communist Party points in advance to
the workers the way of the impending class
conflicts and the full sevirty of these strug-
giles. 1t also wants itself to be in the front
ranks, to be the first one in the fire, and not
to march steathily behind the masses. The
tenser and-especially--th more revolutionary
the class struggles, the more necessary it is
to have firm, courageous, and truly Bolshe-
visit leadership, if we want victory. The Com
munist Party develops its capacities for this
most important task. 1t wages with might and
main the struggle for wages. and other imme-
date demands of the workers, such as the
seven-hour day, labor protection, social insur-
ance, special unemployed demands, but at the
same time, starting out with these demands,
and linking up the scattered partial struggles,
it aims at making the broad masses under
stand and support also the genuine revolution
airy ultimate demands. In this connection it is
particularly necessary more to accentuate the