The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11
THE COMING SEVENTH
YEAR OF DAILY WORKER
What Is Ahead For Every Worker Who Values
the DAILY" That Supports His Class Interest
BY JACK STACHEL
The Coming Year

The Coming Year
Much has been said by our Party
and printed in the Daily Worker re-
garding the present crisis of CAPT
tallsm in the United States, and the
big struggle that are looming.
There is no question about the cor
rectness of these estimates by our
Party. Now our Party is no longer
discussing whether the third period
exists or not and what are it's main
features. Only the renegades, who
must look to the past for their
glory and are covering themselves
with the "glory" of being in the
service of the biggest imperialist
country in the world, are disputing
the existence of the economic crisis.
Here in Detroit, the majority of
the auto workers are unemployed,
and the bosses who have conducted
their propaganda of prosperity for
weeks and that there will be plenty
OF work in January /, changed the
date to the 18th by Christmas, and
are now after New Years changing
the date to about 60 days later. The
prospect for the auto workers is un-
employment for the great mass of
the workers for the entire year
1880 and increasing wage-cuts and
speed-up for those inside of the fac
tories.
The auto industry is symbolic of
the whole capitalist economy. Here
mass production has reached its
height. Here we have the best ex-
ample of the disparity of the ire
mendous productive capacity with
the narrowing market; here we
have the last word in rationaliza-
ton; in this industry we see before
our eyes the great international
competition leading to imperialist
war; here we see in the tremend-
Gus competition among the manu-
facturers (Ford-General Motors)
for the home and international
market; here we see that this COM
petition for the ever-narrowing
market, means only wage-cuts,
more speed up, and mass unemploy-.
ment for the workers. Here we have
an industry where the capitalists
themselves admit that at best they
will have need for only 45 per cent.
of the productive capacity of the in
dustry. And here, too, we have
representative proletariat, with
large number of native born work
ers. Negro workers, women and
youth labor. And here we see great
STRINGS among the masses. The
auto workers who have not under
gone a real mass struggle in the
past are showing every symptom of
rehabilitation, and determination to
struggle. What is taking place in
the auto industry is symbolic of the
entire country.
The Daily Worker will become a
mass organ in the present period.
The Daily Worker is an indispen-
sible weapon in the present and
coming struggles.
We, the members of the Com
munist Party, though we rejoice in
the six years of it's existence, must
also take stock of our past efforts,
and resolve to improve considerably.
If the Daily Worker has not more
influence now, if the Daily Worker
must at this moment be published
in only four pages, il is we who
are mainly responsible. The work
ers everywhere are eager for the
Daily Worker. When we come with
our message once, they only fear
that we will not come back. Our
Party and every Party member must
do better in teh seventh year then
we have done thus far.
The Daily Worker still has many
shortcomings that must be over
come in the seventh year of its eX-
istence.
But no one can fail to see the
great improvements that have taken
place in the Daily Worker. There
are no longer to be found every
day the most vulgar errors. Every
member reading the Daily Worker
can know the line of the Central
Committee. In spite of the only
four pages the Daily Worker is to-
day more of a Party central organ
than ever before. One of the most
important shortcomings, that must
be overcome is the still inadequate,
and not representative, workers cor
respondence section. Here it is not
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