The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
Rv NAT ROSS.

ABOUT four weeks before the March DEM
a onstration a meeting of the membership of
:he Communist Party of Franklin County was
held for the purpose of modelling for March
s. At this meeting the most Grass expression
# right wing tendencies crystallized. Six out
If about thirty voted against an open demon
,tration on March 6. number of these COM
:ades put up the following arguments:
That we did not have sufficient mass strength
% come out in open demonstration and that we
should have indoor meetings instead; that the
owns in the coal fields are small, everybody
Is known and an open demonstration would
mean victimization of the comrades; that the
terror here in the coal fields is particularly
extreme and we could not mobilize sufficient
workers to fight back the police, ETC.; that
we could only mobilize foreign born miners and
not Americans; and finally that the Party
had never before held open demonstrations and
we had better go slow, etc. The comrade who
put forth the last arguments quoted" Lenin
on his support
No INSTRUMENTATION,
Against this right wing, cowardly line which
also crystallized, but to a lesser degree, in the
Springfield-Taylorville territory and in Edo
RADIO, we made sharp fight. 1t is imperative
that we continue the fiercest theological strug
gle against these elements (who are mainly the
older comrades who bring in all the bad herit-
age of Federation days. reformist as well as
-the-union trade union tactics, etc..
We must expose their lack of understanding
of the depth of the economic crisis and the
general acceleration of the shakiness in their
attitude that the miners have not starved
enough yet, and therefore we must wait, instead
of US leading the miners (the vast majority of
whom, as a matter of fact face to face
with starvationD into struggle against unem-
ployment and capitalism. We must wipe out
the penetration of bourgeois theology in the
ranks of the vanguard of the working class,
which shows itself in the exaggeration of the
antagonism between the American and foreign
born miners 1t is true that the prejudice in
the coal fields is sharper than in the big cities.
But the worsening conditions of the miners,
the growing necessity of all miners to fight
side by side to ward off starvation and misery,
is SCATTERING this bourgeois prejudice. Our
foreign-born comrades must not eXaggerate
the prejudice only in order thereby to capitu-
late before it. The comrades must constantly,
in the day to day class struggle, work among
the American miners, explaining to them the
basis for this prejudice, etc.
The living refutation of the bourgeois idea
that American born workers will not fight
against "their" country, is the fact that in
F. Same county we nave recruited over Az miners
in the past few months, everyone of them being
native American.
Revolutionary Character of Demonstration.
We must show these comrades who oppose
the demonstration that in the present period
of ever-sharpening contradictions of capitalism.
these demonstrations become more and more
imperative. 1t is through these demonstrations
that we rally the masses behind US, clearly ex-
pose the role of the unity of the state, the
bosses, and the social fascists against the work
ers, bring out the heroism and self-sacrifice
OF the masses, teach them how to maneuver
and fight back the attacks, and prepare the
workers for higher forms of revolutionary
struggle. The demonstration of today is the
overture to the final revolutionary battle of
tomorrow.
1t is true, however, that our demonstrations
except in Springfield, were failure In Ell
dorado small crowd of workers came to the
City Hall, where the police refused to allow