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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-03
The Role of the Communist Party

workers of this country the realization that the
struggle against capitalism must be a struggle
to abolish the whole capitalist order. 1t must
teach them that the problem which the work
ing class faces under the capitalist system
cannot be solved through ameliorative meas
ures won in the legislative bodies of the cap
italist government or through victories won IN
the fight on the industrial field for better
wages and working conditions. The Commu-
nists will still have the task of educating the
working masses to the necessity of their es-
tablishng the rule of the workers in place
of the rule of the capitalists. They will still
have before them the work of bringing to the
masses of the workers and farmers the under
standing that the existing capitalist govern
ment is an instrument for the service of the
capitalists, that it cannot be the form of gov
eminent through which the workers may rule,
but must be supplanted by government grow
ing out of the experiences and struggles of the
workers. that is, a Soviet government. The
Communists will still have before them the
task of educating the working masses of this
country to the need of their establishing So
Wet government and with it the rule of the
workers-the Dictatorship of the Proletariat-
which will use the government power in the
interests of the workers as openly as it is now
used in the interests of the capitalists.
1t is because, after the first steps in the
United States in the form of the organization
of labor party and the amalgamation of the
trade unions, there will still remain these great
tasks, that there must be a Communist Party
"a separate, distinct organization which will
have in its ranks the best educated, disciplined,
and most militant workers, such the Work
ers Party of America
The role of this Party is to be the battalion
at the front leading the working class hosts
industrial workers and farmers-forward
against the enemy in spite of all prosecutions,
in spite of the efforts of the capitalists to
destroy it, until the victory of the workers is
Won
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Questions and Answers
Question 4.-What is the size and the forms
of the unemployed workers movement?

Question 4.-What is the size and the forms
of the unemployed workers movement?
In view of the present scale of unemploy-
ment and its rapid growth, quantity will give
way to quality" or in other words, the very
character of unemployment and the unemploy-
ment movement itself will be changed
During the last few years unemployment
had become chronic and incurable in the chief
capitalist countries.
Realizing that present-day widespread I'M
employment was renacing the very contnu-
ance of the capitalist system. the bourgeoisie
in one way or the other "fed" the unemployed,
State subsidies being voted for this purpose as
we'll as special designations for the so.called
Client System, which provides the issuance of
unemployment relief through the unions, which
dole is partly subsidized by the State
The "dole" and the chronic character of pre-
sent day unemployment created feeling of
passivity and inertia among the unemployed
and went long way to- ally their grievances
Further, the chronic character of unemployment
set up certain barriers between the employed
workers and those unemployed, created a gulf
between these workers, which the bourgeoisie,
the fascists and the social-fascists have done
their best to deepen. isolating the unemployed
from those employed.
The stupendous growth of unemployment to-
day is % breaking down the barriers between
the employed and the unempoyed; (2) Great
ing huge army of semi-emnloyed j. e. work
ers on short time 1.-TWO or three days in the
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despite All, We Intend to
ORGANIZED"

As student of the National Training School
II l was asked to write an article for the
Daily Worker. So I choose to write on the
conditions in the South.
I think that all of the students should live
up to the rules of the Party, for we are to
develop into leaders and am going to do my
best.
| should know little about the South for
| have lived in that miserable place all my
life. do not mean that the place and the
working people are that way. 1t is the poor
conditions they are living under. I know lots
of young girls working for five dollars per
week, 10-hour day and 55-hour week.
The Condition of an Average Worker.
Take for example a man with three chill
dren. Making 81 a week his wife cannot
work and help him. for she has to stay at homo
and tend to the children and do the house keep
ing. From his wages he has to pay rent. buy
coal, wood, groceries clothing and little
school material if he has the money
Now you can look over all this and estimate
how much he has to eat.
I have heard lots of arguments about the
people in the South since I have come to New
York and lot of the scabs and other bosses
tools say that the people in the South were
perfectly satisfied before the Communist Party
entered: 1t is not true. We were beginning
to wake up to the fact that we were not any
thing but wage slaves and we began to strike,
and the N.T.W.U. under the leadership of the
Communist Party came to our rescue.
We Southern workers can see the good in
it and intend TO organize more strongly, altho
we have a hard road to travel. For the dirty
low-brow bosses hire stool-pigeons and spy on
us. They also hire the sheriffs and police to
shoot down our leaders. and if we try to de-
fend ourselves, from to 20 years in Jail or
the chan-gang is our fate. But we intend
to organize in snite Of that
A Student From Grccn,ilIc, S. G.
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We have in our possession copy Of mill
workers pay envelope. This worker worked
sixteen hours at the Clyde Mill and received
the munificent sum of 1928 as wages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-03
By c. E. RUTHENBERG.
delivered during the New York Trial
March, 1920

Capitalist production in its development
brings about its own decay it's own break
down; capitalist production inevitably through
its own conditions of existence produces such
situation as the World War; world war;
an imperialist war, brings about the breakdown
of capitalist production 1t also brings about
the increase in prices, the increase of the cost
of commodities, and thus ntensifies the strug-
gle between the workers who must gain the
necessities to live and the owning class.
might illustrate this: AS result of the war
prices have doubled, and we have had large
number of strikes on the part of the workers
trying to catch up with the cost of living. Such
strike for instance, was the outlaw railroad
strike. Thus, in the development of the cap
talist system, its own contradictions bring
about situation in which the machinery of
production breaks down. For example, war
Imperialism brings the great capitalist classes
in conflict with each other. This conflict in
the beginning takes the form of diplomatic
controversy and ends in war; War brings
about the disintegration of the capitalist ma
chinery of production, as has been the case in
Europe. 1t also brings about initiation, the
increase of prices, and the working class is
driven to more bitter and antagonistic strug-
gle against the capitalist class. In this coun-
try we saw that illustrated in the various
strikes, like that of the coal miners, which last
year brought stoppage of, industry in GER
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week. 90 the bOurgeoisie reducing the "un-
employment dole' which will make further ex-
istence impossible and starvation inevitable
for the unemployed.
The colossal growth of unemployment with
the simultaneous reduction of the "dole" with
short time being introduced in many enter
prises are all factors that will make for
marked rise of the unemployed workers move
ment. We see that the movement today is be-
coming really mass in character and is becom-
ing more aggressive, more determined and
militant.
Communications are being received from
Germany. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Rourana, Greece, the u. S. A., Canada and
elsewhere of demonstrations of unemployed
workers of collisions with the police and the
troops, and even of street fighting as was seen
for example in Germany.
These mass movements of the unemployed
show clearely that the revolutionary movement
is penetrating and getting a stronger hold
on even the most backward sections of the
working class.
Marx says that crisis is sharp conflict
between the. developing productive forces and
the social relations in modern capitalist society,
that it is, as it were revolt of the productive
forces against the capitalist system which per-
mits no further growth.
The working class, as one Of these productive
forces comes to grips with capitalism precisely
during period of economic depression, and
the clearest expression of this conflict is the
development and growth of a revolutionary
movement among the unemployed.
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ONWARD TO MARCH 9th!
FIGHT FOR "WORK or WAGES

district was rather slow in the beginning of
the unemployment campaign. Meeting after
meeting we discussed the work among unem-
ployed, time and again we acknowledged the
theological process the unemployed workers
are going through and their readiness to fight
for better conditions and yet we were still
slow organizatonally. And as a signal to
those who fell down on the job came the call
of the International. unemployed workers
demonstrate and fight for better conditions on
March 9Th" 1t was this call of the Interna-
tional and the realization of the seriousness
with which our Central Committee is treating
the unemployment campaign that finally put
us on the job. A number of unemployed coun-
ellis were organized in various sections of the
city. Meetings in front of big factories where
unemployed workers gather are taking place.
Special attention is being paid to the long
shoremen on the water front, and under the
leadership of the Communist Party and mill
tant trade union center, the Trade Union Unity
League, the unemployed workers in Philadel-
phia are being more and more organized and
prepared for the demonstration on March 9Th.
Is is remarkable to observe the spirit of
these unemployed workers These jobless wage
slaves among whom there is a great percen-
tage of Negroes, very often surprise us with
their militant and class conscious speeches
they deliver at the meetings.
AS we are beginning to carry out the de-
cisions of the C. l. in deeds and not only in
words, in the orientaton towards the fac
tories, in concentrating all our efforts upon
the unskilled and semi-skilled workers in pene-
trating the ranks of the most exploited sec
ton of the American working class, the Ne
groes as We note the enthusiasm and the
fighting spirit with which these workers re-
ceive the proposals of the Trade Union Unity
League and the Communist Party for the I'M
employed demonstration, as we see the grow
ing influence of our Party upon these work
ers, we can safely say about those gentlemen
who keep on chewing the rag about pros
porous American working class and the crisis
of the American Communist Party, in the
words of Lenin:
These persons are veritable agents of
the bourgeoisie, active for the bourgeoise
in the ranks of the workers, the toadies of
the capitalist class, the modern protagonists
of jingoism and reform"
We must throw ourselves into the campaign
of mobilizing the employed and unemployed
workers with renewed energy for the fight
against the employers, for the demonstration
on March 9th and for utilizing these cam
paigns for the building of a mass Communist
Party in our district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-03
By BILL LAWRENCE.

THE analysis of the Sixth World Congress
and Tenth Plenum of the world situation
in determining the present stage as period
of sharpening class struggles is proven to be
correct by daily events which take place thru
out the country.
The sharp condemnation of the CT and the
driving out of the elements from the revolu-
tionary working class movement who tried to
prove that America is to be exempted from
the crisis of world capitalism and that the
American working class is entering period
Of "Hooverian Prosperity" has proven to be
not only firm Bolshevik act on the part of
the CT, but it would be fatal to the Comnu-
mist Party and consequently to the American
working class if those elements with their
wrong conceptions on the American situation
would have remained in the leadership of our
Party
The breaking out of strikes, the increasing
unemployment, the speed-up and constant
wage cuts and the determination of the Amer
lean workers to fight against capitalism could
not be possibly utilized for the building of
the party of the working class, if at its lead
ership would be people who believe that the
American workers are living in "Golden
Age"
1t is sufficient to go down in the morning to
the various employment agencies where thou
looking in vain for jobs, as well as to the
gates of few big plants to become con-
WINGED that not only are the American work
ers not prosperous, but on the contrary, more
than ever going through process of misery,
poverty and permanent unemployment and
ready to put up stubborn battle against the
exploiters.
The unemployment in Philadelphia is con-
stantly increasing. Thousands of workers an
swer an add where one man is needed. The
Budd Manufacturing Co., the Atwater Kent,
the Philco radio plants, the General Electric,
and the textile mills in Kensington have laid
off tens of thousands of workers. Those
plants which operate part time subject their
workers to the worst kind of exploitation and
speed-up. Wage cuts daily occurrence.
Spontaneous strikes are breaking out in var
ious mills and plants in spite of the official
A. F. of L. leadership. What is true of one
industry is true of another. Needless to say
that the city government and the officials of
the Central Labor Union do nothing to help
these jobless.
The only party today that is really putting
up fight for the unemployed as well as en-
ployed workers is the Communist Party.
The Communist Party in the Philadelphia
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War and Revolution

tain places, the strike of the outlaw railroad
workers, which brought about dsintegration
of the railroad service and brought about a
situation in which the industries could not func-
ton effectively. This process going on ult-
mately brings about a condition in which the
workers are compelled to strike more lrequeu.-
ly, more widely In the process the govern
ment acts as the agent of the capitalist class
for the suppression of the workers . as for
example, in the coal miners strike last year,
the government used the injunction, it used
federal troops it tied up the treasury of the
unions. This directs the attention of the work.
ers against the capitalist state, as the agency
OF the capitalist class, and their struggles be-
gin to develop against the government. At
the present moment the English strike of the
coal miners is an example of that government
In this process there comes "a point where the
capitalist government is no longer able to
function and in such crisis the working class
will establish its workers councils which be-
come the government and function as the gov
eminent in order that production may be es-
tablished on new basis, carried on for the
benefit of the people. For period there may
be, as there were in Russia, two governments,
one becoming the government and the other
disintegrating and going out of existence In
such situation, too, the larger part of the
army, as was the case in Russia, would sup
port the workers in their efforts to establish
their government. The working class will es-
tabsh government in the form that will be
suitable for the exercise of working class power,
Soviet government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-03
By TOM JOHNSON.

THERE has always existed in the American
labor movement the conception that Negro
workers are more difficult to organize, are
harder to keep in the unions and are less mill
tant in the struggle than white workers This
wrong conception even gained a certain foot
hold in the revolutionary section of the labor
movement, where it not infrequently found eX
preston in capitulaton before the supposed
difficulties in organizing the Negro workers.
As lorg as the revolutionary movement fail
ed to make a serious start in organizing and
leading into struggle the Negro proletarat,
this remarkable theory could not be answered
from actual experience. Now we have made
this start, and in Ohio recent struggles of the
Negro workers, led by the Communist Party
and the Trade Union Unity League have pro-
vded US with this much needed experience.
Our conclusions, based on these struggles, must
be that the Negro worker quite often displays
more fighting courage and greater tenacty in
the struggle than his white brothers. Two ex-
emples will suffice.
In the organization of the Council of the
Unemployed in Cleveland it was the Negro
workers who took the lead, who were most
active and ready to work for the building up
of the Council In the demonstrations of the
unemployed in Cleveland the Negro workers
PLAYED tremendous role in some cases they
were the backbone of the demonstration. When,
in the middle of February, 5000 unemployed
workers battled for over half an hour with the
police on the steps of the City Hall, the Negro
workers were in the front ranks. And in con-
sequence it was the Negro workers who suf-
fered most from the brutality of the police,
Not one of the Negro workers who had their
heads split in this struggle with the police,
left the Unemployed Council. On the contrary,
this sharp fight strengthened their determine
ton to carry on the struggle in a militant man.
nor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-03
Notes on the South
By CAROLINE DREW.

We have in our possession copy Of mill
workers pay envelope. This worker worked
sixteen hours at the Clyde Mill and received
the munificent sum of 1928 as wages.
Boldsboro, N. c., is numbering town with
population of about 1,400. The nearby far
mers also market their raw tobacco here. The
Negro workers in this town are almost all un-
employed and starving. Some rich "good
citizens" have decided to open "once a day
soup kitchen" to keep these Negro workers
from organizing and to stop the stink which
would develop if the actual conditions of these
Negro workers became known. -
The courthouse in Winston-salem was built
by the people, of the people, and for the people
Every kind of religious, fake and bosses poll
teal meeting is allowed to be held there. 1t
is the only hall in town.
When the National Textile Workers Union,
International Labor Defense ask for the use
of the courthouse, they are told the workers
of Winston-Salem do not want to be organized.
When the International Labor Defense held its
meeting on the courthouse lawn protesting the
sentences given the Gastonia strikers and or
ganizers, over three hundred workers stood in
the rain listening to the speakers.
- leSquSoIS IOI organizers ana speakers are
received every day from workers in Winston
Salem.
1917 wage cut has been announced in the
cotton mills in Lexington. @
y
Twenty per cent has been slashed off the
already starvation wages of workers in the
American Mills in Bessemer City, which are
owned by Goldberg Bros. Mr.. Goldberg has
bought up every bit of property vacant in
Bessemer City to prevent the N.T.W.U, LID.
and W.I.R. from getting headquarters
The workers in Bessemer City are looking
forward to big textile strike in the spring.
One Of the Committee Of 100 came into the
office of the LID. and W.LR. the other day,
put an eviction notice on the desk and told ~
we could use it if it was any good to us. He
had been given his walking papers, by the
bosses who thought they could dispense with
the services of some of the gang. He told the
workers who were in the office that he had
been told many times at the bosses meetings
that only the boss was the friend Of the work
ers, that the boss would stand faithfully by
them, to beware of the ''reds," cts. When he
walked out he said he knew better now who
his friends were.
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Suggestion on Jobless Leaflets

A few OF our comrades expressed the opinion
that in the leaflets the Communist Party is
sues concerning the unemployment situation.
major point is not being stressed, and this
is the solidarity of workers to one another.
Not only is this not being stressed but the
word solidarity is missing in the leaflets al
together We feel that this is a big error and
it should be corrected.
l.. SHAMES, Section 2, Unit ST.
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Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party U. S. A.
43 East l25th Street,
New York City.
|, the undersigned, want to join the Commu-
mist Party. Send me more information.
Name ........'............. ...............
Address ...............r..... City.
Occupation ...................... Age !.
Party. 43 East 125th St, New York. N. Y
Mail this to the Central Office, Communist
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costs only dme-you will agree with me that
what the workers have in the land where they
rule is worth revolution to American work
ers! Come on, fellow workers, let's po-not
to the Soviet Union--but forward to revolution!
HARRISON GEORGE,
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