The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
June IL, 1880.
Seventh National Convention
Communist Party, U.S.A.

The cyclcal crisis which has engulfed Amer
lean capitalism has not only brought the United
States fully within the maelstrom of the world
economic crisis, but has tremendously deepened
the world crisis.
The analysis of the Comintern and of the
last two plenums of the Party are fully borne
out by events The crisis is becoming deeper
with accompanying attacks upon the workers
and poor farmers, with international tariff
wars and wage cuttings with more aggressive
imperialist attacks upon the colonies by the
respective imperialist powers, with the danger
of an imperialist war brought nearer by the
"peace" and naval reduction" parleys and
plans. with more acute danger of a military
attack upon the Soviet Union
The masses have answered the attacks OF
the capitalists by a manifestation of deeper
rehabilitation and greater readiness to strug-
gle The world revolutionary tide constantly
rises In Poland, Germany, France, Czecho-
slovakia, Greece Japan, South America, Cuba,
the masses have engaged in big strikes against
wage cuts and rehabilitation, these movements
becoming political in character The masses
have shown that they will not accept worsen-
ing of conditions, without bitter fight.
The demonstrations in the United States on
March 6 and May 1, the strikes in the South,
the struggles of workers in all parts of the
country many of them spontaneous, the readi-
ness of the workers to follow the Party and
TUUL, indicate the growing rehabilitation
and willingness of the workers to fight against
the vicious naturalization schemes of Amer
lean capitalism. Strikes in textile, mining,
auto rubber, shoe, clothing, food, building,
show that discomfort is rife in all Industries
and sections. The awakening of the Negro
and the willingness of the white worker to
fight and defend him is a sign of the break
ing down of the barriers to more militant
struggle.
These phenomena have manifested themselves
in face of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, the
socialist party and Musteites, whose fascist
role, each in its way, is to help the capitalists
in suppressing strikes and struggles, to assist
in their naturalization schemes and keep the
workers loyal to capitalism.
The establishment of a Soviet Government
in China embracing 100000 people and the
revolt in India are two outstanding factors of
the present situation. The growth of the Com
munist Party of India and the exposure of the
imperialist activities of the British Labor Party.
and the Second International as a whole, are
matters of the greatest significance to the in
ternational proletarian revolutionary move
ment.
Exceeding even these factors are the achieve
ments of the Soviet Union in building Social
ism. This is victory of the Russian workers
the C.PS.U., victory that stands unchallenged
and which throws into rout the Bucharinites
and Trotskyites This development affects not
only the Soviet Union, but every capitalist
country. The Five-Year Plan is not only in
spiration to the workers and peasants through
out the world, but a cause for fear and dismay
on the part of the capitalists. The unparalleled
expansion of industry and collectivization of
agriculture with increasing well being for the
workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, con-
trasted with the crisis and its terrors for the
workers and poor farmes in the capitalist
counties, is filling the capitalists with the
greatest apprehension.
The capitalists try to find their way out of
the general crisis of capitalism by rationaliza-
ton md war, both of which lead to disaster
for capitalism. The capitalists and their social
fascist tools are fevershly preparing for war;
especially against the Soviet Union.
The Comintern, having strengthened itself
by the defeat of all right groups, becomes the
rallying center for all the revolutionary mill
ions the world over, notably in the colonial
countries. As capitalism goes into crisis, the
influence of the socal-fascists over the masses
diminshes and that of the Comintern increases.
Our Party has decided achievements to it's
credit-first of al, the unification of the Party
and the inner consolidation of its forces, the
smashing defeat of the Lovestone right oppor-
tunist group and the initiation of systematic
struggle against the opportunist tendencies of
the Party This achievement, with the aid of
the Comintern, made possible the progress of
The Party With the unification of the Party
came objective analysis and self-criticism, but
this is as yet inadequate and must be strength
ened.
The March and May demonstrations, the
great increase in the Party membership, the
building of the T.U.U.L. in industries,
the raising of the influence of the T.U.U.L. as
the revolutionary union center, the populariza-
ton of the R.LL.U. among the American work
ers, are of first-rate Importance as showing the
general strengthening of the Party in prestige
organization and influence.
The establishment of the Party and T.U.U.L
in the South, under the hardest conditions and
with meagre forces, cannot be overestimated
especially since the Party had to meet the
united force of the capitalists, government Ku
Klux Khan and other fascist organizations, the
A. F. of L., SIP. and Mustetes. The ralyng
of Negro and white workers under the banner
of our Party in the South is of great signifi-
canoe.
The Party has weaknesses that r1lst be
speedily overcome if it is to fulfill q tasks
led by the Party have shown it's tremendous
political influence and the confidence of ever
larger masses of workers in the Party, but
also manifested it's political and organizational
weakness. Strong opportunist tendencies are
present especially in the trade union work and
in the districts, this being amply dealt with in