Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
AMERICAN ATTACK
URGED IN MOSCOW
Communist Leaders Exhort'
ed to Take Advantage of
Stock Crash.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW July 5.-Pravda today
published long article urging the new
leaders of the Communist party in
America to prepare the masses for new
and more vigorous battles against
American capitalists, impsrialists and
exploiters."
The newspaper quoted Joseph Stalin's
declaration that "the Communist party
in America Is one of those few in the
world whereupon history imposes prob
lens Of decisive importance"
The article asserts that stock mar
ket crashes, unemployment and the
agricultural slump have created fert.A,
grounds for revolutionary seeds in the
United States
The possibilities confronting the
Communist party in America for fusing
into a powerful maSSed outpost of 3d.
100000 proletarianS and an organized
army of exploited and ruined American
farmers depend upon the activity ara
energy of the party ITSELF" Pravda as
sertS.
THE party could and must place be-
fore itself the problem of intensifying
the international proletarian revolution
in such a manner that the revolution
airy movement of the laboring masses
of America will be among the first in
the ranks of world upheaval and stand
upon the same level with the revolu-
tionary labor movement in Germany,
China and Poland"
U. S. Revolution Declared Begun.
A serious masSed revolutionary move
ment already has begun in America,
according to the article, which is evil
denced by persistent prolonged strikes
with tens of thousands participating.
only after its sixth congress under
the guidance of the Communist Inter-
national, did the American Communist
party create such considerations as to
lead systematic, organized advance
against American imperialism. The
central committee called upon the party
to decisively clear its ranks of all fac
tional groups and agents of social fas-
cism, having done which the party
proved to be healthy in its composition
and boldly turned its face toward the
masses.
BY adopting the slogan Instead of
one renegade, let us have hundreds of
workers. the party was able in a short
time to increase its membership by
from 5000 to 1000 workers"
The article asserted that the police
activities against the party, the arrest
of its leaders, New York Police Com
missioner Whalen'S charges of plotting
and the appointment CT the Fish Com
mission for Congress investigation, all
were intended to strike fear into the
hearts OF American workers, to isolate
the Communist party from the central
committee and ultimately to destroy the
party.
Ruin Of Farmers Cited.
almost one-third of Americas army
OF 100000 900 proletarianS are left with
out employment. In certain branches of
industry wages have been reduced by 40
per cent Millions of farmers are ruined.
Under these conditions organization of
. counter attack Of the laboring classes
against the capitalists Is one of the
leading problems Of the party.
The party must also emphasize in its
agitation the urgent necessities of the
workers and unite them in their revolu-
tionary struggle. This mobilization of
the masses should be based upon the
full social insurance Of all workers
The party must strengthen its or
gsnlzatlon cells or nuclei, in the fac
tories. The American party now has
$4,000 members, only 10 per cent of
whom are organized within I40 factory
cells. Under such conditions the party
cannot successfully lead the activities
OF workers In the various enterprises.
Factory Centers Desired.
The central problem of the party Is
TO convert revolutionary trade unions
into massed organizations with strong
centers located in the factories. In de-
Gliding these problems the party is con-
fronted with the task of establl hing a
collective 'agitator,' propaganda and
an organizer, which Is the central Patty
press.
1T is one Of the fundamental prob
lens of the American party to convert
the newspaper daily worker into ar
actual militant massed newspaper
which will be builder of the party and
an organizer of the masses"