The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-24

duction and capitalism the division cannot be
made on any other basis. This power changes
according to the economic and political develop
ment. In order to understand what is hap
pening now it is necessary to know which
questions are being decided by the change Of
power. Whether these changes are purely
economic or extra-economic (for instance due
to wars) is after all secondary question
which cannot change the fundamental vieyN
on the latest epoch of capitalism. To put fo9
ward the question of the FORM Of the strug-
gle and collision. (peace-time one day, war
time another, and then peace-time AGAIN.
essence of this struggle and collisions, is to
lower ones self to the role Of sophist."
Agreements" End War.
There is no contradiction between agree
ments between even the most bitter imperial
ist rivals and the preparations for war AS 4
matter Of fact these agreements" are part Of
the war preparations; especially is this true
in this period which is the period Of "the hunt
for allies on the part Of each imperialist
nation ~
While the London naval conference meets
and sprays the world with hypocritical peace
phrases, workers and colonial peoples are M
ing shot, beaten and jailed by the thousand |,
The Communist Parties Of all capitalist cou
tries are single out for special persecution
as is always the case when the class struggle
sharpens and the revolutionary tide rises
Mass unemployment exists in every imper-
ialist nation. Deep crises are the order Of the
day. Trusts and mergers and .cartels grow
larger. The dead weight Of monopoly prices,
wage cuts and speed-up threatens to crush the
masses. : sfs
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The resistance of the working class has
grown by leaps and bounds. 1t is organized
and led by the Communist Parties This alone
shows the high political stage of the struggle
today. -
Only the Communist Parties make clear to
the masses the connection between monopoly
and classification, naturalization, the peace
maneuvers like the London conference, Hoov-
ers grand council-and the class character of
the whole program for cheaper production, Il
the drive against the Soviet Union and the i'm
perialst conflicts. ;an
The Hoover-Wall Street program is a prs i
gram of war on the working class, on i =
colonial masses in Mexico and Haiti, Of wi IA
for world conquest against Great Britain aIId
her allies, of war on the Soviet Union.
The reply Of our class to the imperialista
program is being made in the basic industries
by the organization Of unions. based on the
class struggle, BY the organization Of the un1
employed and struggle for their demands by5
the militant defense Of all class war prison
ers, by organization of mass protest and strugl
gle against the oppression of the Latin Amer
lean workers and peasants, by active partici2
patton in the world revolutionary movemen
led by the Communist International, by the re
cruiting of new thousands Of workers into tn,
ranks Of our Party. e
The reply of our Party in this period O
sharpening class struggle is the reply made b
the Tenth Penum Of the Conintern: ss5. L
Fight naturalization! Turn the imperiali
war into civil war for proletarian power! D
fenl the Soviet Union!