The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05
May 81 1880.


Communist Party of U. S. A.
Dear Comrades:
This nominating convention is significantly
taking place at Schenectady, the home of Gen
eral Electric, one of the big international rob-
Der industrial institutions and savage ex
pIoiter of the workers, male and female, and
especially of young workers. 1t is occurring
at a time when urgent and important problems
face the workers of the state, of the country
and of the entire world.
The problems of unemployment, speed-up
and worsening of the conditions of the work.
ing class, with power concentrating ever more
in the hands of the capitalist class, with trus-
tification proceeding to gigantic heights and
profits being wrenched out of the lives of the
workers-these problems have not been and
cannot be solved under capitalism and are
leading fast to new world war.
For this world war the leading imperialist
governments are preparing with tremendous
energy and speed, spending billions of dollars
each year to perfect their murderous war ap-
paratus The League of Nations, the Kellogg
Peace Pact, the disarmament and naval reduc
ton parleys, Brands United States of Europe,
all show how fast we are being driven into
war
Unemployment Grows.
The imperialist governments which can find
unity on no front, do find and construct it on
the front of war against the workers and poor
farmers at home, war against the colonial
peoples, war against the Soviet Union, the
Fatherland of the Working Class!
Seven million workers are tramping the
streets of America-more than one million in
the state of New York alone. The workers
still having jobs are working long hours at
low wages and terrific speed-up The end of
the crisis is always "a few months away" and
conditions are improving" say the capitalist
and social-fascist politicians - but Governor
Roosevelt is forced to admit that instead OF
unemployment decreasing it is on the increase.
The government, national and state, can
raise no funds for the relief of the unem-
ployed, and yet these governments spend
ing billions for war preparations and together
with the city governments are cesspools of
capitalist graft and corruption.
Workers Fight Back.
The workers, aroused and modified by the
Communist International and the Communist
Parties in the many countries, are beginning
to fight against these shameful, unbearabe
conditions. In answer, the capitalist govern
ment and the capitalist class give US Whalen
and Fish. These two funkeys of the capitalist
class represent the methods of the capitalist
class to scramble out of the crisis. Whalen
with his cossack attacks on the unemployed
workers and their demonstrations, Whalen with
his shameless, brazen forgeres against the
Soviet government and the Communist Party;
Fish with his attempt to smother the discon-
tent that is growing, by inaugurating a nation
wide hunt against the Communists, the rev.
dictionary aand foreign-born workers-this is
the method of American capitalism to solve
problems which cannot be solved under cap
italism.
The fascist leadership of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor with Matthew Woll and Will
liam Green at its head; the social-fascst So
cialist party and Music group, led by Thomas,
Hillquit, ONeal, Howatt and Hapgood, and
aided by the yellow renegades from the Com
munist Party, Gitlow, Cannon, Lovestone &
Co.. not only lend helping hand in these at
tacks on the working class, but, like their
brothers in Europe, are in many instances TAX
ing the lead in the attacks against the working
class. They, too, are looking forward to, and
organizing their black forces for the day when
they may be the MacDonalis, J. W. Thomases,
Zoergiebels, Pilsudskis, Blums, Mussolinis of
America, numbering the workers in the streets.
The Struggle VIII Continue.
Comrade Delegates of the Convention!
Workers of the State of New York! Workers
of the United States, coored and white, men
and women, young and old!
The crisis is not lifting-on the contrary,
with ups and downs it is bound to crash upon
the workers and poor farmers with increased
violence in the autumn of 1880.
Our task is clear! Despite government and
extra-legal violence (World War Veterans and
American Legion, A. F. of L. and S. P. gang
sterism, the organized underworld, etc.,, de-
spite sharper attacks on the living standards