The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
The American Proletariat Turns
Toward the Revolutionary Path

cline of the Conintern like the socal-fascists
and this at time when even the latter are
compelled to grudgingly admit its rising
STRENGTH Lovestone and Wolfe say in of
the scurillous pamphlets issued in February,
1880: Instead of ushering in new period
of constructive growth. the conclusion of the
tanth year of IFS development brings the Party
face to face with general political chaos, pro-
nounced organzational decline. and rapidly in
creasing isolation. The Party is in deep
crisis" T.. u. Could there be anything more bank
runt. more stupid? Translate Constructive"
into raformist and isolation" into the divorc-
ing of Pepper and Lovestone from the Party
and the truth is here. The cleaning out of these
o~cortunsts was prerequisite for the rise of
the Party; had it not been done then it might
have been too late. -.
Vain Promises and Threats.
The ho"roeoise in its CONSERVATION talks
about relief on one hand and repression on the
other. Meanwhile the masses of unemployed
rawning, selling their last possessions in
order to somehow still buv something; when
the bottom of the crisis will be reached no one
knows. In the past crisis used to be liqui-
dated in large part by the reserves the masses
had accumulated during prosperity. the fact
that now there are already lines of thousand;
of hungry before the charity missions shows
that the reserves gone already now. But
the crisis seems to be only beginning. Wages
are being slashed into half by firing and re-
hiring workers Who will buv the goods on
hand. who will nay for the billions worth of
merchandise sold on instament plan? AL
ready we see masses of even skilled workers
and bankrunted petty-bourgeoisie in the hun
per lines. The agrarian crisis is setting in
with a renewed vigor. The crisis in Latin
America and the revolutionary rise there tends
to amaloamate the revolutionary rise in the
LISA. and the rising revolutionary tide in
Latin America. The outlet for American i'm
~~~'"lie~, beyond the American continent.
China, India, etc. is narrower than ever.
Farmers Stirred.
The results of March in the U.S.A. will
stir the poor farmers into more vigorous
ton. it will be an inspiration to the masses
Of Latin America and the whole world, mean
while the attractive power of the victorious
Soviet proletariat rises amongst the exploited
in inverse proportion to the crisis of capital
ism driving the masses to vaster and more in
tense revolutionary struggles in which the us.
proletariat will play an increasingly leading
role.
factor which causes the American bourg-
eoisie no little loss of sleep is the manifesto
ton already at this early stage of disaffection
AMONGST it's armed forces as manifested by the
New Orleans police during the street car mems
strike there and of the state troops (mitia)
during the Southern textile strike; the state
troops are mostly composed of sons of poor
farmers and the army and navy of workers
and other poor stiffs that not being able to get
work volunteered" to join the armv and the
navy on the other hand, amongst the unenl-
ployed and amongst the workers generally are
masses Of ex-soldiers that know how to use
arms and who have seen some fighting in the
world war and have small arms either revolt