The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-26


thousands of workers onto the street, worsen-
ing of the Unemployment Insurance Act, the
threat to deprive the workers of all public as
sstance, increased municipal taxes, the whole
burden of which falls upon the working class
reduction of real wages, scab measures of
the fascist trade union and socal-democratic
apparatus against the revolutionary trade
union opposition and against strikers, and nu-
merous explosions of revolutionary workers
from trade unions.
7. In Great Britain the same tendencies
mark the policy of the labor government which
at the general elections promised universal dis
armament, better relations with the U.SSR.,
democratic reforms in the colonies first and
foremost in India), improvement in the condi-
tons of the working class and reduction of
unemployment but which in fact is not only
continuing the policy of the conservatives, but
goes even further in regard to worsening the
conditions of the working class and depressing
the colonies introduction of capitalist ration
alization, wage cuts for textile operatives, bru-
tai suppression of revolutionary movements in
the colones)
Instead of the promised disarmament, we see,
under the cloak of pacfist phrases, growing
ornaments on land and sea. Instead of i'm
proved relations with the U.S.S.R., the "labor'
government continues with more subtle meth
DDS the anti-Soviet policy of the de-hards
(Henderson's attitude on the question of car
ist debts and propaganda" interference in the
conflict on the Chinese Eastern Railway in
favor of the Marking usurpers; Henderson's
recent statement in defense of the counter
revolutionary clergy in the U.S.S.R., etc..
Instead of democratic reforms in the colonies
we see that the terrorist regime in India is
becoming fiercer, the bloody suppression of the
Negro movement in South Africa, Arabian
Jewish massacres organized in Palestine, and
an enslaving treaty signed with Egypt.
Instead of improvement in the conditions of
the workers we wage cuts lin the textile
industry and on the railways); the promise to
restore the seven-hour day in the mines is
shameessly broken; new law is passed which
will tend to worsen the conditions of the I'M
employed
8. Such is the practice of the two principal
parties of the Second International now in pow
er in the largest capitalist countries of Europe
Where the social-democrats are not in pow
er, they as rule, support the measures of the
most reactionary bourgeois governments against
the working class and the Communist Parties;
they openly at the head of the fierce anti
Soviet campaigns hand in hand with the Rus
sian white guards (France); they give active
support to the bourgeois parties in introducing
fascist constitution (Austra), they mobilize
all their forces in the service of fascist terror
against the Communists and revolutionary
workers (Poland).
The sharper the crisis of the capitalist sys-
tenn becomes the more rapidly are the social
+io into
liaries of the financial oligarchy, the more
active and direct is the part the socal-demo-
Gratis play in the defense of the capitalist sys-
tenn, in the suppression of the revolutionary
movement of the working masses and the colo
NAL peoples and in the war preparations
against the U.SS.R.
The cleft" social-fascists continue to play
this role of executioner in full agreement with
the social-democrats, except that they do so
with more intricate and concealed methods,
which renders them the most dangerous enemies
of the working class.
III. The Tasks of Communist Parties:
Strike Struggles, Unemployed Movement
Demonstrations.
g. By accelerating the process of concentra-
ton of capital and the ruin of the middle and
Electromagnetic, by increasing enormously the
impoverishment Of the vast masses of the peas
antry, especially in the colonies, finally, by
intensifying to an unprecedented degree all
forms of exploitation, the crisis intensifies the
social contradictions of the capitalist world to
the utmost degree.
The intensification of the class struggle aris-
ing therefrom leads to the growth of fascism
at one pole of society and owing to the crisis,
to the use of increasingly ferocious methods
for suppressing the masses shooting of strik-
ers, smashing of revolutionary working class
organizations, arrest of its foremost fighters
dismissal of Communists and revolutionary
workers from the factories, etc., while at the
other pole, it leads to rising revolutionary
tide widening of the front of the revolution
airy struggle and inclusion in the general rev.
dictionary front of the peasant reserves of the
colonies and those of a number of capitalist
countries.
10. The Sixth World Congress placed on
record the swing to the left of the working
class which replaced certain amount of de-
preston noticeable in the preceding period in
the labor movement. The Tenth Plenum of
the E.C.C.I. emphasized the rise of new rev.
dictionary tide in capitalist countries which
found expression in the development of mass
economic strikes and which in many instances
assumed the character of counter offensive
against the capitalist attack (the Ruhr, LODI
the textile workers in France, the strikes in
the South of the U. S. A.. Bombay, and in a
series of demonstrations demonstrations in
France, May Day in Berlin and Poland) How
ever. these actions of the proletariat were of