The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
Bv HAROLD WILLIAMS


THE Seventh Party convention will assemble
at a time when capitalism in America and
the world is going through a severe economic
crisis. On the other hand, is the growing re-
sistsnce on the part of the workers and the
revolutionary upsurge in the colonies. The
history Of our Party within the last year or
so. with the elimination of factionalism, Is
changing its composition and is turning its face
TO the masses in the basic industries. In this
period, when the bourgeoisie and their govern
men5 are utilizing the open fascist method OF
attack against the workers and the oppressed
Negro masses, more tightening up of our
Party organization is the crying need.
In order that our Party may be able to carry
out its historic mission, it must be accompanied
in its growth by the growth of revolutionary
trade unions and auXiliaries Therefore, the
building of the Trade Union Unity League
must be one of the questions taken up most
seriously by the convention, in order that our
Party may be clarified on the Importance OF
our new left wing trade unions.
The Negro work of our Party has made
progress especially since the Sixth World Con-
gres-, where the Comintern has laid down
definite program of action against white chau-
vinism and for the recruiting of Negro workers
into our own ranks and the building of the
American Negro Labor Congress. Since the
Party Recruiting Drive, our Party is becoming
in some sections not only Party OF propa-
gandists but is inspiring and is being looked
upon by the Negro workers as the champion
and leader. Our drive in the south has aroused
the entire state apparatus and its lackeys, the
A. F. of L. social-fascists, to the extent that
several Of our comrades are now facing the
electric chair, because they dare to preach full
political, economic, and social equality and the
right to self-determination to the Negro and
white masses in the South. The immediate
task of our Party Negro work must be accom-
plished in further developing these new Negro
recruits who must go out with the class con-
scious sections of the white proletariat in win
ming the majority of the Negro workers to our
Party and the revolutionary trade unions.
The Garvey Movement.
In the Chicago District, a new phenomenon
has developed in our Recruiting Drive in the
bringing forward of about rs members of the
Universal Negro Improvement Association,
commonly called the Garvey Movement, into
our ranks, and with the possibility of also
sending Negro and white speakers to speak at
their organization and open air meetings on
the Party program. While these new men,
hers accept the Party line in practice, yet on
the Party theoretical discussion of the Carney
movement and Garvey himself, they reject the
Party position. There are, however, exceptions
to this from the more proletarian section OF
Negroes. Therefore, we have the task today OF
winning the better elements of the Garvey
movement who have become disillusioned in the
petty bourgeois utopian policy of Carney as
the crisis in America becomes deeper and the
attempt on the part of the bosses to shift the
burden more upon the shoulders of the Negroes,
the most exploited and oppressed section of the
workers, becomes more open.
Another event is determining more and more
the solidarity on the part of the Negroes and
our white Party members. Already we have
seen where in st. Louis the Negro workers are