The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11
HE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND TASKS OF THE COMMUNIST PART

labor movement, and upon their concentrated
state power, the employers are launching a de-
termined offensive to lower the living standards
Of the entire working class. The drive for
naturalization (speed-up) in only beginning.
The most terrific exploitation will come in the
next months, in the second half of the crisis,
when the falling prices will bring the capitalist
offensive to unheard-of sharpness.
Preparation for the new speed-up drive in
the factories, mills and mines is being made by
the assault against the revolutionary working
class organizations, the Trade Union Unity
League, the Young Communist League, and the
Communist Party The use of illegal, fascist,
violence is increasing, especially in the South,
against the National Textile Workers Union
and the Trade Union Unity League organizers.
Twenty-six Communist Party Leaders in Chi
cago are charged with sedition and the pros
ecutor announces that he intends to outlaw the
Party in Illinois The government has openly.
attacked the legality of the Shoe Workers
Union. The Party and revolutionary working
class must definitely prepare itself to combat
an extensive movement to drive the Party into
illegality.
This capitalist attack against the working
class is at the same time part of the prepare
tions for imperialist war. The struggle against
the war danger is, therefore, necessarily linked
up with and a part of the resistance to the cap
itast offensive. The two aspects of the class
struggle cannot and must not be separated.
They are but two phases of the same fight.
15 The chronic agraran crisis is being
sharpened by the present economic crash, al
the same time acting as one of the causes OF
the general crisis. The effort of the Hoover
administration, under the cover of talk OF
bringing about better conditions, to extend
naturalization and domination of finance CAPT
tai over agriculture is comparable in social
effect to the naturalization of industry, namely
it increases class differentiation on the land,
worsening conditions and disemploying great
numbers of farm wage workers and tending to
pauperize great sections of the lower strata of
the poor farmers and -proletarians, among
whom southern Negro farmers are most i'm
portant section, while welding the rich farmers
and farmer capitalists more closely into the
machinery of big capital and generally con-
soidating the forces of imperialism for war
At the same time it more clearly reveals the
reactionary and parasitic role of finance CAPT
tai, which throttes the technical progress of
agriculture while sucking its life blood The
agrarian crisis therefore assumes new forms
in which our Party has opportunities which
cannot be neglected. Our Party must also be
the organizer of the class struggle on the land,
must see distinctly the differences of class in
agriculture, must first of all reach and or
ganize the proetariat of highly capitalist
farming, and begin the task of marshalling the
deeply discontinued agrarian petty bourgeoise
against finance capital
16. The answer of the working class to the
capitalist offensive has been given in the move
ment of the Illinois miners, breaking away from
the boss-controlled U. M. w. of A, and fighting
against desperate odds against the triple al
lance" of BOSSES state and reformists; as we'll
as by the movement of the Southern white and
Negro workers for organization and struggle
against capitalist naturalization, especially
manifested in the textile workers convention.
This answer of the working class, only it's its
first stages as yet, must inevitably develop into
fierce mass battles, involving hundreds of thou
sands during the course of the present crisis.