The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-06
BY JACK STACHEL.


INCREASING millions of exploited workers
thruout the world will pay honor to the men,
ory of Lenin this month Lenin died six years
ago, but the principles that he stood for, today
embrace larger masses than ever before. Lenin
is dead, but Lennsm is more alive than ever.
Boshevism is spreading into every land, into
every working-class community, into every fac
tory. and among the village poor Again and
again, the bosses and their lackeys have
stamped" out boshevism as a foreign i'm
portation'' but each time they find that it is
flaring up with greater force until it is be-
coming real danger to the further existance
of rotten capitalisms system of exploitation.
What Lenin Taught the Workers.
Lenin taught the workers that the present
period is the period of imperialist wars and
proetarian revolution; that the present period
-imperialism--is the last period of capitalism.
Lenin taught that the conditions of the
workers in this period are growing worse and
worse; that the exploitation and oppression
Of the masses is brought to untold heights.
Lenin taught us that the working class must
organize itself into trade unions and other
working class organizations to fight back the
growing offensive of the bosses, the bosses
government and their lackeys in the ranks of
the working class: the yellow socialists and
their labor takers. Lenin taught US the neces-
sty of united struggle of all workers, Negro
and white, native born and foreign born, men
and women, adult workers and young workers,
as a condition for the victory of the working
class, in the overthrow of capitalism and the
capitalist government. Above all, Lenin taught
us the role and need of the Communist Party
for the victory of the working class.
The Correctness of Lenns Teachings
What do we find today? Today more than
ever before we can clearly see the truths of
the teachings of Lenin. We see the capitalists
faced with an economic crisis sgnifying the
growing collapse of capitalism. We see the
capitalists trying to overcome this crisis thru
the more inhuman speed-up, and the lengthen-
ing of the hours of labor.
We see the bosses government, its police,
soldiers, courts, and jails ready to crush every
attempt of the working class to resist these
intolerable conditions. We see the growing
army of unemployed, who do not even get
chance to work under these miserable condi-
tions but are left to starve together with their
families and dependents. We see the labor
takers, the yellow socialists, the agents of the
bosses in the ranks of the labor movement
.
resistance of the workers.
Plan Attack Against the Soviet Union.
We see the capitalists preparing for another
imperialist war in which they will call upon
the toiling masses to give their lives for the
protection of United States imperialism, for
Wall Street profit.
We witness the feverish preparations for
an open attack against the Soviet Union, the
only workers government in the world the
inspiration of increasing millions of exploited
toilers.
On the other hand, we witness the growth of
Socialism in the Soviet Union. We see the
foundation laid down by the Russion Revolu-
ton under the leadership of Lenn growing
stronger and stronger. AS it grows stronger,
it weakens the capitalists system thruout the
world, and makes the capitalists tremble.
We see the growth of the resistance of the
oppressed masses in China, India, the Philip
lines, Haiti and everywhere.
Workers Fighting Back.
Here within the United tSates, we see the
growth of the workers organizations. In the
last year, we have witnessed the organization
lutionary trade union center, carrying on a
struggle for the organization of the mass of I'M
organized workers and fighting against the
betrayals of the leaders of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. We see the growing strug-
giles of textile workers, under the leadership
of the National Textile Workers Union the
present struggle of the Illinois miners under
the leadership of the National Miners Union,
the important struggles in New Orleans, Gas
tonia, Marion, etc.
In Detroit and vicinity among the auto work
ers, that now facing the most serious
employment situation the greatest of all speed
up, wage cuts, we have witnessed number of
important struggles in the last year. Murray
Body, Flint, and the other. struggles that have
taken place are but rehearsal of what is
coming in the near future. We already can
clearly see the development of new will to
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