The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18

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he United States is already calling
forth and will still more call forth
extremely acute sharpening of the
class struggle. While proposing va
rious extraordinary projects for
overcoming the crisis, the American
imp ariahsts devote their major at
tention to the strengthening of the
degree of capitalist naturalization
in preparation for a wide offensive
upon the world markets. This sig
nifies, on the other hand, the
strengthening of the danger of a
new war, and, on the other hand,
gigantic growth of unemployment
and stubborn attack against the
wages Of t. , American workers, and
against their standards of living.
The American workers must an
swer this offensive by a decisive re-
sistance to the united front of the
bosses, the state, the American
Federation of Labor, and the other
social-fascists. Naturally this will
entail period of stubborn class bat
ties in the course of which the work
ers will in an ever greater degree
go over into the offensive,
Before the Communist Party
stands the task of organizing these
maturing battles and leading them.
The stubborn strike of the coal
miners in the state of Illinois, which
is now ing place under the lead
ership of the Communists, and to
stifle which the employers and the
government have modified their
troops and the strike-breaking
American Federation of Labor, is
forerunner of the approaching storm.
In order to keep abreast of the
serious task confronting the Com
munist Party of the U.S.A., the
Party must considerably strengthen
it's ranks. At the present time the
Communist Party of the United
States consists of only about 10000
members. To this it must be added
that the Party has not sufficient
contacts with the workers of the
basic branches of industry, and it
has not yet entirely healed the
wounds of the years long fractional
struggle and has not yet finally
gotten rid Of the destructive conse-
quenees of the methods" of leader
ship and work of the Peppers and
Lovestones.
However, having freed itself
from the clique of Pepper and Love-
stone, the Communist Party of the
U.S.A. is exhibiting many signs of
healthy growth and development.
The attempt of Lovestone to split
the Party suffered severe defeat.
Only a few dozens of individuals fol-
owed him-almost exclusively petty
bourgeois elements. The breaking
up of the right opportunists in the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union and the developing economic
crisis in the United States, smash
ing to pieces the opportunistic the
Dry of American "exceptionalism,"
dealth the final blow to Lovestone
and Co.
The prolonged fractional struggle
n the Communist Party of the u.
5. A. has ended. The new leadership
of the Party is consolidating the
Party around the new political
tasks and the real struggle with the
light danger. For the first time in
is existence the Communist Party
If the U.S.A. is applying real self
criticism, strengthening its connec-
lens with the masses. In the imml-
tent class battles, the Communist
arty of the U.S.A. will have to as
tune the leading role and consider
bly, strengthen its influence among
ne working masses.
The Communist Party will have
0. lead the masses into combat
gainst capitalist naturalization
;hich is founded upon the mad
peed-up of the processes of labor,
tc. Parallel with the systematic
strengthening Of the Party itself,
he task demands the Strengthening
the revolutionary trade unions,
nited in the new trade union center,
ne Trade Union Unity League,
nd the organization of strike
lovement into which the most ex-
loited layers of the workers must
drawn-the unskilled laborers,
fegroes, women, the youth, etc. The
'fade Union Unity League, having
Is fractions also in the reformlst
fade unions, can be developed and
ullfil its revolutionary role only IN
onducting the most stubborn strug-
lie against the bosses, the bourgeois
tate and the social-fascists, which,
18th all their strength, will hurl
lemselves upon the class trade
mons.
One of the basic problems stand
~ before the Communist Party OF
he U.S.A. is unemployment. The
roblem of unemployment attains
Il the more actual significance
rom the fact that in the United
;tates there does not exist any So
ial insurance against unemploy-
rfent whatsoever. The struggle In
lefense of the unemployed should
e tied up with the fights of the
workers. employed in the shops and
lould be conducted under the slo-
ans Of social insurance, seven-hour
~ sday, two days Of rest each week
I'D So forth. u is necessary to