The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-02

Dloyment and the capitalist society thaJ DreeuS
unemployment is of tremendous revolutionary
significance. Over million and quarter
American workers responded to the call of
the Communist Party to fight for their i'm
mediate economic demands and the political
slogans of our Party. No doubt in the prep
arations for March 9Th and in the course of
the demonstrations the Party made certain
mistakes. These mistakes were very sharply
pointed out and criticized by the Central Com
mittee in its resolution evaluating the results
of March 9Th and our future tasks.
Through the March 9th demonstrations the
American workers had a good opportunity to
learn the class character of the state, the fas
cist role Of the A. f. of L. and the social fas-
cist character of the socialist party. Through
March 9Th, however, the workers also had an
opportunity to learn some more of the rene
gade Lovestone group. Prior to the day of
the demonstration, Lovestone came out with
statement that the unemployment struggle as
led by the Communist Party and the TUUL
is "putch." Lovestone stated:
THE COmintern adopts policy on
of the most important problems facing
the Parties Unemployment which are not
only ultra-left but which are actually Putch-
ist." Revolutionary Age, Feb 15th.)
Have the results of March 9th shown that
the unemployment struggle of the Party is a
''putch?" The splendid response of the masses
of employed and unemployed workers is even
being recognized by the capitalist press and
all our open enemies. The readiness of the
masses to struggle was demonstrated by the
heroic battles of the workers with the state
and its agents. To Lovestone all this, how
ever, was only a "putch" and adventure" or
gained by the Communist Party, without any
dino I'd 70 bo A.
response Of the masses.
On the day after the demonstration, how
ever Lovestone had the courage to come out
with the statement:
THE official leaders of the Party refuse
TO mobilize against the onslaught of the
capitalist forces of reaction. Instead of try
ing to rally the masses the Party leaders
today replacing the class action of the
workers against the capitalists by the action
of a small handful offs Party members"
Revolutionary Age. March 15th.)
Only handful of Communists were in ac-
ton on March 9Th The fight of March 9Th
100000 workers demonstrating in every in
dustrial city in the U. S., is a handful Over
5000 new members joining the Communist
Party during the membership drive is also a
handful! 1t is today clear for every worker,
that the reason why the Party was success
full in the mobilization of such large masses
Is because it came to the masses it estab-
lished connection with the masses, it began to
build the united front with the masses in the
workshops and the unemployed on the streets
and the mass organizations. 1t is now our
task to consolidate and still further broaden
this united front with the working masses
However, Lovestone and Cannon think that
there can be no united front unless the Party
and the workers unite with them. In this
case, however, it would be to sell out the
workers, to destroy the unemployment move
ment and against the interest of the working
class. The united trent does not mean a united
front with the renegades, with those who at
tack the Soviet Union, with those who fight
the Communist International, it does mean
united front with the millions of workers in
the shops, with those workers who are still
under the influence of the fascist A. F. of L.
and the capitalist class. Such united front
the Party is developing and establishing
Lovestone bases his attack on the Party be-
cause he thinks that the present PARTY policv.
Party slogans and program do not apply to
the conditions as. they exist in the United
States today. Lovestone writes:
The Party =. has been pursuing a
suicidal sectarian course absolutely foreign
to the actual conditions existing in the coun-
try and in the ranks of the working class a
course which today has succeeded in COM
pletey lsOating the Communist Party from
the overwhelming majority of the workers
of the United States
Lovestone further writes:
The Party must base itself upon the
actual conditions confronting the working
class In the u. s.; it must not raise as was
done In the unemployment demonstrations
slogans which untimely. it must not use
tactics which do not help to develop and or
ganize the movement
Lovestone has not the courage to come out
and state what were the wrong slogans used.
nor what the wrong tactics were However.
one can easily understand what Lovestone
means by this. Lovestone does not believe
the American workers are ready to fight that
the time is not ripe to raise political slogans
for the workers. Cannon was already more
honest than Lovestone in coming out openly
and stating:
at the present stage of develop
ment, to hurry the essential and concrete
living demands, which really move the work
ers, under a long list of so-caled political
demands which the workers do not under
stand and are not prepared to fight for"
Naturally thinking that the time is not ripe
yet for the revolutionary program of the Par.
ty In its struggle against unemployment.
Lovestone comes to the conclusion that the
action OF the state, the falling and clubbing
OF workers, is not because capitalism is de-
termined to smash the growing resistance of
the workers, but because the Communists are
interested to provoke the police at
tack on the workers and the Party Love
stone writes: