The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

J. The Plenum OF the &C of the CP.U.SA.
fully endorses the decisions of the 18th Plenum
OF the E.c.CI, the correctness of which has
been confirmed by the events of the last four
months The Plenum of the E.C.CI, taking
place in situation of the still deepening and
already longest and most severe world crisis in
the history of capitalism emphasized that "the
antagonism between the two world systems of
decaying capitalism and rising Socialism has
become the cardinal factor in the world situa-
ton" The Plenum pointed to the growing Of
fenstve OF the bourgeoisie expressed in the at
taeks on the living standards of the masses the
growing fascist terror against the masses, and
sharply increased war preparations, especially
against the Soviet Union, the further fascination
Of the social democracy, which plays an increas-
ing role in the capitalist offensive and prepare
lions for war The Plenum pointed out the de-
velopment of the revolutionary upsurge of the
masses, more independent revolutionary leader
ship in the struggles of the workers, the growing
struggles of the colonial peoples, especially in
China and Latin America, and in number OF
countries the maturing Of the prerequisites for
the revolutionary crisis. In number of i'm
portant countries Especially in Germany the
Communist Parties have made great advances,
yet the central task remains the winning of the
majority OF the working class; the Parties still
have not overcome the disproportion between
the growing influence and organizational con-
solidation OF that influence
g. Since the 18th Plenum of the &C. OF the
C.P.USA all the inner and outer contradic-
of fIaa fall eft n "A
are sharpening at an increasing tempa All
events in the U.S.A confirm the correctness OF
the line of the Eleventh Plenum of the -E.C.C1.
The economic crisis is continuing to descend to
unprecedented depths. The coming winter will
be severe testing in struggle between the forces
Of capitalism and the rising forces of the work.
ing class Already the economic activity as
whole has declined approximately 40 per cent
from its high point in 1929 (such key industries
b steel, auto, building, declined from SO to
Is per cent?. Approximately 100000 workers
are totally unemployed, and more millions are
On part-tine work. The agrarian crisis is be-
coming more severe, with catastrophe declines
IN wheat and cotton prices. Governmental
finances, especially local and state, are faced
with growing difficulties and the federal deficit
has grown to $9o0,o00oOO. The social contradic-
tons are accommodating, emphasized in particular
by mass unemployment and starvation wage
cuts and speed-up, and sharpening political re-
preston The workers are replying to the Of
fensive OF the capitalists with increased mill
fancy, wider mass demonstrations and with the
commencement of wider and more stubborn
strike battles (coal and textile strikes unem-
ployment hunger marches, the unparalleled
mass protest against the Chicago massacre, etc.
Especially significant is the revolutionary move
ment OF Negroes, and the common struggles of
80, ,1r1Io FOx
Negro rights, organized around the scottsboro
Camp Hill and Chicago cases. With the deep
ening Of the economic crisis and the sharpen
ing Extensive of the capitalists with the increas-
ing struggles Of the masses, the perspective for
the immediate period is of still sharper class
battles and particularly during the coming win
ter months, for which the Party must better Or
ganize and prepare its forces.
8. To the sharpening OF the decline in indus
try as, whole, is added the decline in foreign
trade which intensifies further the inner con-
tradictions and at the same time the sharpen
ing imperialist rivalries reveal the extent to
which American imperialist economy is involved
In the general decay of capitalism and all of its
world-scale contradictions. Driven by the fever
ish struggle for markets and spheres on influ-
ence and by the victorious Socialist construction
In the Soviet Union, American imperialism is
coming forward as the leader in the prepara-
ton of the coming of intervention against
the Soviet Union. The frantic efforts of Hoover,
Mellon and Stimson to postpone the impending
financial collapse of Germany, and to use the
financial difficulties of England in furthering
Its aggressive policy, has not softened the con-
Predictions among the imperialists themselves,
but on the contrary has enormously sharpened
them. This, with the growing wave of mass
struggles against starvation of the coming period,
makes more acute the danger of war against
the Soviet Union.
L In its effort to carry through the often
zve against the toiling masses and to carry
through the war preparations the bourgeoisie is
more and more resorting to fascist methods of
rule. At the same time it is utilizing more and
more its agents in the ranks of the workers, the
A. r. Of L. bureaucracy and the soca1-fascists
both in its fascist attacks against the masses
and its attempt to maintain the bourgeois dem
ocratic pretenses Though increasing the ele-
ments of fascination, the main method of the
rule Of U. S. finance capital is still, in the main,
In principle by no means differs from open
Cascist) dictatorship.
g. The revolutionary upsurge which is devel-
opng generally on an ascending curve does not
proceed in straight line and develop equally
In ell countries. The 18th Plenum of the
EC.CI. correctly combatted the tendency to
construct the political crisis" as a necessary
Intermediary stage between the revolutionary
upsurge and revolutionary crisis and the idea