The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-31
By BILL DUNE.


white and Negro workers, unquestionaby marks
a. new high political level of the rising tide Of
the class struggle The revolutionary center Of
the resistance of the working class to the Hoover
hunger and war drive has been strengthened
greatly.
From the mass center established by the Con
yeut'on, revolutionary detachments must now be
DISPATCHED without delay TO every section of the
c'asS battle front!
The working class of the United States is faced
with the sharpest, most vicious and most wide
spread attack in all its history.
1n.perianst war has begun with the mrderous
on !aught on the Chinese people and their he
roic struggle for liberation by Japan, the other
imperialist powers and their Chinese m1itarist
allies.
The battlelines are forming for the war on the
Soviet Union with the Wall Street Hoover gov
ern.nant in the front rank Of the imperialist
powers backing the japanese assault, furnishing
munitions and finance.
The American working class, employed and
unemployed, are being regimented. Industry
has been militarized
The Convention witnessed by massed thou
sands of workers in the decisive center OF heavy
Industry and railways, selected as leaders OF the
ecction struggle Comrades Foster and Ford,
white and Negro revolutionaries and by this
sso.ic act placed before the white working class
in unmistakable form its duty to take up as its
own the revolutionary battle for the complete
liberation Of the Negro masses.
The Convention met at a momentous hour for
the American working class
Never before have the class lines been so
clearly drawn in the United States and not
single section of the working class in America
has escaped the drive against wages, working
conditions and living standards. Class antagon-
isn4s have sharpened to degree never before
witnessed in America.
Ils, thunderclouds OF a world war which is
directed against the Chinese people and the
Coviet Union first of all and against the work
ing class and the colonial peoples, as are all i'm
perialist wars hang ever lower; any day their
hghtnings may strike the mountains of exxplo-
sives assembled by the great powers on the Soviet
frontiers, hurting millions of workers into an
other and more terrible holocaust for the saliva
ton OF decaying capitalism in a desperate at
tempt OF its ruling class to drown the rising
revolutionary struggles in blood, to destroy the
Soviet Union and postpone the defeat of capital
ism by the working, class and its allies, led by
the Communist Parties.
Only revolutionary struggle and working class
unity can defeat the war plans of the imperialist
murderers Only our Party can lead such
struggle and cement the unity of class.
American capitalism, its huge frame wasted
and shrunken by the three-year crisis which
oeepens daily, is bound up with the shaking
structures of other capitalist countries. 1t is
tied to the diseased carcass of world capitalism.
Permanent American prosperity" has dlsap-
peared into that museum Of cTiosities where are
housed the other shibboIeths Of capitalism like
the 'high American standard of living" one time
supposed to be engraved in eternal marble on
the walls of the inpregnable American social
system whose rulers had COMPOUNDED the Marx
ian law of the inner contradictions of capitalism
which create the class struggle.
Today, between 100000 and 100000 Amer
lean workers are jobless. They live on the
scummy Slop of charity" or are forced to beg,
Steal--or starve.
Eghty-five per cent Of the workers still en-
ployed work only part time. Wages have been
cut at least so per cent since 1929. There is
new wave Of wage-cuts sweeping the country.
Unemployment is increasing.
Twelve million Negroes have been forced still
lower in social status. The vicious discrimina-
ton practced against them in normal times
has been transferred into the breadlines, flop
houses and neighborhoods-and increased New
forms of terror have been unleashed against
them in the South.
Doaks deportation drive has made OF the for
elgL-DOrn WOIk6TS d Specially IlOulQGQ SGCJlOu u
the masses. They are arbitrarily and system
atically deprived Of opportunity to earn a liVeH-
hood because of accident Of birth.
They are spied upon, terrorized seized, jailed
and sent away without regard for their families
or dependents.
The capitalist offensive against the living
standards of the working class and poor farm
ers has as its corollary the drive against their
political rights. From every strike against wage
cuts out of every struggle against unemploy-
ment, the armed forces Of the capitalists and
their fascist and gangster allies Of the under
world take their toll Of life and liberty.
Massacres of unarmed workers, secret and
open assassination of their leaders, mass club
bings, casing and arrests deportations, provoca-
ticas of alb kinds have been carried through on
an unheard Of scale.
Through the two-party system American inn
per,aIicm is moving rapidly toward open
dictatorship. The ruin Of thousands of small
firms, the bankruptcy of hundreds Of thousands
of farmers, on one hand, and, on the other, the
steady concentration Of the ownership of natural
resources and industry, the unity Of finance and
industrial capital, contaminated by arbitrary
power seized by such seni-official groups as that
of twelve Inorganic Rockefeller representatives
headed by Owen ID. Young, all show the feverish
efforts being made to unite more firmly all the
state forces OF capitalism against the working
class and its allies.
TO solve the crisis at the expense of the masses
po matter what the cost in mass msery--this is