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pIause and cheering greeted the
address by Mrs. Baldwin, widow OF
a Kentucky mine striker who was
murdered by the deputies and
gunner Of the coal operators.
Mrs. Baldwin had in her arms her
little baby, made fatherless by the
coal operators. A similar Outburst
greeted Mrs. MontgOmery's address.
Weinstone Analyses World Situation
William Weinstone, representing
the Central Committee Of the Com
munist Party, brilliantly analysed
the situation of the world capitalist
decay, pointing out the rapid fall Of
production in the capitalist coun-
tries, the increase of unemployment,
the bankruptcy Of the city govern
ments, and the complete bankruptcy
of the capitalist system proceeding
according to the laws pointed out
by Marx and Lenin. He warned the
workers that the hunger system
would not break down of itself, but
would have to be overthrown by a
proletariat organized, steeled and in
spired by the revolutionary party of
Lenin, the Communist Party. He
stressed that while the bourgeoisie is
revealing the utmost pessimism and
despair in the face Of the ever
deepening crisis, as shown in an ar
ticle in the Catholic organ, "Amer-
ican," from which he quoted, the
Communist Party could not accomp-
lish the task of becoming the leader
of the toiling black and white mas
ses unless it located itself in the
shops and factories.
Comrade Weinstone pointed out
that the struggles Of the Bolshevik
Party in Russia were strengthened
and reinforced in the ranks of the
most oppressed sections Of the work
ing class; that in the United States
this will be accomplished only by
turning to the workers in the big
factories and to the oppressed Ne
gro masses. He stressed the unlag-
cling faith of Lenin in the Russian
proletariat and its capacity for
struggle.
The traitorous roel Of the socialist
party, was sharply exposed as was
its false estimate of the coming world
crisis as against the correct estimate
by the Communist International.
He called for the strengthening OF
the work in the revolutionary uni
ons of the Trade Union Unity League
and in the Oppositions in the A. F.
of L., ETC., the building Of wider
united front from below for push
ing the more concrete demands Of
the workers and for firecer attack
on the social-fascists in the A. r.
OF l.. and in the socialist party, who
are attempting to strangle the strug-
giles of the masses against starva-
ton
Increasing Attacks On Working
Glass
He pointed out that the sharpen
ing of the crisis was being accom-
panied by new attacks on the work
ing class, and pointed to the terror
against the Kentucky strikers, the
increasingly savage attacks upon THE
Negro masses as shown in the recent
lynch verdict against Orphan Jone:
in Maryland, in preparation for tht
railroading of the Scottsboro boys tc
the electric chair by the Alabama
Supreme Court. He called for
mass fight of Negro and white work.
ers against the Scottsboro Lynch
verdicts, for militant support of the
Kentucky strike, which he pointed
out is a blow against the capitals
offensive and a battle Of the entirt
working class.
He declared that the deepening
crisis made more acute the war dam
ger, forcing the imperialists to seel
way out of the crisis at the ex-
pense of countless working-clas'
| lives, at the expense of the Negro
and colonial masses, and for armed
Intervention against the soviet
Union.
The sharper the crisis grows ane
the more the masses rally to the
struggle against starvation, the more
exposed becomes the treachery Of the
Lovestonites, he declared.
Other speakers included, Kingston
Negro director of District of the
Communist Party, Stern of the Young
Communist League, and Drown, one
Of the TOO workers recruited 50 fsl
in District 2 during the Party Re
cruitment Campaign. Lena Davis
Organizational Secretary of District
2, acted as chairman.
A resolution against the imperial
list war preparations and calling up
on the masses TO defend the Soviet
Union and the Chinese Soviet Re-
public was unanimously adopted
amid the thunderous cheers OF the
workers.
An appeal was made for mass sup
port for the fighting fund OF the
Daily Worker and for the coming
needle trades workers strike in this
city, which is being organized by the
Needle Trade Industrial Union.
The meeting wound up with az
excellent rropram of revolutionary
songs by the Federation of Workers
Choruses, accompanied by the w. I
r. Band, an effective and graphic
pageant by the Proletcult and the