The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-30

we hinder in the United States the transport
of even one shipment Of ammunition? Should
we now be content to merely continue shout
ing slogans and organizing demonstrations?
MOI This alone is not enough. Shouting slogans
would mean oppOrtunist passivity.
In the development of the anti-war campaign
must make rapid strides forward We must
develop our agitational campaign to higher
stage at the same time we must give organize
tional form to our anti-war struggle. This strug-
gle must already take concrete form We must
lead the proletariat into action for hampering
the production of ammunition for hindering
the shipment of arms and ammunition to the
Far East, Not only the Party, but the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, the Metal Workers
Industrial League, the Railroad Workers In
dustrial League the left-wing of the parallel
organizations in the A. F. of L., all mass organi-
cations around the Party, must be In the fore
front of the anti-war struggle to mobilize the
masses and organize the anti-war struggle
concrete basis which must take the form of
protest strikes in the war industries, In the
docks, aboard the ships.
Detailed Work-Checking Up
Their immediate task for all the districts is
to Immediately locate all ammunition plants in
their territory, and select one or two of the
major plants for concentration. An inyestiga-
+AAO0O
tionary unions and mass organizations led by
the Party to find out all the available connec-
tons with the workers of the plant which will
help us in the concentration, in the widening
OF our connections In this manner shall be
able to establish the first groups of anti-war
fighters inside and among the workers of a par
ticular factory the first anti-war committees.
The task of the anti-war committees will not
only be to know what is going on in the In
dustries, especially in the ammunition plants,
in the railroad centers, on the docks, but to dis
cuss with the workers, to help them realize that
war is going on, distribute leaflets and anti-war
literature among the workers; to arrange with
the district with the revolutionary unions shop
gate meetings, ant-war demonstrations in front
of the plants, to become the leading body of the
anti-war struggle inside the plants.
Special attention must be paid to the che
n1iCal war industries to the ammunition plants,
to the reaching of the working women. Demon
strations Of unemployed workers shall be ar
ranged in front of the factories objects Of our
concentration to demonstrate the solidarity OF
the unemployed workers with the struggle Of
the employed against the bosses offensive on
their standard of living, against the bosses pre-
paration of q new in1perialist war for the at
tack against the Soviet Union
One of the aims of the demonstrations OF
smashing of the illusions created by the bosses
that war will bring back prosperity War will
give work to few bullets for millions of workers
and farmers, and profits to a handful of capt.
aIists.
Concentration In Anti-War Struggle
Because we are not working only towards
future perspectiVes and the war is going on In
the Far East, ammunitions are produced day
a19d y,io md
to the Far East, the immediate concentration
in important strategic plants, the establishment
of the anti-war committees in the factories
in the trade unions, is of tremendous Importance
for the widening of the anti-War struggle.
The hindering of the first transport Of am
munition, or the hamperng of the production OF
arms and ammunitiOns thru protest strikes will
give tremendous example to the whole work
ing class of the United States on how to con-
creteIy fight against war. The example of the
protest strikes which developed into the great
mass strikes in Germany, Austria, England, Italy
in the period of the first intervention war
against the Soviet Union showed to us the pos
sibilities on how we can also prevent in the u 5.
the shipment of ammunition, how we can
slow up stop the wheels of the monstrouS ma
chimes for the production of war material, on
how the American proletariat together with the
world proetariat become a factor for the
pOstponement of war against the Soviet Union.
In Rotterdam the Chinese crew Of the Laertes,
and in Hamburg the Chinese crew Of the Phoe-
nix in the present war already prevented the
transport of ammunition for Japan, giving
tremendous example to the working class of all
countries Of their class consciousness and on
how concretely to fight against war.
All Struggles NOT Anti-War
We cannot be satisfied with the theory that
all struggles of the working class that are go
ing on are already fight against war. 1t IS
not only the economic struggles that we have
to develop at this moment against the capitalist
offensive on the standard Of living Of the Am
ercan working class, and connect them with
the anti-war struggle, but at the same time
develop the anti-war struggle itself on con-
crete basis Now is the time that must
sight against all forms of pacfism, and passi-
witty, spur the initiative Of the masses, in this
struggle, the initiative of each individual, each
Communist, sympathizer, workers who are con-
scious of the necessity to fight against war in
the shops, in the ammunition plants, in the
docks, aboard the ships.
Combating Capitalist Cunning
The American bourgeois is cunning. While
part of it is talking about boycott against Japan
it is making business with Japan. 1t is help
ing Japan directly, not only with the shipping
of arms and ammunition, but also thru CONT
nuous shipments Of raw materials - nitrates,
cotton, etc At the same time, the United States
is oiling its own war machines.