The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-20

Dublin. is AN event of great historic
revolutionary significance and i'm
portsnce in the struggle for Ireland
complete independence.
With the founding of the Com
nunist Party in Ireland, the first
big essential step has been taken for
the rapid mobilization of the Irish
working class acting as an indie
pendent class force under the clear
political leadership fits own reyolu-
tionary vanguard, for the vigorous
carrying forward of the fight Of the
Irish toiling masses for national and
social emancipation
The consciousness OF the vital rev.
dictionary character of the step be-
ing taken, and the lines along which
the struggle for liberation from ma
tional and social oppression can
alone be carried forward to success,
was deeply embedded in the minds
Of the delegates who attended the
inaugural convention for the Irish
Communist Party's formation.
From all the principal centers of
Ireland delegates were present. There
were delegates not only from Belfast,
in the industrial North, and Dublin,
the capital city in the South. but
from such provincial areas as Cork,
Waterford, Longford, Kilkenny, Lett
rim and Donegal.
The report of the Credentials
Commission showed that the As
delegates gathered together were Of
splendid social composition, with the
big ma jority of those in attendance
made up of many who we're members
of the Irish Republican Army and
workers drawn from all the impor-
tsnt industries and trade unions, to-
gether with farm workers,
Jim Larkin's Speech.
The Congress was opened by Com
rade jim Larkin, Jr., who outlined in
very clear terms the purpose for
which it was convened, and thin
proceeded to characterize briefly the
outstanding characteristics of the
situation in which it met and the
nature Of the problems and tasks it
was called upon to deal with.
He traced the background of Ire
lands historic struggle for indie
pendence. pointed out the tremen-
dously favorable conditions for this
struggle, which were swelling into
maturity both nationally and on an
international scale, and showed how
the struggle of the Irish masses had
the backing and support of powerful
allies in the revolutionary movement
Of other countries, which would be
Of the greatest assistance in helping
10 achieve ultimate success.
Just as the exploited and OPP
pressed Of the capitalist world
were increasingly raIlying their
forces to smash the letters which
bound them, so also would the
Irish working class, led by its own
Communist Party, play its part as
an integral part of the advancing
world revolutionary movement, by
its energetic struggle for the estab-
lishment Of the Irish Workers and
Farmers Republic-the dictator
ship Of the proletariat.
Then followed the discussion on
tAs most important document which
the Congress had before it, namely
The Manifesto to be issued in the
name of the Irish Communist Party,
to the workers and toiling peasants
OF Ireland.
The Manifesto.
Comrade Sean Murray, in intro
ducing the Manifesto, stressed very
sharply the great significance Of the
less h it drew for the reYo-
lutiC working class movement in
Ireland. re was a document which
gave brief, historical survey of the
stubborn fight of the Irish masses to
obtain their freedom over the past
200 years.
An analysis of the many rebellions
which filled the pages of Irish his
toy showed that only one class, the
working class of Ireland, acting as an
independent force, could carry this
struggle through to finish.
The course of Irish history had
proved that time and again the fight
of the Irish people had been sabo-
tagged and led to betrayal by the
Irish capitalists, and the represen-
tatives of the Irish -bourgeoiSie
In all Irish rebeliions the Irish
working class had played most
energetic part. Now the hour for
the final liberation of Ireland was
drawing very near. Led by its own
Communist Party, the working
class Of Ireland IN revolutionary
alliance with the toiIing masses Of
the Irish peasants could and
would carry through the struggle
for national aad social emanCipa-
ton TO success.
Both in Comrade Murray's intro
ductory speech and in the contribu-
tions made by the delegates, en-
naasis was laid on the reactionary
capitalist role being played by the
De Valera government and the rap
idly growing disiIlusionment and dis
content of the masses, against whom
It's Social-reactionary policy was
sharply directed.
Many delegates pointed out also
how a very strong ferment was go
ing on in the ranks of the l. r. A.,
where increasing dissatisfaction was
being expressed by the rank and file
esLh the wavering and vacillations of
the leadership and its threats to Gust
members who we're Communists.
Roots In Factory.
1t was unanimously agreed that
the most strenuous efforts must be
made to win over the rank and file
of the T. r. A. and TO develop the
greatest possible unity in action with
them for the waging of the issues of
the mass struggle in all spheres
In the discussions on the Mani
festo Of the Party and the resolution