The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-17

direction. The Congress itself, by
the program which it will adopt, must
furnish the real foundation of the
united front in the struggle against
imperialist war.
The Organizing Committee for the
Anti-War Congress very wisely
adopted, from the beginning, the pol
icy that all participating organiza-
tons preserve the complete right to
agitate and propaganda their own
special views on the question of war,
and to attempt to win the Congress
to their particular proposals. This
right, of course, includes that of mu-
tual criticism. 1t is clear that the
result of the preparations Of the Con-
greSs and of its deliberations must,
if the Congress is to be successful,
result in the consolidation of the
Congress delegates, or at least the
large majority, around an agreed
minimum program Of action.
The Communists will propose and
fight for the adoption of such a
minimum program. This minimum
program will necessarily be along the
line of the Manifesto adopted by the
International Congress Against War
held in Amsterdam last year, with
the participation Of large delegations
of Communist, Socialist and nom
party workers and intellectuals from
the principal countries of Europe and
America. Such minimum pro-
gram is one upon which every hon
est opponent of imperialist war can
unite for action.
If and when the Anti-War Con-
gress now in preparation adopts such
a minimum program Of struggle
against war, the Communist Party
declares its readiness to enter into
such united front of struggle for
this program. The Communists will
Loyalty fight for this program, to-
gether with every organization and
every individual who sincerely and
honestly performs his part in such a
fight. The Communist Party is even
prepared to suspend its criticism of
other organizations in the united
front during the execution of the
united actions, provided that the
agreed upon measures of struggle are
carried through unhesitatingly and
Loyalty to the end 1t reserves the
right at all times to expose and de-
nounce every breach of agreement.
every sabotage or betrayal of the
struggle.
At the same time, the Communist
Party will continue its fundamental
work of leading the everyday strug-
giles, educating and organizing the
workers on the basis of its revolu-
tionary program, leading towards the
overthrow of capitalist rule and the
establishment of q Workers Govern
ment as the only final abolition of
imperialtst war. 1t will prepare the
workers for the more difficult tasks
to come in the struggle against i'm
perialist war, the tasks of preparing
and carrying through the transforma-
ton of imperialist war into civil
war of the exploited masses against
their oppressors, into war for the
destruction Of capitalism and its sys-
TEN of exploitation and oppression.
The Communist Party states its
position clearly and unequivocally in
entering into the preparations for the
Congress against imperialist war.
Our participation in the anti-war
struggle is whole-hearted and I'M
compromising We have no purpose
other than that which we state openly
and clearly TO the broad masses Our
purpose comedies with the interests
of the masses of oppressed toilers.
Every sincere and honest opponent of
imperialist war can find the basis for
united action in the minimum pro-
gram for which we fight and for
which we will struggle in the com
ing Anti-War Congress.
On August 1st the Communist
Party calls upon the masses to join
in mighty street demonstrations
against the new impending imperial
ist slaughter. These demonstrations
are the best immediate means of
mass struggle against war, and OF
preparations for real Anti-War
Congress.
We call upon every worker in the
Socialist Party, and especially such
workers in New York, Milwaukee and
Reading, and the members of the
American Federation of Labor every-
where to join the August LIST demon
STATIONS!
Forward to the united mass strug-
gle against imperialist war;