The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
PARTY LIFE
Importance Of Popularising
the Slogan Of Soviet Pomer
Small Number of the Convention Manifesto
Ordered by Pittsburgh Shotos Differentiation

have been able to organize the dis.
tribution of at least 100000 copiea
in the mines and steel shoYs. -(Pittss!
burgh is not alone with this weak
ness, but we take Pittsburgh as a.
particularly bad example,.
Experience shows not only that
one cannot organize a revolutionary
mass party without closest connec-
ton with the masses, without or
ganizing them for their needs
Experience also shows that if we az
the party do not utilize every con,
nection with the masses to clarity
them not only on what the party
stands for today, in these concrete
strikes, in the concrete action fdif
the unemployed, then we are mudcf
more easily defeated in theA
everyday struggles, then it is much
easier for the bourgeoisie and the
A. F. Of L. burocrats, for the So
cialist misleaders. to hold back
backward workers in the daily
struggles, and split their ranks, by
raising the red scare"
Do We Explain Our Position?
Particularly in Pittsburgh this
should be a lesson from past
struggles. The bourgeoise, its press,
the A. F. of L, burocracy, the So
cialist leaders, all daily explain" to
the workers what the Communists
really want: blood baths, destruc-
ton, anarchy, etc." This is the
business of the professional reac-
tionaries. But do we sufficiently
explain to the workers in our dailv
work what the Communists reallv
want? Nobody can now answer this
question with an honest yes. Do
we sufficiently explain to the work.
ers in Pittsburgh which way out the
Communists have for the miners
and steel workers? Do we explain
to the workers in MacLoughlin
Steel and Western Mine our con-
centration points, which way out we
Communists propose to the workers.
Neglecting to propaganda and
popularize the slogan of Soviet
Power in our everyday work is a
form of hiding the face of the
party.
Let nobody think that the slogan
of Soviet Power, of the dictatorship
OF the proletariat, of the revolu-
tionary way out of the crisis for
the workers, for the broad toiling
masses in city and country, is in
contradiction to our daily practical
work. Just the opposite is the caset
The popularization of the slogan Ct
Soviet Power, the explanation to
the workers which road the Amer
lean working class must take in
order to gain for itself safety, a
full life and culture is an integral
part of our daily work.
Never before was the whole sit
uation so favorable, the soil SO
receptive for the popularization of
the slogan of Soviet Power. Broad
masses of workers are beginning to
see through the demagogy of the
New Deal and what their head does
not yet fully understand, their
stomach has already told them.
The Darrow report, confused as its
writer's may be in their presenta-
ton and in their conclusions, sig
nalizes the growing disappointment.
OF the broad middle class over the
New Deal, over the growing power
of the big monopolies, and of
finance capital. The broad masses
of farmers, in the fangs of the
agrarian crisis, sharpened by the
drought-which might be a mem
Der of the N.R.A.-are desperately
looking for way out. The broad
masses with the workers in the lead
are looking for a way out. We are
proving better than formerly that
we are good fighters in the ranks
OF our class comrades.
We must have still more cour-
age, more capability to show the
workers the whole way out. The 3
better we stand in the forefront
of our struggles, the better will
the workers receive the slogan of
Soviet Power. The better we
pOpularize the revolutionary way
out, the quicker shall we in the
everyday struggles transform the
backward workers into class COM
scious workers, under the leader
ship of the Communist Party.
The one is indissoIubly connected
with the other.