The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-02

Party, at the Second U. S. Con-
gress Against War, in Chicago:
Friends, Comrades, Fellow Fight
ers Against War! In opening my
remarks, I want to extend the warm
est greetings to every delegate and
to every organization represented
here in the name Of the Central
Committee Of the Communist Party.
The Communist Party welcomes this
Second Congress Against War and
Fascisnl as evidence of the strong
beginning of the United front in the
United States. We particularly want
to note the improvement in the com
position Of this Congress as COM
pared with the Congress last year.
We here already see a broader rep
resentation, particularly represent
tatives from a much larger number
OF trade unions, showing that the
union movement is being drawn into
the anti-war struggle. We also
want particularly to greet the dele
gates who are here from the So
ciahst Party and from the Young
Peoples Socialist League.
The speeches made from this
platform by Mrs. Berger and by
Mrs. Barr, both members of the
Socialist Party, in which they de-
elared their own personal support
for the united front and stated that
they were determined to do every
thing within their power to realize
the united front, are certainly vel
coined by the Communist Party as
indicating the sentiment among
large masses of the Socialist work
ers and as proof that united front
OF Socialist and Communist work
ers will be realized as the first step
in rallying the masses in the strug-
gle against war and fascism.
United Front Possible
The Communist Party recognizes
quite clearly that there are funda-
mental differences between many
organizations represented here. Be
tween Socialists and Communists,
between Communists and Pacifists.
between Communists and other
groups. But the Communist Party,
with the full realization of these
fundamental differences and of the
need Of clarifying these differences,
believes that it is possible to estab-
fish and to maintain the united
front of the American workers on
the issue OF war and faScism and to
develop the most determined mass
struggle against every step in the
direction of fascish, against all the
preparations that are now Being
made for war and against war itself,
The Communist Party takes this
opportunity OF urging every dele
gate present here not to be satisfied
with the representation we have now
but to go out from this convention
individually and collectively to work
with all our might to realize the
united front of the broadest masses
on the issue of fascism and war. At
the same time the Communist PARTY
must state before a gathering of
this kind that it has not forgotten
the past history of the working class
movement. We have not forgotten
the last World War and the reae-
ton OF various forces in the labor
movement to that war. We want to
note here SO that every delegate
can carry it out of this Congress
that during the course Of the last
war there began the split in the
workings elasS movement, the sclit
that today leaves the working class
in a weakened position in its fight
against faseism and war. we also
wish to record that it was out of the
split that developed in the working
class movement at that time that
the Communist Party was born.
G. P. Born in Post War Struggle
The Communist Party was born
out Of the struggle of those who
formed it against the last impe-
rialiss war. At that time numerous
very fundamental issues DEVELOPED
that divided the working class
movement. These issues in the main
were the continued struggle against
imperialist war after the outbreak
of the war itself. The left wing in
the working class movemeft-the
left wing that formed the Comnlu-
mist Party-t6ok the position that
war grew out of the very develop
ment of imperialism, and that the
struggle against war must fieces-
sarily be conducted by waging the
class struggle against the capitalist
system. Our position during the
period Of the war was based on the
necessity of the working class
waging their struggle against the
capitalist class to gain political
power, to take advantage of the
war situation, to overthrow the
capitalist class and to destroy their
rule, to work for their defeat IN the
war, always with the objective of
establishing the rule Of the working
class, and then with the working
class in power to proceed to build
q Socialist society.
The leaders in the Socialist and
labor movements rejected this class
analysis of war. They found one
excuse after another to Justify their
support of their own imperialst gov
eminent in the war. They. supported
their own "fatherland,' as you call
1t.
During that period q large section
OF the working class movement, of
Cr,nin1te& Tel
trade union movement, went over
completely to the capitalist class
and aided in the mobilization for
war.
To Turn Imperialist Into Civil War
The left wing in the labor move
ment, out of which developed the
Communist Party, took the position
of Marx and of Lenin, that we
must pick up every issue before the