The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
'War-Or Victory Over
Capitalists Depends
on Communist Work

and sheltered. These armies must to
the greatest extslt be mechanical.
motorized. There is hardly q section
Of the national economy which hes
no importance in the modern War
Not only the specific war industry
but generally, the metal, chemical
oil and coal industries, are as essen
tial for conducting the T'cr 3 TIE
armed forces then1selvee.
Transport
OF special significance is transpo.-
tation, the auto transportation, rail
roads, marine, and all other means Of
transportation. This is one of the
most important means Of conducting
the war in our time. Not only the
transportation Of the troops from the
hinterland to the front, but the I'M
mediate operative and technical
shifting of troops on the front itself,
supplying the huge armies with the
necessary material. without per
fectly functioning TRANSFORMATION syS-
tenn it will be impossible for the i'm
perialistS to conduct the war. This
very extensive dependence of warfare
on industry. On Transportation and
generally on the whole economic Struc-
ture Of the country raises the inluor-
tant role Of The proleteriat working
in these fields: OH one hand. in con-
nection with conducting the war, and
on the other hand the role they will
play in fighting against war
Role Of Working Glass
This role OF The working class IS
recognized by the bourgeoisie. That
is WHY they try first Of all 10 militia
rize the industries in the period of
approaching war and especially Gar
ing the war. to estsbi'e', the st~ic+~st
control over the proletariat, to in
troduce fesciSt Dictatorship durin~
the war. This is the period when ali
the lsckeys Of the bourgeoisie, the
social democrats, the renegades, the
trade union bureaucratS, are on the
job "a hours q day, to mislead the
workers to rallv them behind the in
perialist government, to convince
them Tn fight for their "fatherisnd.'
If the Partv clearlv sees the role Of
industry in the coming war then the
task is obvious. The widest possible
agitation and urona ganda among the
industrial workers. first of all. among
those workers who are in the war in
dustrieS. the metal. chemical. and
transportation industries in general;
We Must Win Workers
Our shop papers. leaflets, the Daily
Worker. as we'll as shoc gate meet
ings must be utilized tn the greatest
extent to win these workers oyer to
our SIDE, to make them class con-
scious, to show them thet t'Ne'~ vol
enemv is their own bourgeoisie. II
we clearly see the ro'a these fac'9~iss
will plsy IN the war than we win MT
hesitate for . moment. We will not
waste ora hour IN huildine the vTdest
united front. snti-war committees,
in TNeee factories
3. The third characteristic feature
Of modern Inilitarisn is the mass
chsracte~ Of tho arlnv. While in the
United States the sr1nv is compoeed
of voluntary recruits. we know very
we'll that a1readv TODAY there ere va
rious forms of mi'itarv trainir0. The
National Guard. the peserve Officers
Training Corps. the Citizens Military
Training Camps. the Civi1iorl CcNs"r-
vetion CAMPS, and manv ether forms
of rnilitarv organizations. train hun
dredS of thousands OF Young workers
for the next imuerielist war. We
know that in the last imperialist war
every able-bodied worker was con-
scripted and forced to go to war. IN
the next war the entire population
will be modified. These facts nut
before the Communist PARTY the task
OF intensive agitational and or~aniza-
tional campaigns in these various
training camps. in the National
Guard, and in the armed forces. the
army and navy. we have m low
tn these workers what capitalism
wants with them. We have TO re~"'"'d
them OF the last imoerialist war. in
which they. their fathers and h~~th-
ers fought. We must ask them; Wfsyz
did they go to fi9ht there? what, did
thAv get out Of it,
The 18th Pienum resolution states
this task very clearly:
TN fighting against war, the
Communists must prepare even now
for the transformation of the inn
Berialist war into civil war, and
concentrate their forces in each
country in the vital parts of war
machinery Of imperialism."
"And must intensity political edu-
cational work in the army and in
the navy
The Communist Party must flood
with agitational material every war
maneuver of the army or navy. We
have to build our organization in the
armed forces, otherwise it viii be an
empty phrase to talk about trans
forming inperialist war into civil
war.
What Must the Party Do Now?
What are the immediate steps tire
Party must take in the present STILL
alton? The widest possible agitation
and propaganda among the workers
against irnperialist war. combating
all the poisonous ideas OF the bour-
geoisie, and their agents, the pacifists
and social democrats and renegades.
The Communist Party will have to
mobilize mass actions to actually stop
shipment Of munitions. We have to
build UP anti-war united front com
mittees in the factories, in the
unions, mass organizations. We hive
to penetrate with our agitation and
propaganda all military training
camps and the armed forces. The
imperialist war is approaching. 1t de-
ponds on the Bolshevik work OF the
Communist Party whether the I'M
perialist war will break out before
we win over the majority Of the
working class for the overthrow Of