Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-18
Communists Prepared To
Join Labor Party Move

are ready TO fight Wall Street In a fighting
Labor Party" Earl Browder, Communist Party
national secretary. startled the National Con-
gress for Unemployment and Social insurance
in Washington, ID. c., recently with an explana-
ton of this historical new step OF his organiza-
tion.
Leaders of the Communist Party here state
the policy expressed in PROVIDERS speech will
be applied to the Seattle city elections Immedi--
ate steps are being taken to present council
candidates who will have united labor support,
who will be backed by the Unemployed citi
gems League, American Federation OF Labor To-
calls, the Communist Party, by other liberal
and labor groups.
The parts of Earl PROVIDERS address to the
unemployment insurance parley which deal
with the Labor Party question, follow
"yThe Communist Party is party OF Labor,
of all those who toll And it is not an ineffective
party In comparison with its membership and
vote it is the most effective party that ever ex-
listed in the United States. vote for the Com
munist Party registers deeply; Just think Tor
example, how much easier it would be to per-
suade' even the present Congress to adopt the
Workers Unemployment Insurance bill tomor-
row if they had been frightened to death by the
ghost of few million Communist votes last No
vember and, by a greater mass strike move
ment, by greater street demonstrations, by
growing mass organizations
But the communist IdTCy is u
kind of Labor party. Our program goes far be-
yond Unemployment Insurance, which after all
is only an emergency measure. We propose
revolutionary solution to the crisis OF capitalism
by setting up in its place socialist system
which would put everyone to work, not at the
New Deal slave-labor, but with the most mod
ern machinery producing the goods we all
need for our own use and not for capitalist
profits
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ready shown by the glorious victories of the
Russian working class and with rapidly ex-
banding the socialist system. 1t Is unfortunately
true that the millions now preparing to break
away from the old parties are not yet prepared
to go the whole way now with the COMMUNIST
program
1--WE Communists are often accused OF being
'unrea listic and 'sectarian' because we bring
frward such a far-reaching revolutionary pro-
gram. But we are convinced that our program
is the only realistic one, the only program that
can solve the problems now vexing humanity.
We are that all of you, all the broad
masses, will be convinced in the not distant
future, by experience.
I'VE do not propose to make revolution
by ourselves as the fantastic lies of the Dick
stein Committee and Hearst tell yOu not by
absurd conspiracies, not by kidnapping the
President not by bombs and individual terror,
all of which we denounce as police provocations,
but only with the majority of the toilers, by
mass action when they have been convinced
of the Communist program.
"And do we sit idly by waiting until the
masses are convinced of our program? We Com
munsts work and fight together for all of you,
among the broad masses for all these parties
demands, for the daily-life needs of the masses
which are already understood. 1t is not an acct
dent, for example, that it was left to the Com
munists to formulate the Workers Bill which
is the center of the great mass movement repre-
sented in this Congress.
$50 also, when it comes to the mass break
away from the old parties, which will play such
great part in finally forcing the adoption of the
Workers Bill. We would welcome these masses
at once into the Communist Party
But we are realists. We know that for
time they will fall short of the Communist pro-
gram. We do not separate ourselves from this
mass movement for that reason. We encourage
and help the movement in every way. We call
upon all of you to do the same thing
1--WE propose that all of us get together in
great effort for unity unity in struggle for i'm
mediate demands against the capitalists, unity
upon the broad basis of the class of those who
labor against those who exploit our labor, unity
of the poor against the rich, of the producers
against the parasites.
1--WE Communists are prepared to join hands
with all our force all our energy, all our fighting
capacity with all who are ready to fight against
Wall Street, against monopoly capital, in the
formation of broad mass party to carry on this
fight, into fighting Labor Party based upon
the trade organizations, the unemployment
councils, the farmers organizations, all the mass
organizations of the toilers, with a program Of
demands and of mass actions to improve the con-
ditiOns of the masses at the expense of the rich,
for measures such as the Farmers Emergency
Relief Bill the Negro Rights Bill and the Work
ers' Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill"