The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-16

list economic system altogether.
Then they establish the Workers
State which functions through new
governmental instruments and dis
bands or destroys the old agencies
and forms of the capitalists legis-
latures, courts. military forces etc.
Then and not until then. under the
workers state, the masses can use
the productive forces to provide
plenty and security.
How are Strikes Caused?
At this point another important
factor must be emphasized. You
know that agitators and radicals
do not cause strikes, as the kept
press tries to make out. You have
had plenty of experience of how
at certain times no amount of agi-
tation can cause the slightest stir
among the workers. Rotten condi-
tions cause the workers to revolt,
particularly when they see a chance
of doing something about them.
But you know also that when last
year the unrest increased in your
mill, it was you and the other fell
lows l have been writing to who
got together, talked things over,
called a meeting at Bill Roberts
house, got lot of workers to sign
cards that they would join union
and when half the mill was signed
up. later called a mass meeting,
set up the union, sent for a charter
from the international, etc. You
fellows and a few others are the
officers of the union, you serve as
the department committees, you
were on the strike committee.
In other words. there was a lead
ership. 1t consisted of the men who
had read and studied some, who
knew more about the labor move
ment than the general run of the
workers. who could organize, who
had courage and fighting qualities,
who could look ahead and plan.
Besides. you acted as a group, ra-
Their than as individuals. The time
before when the workers wanted
to do something, but everything
was led by this fellow Jackson, a
good fellow in many ways but err
ratio and free-lance, everything
went wrong.
The Revolutionary Party
That is why we say that the ba-
sic instrument of the workers in
the revolutionary struggle is the
revolutionary party.
The working class as a whole
is not homogeneous. It is divided
by many interests. Many sections
are backward. It cannot, as a class
directly plan and guide its battles.
Just as YOU found in your mill. a
staff, a vanguard is necessary. If
there is none, or if its basic poll
cles are wrong, only confusion,
defeat and disaster can result for
the workers. AS our Declaration
OF Principles puts it. "this is the
revolutionary party. It embraces
the most advanced, the most mill
tant. the most devoted workers,
unltes them firmly on the basis of
tested principles, and Yields them
together in rigorous discipline"
The party does not impose it's
leadership on the masses. 1t wins
their confidence and support by its
devotion to the interests of the
masses and its courage. the cor
rectness of its policies. Even i'm
mediate struggles are carried for
ward effectively only where such
leadership plays an important, If
not leading role.
When, and only when the revo-
lutloary party, as the crisis deem
es and conditions ripen, gains the
support Of the majority in the
Workers Councils. or whatever fhe
mass struggle organizations of The
workers may be called, establishes
It's leadership, can the revolution
airy struggle Of the workers be car
ned to victorious conclusion.
That is why it is so important
that you and workers like Won
should join the w. P.-why on the
one hand you should contribute
your strength, energy and inteIIi-
gence to it and on the other hand
receive from membership in the rev
oiutlonary party the training, dis
clpllne. comradeship and enthus-
lasm which can come in no Other
way. and without which we can
not accomplish the colossal and mr.
gent task before the Party. before
the working class here in the u. s.
and throughout the world.
Continued next week)