The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1926, Page 7

ALEX. BITTELMAN, | Bupnlment of THE DAILY WORKER. The Triumvhant et of the World Cw ay By Fred Ellis THE COMING DAY OF LABOR INDEPENDENCE i aie hundred and fifty years ago the young American capitalist —by the artisans, the workers and the farmers. These masses fought class initiated and led a successful revolution against the rule} and bled to insure the vietory of a capitalist regime. But in doing of Great Britain. It was a socially necessary and progressive step | so they have created the conditions for their own revolution which which was greeted and applauded by revolutionists all ever the! will abolish capitalism and establish the rule of .the workers and world. farmers. Today the capitalists of the United States would like to forget The American capitalists of 1776 took part in the revolution AS the revolutionary nature of the struggle for independence. They} A CLASS. They were fully conscious of what they wanted. They would pay dearly to obliterate the memory of the armed uprising of| were fighting for a government controlled by the capitalists. And the masses against the British aristocracy, which was led by their] they got it. own forefathers. The American workers, artisans and farmers of 1776 took part In 1776, the American capitalists were leading a revolution. in the revolution AS A MASS. They were conscious only.of the In 1926, they are mobilizing all their resources to forestall, pre-| oppression under wheih they lived, and which became uibearable. vent, and crush revolution, They were anxious for a change, for some measure of relief, They 4270 *& @& 8 thought they were fighting for real freedom and equality of oppor- tunity. And in this thay were mistaken and disappointed, READ the Declaration of Independence. It is a splendid and in- he day of independence of the American workers and poor spiring document in many respects, despite the fact that it repre-| farmers is yet to come. sents and champions the interests of the capitalists. The power of **.* * # # the document, the thing that makes it live even today, is its defiant : and uncompromising attitude towards oppression, its flaming eall| THE New World of 1776 is no more. What we are having today in to revolt and victory. the United States should be called the Newer World. What was the source of this red- blooded, invincible upsurge of From thirteen small colonies with only the beginning of an in- revolutionary and humanitarian sentiment that is running thru the| dustrial economy to a full-fledged and mature modern capitalist Declaration of Independence? country. It is to be found in the fact that the American capitalists of From a dependency of the British king to the position of the 1776 were in a sense an oppressed class. The ruler of the colonies|4ominant world power. was the British king and the British aristocracy. Under this rule, From a nation oppressed and exploited by the British aristoe- the American merchants and manufacturers couldn’t live. The fur-| acy to the most powerful oppressor of nations on earth. ther development of American industry and commerce was practi- From a young capitalist country struggling for independence cally impossible. 4 to an imperialist giant holding in its strangulating grasp most of the Hence the bitter hatred against British rye. Hence the iron de-| epublics of Central and South America and a growing portion of termination on the part of the American capitalists to overthrow | Other colonial nations. and destroy the rule of the British aristocracy. Hence the uncon- In 1776 the American capitalist class declared its independence querable urge to power—towards the establishment of an independ-| from the British king and aristocracy. ent republic. In 1926 the American working class faces the historic task of *_* * * & declaring its own independence and of initiating the struggle for a workers’ and farmers’ government. HE revolution of 1776 was a capitalist revolution. It accomplish- or ee substantially the same kind of a change in the political system of the United States as was accomplished in France by the Great Revo-| THE day of working class independence is coming. Its consumma- lution of 1789, and partially in Germany—in 1848. tion rests primarily upon a faster and more intensive growth of Tt was inspired and led by “the bourgeoisie--by the merchants, | class conse iopsness among the workers. manufacturers and bankers, It was participated in by the masses (Continued on next page—page Sal i bets tcp ane nite