The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1926, Page 7

~gtroy it. Three months after the Sunline ct THE DAILY WORKER. Second Section: This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in The DAILY WORKER. ALEX. BITTELMAN, Editor, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1926 - Towards a Militant Labor Movement in the United States THE formal beginning of : a Communist move- ment in the United States will be dated September 1, 1919.. On that day there were Both were born in Chieago, at national conventions of the two Communist groups, one held in Smolny Institute, the other in Ashland Audit- TEE ETIED Rim I f it Tarpasac=| formed two Communist organizations: PAS Ps atl oe orium. And by the actions of the two conven- , tions a process has been started which has led (132KtwandRoweere. to the creation of a revolutionary political party of of the American working class. It is thus seven years since the beginning was made to crys- tallize a political leadership for the workers and poor farmers of America, which shall know how to lead their struggles from day to day at the same time organizing them for the final strug- gle against the rule of capitalism. Like on many occasions, the ruling class of the United States was very quick to detect the im- portance of the events that transpired in Chicago in the opening of September, 1919. The capitalists, their press and their government have sensed immediately the danger of the present capitalist order of so- ciety. And they did not waste must time in starting out to de- formation of the Communist or-, ganizations the democracy- -lov- =COMMUNIST “All Power to the Workers!" OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TRE COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA rk 5 . HAIL TO THE SOVIETS! May Day Proclamation by the Contra! Fascatve Commies o the Crumeniaa Posty atte ing Wilson administration car- ried thru the infamous Palmer raids, Thousands of workers were seized and thrown into jail, beaten, tortured and de- ported. A veritable reign of ter- ror was instituted thruout the country. The capitalists and their servants had whipped themselves into a\regular fren- zy. The Communist movement of America was driven under- ground but it was far from having been destroyed. Pressed by capitalist persecution, matured by practical experiences and clari- fied by intense ideological struggles, the revolutionary workers of the two separate Communist parties eventually came together into one organization. And in the beginning of 1921 the move- ment was again strong enough and already sufficiently unified in- ternally to begin an open existence in the organization of the Workers Party of America. What is inevitable will happen. The Communist movement in the United States became inevitable, and therefore possible despite all persecutions, because of the basic changes in the eco- nomic and ‘political life of America following the world war. The emergence of American capitalism as the foremost imperialist exploiter of the world, The tremendous centralization of the fed- eral government and its frankly brutal ways of suppressing the workers and supporting the employers. The great conflicts be- tween capital and labor during 1919-1920 and the experiences derived from these struggles by the workers leading their more ~ COMMUNIST LABOR Official Organ af the woue Te om COMMUNIST LABOR ARTY OF AMERICA d ee Olt a: May i Ge—$1.10 Per Your Down Tools May First, 1920 All Power to the Workers! OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNITED COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA SECTION OF THE THIRD (COMMUNIST) INTERNATIONAL vIVE cures) The World Congress of the Communist internediiogll By JOHN REED advanced sections to a revolutionary outlook upon the class struggle in the United States. The betrayal and bankruptcy of |; reformist socialism and of the Second International. The’revo- ° lutionary situation in Europe. The successful proletarian revo- lution in Russia. The organization of the Communist Interna- tional. All these events have combined together to bring about a sharpening of the class struggle in the United States, intense aes struggles in the labor movement between working class revo- lutionists and reformist petty bourgeois, an eventual split in the Socialist Party of America and the organization—on September 1, 1919, of an independent Communist movement in the United States. Seven years have passed since that memorable date. The Communist movement of the United States, now represented by’ the Workers (Communist) Party of America, has come to be an organic part of the American labor movement. It is at present the only factor in the American class struggle that is truly pro- gressive, forward-going and inspiring to the various movements of the workers and farmers. The banner of militant class struggle, of the proletarian revolution and of a Workers’ and Farmers’ government in the United States which was raised by the American Commu- nists seven years ago is gathering around i&- self ever larger numbers of workers, Com- munist policies and Communist slogans are already exercising great influence in the every- day struggles of the masses. The time is ap- proaching when the American working class, led by the Workers (Communist) Party, will diseard completely the shackles of reformism and class-collaboration entering upon a deter- mined struggle against the rule of capitalism and for a workers’ and farmers’ government, Alex Bittelman. “Sinelny,” 1221 Bive Isiand Ave.