The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1927, Page 4

\ Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, N EW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1927 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. THE DAILY WORKER The Achievements of the Party | Daily cept Sunday e ‘ 4 cope ; ‘ Bowie f | <<a : ~ 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 NOTE.—This is the second in- The organization of the sd a given out by the Party in any one | —~ — —— = Ee zs pa TERA ROETIS ABO LAS STE) é i a Cat Addre Daiwork” stallment of the report for the |ized. The Party has made a small campaign. : ‘ El ie t t P h ere ae R a Political Committee made by Jay | beginning in this field. Y: it is The demonstrations against the! Mer an ry S Ances or (se aps 4 SUBSCRIPTION har ee tside of New York): Lovestone, at the recent Fifth Na- | some beginning. im the organization of cae consulates sud er barry ere re Penance By Mail (in New York only) BY Been \oumeGs OEaNe ws See! tional Convention of the Workers |the unorganized, ‘We need but men-\ of tremendous significance. - And “i “ ‘ ay isy te o $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years $3.50 six months (Communist) Pz held in New (tion the strike in Passaic, the at- when Baldwin and Chamberlain can Tartuffe the Gilded Hypocrite With Emil 50 three months $2.00 three months all mail and make out checks to , 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Address THE DAILY WORKE ~ J, LOUIS ENGDAHL Editors WILLIAM F. D BERT MILLER -Business Manager will appear tomorrow. today which dares to challenge the | Ab the Party reorganization: | entertainment. “Tartuffe” must end ere ers Now -Y N. rv, unaer * * * ne r of: the iy gg ee Ourf%+ The Party has been reorganized’ with a moral, of course. But a bit of | Entered as s ail the: Ropisoiien St New ene 2h ‘arty must take this campaign inl on the shop and street nucleus basis. moralizing in this | tacit ~— 1, THE PARTY ACHIEVEMENTS. hand and must pay much attention\In September 1925 the Party mem- acony Beso DAI Molt: | Advertising rates on application. = pee —— = our Party has moved forward. 1 needle trades and other industries 14,000, Of this number approximately forgiven in return! C é li A . t th will not say we have moved forward | Show oe pre proof of our ee 4,000 or 4,500 were dual members, for Janning’s real- a . @ fully as much as we might have Successful efforts to organize the un-' members who were wives of com istie characteriza-| Who Rendered Greatest Service to apita ism gains moved forward. I will not say we organized. rades, who were there automaticall tion. | Vienna Rising? A heated battle of words is raging in Austria between the official government of the bourgeoisie and the social-democratic leaders over the question of who is to claim credit for the crush-|our Party has been able to regis country. Our Party comrades have | suffici nt to give you figures and say) PmilJannings ferent technique) | | i Vienna rising of infuriated workers who went into |S°me achievements, some substantial shown capacity to lead masses who} hefe is our membership. We must deviates from his} ing of the Vienna uprising of infuriated | See Se «achievements in the past two years. are in revolt against their immediate) view the membership realistically. |pipje in the direction ofegood food and the streets against a government that freed fascist murderers | sq "these achievements have been conditions. When we say in revolt) We must view the trend of our mem-|hetter women. The wife of a wealthy | of the working class. registered by the Party as a Party, against immediate conditions, let us bership. In 1926 the average dues-/hooh who falls under the influence of | Naturally Chancellor Seipel claims to have been the chief|not by groups, not by sections, not) Say that it is precisely in the school-| paying membership after reorganiza- Tartuffe, for the sake of her hubby| ‘| aioe ie letermined upholder of the reac-|>9 individuals, but by the Pa as ing of such revolts that the fate of| tion, was 7,599 per month. In 1927,|nakes it her business to show him| Beancer-revolutionist, the most determined: upiolde! AC-| Party. The extent to which we|our Party rests. If our Party can/jn the first six months, it is 8,890— With the: aid= of botel | tion and unyielding defender of the capitalist system. ered these achievements was|respond adequately and properly to|that is the dues paying average for|(P: “ith the aid of bottled good ‘ 2 rag . 5 social-democrats w ‘lai entirely de 0 » fact of the needs of the masses in these small irst. si s ‘ately Heer and personal charms she brings But his role is challenged by the social-democrats who claim | entirely dependent upon the fact o thes the first six months. Immediately oy out the downfall of the bol ‘ ; lour being able to function as a uni- every day struggles, then it will learn after reorganization, or immediately Cee ey ene that Seipel was a weakling and that they alone are responsible for the crushing of the uprising. Renner, socialist member of York City Th stallment was delayed due to corrections that had to be made in the stenographic re- port. The third installment, under the heading of “The Party’s Short- | comings, Mistakes and Problems,” ESPITE tremendous difficulties, have responded effectively to eve opportunity. I will not say we have had only glorious achievements in the past two years. But I will in the face of tremendous dif: ulti fied party, ag a Party homogeneous and monolithic in the Bolshevik sense. y that, temptof the Party to organize the rubber workers, to organize the work- ers in the voal fields, in the building | trades, in the automobile industry. Let me say, comrades, that there is no other organization in this country particularly to this field. Lumber, The question of. strike leadership: For the first time in the history of our Party, we have shown ability to respond to this need, to respond to} local strike situations throughout the leadership in the school of the class struggle and lead the workers towards | take time off to sneer at the Workers Party, to sneer at these demonstra- tions, we have proven that our’ cam-' class. bership, dues paying membership, was on a dual stamp. Particularly was this noticeable, in certain former language sections of the Party. What is the dues-paying member- ship of the Party today? It is not beginning the period of reorganiza- tion (that is, the last four months of Jannings at the Cameo Emil Janning’s brilliant exposure¢——— d the bourgeoisie and) of holy, sensuous, church-going hy-{ benefifial effect upon the work- | pocrisy makes a trip to the Cameo! |Theatre a fairly pleasant evening’s | ere’s play may ‘be Tartuffe, a holy- man, not unlike eur modern Elmer in those days there was need of a dif- influence, bringing his deviations to her hubby’s attention. All this of (for | ROBERT LEONARD | parliament, declared from the floor of that body that: npare the situation with two ™ore fundamental, towards deeper/1925) our dues paying membership Urs after many difficulties, for} ; A ; . isi ; Two years ago the out-| Class struggles. The Party has thus/ was 9,367. Today our membership, Tartuffe is a shrew, clever rascal. | “It is superficial judgment on the part of the bourgeoisie to years ago. Two years ago the out- y s 9,367. i ete eictetiaieling ce ike au) : place the laurel wreath upon the head of the chancellor, who had entirely lost his bearings at the moment of decision, and to ignore standing features of our Party situa- tion were: 1. An extremely factional very effectively issued certain living such as the five-day week, hour week. slogans for our dues paying membership, at this | moment, is 9,642. Despite the strike |8ives Emil Jannihgs another charac-| Plays an important part in “10 Per in the Miners Union, which has cut | te? opportunity. He makes most of it}Cent,” a new comedy by Eugene in heavily on our dues payments, de-|t® add another triumph to,many that | Davis, which opens at the Geo. M. Cohan. Theatre tonight. spite the needle trades situation, we|have made him one of the great condition. 2. No Party organization at all in the sense of a Communist the consistency and wisdom of our (social-democratic) de union leaders who have rendered far greater services to society A few words about utilization of divisions within the trade union We had a of 19 | . “IT want .. Thus the hero of the second international, Renner, berates the bourgeoisie for giving Seipel the credit for crushing the Viennese workers while ignoring the far more important role of the socialists. It is an interesting quarrel! It is also a contribution to history inasmuch as it is neces sary for the working class of the world to understand which force was the more effective defender of capitalism and most malignant assassin of the working clas 3y.the force of their own arguments the Austrian socialists seem thus far to have the best of the argument. They were in a more strategic posi- tion to betray the workers than were the leaders of the capitalist government. great general strike, the Renners, Adlers and Bauers placed them- selves at the head of the movement*only in order to betray it. Otto Bauer, theoretical leader of the second international, declares that he was sorry that the social-democratic police were | s in| not strong enough to have summarily disposed of the mass the streets, but aside from that shortcoming he is elated at the outcome. Says this luminary of social treachery: “At the hour of supreme danger we called upon our comrades to stop the strike. And if ever I was proud of my being an Austrian social-democrat I was par ly so on the night of Mon- day . when in spite of everything hundreds and thousands of railwaymen, postmen and telegraph and telephone operators re- turned to work.” Laudable strikebreaking sentiments! Also the most elo- quent adequate, concise and yet comprehensive exposition of the role of the international social democracy we have yet seen. $ is Mussolini Showers Praise Upon Mayor Walker. When he first set foot upon Italian soil, James J. Walker, mayor of New York City, eulogized Mussolini’s brand of law and order. He was particularly impressed because it was the first na- tion he visited after the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti that did not openly flaunt its hatred of agents of the American plutocracy, and gave the press a number of interviews in praise of the bloody tyrant who holds Italy in a death grip. ited Mussolini and the despot declared that in his opinion the Broadway male butterfly is a ‘man of great talent, an idealist and a practical man at the same time.’ Probably the braggart assassin has heard of the fascist attacks of the New York police and their assistants, the professional gangsters, upon the de- fenders of trade unionism in New York. Walker’s hoodlums, like Mussolini’s brigands, aid the enemies of Jabor in union-smashing campaigns. What are the labor agents of Tammany in the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York going to say about Walker’s ap- proval of fascism? They, at least, are supposed to be on record against this tyrannical threat to all labor. Even William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, has spoken in denunciation of fascism in plain terms. In a recent telegram to the convention of the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America, Green declared: “The A. F.-of tands with you in opposition to fascism and all that the word implies. . . . Fascism represents dictatorship and autoeracy. .. . It has succeeded in destroying individual democratic trade unions in Italy, free speech, free press and democracy in goy- ernment.” On the following day, in a speech before the Anti-Fascist convention, Green was even more emphatic when he said: . to assure you that the A. F. of L. will stand with you and work with you until we have succeeded in driving fascism from the face of the earth. Fascism is an enemy to society.” These are unequivocal declarations and could be the basis for repudiation of Walker by the Central Trades and Labor Council. Of course no such action will be taken because the Council itself is used as a pliant tool of Tammany Hall. Furthermore, Green and the rest of the labor lieutenants»of, capitalism who op- pose Italian fascism in words approve of it when used against the militant workers in the labor motement in the United States. The Greens and Wolls have for many months been actively en- gaged in supporting the fascist depredations of Sigman against | the needle workers in New York, and altho they indulge in hyp- Ocritical phrases about free speech and democracy in Italy they use the most vioient methods to suppress it in the trade unions of the United States. That Walker, the darling of the labor fakers, is praised by fascism and in turn’praises fascism, ought to expose to even the most backward member of the trade union movement the anti- Like their comrades in Britain who betrayed the} On Sunday Walker vis- | arty. Party language federations. Our Party to- day is weak organizationally, but we have made the first forward step to- wards a Communist organization. 3. Two } ago the Party was com- pletely isolated from the m In speaking of the Party achieve- ments in the past two years, allow me to state the problem as Comrade |Lenin has stated it. What is our \central problem? Our central prob- \lem according to Lenin is “to di cover and study and grasp the na- tional peculiarities in the concrete methods of each particular céuntry jin order to perform the joint interna- jtional tasks, to defeat opportunism and ‘radical’ dogmatism inside the working class movements, to over- throw the bourgeoisie, to establish the Soviet Republic and the al ship of the proletariat—that is the | most important task of the historical |moment.” The problems of our |Party are problems involving the ap- | plication of fundamental principles of Bolshevism to concrete conditions in this country. We are not dogmatists or formularians. If we were, we would not be Leninists. Our trade union work. In taking * this concrete problem, this central | problem, as Comrade Lenin has put it |for us, what has our Party been able |to do, that is what concrete steps, on |the basis of the specific objective conditions in the United States for the past two years? Of course, the anti-war campaign of the Par —the Chinese campaign, —the campaign for the defense of the Soviet Union, has been the most | pressing one, has been the one to which we have paid the greatest attention of all our political campaigns. But allow me for the moment to go away from this order and to speak |of the basic campaigns of the | the campaigns involving our PP: | entrenching itself in the mass organi- zations of the working class. Such problems are especially important in | this country where we have no labor ;party, where ,we have practicall, Speaking, no mass cooperative mo ment. Particularly in the U. S. do the trade unions occupy the most im- portant position as the m organi- zations of the working c 1 will | therefore speak first of our efforts to entrench ourselves in the trade unions, Here we must recount the cam- into the unions. Regarding th miners’ campaign, the details of thi campaign will be dealt with in a sul sequent report. It is of no smal significance for the Party that it was a leading force of the left wing and progressive movement |paign that culminated in the actual election of the progressive candidate Brophy in the miners’ union. who is functioning as the, president of the miners’ union today is function- ling not as the elected presilent but as the usurper of that office. With lall the weaknesses shown in our ranks, the fight in the miners’ con- vention was a big step forward for our Party. The fight of the Varty, weak as it has been and strengthened as it must be, in this miners’ strike today, is a fight which has tremend- ous possibilities for our Party, In reference to the TURL—despite tremendous difficulti the TUEL has made prog! The textile con- ferences, the conferences in the coal and needle industries, in the shoe and her industries indicate a revival of for the TUEL. The TUEL may | be weak in organization, but its politi- cal influence as a force in the trade unions has been increased in recent |times. ‘The establishment of a left wing paper such as Labor Unity with the help of our Party is a fact of bureaucracy: I speak of our cam- saign on China, the campaign for the| ing members. protection of the foreign-born. Let) that all we have is 10,000 members. me in this sense also touch on our/ jy every Party in the CI the dues trade union delegation. The trade) paying ‘membeyship is substantially union delegation now in Soviet Russia| smaller than #he actual membership is not a Communist delegation. It is o¢ the party, not a progressive delegation. It con-| 1 Beta ost oy ie a mal tains in its ranks some of the most; 1” dea with reqrganization, we must not only speak of the reorgani- reactionary elements of our trade| 5 zation on the shop and street nucleus union leadership. But precisely for) 7 i thaf reason is it a mark of progress | Yasis, but we must also speak of the, for the workers in this country and|@ttempt to build up a real Party ap- precisely for that reason can the} Paratus and the results achieved in Party say it has acted in a Bolshevik| this attempt nationally and locally. | manner. The problem of*the Ameri- | In certain districts like New York, one can working class has been to get to|°f the dutstanding results of reor- the Soviet Union representative work-| 4nization has been the building up ers of this country, who will repre- | % an agitprop department aes no} r sent the workers in this country, even|*¢cllent | Workers School. ‘i in their backwardness—yes, even in| Tesult nationally has been the organi- their backwardness. \zation of trade union fractions, ap- It would-be very easy for the work- proximately th yee hundred in number, ers to get to the Soviet Union a dele-| and the estab! ishment of three new gation of Communists, but to get} Communist dailies as well as the pop- such elements like Fitzpatrick, the|Ularization of certain Party litera- reactionary, and Maurer, who typi-’ ture: fies the progressive ‘section of the// What has been the trend of our working class—this is proof that our{! Party's capacity : to attract masses Party knows how to react in a Bolshe-4 Since reorganization? For the first vik sense to this problem. Our Party four months of 1925, while we were has ndt fough} this delegation tho its | Teorganizing the Party, Lid yor personnel ang methods are far from| joined our Party. In 1926, 2,371 satisfactor; {workers joined our Party. In the candi Se Laker Pak _| first six months of 1927, 1,877 work- 2 ‘ ‘eau the Labor Party: | or. joined our Party. The increase ~The Dae Party movement, com-| of workers joining our Party through pared to 1921, is at a low ebb na-| reorganization is obvious. Since the tionally. But in certain sections of | Party has been reorganized, 5,080 this country there are increasing | new members joined our ranks. In signs of vital Labor Party movement.|thegRuthenberg Drive. alone we se- Let us examine the conditions in| cured 1,355 new members. Minnesota, where our Party has been a i On shop pape it is hard to get the one vital force keeping alive this | A movement and forcing, in the face of | 8", ¢xact estimate of our strength, but it is clear that. we have established in reactionary opposition, forward steps | : ‘ : Fj by this organization. In Connecticut, | Cain localities like Detroit, shop have approximately 10,000 dues-pay: This does not mean} cinema actors. Not an unusual picture in itself, | : \“Tartuffe” is far above most inane _movies we are asked to spend hard earned money on. Even most of those | ea Germany where this one eee ee Theatre GRAND | : | yenings ae, f30," 8 STREET \CHURS. & SAT., FOLLIES John Galsworthy’s “The ' Escape” Due Here in October William B. Friedlander’s production | of “Speakeasy” is playing in the Cort!» | Theatre, Jamaica, this week, and next | iH | H i a 1s | Week will be at the Windsor Theatre. | with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buzzell ‘The LADDER | POPULAR PRIC: est seats | DT CoO: ‘way. Eves. 8 N, Y. & London's Musical Sensation The new Edward Knoblock-George | 1ith Month |Rosener melodrama is schedul SAS 39 St. & Bway, Evs, 8.30 a eduled to | CASINO Mats, Wed. and Sat. 2.30 jopen on Broadway September 27.) |Jose Ruben and Anne Shoemaker are) “Merry-Go-Round” was transferred |prominent in the cast. ‘from the Klaw to the Harris Theatre | \last night. | Joseph Santley’s “Just Fancy!” will | @ ilmi | paeee a one ED aca) | Winthrop Ames’ production of John | September 28, for its initial Eyyout. | aisworthy’s “Phe Bacane.” 36 sare | # 5 mt DI , Peace Comey sis. die: hen eR EY ‘nounced for October with Leslie How- | 5 ‘ard, who will play the leading char- ‘ ; i 4 stil ho played in “10.Per Cent” and “The Wild Man |2cter- “Austin Trevor, wh ‘ of Borneo,” will have their premiere the London production, will also be in tonight; the first at the Geo. i |She cast, along with Frieda Inescort. Gohan Theatre, and the latter at the org Bijou. Keep Up the Sus taining Fund that conference’ was, with all its, have been mobilized the mass pres- | shortcomings, indicated the increasing| sure and mass sentiment which has capacity of the Party to respond to’ been mobilized in recent weeks. We the needs of the working class. ‘have done good work in this cam- We must do more in the campaign paign, comrades. The ruling class for the protection of the foreign-born knows that on this issue even the and we must consider the approaching backward American workers, to a danger as evidenced in the statements larger extent than to any other issue, ot Secretary of Labor Davis, Commis- are. responding. The imperialists know the dangers of this response are in the cam-! The one! in California, in Massachusetts, in| these localities, the movement has shown signs of life largely through the efforts of our comrades. The action of District 2 of the United Mine Workers for a Labor Party, in spite of the Miners’ official opposition at the union’s na-- tional convention, is a step forward. Here the Party made itself heard for the first time. The establishment of national and local Labor Party com- mittees despite the opposition of the trade union leaders, is a task that our Party must fulfil to a far larger degree than it has in the past, be- Labor Party | papers which have a mass influence in factories which are centres of pro- letarian strength. I speak of such shop papers as in the automobile fac- | tories ot Detroit—and in the Harves- |ter plant in Chicago. Twenty-six of jour shop papers have a circulation of | over 53,000. At present we have a little over 35, |per* ceat of our Party organized j, |shop nuclei. This is an insufficie! | proportion. Our ghop nuclei are no! functioning well enough as a rule. |The shop nucleus which functions i very wel, is the exception. The con- dition of our organization is not satis- sioner of Immigration Hull, the state- ‘ment of the Chairman of the House |Commission on Immigration, Con- ‘gressman Albert Johnson. All of | these indicate that immediately after this convention the Party will have |to mobilize the workers against this menace of the bourgeoisie—the attack the foreign-born of this country. iL About the Negro work. The | ** weaknesses of the Party in this ield are too numerous and too strong ‘to recount. Our beginning here has |been a weak and poor one, put we al- ready have sufficient experience and results in the Negro work to know cause these committees afford a/factory. The Varty organization as that our comrades and our Party have splendid approach to development of an organization is stil too weak. |jeen able to penetrate basic organiza- paign of the Party to draw members4# labor party movement. He In reference to our campaign on * China: Here our campaign has been divided into two phases: To the +best of our ability and with all our resources thrown into this campaign, we have made clear the character of American imperialism, not only in China, but in China as part of the whole system and policies of Ameri- can imperialism toward Nicaragua, Mexico and Latin America. Secondly, have mobilized thousands of work- in this campaign thru mass meet- ings and thru demonstrations. demonstrations demonstrations in Philadelphia, the big demonstrations in New York. and Seattle indicate the capacity of our Party to have masses respond to the chinese situation, not as a Chinese situation, but as a concrete American situation of vital importance to Amer- ican workers. This campaign we have tied up organiz: lutions passed by the tnions, the mobilization of certain cintra] labor counci the drawing nearer to the Communist position of members of the Kuomintang, these must all be recorded an indication of the grow- ing a of our Party to utilize such iss and to mobilize sentiment fo¥ these. conflicts. | We have issued literature on this! | There are more shortcomings in our |Party organization than in any, other ‘field of our work. | Yet on the whole, what is the mean- \ing for the Party of this reorganiza- tion’ Let me read what the Comin- jtern has said in its resolution on our |Party re-organization in December, 1926: “Through reorganization of the Party on the basis cf factory and | street nuclei, the necessary organiza- tional premise ior a “eai Com- ;munist Party” has been created. Considerable progress has been made ‘party of the American proletariat. The reorganization has been a great achievement for the Parity. The ae- tual composition of the Party has been improved and the nature of the Party work h been changed. The activity of the Party membership is j growing as shown by the much better ¥ oft factory newspape: Let me go into gefre other cam- LS paigns of the Party and sketch them briefly. In our agricultural work we are on the whole particularly weak. But in the last two years, the United Farmers Educational League has been revived among the exploited farmers. Contracts with progressive | tions of the Negro masses, have been able to assume leadership \in the or- /ganization of unorganized Negro ;masses and to spread propaganda ‘among the millions of Negro work- vers, feebly thoughbit be, yet with re- sults, One cannot eak highly of the * women’s work of our Party. There is no nationally directed mass wom- en’s work, There is insufficient na- tional direetion, practically speaking, no national direction. This must be remedied. | However, it should en- The with respect to the welding together courage us to remember that in vari- in Minnesota, the of the Party into a united, centralized | ous localities our comrades (in: the | Passaic strike and in other vital issues affecting the working class, affecting the women of the working class) have been able to mobilize masses of con- siderable size. The same can be said about co- * operative work. There is no na- ionally with our) attendance at factory and street nuc-, tional’ direction in a vital, organic, party's membership drive. The reso-| leus meetings and in thepublication sense, This must be remedied. Lo- cally, in Minnesota, and in some cases in New York, our Party has shown that we have the basis for doing sub- stantial work in this field and for taking leadership and initiative in the ‘cooperative movement. 10 The Saeco-Vanzetti campaign: * This campaign has assumed tremendous significance. We must }especially great because the con- scious section of the working class, The Workers (Communist) Party is ti feader in this response. The estimate of our work in the past two years has been made in the ollowing manner by the Comintern: | “In spite of enormous difficulties, ‘the Workers (Communist) Party of 'America has achieved considerable ‘successes in the sphere of mass work. lt has 4ed a number of strikes, it has ‘made the first attempts to organize the unorganized, it has penetrated into the miners’ union. ... It must also be placed on record that the Party has undergone internal con- solidation as a result of the consider- able diminution of the factional strug- gle. These create the premise for \the further growth of the influence of the Patty among the masses,” | This was the declaration of the 7t& Enlarged Executive in November, 1926. Since that time the Comintern made the following declaration last June: “The Presidium recognizes that age spite great objective difficulties, the Varty has recently made important progress in many tields of activities. “In the trade union field the Party jhas achieved quite a number of suc- cesses expressed in the increasing in- ‘fluence of the Left Wing in important “unions—the miners’ and the needle trades—and in initiating and leading | big strikes. The increasing influence .of the Party and the left wing has called forth an offensive of the cor- rupt trade union bureaucracy as a re- sult of which there are made far- ands on the tactieal the Workers (Commu- |reaching d jadroitness 0: ‘ nist) -Party.’ ) Comrad let us have no illusions, , Our Party is not yet a mass Party. |Our Party is not yet a strong Party. Our Party is still a weak Party. Our Party has not done everything it could j have done in the past two years. But Jet us have this in mind: our young , - labor character of the reactionary officialdom that plays the} ;speak here very plainly about the} Party, our weak Party, under the farmers have been revived and in- ) i ~ labor, game of old party politics. The best way to fight against fascism in action, not merely by words, is to fight for a labor party which will compel the) reactionary officials of the labor movement either to break their ne _ political alliances with the capitalist parties or get out of the camp ? a ‘ £ vital import for every section of the | working class. | There is a tremendous offensive against us---an offensive launched by the bourgeoisie and ‘the labor lieuten- ants of American imperialism. The Party has shown in many instances a capacity to meet this offensive, | question. We should have had more, but this response to timely literature by: non-party masses has shown the lity of the membership of our ‘black behavior of the Boston Com- creased. A progressive farmers’ e + re ners Paver | mittee, We must speak very plainly has been established, ;most tremendous objective difficult- _ies, has shown increasing capacity to The campaign for the protection to rally masses. Our literature 6. of foreign-born workers. The distribution has totalled some one and| Party has moved forward. The Na- a quarter million leaflets alone, or the| tional Conference of 1926, where highest amount of propaganda ever | 400,990 were represented, weak as ‘about the treacherous policy of the, respond in a Bolshevik sense to the Socialists and the dirty behavior cel need and demands of the proletarian \the American Federation of Labor., masses in struggles, an increasing Were it not for our Party, standing) ability to lead ever larger mas: to at times almost alone in the Sacco-| the left. Vanzetti campaign, there would not (To Be Continued Tomorrow) +