The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1929 ‘hesis of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the U. on the War Danger and the Tasks of the Communist Party rkers and of all the toil ar the brunt of the sacrifice en- led by war, wage a persistent | cht agginst imperialist war and strive to prevent imperialist war by oletarian revolution. They strive rally the masses around thei andard in this struggle, and, if! nable to prevent the outbreak of var, they strive to transform it into vil war for the overthrow of the| urgeoisie.” War Thesis of Sixth World Congress. The first task in the struggle | : against the coming war is to tear PART II. “Although convinced that is meas under the rue of bourgeoi , the Communists, in ‘of the masses of the rs who »wn the screen, by which the bour- eoisie conceals from the working lasses their preparations for war. +h the United States the tasks of the ‘ommunist Party are: to denounce all preparations by the Untied States or war with its most dangerous ival, Great Britain; to fight against e the predatory raids of American im-| ism upon Latin-Ameria; to de-| per nounce the open attacks made against the oppressed masses in the Phillippines, Cuba, Haiti, ete. The k of the American Communist rty is to unmask the hypocritical llogg Pact which is itself an in- strument for the struggle of the United States for world hegemony and in consequence an instrument not of peace but of war; to denounce the hypocritical talk of the Hoovers | and Stimson, — the pause in cruis- er building. This is nothing but a cover for the general intensification of war preparations on every front, economic, political, ideological, finan- cial, as well as military. 11. A special tasks of the Ameri- can Communist Party is to make clear to the working class and the toiling masses of the United States the role of the Dollar Government in the war provocation of the Nanking government as an act encouraged and supported by the United States bourgeoisie whether openly for mili- ary ass tions or wee the guise propa- ganda directed, toward he ‘mobiliza- tok of all the machinery for war on the part of American imperialism. At the present time it is partic y necessary also to destroy the busily sown by the gst the working} s as to the role played by the Labor (McDonald) government, The | historie role of the Labor Govern-| ment at this moment consists pre- isely in the fact that it is able bet- ter to hide the war preparations inj general and against the Soviet Union in particular, under the guise of Ja- bor reformist policy and pacifist phrases. The ‘proposed visit of the head of the Labor Government, to the president of the Wall Street gov- ernment, this fraternization of MacDonald and Hoover exposes to the workers the real class character of the Labor Government. 12. The main characteristic of the ‘Bolshevik position is that our strug- gle against war is primarily a rey- olutionary mass action. “Not sab- | otaging war, not individual action, but mass propaganda leading to the war.” (Lenin.) The Communists re- | Workers organized in’ the various | pudiate all such “means” of combat- ting war of revolutionary mass action. Con- sequently the Communists reject in- dividual actions that have no con- nection with revolutionary mass ac- tion, — as for instance petty bour- geois oppositions to conscription, re- fusal to bear arms, “refusal to shoot,” etc. In 1922 Lenin wrote | in the instruction to the delegation | to the Hague Conference, “ ‘Boycott | of war’. is a stupid phrase, The | Communists must participate in | every reactionary war.” 13. The Communists alsa reject any | frivolous treatment of the question | | of war. Lenin also taught us that “We must tell the masses the real facts about the profound secrecy in | which the governments make their | plans for war and“fiow impotent the | ordinary labor organizations, even | those that call themselves revolu- | tionary, are in the face of impending | war.” The Communists reject such slogans as “General Strike Against the Declaration of War,” “Strike of Soldiers,” etc. as panacea “to be ap- plied regardless of a concrete situa- tion and divorced from the general class struggle of the proletariat.” It would create an illusion to say to the workers that upon the procla- matin of a war we shall immediately answer with a general strike. The Cmmunists must not renounce the | general strike as a weapon in the struggle against imperialist war, but as Lenin indicated in the document already quoted above, “It is impos- M sible to ‘reply’ to war with a gen-| eral strike, just as it is impossible to ‘reply’ to war with a revolution | in the simple and literal sense of the word.” Side by side with other forms of | revolutionary mass action (demon- trations, strikes in munition facto- ries, ete.) the general strike, as the | supreme form of the mass strike | t movement, is an extremely impor- tant weapon. As a transition to the armed uprising it constitutes a stage in the transformation of imperialist war into civil war. However, this transformation does not depend upon the will of the Party alone. It is essential for the Communist Party to carry on continuous propaganda {and agitation for the general strike prior to the war as well as during |the war, but it depends on the revo- jlutionary development of the situa- tion as to when the slogan of the general strike can be put forward not only as a propaganda and agi- {tation slogan but as a slogan of | | action. |Party is to strive to create a united jfront from below of all revolution-| ary workers in the fight against the | war. The task of the Communist | Party for this purpose and with this |scope is to link up all political and |economic everyday struggles of the American working class with the| |war danger and the necessity to |fight against it. The campaign in| |defense of the Gastonia strikers; in defense of the right of workers to organize trade unions and to protect themselves; the campaign for the building of revolutionary trade | unions; the campaign for the organ- ‘ization of the unorganized; the everyday struggles of the workers against wage cuts, against the re- sults of rationalization; the cam- paign for social insurance — these and all other linked up with the general strug- gle of the masses against imperialist war, 15. Amongst the concrete tasks of out intensive work to enlarge the number of shop nuclei. In nuclei building, the development of shop papers. plays an inestimably im- |portant role and together with shop paperspapers there must be a net- work all over the country of work- ers’ correspondents. In this work special attention must be given to such branches as mining, munition works, transportation, dock and ma- rine workers, chemical workers, etc. The Party should concentrate their agitational and organizational work to those branches of the war in- dustry, | In order to create a broad united front against imperialist wvar and for the defense of the Soviet Union, it is necessary to organize Anti-War Committees in all large factories. These committees, where they are created for the purpose of Interna- tional Red Day, should thereafter be |developed into a permanent shape, |for example, by the calling of non- |Party delegate conferences of shop | representatives in industrial districts | with the aim of organizing work- ers’ conferences on a national scale against imperialist war. In factories jand trade unions the Communists |should carry on continuous agitation | preparatory to the sabotage of the production and shipment of war ma- terials. In such agitation, in addi- tion to the general slogans, our slo- gan must he: “Not.a gun, not a ship, not a dollar, not a single ton |of munitions of war for the armies destined to fight against the Soviet Union!” The Party must carry on unceas- ing activity in the trade unions for |the winning over of the workers for |the struggle against imperialist war | jand for defense of the Soviet Union. jIn the old trade unions the Party |must expose the bureaucrats of the struggles must be} must give the greatest attention. fact that soldiers of armies are recruited from the South —these facts dictate a policy of and special attention to the organ- ization of youth in the various mass organizations, sports, etc., working in the bourgeois sports organizi | tions, and working especially in military organizations (C. M. T. C. etc.). The Young Communist |various military training school: | training camps, etc., by sénding in| |forces into these training camps and schools to carry on propaganda | against imperialist and capitalist | | militarism. The Pioneers must in- |tensify their activities against the Boy Scouts, ete, 21, |drawn into industry. Nine million women are today in the work shops jand factories of the United States. The Party must pay special atten- tion to work among these women. Simultaneously the proletarian housewives must be mobilized in the ism and imperialist war. 22. The Party and the Young Communist League must energetic- ally conduct work of propaganda and agitation in the army, navy, ma- rines and, all armed forces, formu- lating a program of economic de- creased pay for soldiers, improved maintenance, the establishment of regimental committees composed of soldiers’ representatives, right to organize in trade unions, and so on), linking up the struggle for these im- mediate demands with the struggle against imperialism and the strug- gle against imperialist war. The general political slogan of the Party |struggle against American imperial- | the Communist Party is to carry! mands and ‘complaints (such as in-| in this propaganda must be the slo-! these are tasks to which the Party| gan of | same time the Communists should | must organize especi 20. The growing importance of | fight against recruiting propaganda, | vation. youth in rationalized industry, the| against the introduction of conscrip- imperialist | tion, ete. | League must reinforce its work of | combatting military training in the| Women are more and more} _ ‘ | tinuation of the Par jate creation now “fraternization.” At the The Party must establish a close connection of all members of the Party with revolutionary ele- the greatest attention to the devel- | ments in the army and navy; it must |opment of the Young Communist| create 14, The task of the Communist | League into a mass organization} | armed forces. Communist nuclei the in 23, Already Comrade Lenin indi- cated that “the only possible way of continuing revolutionary worl: after the outbreak of war is the ereation | of an illegal organization.” But an legal organization is ‘also necessary in the struggle before the war breaks out. The experience in a number of | countries in the struggle against the war danger and for the August 1st demonstrations in France, Czecho- slovakia, Germany and Japan, fur- |nishes proof of the correctness of | Lenin’s teaching and the importance | of immediate preparation of such ap- paratus. A general condition for the con- y’s activity in a period of illegality is the immedi- of a whole net- work of factory nuclei through which the Party will be able to carry on its work, to be able to maintain its contact with the masses. Detailed instructions on this question will be furnished to all districts and Party organizations. 24, With regard tp the work in the most important districts, the Party must know how to concentrate | on strategic points and to analyze and distribute its forces according]. The various districts must survey the the more important strategic centers for the mobilization of the masses, for example, the Party on the Pacific coast which has a spe- cial task to perform must strengthen its organization in general and par- ticularly among the marine work- ers; the Seattle District in which the workers played an important role in sabotaging the shipment of muni- tions to Vladivostok suEDeS the in-| tervention against the Soviet Union, ; U. Similarly, di A necticut, which are large centers for the manufacture of munitions, must | W concentrate on the building of fac- | 1¢ of Cuba, Great Britain; for closer connection A. and the Communist Parties |bers viewed the war as something Mexico and other Latin-|more or less remote and not a blo countries, Canada and|reality of today. merican 5 Ps The Tenth Plenum of th nist International /tiye Committee of the nce to the develop- International in a special re: ith oY spe the Commu 1 assi tory nuclei in thees large plants like | ment of the Communist Parties in} on International Red Day warne the Remington Arms, Winchester | the American colonies. the Parties that “inactivity in Arms, ete. Distr like Pittsburgh Factional strife must end and Par-| connection on the part of some ele jand Cleveland must concentrate their work among the steel workers and miners. The Detroit District, where there is the manufacture of automo- biles and tractors and aeroplanes, must realize the importance of | fi strengthening the Party organiza- tion through the building of nuclei discipline must be reinforced. | ments in the Communist Parties hout strong discipline, without | By expression of gene etic combatting of every | nist tendencies bound up with to disrupt the unity of the | underestimation of the war danger, Party cannot successfully | their fatalist attitude towards it, ght ag the war. with the underestimation |strength of the proletariat of th The Party must throw it nd energy into exposing the cbjectiv: coun-| minimizing of the role of ( in these plants. Similarly all dis- | tey revolutionary role of Thermidor|munist Parties in the proleta tricts must survey the strategic propaganda, of the theory of the|class war. TENE tae er po aor © |tdeweneration” of the Commutist/ voc; amongst. the defects ample, the munitions, por ilroad | International, and the “running p, se ia aii centers, ship building, roplane re” in the C, I. and C. P. S. U. ali somes its 18h 08 building, chemical works, etc, and Tt is no accident that precisely at |S .sty tS manuly to Party in these industries. ‘ oisie is preparing fresh at- |)" al ipl peoples) ee Thi like California and Ka against the Soviet TniongthaG| oes coe ny, ce one maa includes the state of gani ns—trade unior r right wing ae renegedes) vy their prop- mericans, TUBE C sie in its ideological prepa-| ci sact and are not linked up with|© Party t among these 1 ration for war. In this respect the| i}. concrete Bape n wise special attention must he given | oye ay ae Banca he conc “e stone s of ee work in tho: districts like New York! others are typ modces ok: thale There x also on undere tima- | : and San Francisco, where “here are | third period, the product of the in- eee cs hea sais oa eee steed to be found large numbers of Chi- | creasing pressure of the world bour-|2/5™ im the preparation of a war); nese and Japanese. ae ahd iDemoaraey on against the Soviet Union and par- os ee eee F Beste ee ee Movement ticularly in the last provocation by |‘? i Be onaet thos annen Batty ea: ah a the Chinese government, and also ¢ | asks, it is particularly impo=tant to| 26. Already in the Party’s work|petty bourgeois pacifist slogans on | t@nti Pa insure that there should be a gainst war there are to be seen the question of war prepar Be presentation of the Communist line; various shortcomings, which must |in the previous slogan of ‘ en on all fundamental tactical questions |be explained, criticized, and cor-|cruisers.” Besides this ther of the struggle against war both in | rected. latk of understanding that the i \the Party press and in Party meet- The fundamental defect from | fer recognition of the Soviet Unior ings so that every Party member which the Party suffers is an un-/is a part of our ma propaganda Ir will become clear on the t of tion of the danger of war,|but the slogan of “Recognition of | wide pr the Party and how to mobilize the f the danger of war|the Soviet Union” cannot r g ‘masses in the struggle against Soviet Union and an in-|our general slogans of “Def a r " , BLASTS BOSSES’ “FAIRNESS” PLEA | Legal Lynching Bee A torchlight shedding a flood of the bosses’ press in the South, is the latest issue of the weekly Gastonia Labor Nefender. The textile workers have already snatched up the latest edition, which gave the lie to the mill owners’ press and their hypocritical talk of |“fair trial.” The issue, received today at the National Office of the International Labor Defense, room 402 at 80 E.| llth Street, N. Y., exposed the| {American Federation of Labor and their militaristic policy. : 16. Special attention must be |language organizations. The nation- lactive in these organizations. It} must be the task of the Communist Party to combat these elements, ex- |pose them, and win the foreign-born workers in this country to the strug- gle against the imperialist war and) |for the defense of the Soviet Union. 17. In such organizations as the Anti-Imperialist League, and the| Friends of Soviet Russia, the task of the Communists working in these | | bodies must be to transform them in the quickest possible time into lreal mass organizations carrying |out a continuous propaganda for the Communist position towards war, combatting the petty bourgeois n-7'- fist slogans. The Anti-Imperialist League must organize in its ranas all revolutionary elements of the} American colonies and of the semi- colonial countries of Latin-America. 18. The working farmers must be | organized as a force against imper- ialist war. The Party must, there- |fore, take special measures really to | begin the work among the agricul- | tural proletariat and the working farmers. The United Farmers’ Edu- cational League must be transformed into a mass organization. In its | work the Party should take into con- sideration the permanent crisis of | American agriculture and also the anti-war sentiment prevailing among | the farmers in general. Therefore the Communists should link up this lagitation with the economic de- }mands of the farmers, explain to them the proletarian attitude to- | ward war, establish a united front of the working farmers and the in- dustrial proletariat. | 19. The Negro masses of the United States will play an impor- tant historic revolutionary role in this period. It is necessary to link up the struggle for social, racial, (and political equality of the Ne- groes and the slogan of “Self-De- termination for the Negroes” in the South, with the struggle against American imperialism and with the struggle against war. The building up of the American Negro Labor |Congress as a real mass organiza- ‘tion, the transforming of the “Negro Champion” into a mass organ— | sneaky maneuvers of the bosses and | their courts. Shows Gastonia Case is) light through the slimy maze of | DEFENSE PAPER “The new theory put forward by | transformation of the war into civil| given to the mobilization of the | the pap=rs, the Gastonia Gazette, | |the Winston-Salem Journal and the, |Charlotte News is that the sixteen | as hamper the development |alist and fascist elements are very | | working men and women are to be “tried for murder and nothing else,” it stated. will be “They tried for murder according to the law and the evi- dence” said Charlotte News with approval of the Gastonia Gazette. Defended Themselves The I.L.D. publication declares, “The International Labor Defense states that these workers defended | themselves, their families and their headquarters as they had not only a right but a duty to do. |in labor history in the United States | have workers shown the patience and the fortitude displayed by the Loray Mill strikers and N. T. W. U. (of deliberate and continual | attacks upon working men and wo- men and children by police acting directly under the instructions of such robber corporations Manville-Jencks Co. and by private by such a corporation.” states, lives of our fellow workers and re- store them to their places in the ranks of the working class is to let case and on the basis of the clear | issues, build a protest movement so | powerful that it will stay forever in the minds of millions of workers any illusions as to the “impartial” agencies of capitalist government.” Help Called And the vehicle through which this can be achieved is the Gastonia Defense and Relief activities—un- swerving support of the Internation- al Labor Defense and the Workers International Relief, Today and tomorrow, the work- ers of the country must descend into the streets with the collection boxes for Gastonia and swell the funds by thousands of dollars, These boxes can be obtained at. the National Office of the I. J. D., 80 E. 11th Street, room 402 or at the district office, Thousands of names of protest for the petition are arriving there daily, With the delay in the trial, Rarely | members and organizers in the facc | brutal as the} bands of thugs recruited and paid) The I. L. D. publication further | “The only way to save the; all workers know the issues .in this | character of the courts and ail other | | } Citroen Slaves The French imperialist author- ities have been thoroly scared by We need also a gr nternation- arising therefrom, Even in)American Imperialism,” tage ir d nt of alization of the Party within its own |the period of the most acute forma-| Victory for the Soviet tre eginning ranks, a concentration of the atten- tion of the Soviet-Chinese conflict, | of Imperia of a r mobili- | tion of the masses on international there were responsible Party mem- |i and so on. To put 1 2 es against problems, the linking up of these bers who proclaimed that war/forward the slogan of Recognition al f defense of |problems with the internal class nst Soviet Russia is impossible |of the Soviet Union as a chief slo-|the Soviet Ur r the struggle | struggles. From this follows the|in view of the c--tradictions be-|gan of mass mobilization for the{against imperialism and bour- |need for closer mutual contact be-| tween Ar n and British imperi- | struggle against the war signifies geoisic, f t te he pro- tween the Communist Party of the ialism. In 1eral many Party mem-|a petty-bourgeois, pacifist attitude, |leta Jcame to the workers and shouted: ;spontaneous speeches. Hind Punch “You're going to stop, if not we are| Starting today, using this inci- “DEAD IN BLAST going to break your lousy heads.”! dent, Citroen will try witHow. cou P 4 Fi. hit And they started... |to fire the best workers, the most ONCE @ DOES U1 FANT nn Soke socesueousry att ones that didn’t 1 answered — stones, and bricks— vithout paying be - ., | thrown from the factory—came fly- the women worker | Citroen-Javel auto factories in ing out to “sprinkle” the beasts of |in every shop will form their sho Paris. . : 4 the “prefecture of police.” committees, and constitue thei the great preparations for August First, International Red Day, be- ing made by the French workers under the lead of the Communist Party. They have begun a cam- paign of terror against the Com- munist Party and the militant workers which the Party leads. Hundreds haye been thrown into | jail, and terrorization goes on in he factories in an attempt to crush ih advance the August First Demonstrations. Read below a let- ter from a worker in the huge jthe working class can go far above | | the goal of a million and shower Governor O. Max Gardner with these jevidences of working class soli- darity, Remember the $50,000 defense fund! Remember the 100,000 memt for the I. L. D, trial! by the end of t Get your tickets from the Daily Worker Office, 26 Union Square, or Workers Bookshop, Trades Industrial Union, 131 West 28th St.; Millinery Workers, 4 West 37th St.; (By a Worker Correspondent) | PARIS (By Mail).—Yesterday the |police in their usual way, tried to |arrest an African worker in front jof one of the Citroen-Javel factories. | They had to account for the mili- | taney of the workers. One hundred or so of the si “bulls” |front of the factory under the leader- | ship of an “officer of the peace.” Provoking, rushing and knocking the jn crowds about, they tried to have jn them driven back into the plant be- | fore 1 o'clock derstood in this way tended not to suffer the blows of the | bourgeois police, without retaliating, after the stool-pigeon act of the fac- themselves [accompanied by a few jack-asses in that came to provoke and attack civilian clothes were parading in’ them, ing which the women were alw The workers, men and women, |&Toups cf “auto-defense wnified and let it clearly be un-| | it one amongst us! Ley es 7 Werwillcontiniedo lead thetiph jin the factory! To protest against this new gression we will assist at the ference of factories that will so |take place, against the rationali |tion, the repression and for th mediate liberty of the workers | rested. We will prepare this wa: the International Red Day the Firs pn of August. With defended juggers” tenacity, they against the Until two o’clock the fight—dur- the front ranks—continued wit! creased ardor. « The bulls arrested a few of our —CITROEN SLAVE, comrad They were mistreated) The Gastonia Textile Workers’ It was then that a group of work- | and beaten up odiously and ingnom-| trial began July 29! Twenty-three ers, thinking rapidly, answered, inously in their cells — amongst| workers face electrocution or singing the International ar them a woman. prison terms! Rally all forces to ing loudly; Hurrah, for Mart Reaction of the Workers. save them. Defense and Relief Hurrah for the Amnesty!... | In the factory, the enthusiasm) Week Jt. 27—August 3! Sign Down with repre lasted a long t In certain shops, the Protest Roll! Rush funds to The on tables and bos workers | International Labor Defense, 80 | ‘The “officer of the peace” then scandalized by the happenings made’ East 11th Street, New York. We will not permit the firing of Ss p e BRESLAU, German August 1 A coal dust explosion 1,350 feet*be# e of the ground in a hermsdorf, in lower it Sil nen and injured 11, m were in a seri- en were ion but not injured by the o were killed by a great exple flame which covered a 400 foot area and generated pc The ison gas whcih was at the : colliery, occurred night but was not the scene of the s later, due to the owners in the accident, a : > of hour |precautions of th guise of rescue e instantly killed being recovered bout eight hours sion. Twelve injured d from #he mine, and one of them died later. The « a very critical condi als admitted. thers were in tion, mine of ‘¢ 8. FRE iD a ew CS vo ‘ VERNON ANDRADES FAMOUS NEGRED \RENAISSANCE ORCHESTRA’ BOAT LEAVES 8 P. PeiER STUYVESANT OAW EVE. AUG, M. SHARP, WEST 42nd STREET PIER 30 Union Square; New Masses, 39 Union Squa Unity House, 1800 Seventh Ave.; Bronx Workers Colony, 8 216 East 14th St. 800 Bronx Park East. y