The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1931, Page 8

rage rSur the workers of this country are suffering for must be sold abroad with the help of machine- guns. More colonial peoples must be put un- der Wall Street’s imperialist rule, for the sake of markets and the plunder of their natural wealth by American capitalists. But the world is already divided up into spheres of influence by this and the other big imperialist powers, and each in order tv find a market for the goods which their own workers have made but are too poor to pur- chase—each must obtain a foreign market by seizing it with military force from one of* its rivals. For this reason the United States pre- pares for war against England, against Japan. Imperialist England prepares for war against the United States imperialist government for the same reason. France prepares for war against Germany and against Italy while Italy prepares for war against France. And the hundreds of millions of dollars, for the need of which one thousand persons die of starvation every day in the Urtited States, are spent instead for the cold-blooded prepara- tion for another world slaughter which the bankers and trust magnates require and will conscript the American workers and farmers to fight.- THE WALL STREET WAR AGAINST THE UNION OF SOCIALIST SOVIET REPUBLICS But the imperialist leaders, Hoover, Mac- Donald, Briand, Mussolini; ete., while violently. quarrelling among themselves and preparing to make the masses of their countries fight bloody wars against the masses of these other countries, are at the same time maneuvering in the hope of being able to form a coalition of capitalist governments for the purpose of turn- ing on all of the forces of war of the imper- jalist countries against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (Soviet Russia). The Russian Revolution took one-sixth of the habitable sur- face of the world out of the hands of the capi- talists and landlords, out of the capitalist sys- tem of wage slavery, speculation and landlord- ism. Because the revolutionary workers and peasants of Russia overthrow their capitalists ORGANIZATION! MASS DEMONSTRATIONS! and landlords and established their own work- ers government, they are now successfully building the Socialist system without the mis- ery, chaos, unemployment and slavery that are inseparable from the capitalist system. They have abolished unemployment and are drawing 2,000,000 new workers into industry. They have established the 7-hour day and are in- creasing social insurance. Through the loss of Russia, capitalism lost one-sixth of the world. Hoover, MacDonald, Briand, Mussolini, Bruening, Pilsudski, etc, plan to turn all imper- ialist guns to the destruction of the one gov- ernment in the world which is leading the mass- es of workers and farmers to freedom, to pros- perity and to happiness. With bloody inter- vention they plan to destroy the workers’ gov- ernment and to “overcome the economic crisis” by opening up that country to foreign capitalist plunder and slavery. This is the most imminent danger to the working class of all countries today. The building up by the American workers of their own organs of struggle, the Unem- ployment Councils and revolutionary trade unions, is not only necessary for the direct struggle against our own starvation, but also strengthens the working class for a determi >-d struggle against the criminal war plans of the capitalist government and in defense of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics against the criminal military designs of our Wall Street government. THE HUNGER MARCH TO WASHINGTON! The workers must meet the challenge of the capitalist government which has doomed them to starvation. In the neighborhoods, in the breadlines, in the factories, a stubborn day- to-day fight must be conducted under the lead- ership of the Unemployed Councils—for food for the hungry, shelter for the homeless and milk for the children. The Congress of the United States will meet at Washington on December 2. The workers of America must put up to this Congress in a resolute manner their de- mands for unemployment relief. It is clear that a government that rep- resents only the interests of a capitalist class so saturated with greed as to be ready to slaughter thousands of conscripted workers in warfare for their own profits—a capitalist class that only a few days ago shot Negro workers on the streets of Chicago to accom- plish evictions for non-payment of rent—a capitalist and landlord class which recently massacred Alabama share crop farmers in or- der to be able to swindle them out of a few dollars worth of provisions, will not willingly give the masses the required unemployment relief. The millions of workers and farmers must compel the corrupt agents of capitalism in the Congress at Washington to answer these de- mands of life and death of the masses. The workers everywhere in building Unemployed Councils must energetically prepare for the na- tional hunger march to Washington at the time of the opening of Congress to present these demands for unemployment relief and social insurance. There must be mass demonstrations in every community of America. Mass demon- strations must be held before every city hall and every village and county seat of govern- ment. Measures must be organized immediately by the Unemployed Councils for the immediate self-feeding of the unemployed through ‘the councils locally and to compel the capitalist . class and its government bodies to provide food for this purpose. The Unemployed Councils must organize the mass resistance of the work- ing class population of each community against evictions of unemployed workers. EMPLOYED WORKERS MUST JOIN WITH UNEMPLOYED! The Unemployed Councils must be built on ‘the basis of the solidarity of the entire work- ing class. The employed as well as unemployed workers must unite and support these Unem- ployed Councils in every neighborhood, of every city and industrial district of the country. These unemployed branches must be united into Unemployed Councils in every city and indus- trial district. The principle of solidarity must be upheld against the tactics of the capitalist class, which are to divide the unemployed from the employed and to divide white workers from Negroes and thus to conquer all, withholding all real relief from the jobless and smashing the wages and reducing the conditions of those still employed. DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF NEGROES! It is absolutely necessary that the Unem- ployed Councils, organized on the basis of full equality of all races and of native and fcreign born workers, shall vigorously take up and re- sist the fiendish measures now being taken by the capitalist government against the Negro masses. The Unemployed Councils must re- sist the special persecution of the Negroes, must resist the continuation of segregation and Jim Crowism which makes the lot of the un- employed Negro even worse than that of the white. The Negro masses must organize to- gether with the white working class without distinction of color and in the same orgariza- tion, as one of the best and basic elements of the movement against unemployment, evictions and starvation. The greatest enemy of the masses is the one who divides the white from the Negro. NATIVE AND FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS TOGETHER a The Unemployed Councils must take up the struggle for protection of the foreign-born | workers against special persecutions of the - Wall Street government which tries by special persecution through police agents of the De- partment of Labor to punish every foreign-born worker for loyalty to the working class, and DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATUKDAY, AUGUST 29, 1934 thus to weaken the strength of the workers’ movement, especially in the heavy industries where foreign born workers form a large pro- portion of those employed and unemployed. The Unemployed Councils should work in closest cooperation with the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League, and draw the rank and file of the AFL unions into one common fight for the needs of the unem- ployed and employed masses. Cooperation with the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and with the Council for Protection of Foreign Born is necessary. ~ ONLY BY STRUGGLE CAN WORKERS GAIN RELIEF All of these measures are directed toward the struggle for the winning of certain imme- diate relief from the famine and death which await the American working and farming masses in this Winter of 1931-32. But the Communist Party makes no pretense that these or any other concessions that can be won from the capitalist class government can bring per- manent or substantial relief. Capitalism itself is slavery, war, starvation and death for the working class. Concessions that are necessary as a mat- ter of life and death today can be won only as a by-product of revolutionary struggle of those whose labor creates all the wealth of this coun= try to overthrow the system of capitalist ex- ploitation and starvation. CAPITALISM MUST BE OVER- THROWN—SOCIALISM MUST BE ESTABLISHED BY A WORKERS’ GOVERNMENT All these demands and these mears of struggle are only the first steps toward organ- izing the power of the toiling masses completely to overthrow this system of capitalist slaverv and starvation and to reorganize the whole of American society on a basis of the welfare of the masses of people, those who toil in the city and on the farm—the basis of Socialism, The dictatorship of the working class (the highest form of democracy for the masses ever known) must. take the place of the dic- tatorship of the powerful finance capitalists who have condemned us to slavery in times of “prosperity” and to starvation at those times when the capitalist system closes down ‘its” industries because we have made too much food and too much clothing and therefore must starve. It must take the industries and ll means of production out of the hands of the useless and criminal capitalist class, and must establish Socialist production for the benefit of those who labor in factory and farm. IT CAN BE DONE! All of this is not a pious wish, not a dream of something that cannot be done. The day is past when our capitalist master could point with scorn and say that Socialism was an “im- practical” dream! From the point of view of the masses of those who labor, capitalism has become “impractical,” and by the heroic con- quest of the working class of Russia, Social’sm has become the most powerful reality of the world today. The destruction of class society, the building of the free society of the workers of the city and of the farm, has already blazed the trail out of capitalist slavery for the whole world. The triumphant building of Socialism in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is already at hand. It can be done. The efforts of the capitalist class through corrupt agents to maintain their anti-socialist organizations under the false name of ‘“So- cialist Party” cannot permanently deceive the masses and paralyze their will to struggle for Socialism. The slanders of the confused or cor- rupt “liberal” agents of the policies of Wall Street capitalism against the Communist Party of the USA can only succeed so long as the working class has not been brought by the stark reality of capitalist slavery to see the imperative need of struggle. The Communist Party is the only leader ‘and organizer of every phase of this struggle— the only guarantee of victory over capitalism, Workers and laboring farmers of Amer- ica! Fight against starvation! Fight fur un- employment relief and social insurance! Central Committee, Communist — Party of the USA. i