The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1932, Page 11

' es wAILY WORKER, NEW YuURS, EmUNDUAL, Arma 40, s00K = Face to the Factories; Win Your Shopmates for Communism Through the Most Energetic and Tireless Struggles for Their Daily Needs IV. TASKS OF THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN ’ The election campaign this year is of most particular significance and must be utilized for the gen- eral extension and intensification of the activity of the Party and for the intensification and widening of class struggles against the capi- talist offensive and the war danger, especially against the danger of intervention against the U.S. S. R. The main slogan for the Party election campaign must be the de- mand for unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the state and employers. Placing in the center of the mass election work the immediate demands of the workers and toilers in factories, bread lines, unemployed gather- ings, in towns, the Party must on this basis present concretely and popularly. to the broad working masses its program of the revolu- tionary way out of the crisis. In exposing the whole policy of the bourgeoisie, the Party must make clear to the .workers that only through the revolutionary class struggle, fighting for the program and supporting the candidates of the Communist Party, can workers counteract the attacks of the bour- geoisie and protect and secure their immediate demands and prepare the ground for the further advance of the working class interests. Under no circumstances must the Party fail to expose and combat in the sharpest manner Hoover’s hunger regime. At the same time it is necessary to thoroughly un- mask the demagogy of the demo- crats as well as of the republican “progressives,” who are attempting _ to utilize for their own ends the ever-increasing mass opposition to ' Hoover. On the basis of concrete facts, we must show that the demo- crats as well as the “progressives,” once in power, will do as little as ’ Hoover to alleviate mass poverty, ‘as can be seen already in a large number of states and municipali- ties, and their collaboration with the Hoover government (senate, congress, etc.). We must prove that they will force through the same degrading charity system and ‘ Wage cuts, with the same terror as applied by the regular republicans. The sharpest struggle against social fascism during the elections is of the greatest importance. | Without detracting the attention to the slightest degree from the struggle against the républicans and democrats as pointed out above, the chief attention must be directed to unmasking and com- ' batting the socialists and the Muste ‘erowd. This ‘also includes a con- ' sistent unmasking of their dema- gogie theory about state capital- ism, gradual “transition into So- cialism” through “nationalization” projects of the mines, railroads, etc, The main slogans which the Party put forward are: (1) Unemployment and _ social insurance at the expense of the state and employers. (2) Against Hoover’s wage-cut- ting policy. (83) Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- gees of poor farmers from tax- et ay Hgual rights for the Ne- hoes, “and self-determination for the Black Belt. ¥ (5) Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the political rights of the workers. (6) Against imperialist war; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party must con- cretely unmask the efforts of the bourgeoisie to find a capitalist way out of the crisis (their promise of complete employment, a new period of prosperity, etc., if wage cuts are carried out, if the banks are saved, if higher tariffs are introduced, if industry is further trustified, if the imperialist positions for American capitalism are strengthened, their promises with regard to the aban- donment of graft and corruption in American polities, ete.). The revo- lutionary way out of the crisis must be widely popularized, including a systematic and thorough exposure of the mere phrases about “So- cialism” used by the socialists. The Communist Party must fully utilize the example of victorious Socialist construction in the Soviet Union as against the capitalist countries which are going deeper and deeper into the mire of economic crisis, exposing the empty talk of planned production under capitalism. The Party must contrast the revolu- tionary way out, concretely, to the proposals of each bourgeois party, especially the “Left” social fas- cists. The revolutionary way out of the crisis must be concretized by showing the masses how a revo- lutionary workers’ government—a United States of America—would, through the nationalization of the means of production, railroads, commerce, ete, by taking them from the hands of the big exploit- ers and placing them in the hands of the workers’ state, immediately eliminate unemployment by start- ing the machinery of production at full speed, producing the commodi- ties needed by the masses; how it _can at once make available to the starving workers the full stores of foodstuffs, fuel ‘and clothing now witheld from the workers; how it can solve the pressing problems of housing; solve the needs of the eae ‘sd 42 Let Pid esis PUPS beat) toiling farmers; guarantee full equality for the Negroes, carry out a peace policy of the proletarian state as exampled by the Soviet Union in contrast to ali imperialist powers, etc. In addition to the above, which are the main national demands, concrete demands must be put forward in every city and state corresponding to the needs of the masses. Throughout the campaign ev- ery statement and every proposal of the enemy parties must be quick- ly answered in the Party press and in millions of leaflets. Special care must be taken to guard against and to answer surprise statements, such as forged documents, “bomb plots,” etc. “Not a mass meeting during the election campaign with- out Communists”—must be our slo- gan; at all mass meetings arranged by the bourgeois parties the Com- munists should appear; expose the position of the enemies and make clear the position of the Party— distribute their literature; debates should be organized with the ene- my candidates in order to expose their demagogy and to reach the workers under their influence with the demands and program of the Communist Party. The Communist Party itself should organize thou- sands of meetings—great city- SEWERS SER RED AE SENS Salo eT shia aioe aP ls 5 Imperialist War Menaces Peaceful Socialitst Construction in the U.S.S.R. wide meetings as heretofore, neigh- borhood meetings, and especially small meetings in the workers homes where our program should be explained and the workers drawn into active participation in our ‘election campaign. Leaflets of many kinds, posters, dealing with the proposals of the enemy parties, with the conditions of the workers in the various industries, with our demands, ete., should be issued in larger quantities than ever before; pamphlets to be sold at the lowest prices. Of particular importance at this time, due to increased activity of the social-fascists, to thefr propa- ganda for a “Labor Party,” etc., is the widest use of the united front in the election campaign. Prior to the National Nominating Conven- tion, and as a means of providing a broad mass basis for it, local united front conferences should be held of representatives. from the revolu- tionary trade unions, the trade union opposition, workers and working women and youth from the factories, supporting A. F. of L. locals, unemployed councils and committees, workers’ fraternal or- ganizations, Negro organizations, etc., which should endorse the Com- munist Party election program, agree to support its candidates, elect delegates to the nominating convention, and set up 2 broad workers’ committee for the carvv- ing on of the campaign together with the Party organization. At still wider local conferences follow- ing the national convention, local, county and state programs and candidates of the Party should be endorsed. In specific cases militant non-Party workers, who have ac- tively participated in the unem- ployed and strike struggles or otherwise shown their stand for the class struggle and against the re- formists, ean be accepted and en- dorsed as candidates by the Party fractions in these conferences with the approval of the District Com- mittee of the Party. Care must be taken to prevent “Left” reformist elements from making use of such conferences for the struggle against the Party and its candi- dates. j~