The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1932, Page 8

eT a i ‘HE Communist Party of U.S.A. has made some “improvement cf its work in strikes, hunger marches. and the struggles of the Negroes. Not- withstanding this, and the increasingly favorable conditions for the fulfillment of its daily increas- ‘ ing task in the struggle against the offensive of the bourgeoisie, against the pronounced aggres- siveness of American imperialism and the im- mediate perspective of a new, imperialist world Resolution of the Fourteenth war, our Party has not yet made the essential change in its work necessary for the carrying out of its chief immediate task. This task is to over- come the isolation of the Party from the decisive masses of the American proletariat, to come be- fore the masses as their vanguard in the struggle against the offensive of the bourgeoisie and against imperialist war, and to firmly root itself in the decisive industries by means of. solid per- sonal contacts with evorkers. I. THE SITUATION Capitalism in the United States has been hard- est hit by the economic crisis, as expressed in the unprecedented fall in production and trade, and in the growth of mass unemployment, which plunges millions and millions of workers in the cities and in the rural districts into hunger and poverty. The crisis is destroying the petty bour- geois illusions of the masses about the “American standard of living,” “community of interests of labor and capital,” and creates the most favorable prerequisites for the formation and strengthen- ing of the class front of the proletariat and the working masses. In its effort to save the capitalist system from further deepening of the crisis, and to find a capitalist way out of the crisis, the American bourgeoisie is carrying on the fiercest attacks against the masses and is feverishly preparing for a war against the imperialist rivals-and, above all, for intervention against’ the Soviet Union. Weee cut after wage cut is being forced through, millions of unemployed are subjected to hurver and poverty and the standard of living of the masses has already been forced down by more than 50 per cent through wage losses as a result of wage cuts and unemployment. The financial oligarchy with the help of the state, is daily ac- cumulating more of the national wealth in its ‘hands, through the unprecedented impoverish- ment of the workers, and at the expense of the small taxpayers, farmers and small bourgeoisie (“Reconstruction Corporation” of Hoover, in- creased tariffs, etc.). The offensive of the capi- talists is characterized by sharpened police fascist and semi-fascist repression and terror against the workers and their class organizations. Sim- ultaneously, the bourgeoisie resorts widely and systematically to demagogic and “democratic” maneuvers, using more and more the social-de- mocrats, the ““Musteites” and the various pseudo- “Lefts” as a tool for confusing and disorgan- izing the workers. The two main bourgeois parties (Republican and Democratic) both fully supporting the poli- cies of finance capital, divide the roles among themselves in order to prevent the masses from | breaking away from the policy of finance capital ' as excercised through the traditional two-party ’ system. The Republican party, which is the party ' in power, is carrying on more openly this policy ' of hunger, terror and war preparations. _ Democratic party, whose present function is to The ' win the support of the toiling: masses and partic- ularly the unemployed, who are disillusioned by the Hoover government, has the same domes- ' tie and foreign policy as the Republican party. ; The state governments under Democratic _ erty control carry on the same policy as the ' Hoover government. The Democratic Congress- mex, and Senators vote for all measures against the working class. But the Democratic party, in _ order to fool the masses, is resorting more and more to the widespread use of demagogy, par- ticularly with regard to unemployment relief. The chief candidates for the democratic nomina- tion for President (Roosevelt, Baker, Ritchie, etc.) are the most experienced demagogs, and in the North, for example, talk about equality for the Negro and at the same time, in the South, support lynch law and carry through fully the ruthless policy of Wall Street. The bloc of “progressives” representing the rich farmers and certain sections of small capi- talists (La Follette, Morris, etc.) is likewise fully supporting the policies of Wall Street. Its “op- position is more cowardly than ever. These ele- ments,’ who in 1924 organided-the La Follette third party and who are at moment dividing their, support between Hooyer (nd the D the Democrats in order to enable Wall Street to keep the masses chained to the old capitalist par- ties. At the same time they demagogically talk about Unemployment Relief (Pinchot), unemploy- ment insurance (La Follette), about farm re- lief, ete. The sharp change in the international situation is the outstanding feature in the present situa- tion. The war for the repartitioning of the world, and in the first place, for the imperialist parti- tioning of China and the crushing of the Chinese revolution, is already being waged by the imperi- alists in the Far East. ‘The great imperialist powers, especially Japan and the United States, are at present more and more involved in the sharpest conflict for their share in the exploitation and division of China and concentrating their war forces (navy, air forces, war industry) for an immediate armed struggle in the Pacific. At the same time the feverish efforts of Japan, United States, England DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, 11 THE TASKS OF THE COMMU and France to come together, arising on the basis of their common hatred of the Soviet Union, their preparations for intervention against the Soviet Union, the movement of the Japanese troops to Northern Manchuria, the feverish activities of the white guards, sharply raise in this situation , before the international proletariat above all the greatest danger of cammon intervention of the imperialist powers against the U. S. S. R., the world proletarian fatherland. A new world war becomes an immediate danger. The greatest and most urgent task of the whole world proletariat and the toiling masses, above alll, the American proletariat, is to wage a most intensive, widespread, devoted and courageous struggle against the new imperialist war and in defense of the Chinese peopie, and to build an iron wall of defense around the Soviet Union. The central task of the C. P. U.S. A. is to struggle against the new imperialist war and above all to work most devotedly and courageously to mobilize the working class in defense of the Soviet™Union. The struggle against American imperialism, its war preparations and intervention plans must be the center of the every-day work of the Party among the masses; in the factories, trade unions, | in strikes, among the unemployed, Negroes, youth and women. Only by the ability to rally and or- ganize the masses to struggle for their immedi- ate demands and against the war danger, as the most outstanding menace for the working class, can the Party come before the masses, and must come before them, as their revolutionary vanguard —the most conscious, most devoted and ‘best or- ganized elements among them. - Il. THE CLASS STRUGGLE OF THE PROLETARIAT AND THE SOCIAL FASCISTS The further development of the crisis, the bank- ruptcy of the various illusions spread among the masses by the bourgeoisie, the increasing poverty and misery of the working masses and the im- mediate danger of war and intervention—all these factors form the basis of the increasing discon- tent and radicalization of the great masses of workers. The furious offensive of the bourgeoisie is met by the increasing resistance on the part of the working class. This has already expressed itself recently in the increasing strike struggles (the doubling of the number. of striking workers in 1931 as compared with 1930), in the increasing militancy of the unemployed (National Hunger March, Scottsboro, the unemployed in Chicago and Cleveland, in the movement against the policy and leadership of the American Federation of: Labor, trade union bureaucracy (building trades, etc.), in the increase in the number of Communist votes in several important cities: San Francisco, Law- rence, Salt Lake City, mining towns, etc.) -and in numerous militant mass demonstrations agaist war and the defense of the Soviet Union. In this situation American social fascism (Am- erican Federation of Labor, Socialist party, part- icularly the Muste wing, with the Lovestone-Can- non renegades) are greatly increasing their act- ivity to carry out the imperialist policy of the bourgeoisie, trying, by establishing the most skill- ful, deceptive division of work, to divert the radi- calized workers from the class struggle against - the offensive of the capitalists, to split the ranks of the workers and to bring about their defeat. This confronts the Communist Party with the task of increasing, sharpening and improving its fight against social-fascism, as the main enemy in the struggle for the successful mobilization of the masses in the fight against the bourgeois offensive and the war danger. The leaders of the American Federation of Labor are collaborating most brutally and actively with the bourgeoisie in its imperialist policy, at home and abroad, to carry through wage-cuts, to check the development of the strike movement, etc. They cynically declare themselves against unemployment insurance, and for the Hoover stagger plan. They actively support jim-crow- | Hoo _ism and lynching of Negroes, and the deportation t. party, hope to enter into an Mection blo: with | ef foreign-born workers, and form a part of the apparatus for suppressing the struggle of the workers by force and violence. The leaders of the American Federation of Labor (Green, Woll and Company) are the most jingoistic tools of the im- perialists, working hand and hand with the war department in the bloody oppression of the col- onial peoples. The American Federation of Labor bureaucracy, together with the Civic Federation, the common policy of which is symbolized by Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor and acting president of the Civic Federa- tion are particularly fierce in their hatred of the Soviet Union and shout loudest for attacks and intervention. The Socialist party which formerly worshipped at the shrine of “Hoover prosperity” and removed the phrase “class struggle’ from its platform, is now resorting more and more to the use of “Left” demagogy and socialist ‘phraseology in ‘order to fool the radicalized workers. It supports the American Federation of Labor in its strike- breaking policy, and the leaders of the trade unions under the S. P. control are daily carrying through a strike-breaking policy (A. C. W., I. L. G. W. U., etc.). It carries on sham propaganda for social insurance in order to keep the workers away from the widespread mass struggles, which alone can win social insurance. It : upports the measures and proposals of the national and local governments against the unemployed and in Read- ing and Milwaukee, which are under Socialist ad- ministrations, the same policy is being carried out, as in cities which are controlled by the Re- publican and Democratic parties. Under the cov- er of phrases about “nationalization of the mines,” they carry on the policy of the mine operators, the government and the Lewis machine for the rationalization of the mines and to lower the standard of living of the miners, and to hold back the miners from struggle under the Jead- ership of the National Miners Union. Under the banner of pacifism they are trying to keep the masses from fighting against war, and support the war policy of the Hoover government, League of Nations, disarmament swindle, war debts, Laval visit, etc. The Socialist party is the bitter enemy of the Soviet Union, it is attempting to undermine the increasing sympathy of the workers for the | Soviet Union by presenting the American bour- geois dictatorship as a real democracy in contrast j \