The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1934, Page 6

| } | | A Workers Government, A ——- RTOS Say saptaee ees ee i DAILY WORKER Unemployment, (Continued from Page 1) year. A during this large proportion of this has been taken directly out ostensibly appropriated for public works. Hunt ‘ lions are being t on military train- ing in the so-called Civil Conservation C run by the War Department. The policies of the government in Washington have one purpose, to make the workers and farmers and middle classes pay the costs of the crisis, to preserve the profits of the big capitalists at all costs, to establish Fascism at home and to wage imperialist war abroad. A. F. of L. and Socialist Party Leaders Support Roosevelt How can the workers and farmers fi against these policies which are driving them into starvation? The leaders of the A. F. of L. have openly identified themselves with the policies of the Roosevelt: administration. To the extent that these leaders con- trol the trade unions, they prevent or demo! ze the struggles of the workers and deliver them helpless into the hands of the capitalists. The Socialist Party supports the A. F. of L. leaders and endorses and actively supports every particular policy of the New Deal: inflation, N. R. A, A. A. A, P. W. A. C. W. A, ©. C. C., Wagner Bill, etc., hailing these fascist and war measures as “steps toward Socialism.” Ht is clear that the work and farmers cannot fight back the capitalist attacks unless they break away from the policies of the A. F. of L. and Socialist Party leaders. As against the united front which these leaders have set up with the capitalist government, the toiling masses must establish their own working- class united front from below, against the capitalist class and the Roosevelt administration. Only the Communist Party Fights for the Workers Only the Communist Party has consistently organized and led the resistance to the capitalist attacks. The enemies of the Communist Party try to scare away the workers and farmers from this struggle by shouting that the Communist Party is in- terested only in revolution, that it is not sincerely trying to pro- tect the living standards of the masses. They do this in order to hide the fact that they, one and all, pursue the single policy to save the profits of the capitalists no matter what it may cost in degrading the living standards of the masses. The Communist Party declares that wages must be main- tained no matter what is the consequence to capitalist. profits. The Communist Party declares that unemployment in- surance must be provided at the expense of capitalist profits. The Communist Party declares that the masses-of workers and farmers must not only fight against reduction in their liy- ing standards, but must win constantly increasing living standards at the expense of capitalist profits. The Communist Party declares, if the continuation of capital- ism requires that profits be protected at the price of starvation, fascism and war, for the masses of the people, then the quicker capitalism is destroyed, the better. Only Unemployment Insurance Bill Is That of the Communist Party It is no accident that the only serious project for unemploy- ment insurance that has come before the Congress of the United States is the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, which was worked out and popularized among the masses by the Communist Party. Only the Communist Party has made a real fight for unemployment insurance and by this fight finally forced before the Congress the first and only bill to provide real unem- ployment insurance. It is no accident that\the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill is being bitterly fought not only by the Republican and Demo- cratic Parties, but also by the American Federation of Labor and Socialist Party leaders, as well as by little groups of their satellites, Musteites, Trotskyites, and Lovestoneites. ¥% is no accident that whenever a big strike movement breaks out, the capitalist press shrieks that it is due to Com- munist influence, and the A. F. of L. and Socialist Party leaders wail that the masses have gotten beyond their control. To Win Demands, Must Attack Capitalist Profits Ht is true that all struggles for daily bread, for milk for children, against evictions, for unemployment relief and in- surance, for wage increases, for the right to organize and strike, ete., are directly connected up with the question of revolution, Those who are against the revolution, who want to maintain the capitalist system, are prepared to sacrifice these struggles of the workers in order to help the capitalists preserve their profits. Only those can courageously lead and stubbornly organ- ise the fight for the immediate interests of the toiling masses, who know that these things must be won even though it means the destruction of capitalist profits, ana who draw the necessary conclusion that the workers and farmers must consciously prepare te overthrow capitalism. ‘Fhe crisis cannot be solved for the toiling masses until the rule of Wall Street has been broken and the rule of the working class has been established. The only way out of the crisis for the toiling masses is the revolutionary wey out—the abolition of capi- talist rule and capitalism, the establishment of the Socialist society through the power of a revolutionary workers’ government, a Soviet government. Example of the Revolutionary Way Out The program of the revolutionary solution of the crisis is no blind experiment. The working class is already in power in the biggest country in the world, and it has already proved the great superiority of the Socialist system. While the crisis has engulfed. the capitalist countries—at the same time in the Soviet Union, where the workers rule through their Soviet power, a new Social- ist society is being victoriously built. The Russian working class, from its own resources and its Socialist system, restored the national economy which had been Shattered by six years of imperialist war and intervention, It overcame the age-long backwardness of Russia and brought its industrial production to the first place in Europe, to more than three times the pre-war figure. It rooted out the last breeding ground of capitalism by the successful inclusion of agriculture in the Socialist economy. It liberated the formerly oppressed na- tionalities and brought them into the Socialist system. It com- . Pletely abolished unemployment and tremendously raised the material well-being and cultural standards of the toiling masses, Upon the basis of its Socialist system, the Soviet Union has be- come the most powerful influence for peace in an otherwise war-mad world. Its victories are an unending source of inspiration and en- couragement to the toiling masses of every country. They are the living example of the possibility of finding a way out of the crisis in the interest of the toilers. The experience of the vic- torious workers of the Soviet Union before, during and after the seizure of power, threw a brilliant light showing the path which must be followed in every land, the path of Bolshevism, of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. The Workers Took the Wrong Path in Germany and Austria Jn the same period of successful testing of the Bolshevik road in the Soviet Union, we have also the example of the results of the policies of the Socialist Parties of the Second International. ‘The Socialist Parties stood at the head of the majority of the working class in Germany and Austria. The revolutionary up- hervals of 1918 in these countries placed power in the hands of anemone ee iran Poverty, Build Socialist the Socialist Parties road, and boasted of democratic,” “gradua t together wi ing the shattered capitalist system. To this end they ution in 1918. ey followed the government of Bruening w polic workers, disarmed ni | Field Marshal Von Hinder famy by voting in the R the way for Fascism Dollfuss Fascist gover trian workers. Their “civilized” methods opened wide the gates for the most barbarous regime in the modern history of Europe. Their “peaceful” methods gave birth to the most bloody and violent Their “democracy” and open capitalist dictatorship. Their “gradual transition to reactions. Socialism” helped to restore capital, the master of Fascism. The German and. Austrian working class, after sixteen years of bitter and bloody lessons of the true meaning of the t as when Dollfuss turned his cannons a oviet America, Would Open All Factories, End 1 the basis of restor hed of ‘th vil,” supported the | ency decrees against the led the workers to vote for | finally crowned their in- r after having paved | ria they supported the "at the moment homes of the Aus- brought forth the most brutal the uncontrolled rule of finance policies of the Socialist Parties, n, 8th Convention Manifesto Proclaims of the Second International, have now finally begun to turn away from them and at last to take the Bolshevik path. U. S. A. Is Ripe for Socialism In every material respect, the United States is fully ripe for Socialism. Its accumulated wealth and productive forces, together with an inexhaustible supply of almost all of the raw materials, provide a complete material basis for Socialism. All material conditions exist for a society which could at once provide every necessity of life and even a degree of luxury, for the entire popu- lation wth an expenditure of labor of three or four hours per day. This tremendous wealth, these gigantic productive forces are locked away from the masses who could use them. They are the private property of the small parasitic capitalist class, which locks up the warehouses and closes the factories in order to compel a growing tribute of profit. This paralysis of economy in the in- terest of profit, at the cost of starvation and degradation to mil- lions, is enforced by the capitalist government with all its police, courts, jails and military. There is no possible way out of the crisis in the interest of the masses except by breaking the control of the State power now in the hands of this small monopolist capitalist class. There is no way out except by establishing a new government of the Forward to Victory Under the Banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin! By Burck out these conditions be able to apply it. swamp. Our Party Engels and Lenin. “Only Our Party Knows Where to Steer, For It Represents Interests of Working Class”--Stalin “We Achieved Success Because We Had Correct Guiding Line of the Party, and Because We Were Able to Organize the Masses to Apply the Line,” Stalin Declares, Analysing Bolshevik Methods Ryd. “We achieved successes because we had the correct guiding line of the Party, and because we were able to organize the masses for the pur- pose of applying this line. Needless to say, with- we would not have achieved the successes we have achieved, and of which we are quite justly proud. But it is a very rare thing for ruling parties to have a correct line and to Look at the countries which surround us: are there many ruling parties there that have a correct line and are able to apply it? Strictly speaking, there are no longer any such parties in the world, because they are all living without prospects, are entangled in the chaos of crises, and see no road to'lead them out of the alone knows where to steer the ship of the State and it is leading it forward successfully. What is our Party’s advantage due to? It is due to the fact that it is a Marxian Party, a Leninist Party. It is due to the fact that it is guided in its work by the tenets of Marx, There cannot be any doubt STALIN that, as long as we remain true to these tenets, as long as we have this compass, we shall achieve successes in our work. It is said that in the West, in some countries, Marxism has already been destroyed. It is said that it was destroyed by a bourgeois-nationalist trend known as fascism. That is nonsense, of course. Only those who are ignorant of history can talk like that. Marxism is the scientific ex- pression of the fundamental interests of the working class. In order to destroy Marxism the working class must be destroyed. And it is im- possible to destroy the working class. More than eighty years have passed since Marxism stepped into the arena. During this time scores and hun- dreds of bourgeois governments have tried to destroy Marxism. And what happened? Bour- geois governments have come and gone, but Marx- ism remained.” —From Comrade Stalin’s speech at the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. | | workers in alliance with the poor farmers, the Negro people, and the impoverished middle classes. There is no way out except by the creation of a revolutionary democracy of the toilers, which is at the same time a stern dic- tatorship against the capitalists and their ager There is no way out except by seizing from the capitalists the industries, the banks and ali of the economic institutions, and trai ming them into the common property of all under the direction of the revo- lutionary government. There is no way out, in short, except by the abolition of the capitalist system and the lishment of a Socialist society. What Is ‘Americanism’? The necessary first step for the esta hment of Socialism i the setting up of a revolutionary workers’ government. The capitalists and their agents shriek out that this revolutionary program is un-American. But this expre: not the truth but only their own greedy interests. Today, the only party that carrieg forward the revolutionary traditions of 1776 and 1861, under the present day conditions and relationship of classes, is the Com- munist Party. Today, only the Communist Party finds it polit- ically expedient and necessary to remind the American working masses of how, in a previous crisis, the way out was found by the path of revolution. Today, only the Communist Party brings sharply forward and applies to the problems of today that old basic document of “Americanism,” the Declaration of Indepen- dence. Applying the Declaration of Independence to present day con< ditions, the Communist Party points out that never was there such a mass of people so completely deprived of all semblance of “the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.” Never was there such “destructive” effects upon these rights by “any form of government,” as that exerted today by the existing form of government in the United States. Never have the exploited masses suffered such a “long train of abuses” or been so “reduced under absolute despotism” as today under capitalist rule. The “principle” which must provide the foundation of the “new gov- ernment” mentioned in the Declaration of Independence is, in 1934, the principle of the dictatorship of the proletariat; the new form is the form of the workers’ and farmers’ councils —the Soviet power. The “new guards for their future security,” which the workers must establish, are the installing of the working class in every position of power, and the dissolution of every insti- tution of capitalist class rule. What a Workers’ Government Would Do The first acts of such a revolutionary workers’ government would be to open up the warehouses and distribute among all the working people the enormous unused surplus stores of food and clothing. It would open up the tremendous accumulation of unused buildings now withheld for private profit for the benefit of tens of millions who now wander homeless in the streets or crouch in cellars or slums. Such a government would immediately provide an endless flow of commodities to replace the stores thus used up by open- ing up all the factories, mills and mines, and giving every per- son a job at constantly increasing wages. All former claims to ownership of the means of production, including stocks, bonds, etc., would be relegated to the museum with special provisions only to protect small savifigs. No public funds would be paid out to anyone except for services rendered to the community. Such a government, would immediately begin to reorganize the present anarchic system of production along Socialist lines. It would eliminate the untold waste of capitalism; it would bring to full use the tremendous achievements of science, which have been pushed aside by the capitalist rules from consideration of private profit. Such a Socialist reorganization of industry would almost immediately double the existing productive forces of the country. Such a revolutionary government would secure the farmers the possession of their land and provide them with the necessary means for a comfortable living; it would make it pos- sible for the farming population to unite their forces in a co- operative socialist agriculture, and thus bring to the farming Population all of the advantages of modern civilization, and would multiply manifold the productive capacities of American agricul- ture. It would proceed at once to the complete liberation of the Negro people from all oppression, and would secure to them un- conditional economic, political and social equality. With the establishment of a Socialist system in America, there will be such a flood of wealth available for the country as can hardly be imagined. Productive labor instead of being a burden will become a desirable privilege for every citizen of the new society. The wealth of such a society will immediately be- come so great that without any special burdens, tremendous sur- pluses will be available which can be used as free gifts to the economically more backward nations, in the first place, to those which have suffered from the imperialist exploitation of Amer- ican capitalism, Cuba, Latin America, Philippines, China, to en- able these peoples also to build a Socialist society in the shortest possible time. Fight for Bread Is a Fight Against Capitalism The capitalist way out of the crisis lies along the way of wage cuts, speed-up, denial of unemployment insurance, fascism and war. The revolutionary way out of the crisis begins with the fight for unemployment insurance, against wage cuts, for wage increase, for relief to the farmers—through demonstrations, strikes, general strikes, leading up to the seizure of power, to the destruction of capitalism by a revolutionary workers’ government. The Communist Party calls upon the workers, farmers and impoverished middle classes to unite their forces to struggle un- compromisingly against every reduction of their living standards, against every backward step ww being forced upon them by the capitalist crisis, against the growing menace of fascism and war. The Communist Party leads and organizes this struggle, leading toward the only final solution—the establishment of a workers’ government. The establishment of a Socialist society in the United States will be at the same time a death blow to the whole world sys- tem of imperialist oppression and exploitation. It will mark the end of world capitalism. It will be the decisive step towards a classless society throughout the world, towards World Commu- nism! ae 6 2,000 Workers Attend Opening Mass Meet In Coliseum By DAN DAVIS (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, April 2.—Militant ex- periences of coal, steel, railroad and stock yards’ workers were welded into mighty revolutionary tasks when Communsts delegates from these industries met in the District Communist Party’s ninth Conven- tion here Saturday and Sunday. The revolutionary spirit of the many young workers, several of whom had recently joined the Party after bitter experiences under the misleadership of the Progressive Miners of America in Southern Ili- nois, permeated the convention. The mass meeting of 2,000 Chicago workers who greeted the delegates Sunday night in the North Hall of the Coliseum also reflected the de- termined mien of the delegates. Native-Born Delegates The convention based itself on the Thirteenth Plenum Resolution 4 : Chicago CP. Convent Closes After Setting Basic Tasks in Shops, Mines of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, which set the task of winning the majority of the proletariat, building a mass Communist Party and Young Com- munist League, and bringing for- ward the perspective of the revolu- tionary way out of the crisis. A predominance of native born work- ers from the basic industries was an outstanding characteristic of the conventions besides many Negro delegates and women. The total number of delegates was 187, with 71 of this number fraternal delegates. Twenty-seven were Negro workers, 28 women, 84 employed and a similar number job- less, and 21 full-time functionaries. Delegates from railroad, mine, metal and stock yards totalled 51. The Young Communist League sent 16 delegates; 15 were in the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and 33 in | the Trade Union Unity League. Hathaway Speaks Clarence Hathaway, member of the Central Committee of the Party and editor of the Daily Worker, in the closing discussion of the con- fore the mass meeting, praised the spirit and composition of the gath- ering. ° Acknowledging the fact that some mistakes are unavoidable, a young miner, with his shirt collar open at the throat and speaking with the fire of healthy hatred against the A. P. misleadership with whom he had but recently parted for the Communist -Party, said: “When we make mistakes let us not make them again, let them be new mis- takes.” Bill Gebert, District Organizer, opened the convention Saturday with a report based on the draft resolution of the District Conven- tion, Besides the concentration indus- tries, major points taken up were Youth, Negro work, Unemployed, and Municipal Problems in Chicago itself. Record Mine Gains Three hundred miners were re- corded as members of the Commu- nist Party in Southern Illinois since recent months, Communist mem- vention Sunday afternoon, just be- bers of women’s mine auxiliaries spoke and indicated gains against the Muste leadership, “Today, as a result of our correct orientation, Mr. Allard and Mrs. Weik (who runs Muste’s paper ‘Fighting Miner’-—Ed.) have gone back to printing their 30-page paper on a mimeograph,” stated one miner. Later Hathaway pointed out that though Social Fascist leaders have been discredited and driven from the field, there must be no let-up in exposing them to the workers, otherwise, he said, “An opening is left for them to return and again mislead the workers.” Steel worker delegates tofd of the regular appearance of the “Gary Steel Worker,” shop unit organ, in the Illinois Steel plant and their widespread influence of the workers. Hathaway in Masterful Address Hathaway's address to the conven- tion was a masterful analysis of the present deepening crisis, and of war, fascism and social fascism. Speaking for an hour and a half, he also outlined revolutionary trade union work. He stressed the equal importance of the work of Com- munism in oppositioa grouas in the A. F. of L. and of those bua! Hathaway and Gebert the revolutionary trade unions amongst the unorganized. Of recent manifestations of white chauvinism he said: “White chau- vinism and nationalism, brought into the Party umavoidably by the influx of new members, must be mercilessly uprooted inside the Party first.” A Communist leader vf the Mc- Cormick workers reported that since the Party started organization in the plant, especially with the pub- lication by the shop units of the “Harvester Torch,” the workers have won three wage increases totalling 21 per cent. While gains were noted in packing houses and railroad work, delegates pointed out serious shortcomings which the convention set itself to overcome. “There were no Communists in our local two years ago,” said a delegate from an A. F, of L. union, “but today I can come to you as the speaker for the majority of the workers of the local. They have been won by the Communists for the class struggle.” A Negro steel worker of Gary challenged the mining section to Socialist competition in gaining new Speak; Delegates. Total 187 lenge was accepted. Jack Kling and Murray Fine. Party was read. war prisoners. fund for the Communist fi X nN members for the Party. The chai- John Lawson, organizational sec- retary of the district, stressed the need for consoiidation and organiz- ing the gains recorded by the dele- gates, McDonald, Negro section ore ganizer in Chicago and recently res turned from the Soviet Union, re+ ported on the Y¥.C.L. to the conven- tion. Other youth speakers included. At the mass meeting Sunday night, speakers besides Hathaway included N, F. Gillette of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and Beatrice Shields of the Communist Party. Claude Lightfoot was chairs man. A manifesto to the workers of Chicago from the Communist A resolution was sent to the German Embassy in Washington demanding the release of Thaelmann, Torgler, and all class ‘The workers con- triouted $134.21 toward a fighting Party.