DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, .TUNE 5, 1929 Page Three Manifesto of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. A.

existing unions, tion of this from the general crisis of world capitalism; 2) methods of intrigues clearly bearing the imprint of petty bourgeois the new unions and to increase the work in the in TO ALL PARTY ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTY UNITS! crisis and the RILU, in Underestimation of the swing to the Left of the masses; 3) Underes- politiciandom.” the application of the strike policy strategy of campaign against effects of capitalist ra- TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE C. P. OF THE U. S. A.! timation of the struggle against social reformism; 4) Underestima- opening up a broad the for unemployment social insurance, tion of the struggle against the Right danger—in fact, tended tc The Address and the Immediate Tasks. tionalization and insurance and TO ALL REVOLUTIONARY OF THE U. S.! struggling shorter workday, the creating of new shop WORKERS permeate th i Party in every phase of its work. in for the The Address of the Communist International to the membership shop papers, in recruiting new cadres of workers, es- The address of the Executive of nuclei and Committee the Communist In- This theory inevitably led to impeding the responsiveness of the of the American Party was arrived at after a thorough-going discus- pecially the industrial youth, the widening of the agitation and organ- by ternational followed the unanimous endorsement of the Political Party to the growing mood of the masses for struggle, to blurring sion by the n.ost authoritative leaders of the Communist International izational work in the big plants in the main branches of industry and Bureau and the enthusiastic response of the broad of strata the Party the revolutionary perspective of the Party, seeing in the struggles together with a large and representative delegation from the Party among the Negroes. membership opens up a new period in the life of the Party and marks of the masses isolated events rather than a general trend of the American question was due convention. The treatment accorded the In the direction of giving immediate attention towards the de- an important stage in the Bolshevization of the Communist Party masses to the Left. Such a theoiy would have the effect of causing not only of immediate conditions existing within to the seriousness the velopment of broad demonstrations on International Red Day, of the United States of America. The address of the Communist the Party to lag behind the masses and thus deprive the Party of its Party, but by the need for the application of the line of the mass the also August Ist, Party intensify manifold its activity in the International puts an end to all factionalism that has been poisoning leading role of the mass struggles and doom them to isolation and Sixth Congress States of the must World in the United America. Anniversary of the Party for years, sapping its influence amongst the militant work- defeat instead of broadening, deepening, and giving revolutionary struggle against the war danger. The Tenth the ers and undermining the revolutionary authority of its leadership. content to these struggles. The Address of the Communist International is a powerful wea- Party, September Ist, must be utilized for a campaign to be begun pon for the Bolshevization of our Party. It is a decisive measure to immediately for the building of the Party, for the raising of the membership responded The readiness with which the Party has The events in the United States since the Sixth World Congr'ess correct the deviations of the Party away from the line of the Sixth ideological level of the Party, for sharpening the struggle against already very to the address, shows that the Comintern understood have more and more proven the correctness of the decisions of the Congress enumerated in the Open Letter. Reformism and for increasing the influence of the Party among the clearly conditions and of the Party and has provided a firm and growth of the new problems Sixth World Congress. The establishment masses. Intensive efforts must be made to make the coming confer- upon Party can overcome difficulties unions, growing of The heart of the Address is contained in the sweeping condemna- basis which the its and trans- revolutionary the response to the idea the creation ence of the TUEL a great service in the direction of building a new possible propaganda organiza- co-ordinating tion of the factional struggle that was threatening to destroy the form itself in the shortest time from a of a new trade union center the new unions with the trade union center. tion into a mass Communist Party; and further demonstrates that Left wing in the existing unions, the entrance of new masses into [ Communist Party as a mass revolutionary organization of the Amer- part | ican W'orking class. The factional struggle which has been going on the Communist Party of the U. S. A. is an integral of the Com- struggle with unparalleled militancy and vigor (New Bedford, Eliza- The Fight Against AH Opposition to the C. I. munist International. bethton. Gastonia, shoe, food workers), resistance to wage cuts among in the present unhampered form for the past six years, has not only miners, number sporadic strikes, the street been serious because factionalism has placed the interests of the fac- Do the enemies of the working class and of our Party, the the the growth in the of The Party will fight mercilessly against all opposition to the May Day, of the election vote in a tions above those of Party, class and the international working class renegades and social democratic lackeys, jeer at the severe criticisms demonstrations on the increase Address, no matter from what quarter it comes, no matter what form local elections, on the one hand; and the other hand movement led by the Comintern, but because its unprincipled char- by the Communist International of our errors? We answer that the number of on it takes, whether openly rejecting the decisions or covertly sabotaging cunning maneuvers of to deceive the masses acter has led to the real danger of “the political disintegration of the Communist Party, the Party of Lenin this country, is a section of the the reformists them under a cloak of formal loyalty. in (Muste movement), the ever closer collaboration of the reformists leading cadres of the Party, endangering the entire work of the » the World Party, the Communist International, the leader of the emphatically with the employers and the state (A. F. of L. Executive Council and Party organization.” The Central Committee condemns the course fol- struggles of the revolutionary proletariat of the entire world: that lowed by some of the delegates in Moscow, led by Comrades Love- West Point, Green and the launching of the Pensacola; the A. F. of polluted Party organization we are proud of the fact that in the solution of our difficultproblems Factionalism has the entire and its Wolfe, they L. treachery in the textile strikes in the South) confirm the correct- stone, Gitlow and when openly declared to the Presidium we have the assistance of the best representatives of the revolu- poison has seeped into the lowest ranks of the Party. It has stifled of the Comintern that “unable to accept this letter, to ness of the line of "the Sixth World Congress for the United States they were tionary proletariat of every country in our common struggle against healthy Communist thought and has hindered the revolutionary edu- assume responsibility before the Party membership for the execution as well as Europe. world imperialism. Unlike the hypocritical reformists and opportun- cation of the masses of the Party membership. It has been the worst • of this Letter (the Address), to inevitble irreparable Factionalism diverted the energies of indorse the ists, the Party of Lenin does not stifle differences nor conceal its breeder of opportunism. has damage that the line of this Letter (the Address) is bound to bring Weakening the Struggle Against the proletarian against errors from the toiling masses, but takes up the criticism of the Com- Obscuring and the Party from the conflict of class class to a to our Party”—or when they stated that the Address would “pro- devastating group against group. intern in the spirit of Lenin’s teachings: “That the attitude of a Right Danger. internecine warfare of mote demoralization, disintegration, and chaos in the Party.” political party towards its own mistakes is one of the surest tests of (Majority Declaration of May 14.) its seriousness and of its ability to fulfillits duties towards its class The struggle against the Right danger as the main danger For Bolshevization Against the Right Danger. and towards the laboring masses.” Through frank and merciless criti- threatening our Party was from the very outset weakened by con- The membership of our Party will agree with the Executive Com- cism the fighting capacities of the revolutionary Party are strength- fusing the struggle against the Right danger with the struggle The decisions of the Comintern for the American Party are the mittee of the Communist International “that only opportunists want fight against ened and the Party is enabled to fulfill its revolutionary duties to against Trotskyism on the part of the Majority, while the devia- result of the general process of Bolshevization of the various sections to the Communist International.” Those that undertake the proletariat. tions from the line of the Sixth Conress were also strengthened by which is taking place through the resolute actions of the Executive to fight the decisions of the Comintern (as Comrade Gitlow defiantly the fact that the Minority did not carry on a proper struggle against Committee of the Communist International. Everywhere the Com- asserted he would do saying that he would “openly and actively Minority oppose” carrying Address) can only go along course The General Line of the Sixth World Congress. Trotskyism. Aside from this, both the Majority and the munist International is adopting firm measures for realizing the de- the out of the the underestimated the danger from the Right and in practice reduced cisions of the Sixth World Congress, in Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, already traversed by the opportunists of Germany and Czechoslovakia The struggle and their predecessors long joined in common cause The Sixth World Congress registered the fact that capitalism has it to a struggle against serious yet isolated deviations. Poland. Contrary to the allegations of the Rights, that the Commu- who have since full energies of the “degenerating,” with the social democracy, a path leading out of the Communist Inter- entered into a new phase of the general world crisis—the third post- did not assume the form of a concentration of the nist International is the Party notes with satisfac- threatening national. Such a course is the interests of the working class, war period—a period in which, while capitalist economy is exceeding Party for a complete realization of the actual danger tion that the line of the Sixth World Congress and its application by against in the present period. The against policy and line of the Communist Party of the United the pre-war level, there is observed the accentuation of the internal the Communist Party from the Right the Executive of the Comintern is resulting in an increase of the the Party itself not only in might antagonisms, in capitalist countries (the swing of the masses of the Right danger in the American manifested vitality and fighting spirit of the sections of our World Party. Not States of America. The membership will resist with all its also in the form of un- any splitting working class to the left, the growing acuteness of the class struggle), the opportunistic errors of both groups but the Communis.t International has been degenerating, but the oppor- tactics, will crush those who employ them. They will greatest barrier in quick collapse. and the wide development of colonial movements, the inevitability of principled factionalism, which in its turn, was the tunistic elements which ere unable to adapt themselves to the revo- soon learn that all such efforts are doomed to Right danger. The unprincipled factional the use of a fresh series of imperialist wars, and the imminence of the struggle against the lutionary requirements of the Third Period are sinking into the Nor will the Party be tricked by any concealed opposition. Such concealing Right errors of the followers of gigantic class The Sixth World Congress emphasized as the struggle resulted in the of morass of social democracy and .are degenerating into renegades and hidden opposition up profession battles. struggle against the Right danger which covers under a of acceptance main tasks of the Communist Parties in this period: the intensifica- each of the groups and converted the splitters. its real solidarity with the Lovestone-Gitlow entente is particularly reformism; the a weapon for factional advantage of one or the other group. tion of the struggle against social the establishment of into The Central Committee therefore endorses the emphatic condem- dangerous, and wherever it appears it must be analyzed, exposed and which could be ac- independent role of the Party in the struggles In the pre-convention discussion, instead of correcting the errors- nation of the attacks made by Comrade Lovestone on the leadership destroys 1. The membership must not show the slightest toleration full forces of the Party engaged in complished only by the concentration of the of -the Party, both the Majority and thre Minority were of the Comintern by his reference to a “running sore” in the apparatus to any efforts of organized resistance, to any concealed or diplomatic danger against any con- against the Right danger as the main and the bitterest factionalism and unprincipled speculation. No serious of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. These play with the decision of the Comintern. Those who block the execu- Right, the purification of the Party of the Party ciliatory attitude towards the attempts were made on the part of either group to unite attacks of Comrade Lovestone represent a repetition of the slander- tion of the decision, those that throw doubts upon its validity, those influences, the establishment of firm prole- World Con- all social-democratic on a common thesis following the correct line of the Sixth ous attacks upon the Comintern made by the international Right. that discredit the Communist International and its Address, stand in tarian discipline, the elimination of factional strife, the establish- repudiates the way of the liquidation of the factional struggle and of the de- internal democracy, the gress. The Central Committee likewise the declaration of the ment of the freest self-criticism and broad Majority of the delegation made by Comrade in Moscow which velopment of our Party. The membership must exert its utmost, ties of the sections of the Gitlow strengthening of the International various The Convention and the Open Letter. objectively upholds of Right on leader- must not hesitate to employ the necessary measures against anyone Bolshevization of the various the attacks the elements the Communist International —in short the ship Party Soviet who attempts to revive the factional practices of the past, the forma- in the quickest possible time. the of the Comintern and of the Communist of the sections of the Communist International As a result of the conditions existing in the Party before tion of caucuses, the spreading of factional rumors and slanders and of Union. In applying its general line to the American Party, the Sixth Convention, the E. C. C. 1., after having estimated some the errors the whole system of faction struggle. Faithfully carrying out the December, 1928, Open Letter World Congress of the Communist International, while recognizing of the Party in its Letter of sent the The Campaign of Enlightenment. Address, the Communist Party of the U. S. A. will become one of the Open Letter had for its certain definite achievements of our party, sharply criticized the to the Sixth Convention of our Party. The best sections of the Communist International. a slackening of the of the line of the Party, the establishment of The Address indicates the need for a campaign to be opened now Right errors of the Party, and while observing purpose the correction For the unconditional acceptance and carrying out the Address as of Party for a real struggle our Party to carry seriously the line of the decisions of the of long standing factional struggle, placed sharply before the Party the strong basis for a consolidation the in out of forces of Party of Open our Party Convention the Communist International—weapon of Bolshevization and uni- “the important task the liquidation of the factional strife which against the Right danger, and the direction of the the Sixth World Congress, the Letter to most of calls fication of the Party. not based on any serious controversy of principle.” toward the immediate practical tasks leading to an acceleration and of the Address itself. The Central Committee therefore is begin the process of the development of the Party into a mass Bolshevik upon all units to begin this campaign, to meet forthwith and to The sharpest fight against all attempts to split the Party; The Line of the Party After the Sixth World Congress. Party of the American Proletariat. to put into effect the practical taeks before us. By open and unspar- against every opposition, open or concealed, to the Address of the ing criticism, the old errors of Majority and Minority must be ex- Comintern! errors in the criticism of posed and condemned, especially in the Party’s practical work, of While correcting certain enumerated The Actions of the Convention. Fight against the Right danger and against one of its worst Party, or- of Party has its own unsavory experiences. the Sixth World Congress (attitude toward the Socialist which each unit the manifestations in the American Party—unprincipled factionalism. failed to apply the de- which consisted of the Ijest proletarian elements ganization of the unorganized, etc.), the Party The Convention, By means this self-criticism the understanding of the Ad- There was uphold Comintern, failed to accom- of For self-criticism, for inner-party democracy, for strengthened cisions of the Sixth World Congress to the United States. of the Party that the line of the will be deepened throughout, and the whole Party inspired by Right errors, in the pre-conven- was to the unprincipled maneuvers dress discipline—the path to the extermination of factionalism and of not only a recurrence of serious but plish these ends. This failure due the Communist understanding that begins in the basic units amongst Minority was the ele- of the Majority as well as on the part Opportunism in the Party! tion theses of both Majority and there contained on the part of the top leaders proletarian By means, the acceptance and endorse- leading to the implication that Minority. At the Convention, the meaning of j the) elements. this ments of the theory of exceptionalism of the leaders of- the ! Address, wherever it was made upon a basis of formal Forward to the practical work of the Party. World Congress did not apply tc employed as a weapon in the ment of the the fundamental line of the Sixth the Open I.etter was distorted and fac- discipline only, will henceforward be transformed into a true Com- policy speculation was continued, took on im- Forward to a unified Bolshevik mass party of the American Sec- the United States. tion struggle. The of understanding and Leninist grasp of its spirit and contents. (both Majority and Minority carrying on a sort munist tion of the World Communist Party! permissible forms There must be not only self-criticism of past shortcomings, especially Opportunist Theory of Exceptionalism. . stock exchange speculation on the situation in the MAX BEDACHT The of un-Communist in our practical work, to be carried out on the basis of fullest inner P. of Soviet Union), and. factionalism reached the highest point EARL BROWDER of International cor- C. Party democracy and in the light of local and national experience, The Executive Committee the Communist of its development. “The Convention failed to produce the results it J. LOUIS ENGDAHL only the mistakes of the Majority, but but also taking up all the practical tasks that lie in the forefront of rectly points out that “not should have produced in regard to the Bolshevization, in the estab- also the most important mistakes of the Minority were based on the American Communist our Party work. WM. Z. FOSTER found of a healthier condition within the conception of American exceptionalism” and that this theory lishment mobilized for the struggle against the This self-criticism campaign combined with practical work brings JOHN HARVEY . was Party. . . The Party not expression persons of Comrades Pepper and Love; its clearest in the Right danger.” The Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- forward the need of ridding the Party of all barriers to its work, E. HOFBAUER of the International stone.” The Executive Committee Communist through categoric and precise characterization ridding it of the remnants of past factionalism or of any opposition KRI’TIS factions of the American national. its detailed J. furthermore correctly points out that “both occurring Convention, to which we call the special "to the line of the Comintern. The self-criticism and the work must Right and that both fac- of the events at the ROBERT MINOR Communist Party have been guilty of errors membership, has shown the serious effects of be combined with the growth of a real Communist discipline, which general line of attention of the Party • show serious deviations to the Right from the Party. weakened and sapped by six years of factionalism. Not HENRY PURO tions of exceptional- the long-standing factional struggle within our has been the Comintern, the root of which has been the theory only must discipline be built up but new working class elements must FRANK VRATARNJ Right at Convention, acme of ism, which creates the danger of an openly opportunist devia- The events occurring the the factionalism be brought into the work—not in order to supplant the existing lead- severity of the judgment of the WM. W. WEINSTONE tion crystallizing within the Party.” reached, the speeulat’on, justified the ership but to strengthen it in every committee by just those non- by the Communist International. Not only did the Con- reviving theory exceptionalism (itself a theory injected into the Convention factional proletarian elements whose presence will help in FOR THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE This of to carry out its tasks enumerated above, but, through under the pressure of the bourgeoisie and vention fail true Party life and activity. working class movement ' Majority in the incor- the unprincipled maneuvers for which the top leaders of the COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U. S. A., by the propaganda of the reformists) manifested itself activity Party resumption and intensifica- 1) Under- bear chief responsibility it was guilty of methods alien to a Com- The of the lies in the rect estimation of American imperialism and has led to: separa- Party and correctly characterized by the Comintern as “the -1 tion of its every day tasks, in the need to intensify the building of By Unanimous Decision of the Political Committee. estimation of the coming crisis of American imperialism or munist the mobilization of the workers. He arranged jointly by the women’s j / OF THE FINNISH a new open letter to all party members. And all brother parties who reminded the workers of their cour- committee of the union and the CENTRAL’ COMMITTEE have been represented in the Executive Committee have unanimously ageous fight in 1926 and how it was United Council of Workingclass | AMERICAN and unconditionally endorsed this open letter. Only part of the dele- MOO WORKERS IN HOOPER UNION rewarded by a great victory. He Women invites all women workers of | PARTY ASKS MEMBERSHIP gation of the American Communist Party has, with the leadership of concluded by the declaration that the the Industrial Union and all the Comrades Lovcstone and Gitlow, placed themselves in opposition to issuance of the strike call was a wives of needle workers to attend. TO SUPPORT COMINTERN this open letter and its decisions. This part of the delegation has in CALL FOR FUR STRIKE matter of days, and urged the Work- Ben Gold will speak, it is an- defiance of discipline decided not to submit to the decisions of the ENDORSE ers to • help perfect the strike nounced. An attractive musical and j OPEN LETTER World Communist Party’s general staff and not to carry out the re- machinery even before the strike is entertainment is being arranged. quirements of the Open Letter. This in itself proves how correct and furrire, (Continued Page One) Salunen, a Greek served actually called. necessary are the steps taken by the Executive Committee and the from militant Greek fur- and hailed notice that the lasting some decisions included in the Open Letter. struggle of the furriers give splendid service A demonstration Meeting coming unity of all needle trades riers would as minutes greeted the appearance of Waterfront the forthcoming strike as they Brother Prrt.v' in Cable Address Appeals Especially to Finnish Open appeals workers into one great, fighting in- in the Louis Hyman, president of the Despite “The Letter to the membership of the American did in the victorious strike of 1926. Successful brother party asking and demanding dustrial union. Needle Trades Workers Industrial Membership in American Party. that it rally with the leadership applause greet- Brutality of the struggle against unprincipled jk storm of applause greeting C. Another storm of Union. Hyman, while emphasizing Police Comintern for a determined fac- Gold. The tionalism against right danger struggle Henry Rosemond, Negro furrier and ed the speech of Ben in his speech the immediate struggle and the and also for the to Tammany police again fundamentally member of the Joint Board of the workers showed by their enthusiasm of the furriers, also discussed the displayed build the party on a healthier basis. Industrial Union and Klinghaufer, the confidence they have not only in machine of black reaction which is their brutality against workers J The following cable received by the Finnish Bureau of the Com- the workers, but in the when they attempted to break up “This appeal is directed also to the Finnish speaking members representative of the Youth Depart- this leader of being lined against the workers. Party of States sent Trades ur Arneri- munist the United Tuesday morning, by the in the American Communist Party. Those leaders of ment of the needle union. leadership of the Needle In his customary informal, satir- a waterfront meeting of the the American Central Committee of the Finnish Communist Party and addressed Party, who are here the great strike of 1926,” Workers Industrial Union. er, Hyman exposed the i can Negro Labor Congress, held declining to submit themselves to Communist “As in ical man discipline declared, “the Negro Gold reviewed the history of the hollow lies in the yellow “Forward” at noon on South Street, opposite especially to the Finnish membership of the American Communist are still maintaining their unprincipled struggle and right Rosemond mistakes, claiming workers will fight shoulder to struggles of the furriers during the and unmasked the pretensions of the pier 14, a Ward Line pier and next Party: that the majority of the Party is behind them. We do not shoulder with the white workers un- past years, and outlined the repeat- fakers who, ever since the beginning to the imperialist United Fruit Com- believe this to be true of the American Party membership Right “After carefully considering generally especially til victory is won.” ed betrayals of the corrupt of the Left wing movement, have pany dock, in a section where thou-1 the internal situation in the Amer- and we do not believe this to be true as far as the Klinghaufer wing, working hand in hand with the sands of Negro workers slave as ! ican Communist Party, the Executive Committee of the Communist Finnish membership is concerned. For we know that the Finnish pledged the fighting tried to conceal their systematic * International at extremely membership soldiarity of the youth in the strug- A. F. of L. misleaders, the socialist graft, corruption and treachery by longshoremen. has found it this moment bad. An un- of the American Communist Party has always very de- machinery principled factional struggle very seriously develop- terminedly carrying gle, and pointed out that only the party, and the repressive their attacks on the Left wing. The police dragged Solomon Har- is threatening.the assisted in out advice and directives of the Com- ment of the Party as a mass Bolshevik Left wing unions organized the un- of capitalism—the courts, the police, He told of a conversation he had per, of the Negro Labor Congress party and hindering realization intern and is for the bolshevization of the party in spite of certain of a political organized youth. Tremendous ap- and gangsters. with several fur manufacturers re- from the platform and refused to Leninist line. Both of the struggling groups have been waverings amongst them. And we believe that this attitude of the exerting energies plause greeted his declaration that Tells of Fighting Spirit. cently. “They blandly admitted,” allow him to speak. The meeting all of their for the struggle against each other and Finnish speaking Communist comrades is due to the fact that they have opportunistic many "we are not afraid of injunctions; He told of the suffering wrought Hyman related, “that during the was attended by a large audience made serious mistakes. In cases these mis- want to stay in line with our world party and without any opposition lakes have common to we shall treat injunctions as scraps by these betrayals; of the hundreds past year the Joint Council received of Negro dock workers. Previous to roots. Both factions have for example such a maintain Communist discipline. At this movement this question is viewpoint, -which of paper.” of jobless furriers; of the hunger no less than $166,000 from the man- Harper, Harold Williams, of the is against decisions of the Sixth World Congress of before the Finnish speaking membership more directly than ever be- the Communist International, States fore. Describing the mass meeting as aijd suffering of their families; of ufacturers.” This huge sum was Negro Department of the Commun- that the United has some kind of The Executive Committee expects also from the Finnish speak- an “exceptional” position capitalist ing “an historic occasion,” Joseph Bor- the petty tyrannies of the bosses and paid for the simple service of help- ist Party and M. Glassford, circula- in the world. membership an absolute and unconditional realization of the new manager tion manager of the Negro Cham- Open Letter. As a member of the World Party, the Party uchowitz, general of the the foremen. ing the bosses destroy the conditions “Factional struggle in the American Party reached its height in Communist of union, for of for pion, Negro workers’ newspaper, had of Finland and its leadership desires to use its influence on Joint Board the told the Speaking the thousands of the workers, the continuation the last convention of the Party in spite of warnings and demands the Amer- gathering of Negro ican question at this moment, we arc workers that the coming struggle furriers, who during the past few of the company unions of the bosses addressed the given in the Open Letter of the Communist because convinced that this white workers, International. And we Open Letter shows the correct way for overcoming of the furriers would reveal just years have been steeled in strug- and for maintenance of the fight and and had been who have closely followed the sessions of the Executive Committee the crisis in the a fighting indus- fights in the face of de- followed by J. Louis Engdahl, editor American Communist Party. what is meant by gle by their against the Left wing, Hyman where the American question has been considered have become con- forces of the bosses, of the Daily trial union. all the dark clared. Worker. vinced that if the Executive Committee does not now conclusively and Arriving as Gold * * • The speakers told the of “And trusting thru common proletarian struggles at the hall Boruchow- served notice that the workers workers determinedly interfere in order to lead the development of the Amer- have created or- the necessity of a common struggle itz was speaking, Ben Gold, secre- were determined to rebuild their Women’s Battalion Affair. ican brother party away from its present previously unheard of chaotic close tics, we seriously ask and advise you, Finnish Comrades in the tary-treasurer of the Needle Trades ganization. To in the mobilization for the against their low wages and long aid and factional situation, there will be serious danger for the future of American Communist Party: RALLY AROUND THE COMINTERN Industrial Union and leader “This will be a finish fight,” he coming general strike of the fur- hours, led by militant leaders, and Workers the American Party. AS ONE MAN AGAINST WHO TO of the victorious strike of 1926, was declared. “We will hit back and hit riers, the Women’s Battalion will copies of the Daily Worker, Labor THOSE WANT TRAVEL AWAY greyed by a storm of applause back hard at the first guerrilla who hold a social at the office of the Defender, and the Negro Champion “With this in view the Executive Committee decided to take the FROM THE ROAD SHOWN BY THE COMINTERN! Do all in your Which lasted nearly five minutes. dares attack a furrier.” union, 16 W. 21st St., on Friday were given out, and eagerly received . necessary steps in order to create a healthy basis for future immedi- power for immediate carrying out of the Open Letter.—COMMUNIST ' Tha meeting heard a brief talk by Gold urged the intensification of night. Th« affair, which is being by the workers. ate development of the American Party. For thia reason it has sent PARTY OF FINLAND. (Signed) MANNER." ----¦ -I- aw—,