RESIST THE TERROR!1 The workers must rally to the cause of their comrades in Gary, to the cause of their comrades in every city where the steel strike prevails. The defeat of the steel strike would make all the more difficult Try for other strikers. The victory of capitalism and the state in Gary means victory in the days to come. Armed force must not prevail! The workers must conquer! They can conquer by means of solidarity, by means of using their mass power against Capitalism and the state, by rallying in strikes to the cause of their comrades in Gary. Iring pressure to bear upon the state by means of mass strikes. The class struggle is becoming acute. Terror is in action. st the workers. The workers must resist the terror. The process of the proletarian revolution consists in weakening class power of the capitalists as against strengthening the lass power of the workers. Victory for Capitalism and the state Gary means strengthening the class power of the capitalists. Vory for the workers in Gary means strengthening the class er of the proletariat. Workers, act! Out of your mass strikes to aid the Gary rkers will come the impulse and the action for establishing a e of the workers, proletarian dictatorship which will crush ze tapitalists as the capitalist state now crushes the workers. MAGNIFICENT!1 Onasionally man rises to the heights of epic magnificence. The of the occasions was at the Industrial Conference when Fuel Gompers, ill and weak, in trembling, hoarse tones, quently repudiated the insinuation that the American workers were en.bracing Bolshevism." Gompers recalled that three weeks fe Wilson declared war a conference of 136 labor leaders had ⠀tpd to back the government to the limit; that labor loyally trs pledge during the war; that labor had never used the war its own advantage; that union labor was willing to co-operate pital; and that the organized workers, far from contemizrevolution, loved their government and were the most. *te and loyal in the world: "Gompers shook with emotion The Communist, Der. 6, 1919. and his voice quavered as he violently defended the loyalty and patriotism of organized labor." insinuation apologized. It was magnificent! The gentleman making the An aged, ill man defying calumny and compelling an apology, heroically securing a victory for labor in spite of terrible odds. But what Gompers actually said was this: "You can depend upon organized labor; we as its leaders are loyal to capitalism. We are always ready to mobilize the workers as cannon-fodder in your wars. We shall pre vent the workers from becoming radical, from initiating revolutionary measures. You and I are part of the governing system of things; and we shall defend our privileged status. You must cease your attacks upon the labor leaders: your interest and theirs are identical." Gompers condemned labor to industrial slavery, oppression and It was magnificent - for capitalism. wars. BREAK THE BLOCKADE OF SOVIET RUSSIA!1 The first great campaign undertaken by the Communist Party is the struggle to arouse the workers to action against the blockade of Soviet Russia. The central executive committee calls upon all units of the organization to celebrate the beginning of the third year of the existence of the workers' government of Russia by wide-spread agitation against the blockade. It is the work of the Communist Party to furnish the leadership that will lead to action. From November 7th to 9th all branches should arrange mass meetings and adopt resolutions against the blockade. Use your local speakers for this purpose as the nationally known speakers will be used for great mass meetings that will be held in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis and in other cities. Our meetings, however, will be only the minor effort of this campaign. We must reach more people than will attend our mass meetings, be they ever so large. We must speak with a million voices and to millions of people. We can do this through a literature distribution. The national organization has prepared a leaflet, "Break the Blockade of Russia," that will stir the workers of this country to action. We 1 The Communist, Oct. 25, 1919. must distribute this leaflet by the millions during the first week in November. The presses are already running, printing the Ebg edition, and will be kept running unti: every party organan is supplied. Every party unit must act at once. Call a meeting. Decide 2w many leaflets you can distribute in your city and send in yur onier. The leaflets will sell at $1.50 per thousand. Comrades, agitation must come before the work of organization with will make possible the use of the mighty powers of the hers. This is a campaign to stir the workers to come to the ne of our comrades in Russia whom the international financial Fes are seeking to strangle to death. Comunists, ours is a party of action. Let us show by our frtajor campaign that already we have power, we can influence the masses. Let us speak in a million voices in the interests of sür comrades whose shining example has inspired us all. ON WHICH SIDE OF THE BARRICADE ARE YOU?1 BY GEORGE ANDREYTCHINE (Reprinted from "The Industrial Worker") In reprinting the article of Fellow-Worker Andreytchine, also "at of Fellow-Worker Davidson which appeared in "The Com*-nist” last week, the editor takes sharp issue with the characterition of the Communist Party as among the "adversaries" of I. W. W. The opposition voiced in this paper and on the public platform been to the official propaganda which Fellow-Worker Andretchine himself attacks, citing the support of 100 other rs of the I. W. W. whom he has personally interviewed. In so far as there are differences in theoretical understanding en the I. W. W. and Communist Party, these do not reprean opposition of the Communist Party against the I. W. W. The men.bers of the Communist Party are among the most ardent rers of revolutionary industrial unionism of the I. W. W. Indeed, the two articles respectively reprinted show prospect of approach to a single, unified propaganda by e two organizations. The Communist, Dec. 6, 1919. YOU MUST UNITE-WORKINGMEN!1 WORKING MEN, YOU MUST UNITE! YOU MUST STRIKE TOGETHER! The capitalist system is breaking down. Its contradictions are of such a character that it becomes increasingly difficult to make it work. In place of supplying food, clothing and homes to live in for the workers, it is producing misery and hardships. It is the capitalist system which is responsible for the high cost of living. It is the greed of the capitalists that threatens us with the suffering from cold because no coal is being mined. It is capitalism that is responsible for the threatened railroad strike, which may bring hunger and even starvation to the whole country. The capitalist control of industry will result in more and more strikes, more and more struggles of the workers to force from the capitalists the means and opportunity to live happy, healthy lives. These strikes can only succeed if the power of the workers is united. The workers must strike together. The capitalists can beat the strikes of sections of the working class. They are powerless against the united working class. The conservative and reactionary union officials who stand in the way and betray the workers, who block united action must be swept aside. Strike councils with delegates from every industry, whether the workers are organized or unorganized, must be united in a district council and the district councils in a national council. Create your own organs for the struggle against capitalism, workingmen! Send men who work with you and councils. They will represent you. strike with you to the strike They will not betray you. They will unite all the workers locally, in the district, and nationally. Then you you can act together. invincible. ORGANIZE THE STRIKE COUNCIL! Then you are Your power will be greater than that which the capitalists have through their control of the government. You will have your own organs of working-class government. Then you will beat the capitalists; and victory, and good food 1 The Communist, Dec. 6, 1919. thes, good homes, a voice in the management of the shop, 14 opportunity for happy, healthy lives will be yours. UNITE THE STRIKES! THE PARTY ORGANIZATION 1 C. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary, 1219 Blue Island Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Again Comrade Ruthenberg is held away from office by the arts this time on a Criminal Anarchy extradition warrant from New York! Think of the outrageous hounding the New York enters trying to improve on the work of those of Ohio. Also those of Illinois where Comrade Ruthenberg has been openly ged in Communist work, in his office and on the platform, several months. Comrade Ruthenberg was in New York but once in his life; he time of the Left Wing Conference when he made a speech : Madison Square Garden - the same speech, in substance, figured in the recent trial and acquittal in Cleveland. This outrageous persecution of our executive secretary must met by a vigorous response in organization activity, as well mmediate boosting of the defense fund. N individual in the labor movement in the United States has more shamelessly hounded than Comrade Ruthenberg. nrades, show your response in his defense, not only by donan of funds, but even more by effective effort in the building of the party organization and in extending its influence. Long live Communism! TACTICAL PROBLEMS 2 To participate in all elections for all offices of the capitalist e is to rob Communist parliamentary action of its class and lationary significance. A Communist Party must have nothto do with elections for judges and sheriffs, and for the tives of the capitalist state generally. To elect executives to assume responsibility for the capitalist state, and to prepare a repetition of all the evils of the old Socialist parlia Immunist Party, on the contrary, adopted a realistic revolutionary policy. Its program states that nominations · The Communist, Dec. 6, 1919. Communist, Sept. 27, 1919 |