The labor standard., 1919-06-01
FORMATION OF
 LABOR PARTY A GOOD OMEN''

tion, and contended that if this devel-
 opment took place, some cooperation
 should be worked out between the
 labor and Socialist parties along the lines of the British Labor movement
 tion.
 THE LABOR STANDARD quotes from
 these replies the following:
 The Labor Group-Boyle, McNamee, | Hayes
 Among the most important of the
 replies received were those from act from James P. Doyle, John McNamee
 and Max Hayes. James P. Doyle, for merly president of the Brooklyn Cen tral Labor Union, president of the Accountants', Bookkeepers' and Ste nographers' Union, and one of the
 most prominent of the organizers of the American Labor Party of Greater New York, declares that future CO., operation between the two groups will depend primarily on the attitude of the Socialist Party. MT. Boyle is of the opinion that the form of fedora tion does not need to be worked out until the Labor Party has become a national party. He adds:
 | "The Constitution of the American Labor Party of Greater New York has left the door open for a coalition be- tween the Labor Party, the Nonparti- san League and the Socialist Party. If the Socialist Party and the Social ists within the trade unions work toward a coalition of these parties. rather than against the formation of the Labor Party, a coalition seems entirely probable.
 "There is in some of the trade unions regrettable disposition on the part of Socialist members to obstruct the organization of the Labor Party by refusing to enroll and by fighting the proposal that their union enroll as body. This of course will have tendency to prevent federation by tion is intended to- obliterate, and by keeping the Socialist influences in the labor movement from having an act i've and influential part in the forma- tion and building up of the Labor Party.
 "The Nonpartisan League is friend ly to federation. The Labor Party has left the door open for it. So, believe, that a complete and work able federation depends largely upon the attitude of the Socialist Party"
 Nearing Analyzes Labor Groups
 Scott Nearing feels that the Labor Party has distinct mission to per form, but that, nevertheless, the So- cialist Party, with it's internationalist principles, should remain intact as a revolutionary party performing vital educational work until the revolution arrives.
 "The American labor movement" he asserts, contains at least five dis hnct groups, therefore, it will have at least five distinct phases.
 ,t''1. The owning farmers and the more prosperous renters will be rep resented in some organization like the Nonpartisan League which will direct it's attention to local cooperation and to the protection of it's members against aggression by railroads, pack ing houses and other great business interests. These farmers will be class conscious as against the big corporations, but they will have an owning-class psychology.
 ~zEs2. The American trade union movement will gradually transform it. ment. Its backbone will be the highly skilled workers. It's policy will look toward control of the job. This move ment will become class-conscious.
 "3. The rank and file of the trade union movement, including men and women who for years have accepted the theory that the business of the trade union is not to go into politics, will constitute the backbone of labor party. They will devote their atten- tion primarily to immediate demands that look. to the socialization of local and national industries. This group will be class-conscious.
 A. A minority of wage-earners, a small number of farmers, and fringe of representative of the professional political party, the object of which is Socialism. The majority of wage earners will never belong to this party until the revolution actually arrives. It will be primarily educational in function, and will devote it's energies mainly to preserving the ideals and advancing the standard of the inter national labor movement.
 ~5. The migratory workers, the lower grades of farm laborers, and some of the worst exploited of the factory workers are propertyless, homeless, family-less and vote-less. They will form some movement like the I. w. w., which scorns political action and insists on the direct expro- priation of industry.
 "For a member of conservative trade union to step outside of his union into an organization like the Labor Party, which aims to include all of the working people in the country, is an immense gain for him and for the labor movement. The Labor Party, when it is organized on na- tional basis, will fill his need and will thus assist in breaking down the lines between various labor groups and in laying the basis for a greater soi- darity of labor.
 "For a class-conscious Socialist to abandon his doctrines of information alism for the comparative nationalist | doctrines and the immediate demands | which the Labor Party will necessarily | adopt, is a step backward.
 ''The Labor Party will be boon to the majority of the workers, broaden 414s-~ rL