The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-22
+uation and Our Immediate Tasks

3. 1t is not matter Of indifer-
ence to the Communists as to who
misleads and betrays the working
masses. The latter are already disii.
lusioned about the old capitalist par
ties but they still look with faith
to the third party movement. The
betrayal of their interests by the La
Toilette group, because of the great
er promises it makes and the high
er hopes it inspires, will have the
most profound effect on the masses
and will eventually force them to
turn to class party of their own
and toward the leadership of the
Communists.
A. This split will shatter the A. F.
OF l.. Bureaucracy which stands to-
day as the most formidable obstacle
to the revolutionary development Of
the trade unions. The A. F. Of L.
Bureaucracy is tied to the capitalist
parties. The split from the old par
ties will tear loose great masses of
organized workers from their ale
glance to the capitalist parties and
their own leaders who are agents of
these parties. 1t will upset the bal
ance of power in the A. F. of L.
and open the door for general de-
velopment of the trade unions in
all directions.
The Workers Party and the Farmer
Labor Party.
Our chief task and aim in the pres
ent situation is the organization on
a national scale of class party of
workers and poor farmers on as
broad a basis as possible and the ad-
vancement to the utmost in this par
ty of the theology and leadership of
the Communists.
The attitude of the Workers Par
ty towards a class farmer-labor par
ty is determined by the united front
policy and tactics of the Commun-
list international. We participate in
the movement and fight for the form
alton of a mass party of workers and
exploited farmers because this is at
present the best means at our dis
posal by which we can mobilize and
organize large masses of workers and
farmers for struggle against cap
italist exploitation and the capitalist
state and because it gives us the
broadest and best field for revolu-
tionary agitation and propaganda.
The success of this policy depends,
however, upon our ability to con-
stantly agitate and organize the
working masses for the final strug-
gle for power and the establishment
of a proletarian dictatorship. Our
success in the fight for the farmer
labor party and the constant broad
ening of its scope and strengthening
Of its class character must carry with
it the constant strengthening
and development of the Workers
Party, to such an extent as to make
it the real leader of the working
class and the movement that will re-
suit from our activity for a farmer
labor party.
We must, as part of the campaign
for the organization of the whole
left wing, assist in maintaining, or
ganizing, and strengthening the Fed
Grated Farmer-Labor Party. This
does not mean that we shall allow
organizational fetishism to develop
which would interfere with any nee
essary or advantageous regrouping of
the labor party forces. Our aim is
the building of the Workers Party
into mass Communist Party, and
our strategy in the Farmer-Labor
movement must always be directed to
this end.
The Farmer-Labor Party and The
Third Party.
While we carry onsour campaign
for the organization of a class farm
er-labor party, we must at the same
time try to drive the third party
forces to split away from the old cap
italist parties. And if this split
takes place and third party is or
ganized. which is an expression of re-
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