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b. To place every party member in
to the class struggle Enforcement of
the party requirement Of membership
and activity in unions. etc.l
O. To educate every member thru
theory and practice so that he may
be able to render maximum service
to the party.
d. To reconstruct our party so that
it may yield the maximum result in
the class struggle: Application OF
workers efficiency accounting, COM
munications etc); organizationai CEN
tralization (printing, dues payment OF
language federation branches thru reg
ular party channels just like the Eng
lish branches; shop nuclei Tin each
instance where the conditions make
their organization possible without
resort to artificial makeshifts)-
e) An apparatus to meet the obvious
requirements Of revolutionary party.
II To maintain strict theological and
organizational discipline, /. g. to hold
every party member strictly to ac-
count for every deviation from the
accepted program of the party; and to
make every party fnnctionary account
able to a responsible committee with
the understanding that he is obliged
to give maximum service to the party.
G. ELECTIONS 1924.
81. The overwhelming majority of
the party leadership. and by appear
ance also of the party, favored during
six months of discussion a petty
bourgeois election alliance. For this
stand various reasons were given:
AZ 1t is unusual; but we are facing
an extraordinary situation.
b. 1t is not unusual; 1t would re-
present nothing but an American sol
ution Of a problem which in like man.
ner was solved before elsewhere; see
AZ the Mexican letter, b. the British
labor party, c. the alliance of the
Communists with the social demo
Gratis in Germany and, d. Of the Boil
shevikf with the mensheviki. (Like-
wise do we find this year the major
ity thesis listing the latest develop
ments in England, France and Ger
many as examples of how, recently,
proletarian parties are effectively de-
composed ON the political field by the
petty bourgeoisie).
g It was advantageous because of
the violent changes which had taken
place the progressive decentralization
Of the American bourgeoisie.
d. It was good strategy because Of
the violent changes which were to
come: the disintegration of the A. F.
Of L. bureaucracy.
80. The C. I. reversed this deci-
sion and upheld the contention of the
anti-third party group. At various
times did the various groups in the
party react to this decision in the fol
lowing manner (tho these reactions
have nowhere been authoritativeIy
been recorded so as to be committaD
al The present minority argued that
they had really been sustained in prin-
ciple, and only been defeated as to
it's application; eventually they admit
ted complete defeat.
b. The present majority, while ac-
cepting the C. ]. decision, did not con-
cur with it; eventually they agreed
to the correctness Of the C. I. decision.
So. After both LaFoIlette and the
c. l. had agreed with the anti-third
party group that an alliance Of the w.
P. with LaFollette was unwise, it de-
veloped that we could not even main
tain the united front of our r. L. P.
campaign and were by an additional
withdrawal of temporary sympathiz-
ers forced to drop our F. l.. p. cam
paign and to place w. p. ticket in
the field. A satisfactory vote Of close
to 10000 was counted for our national
candidates.
"a. For the first time did tho wage
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