The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-24
By JULIUS copkINp.

~ SOGlOS OOGNitNDs
TAKING the position that there is
1 no present mass movement toward
farmer-labor party the majority pro-
claim that we should withdraw from
this field and apply the united front
tactic in other avenues, as the oppor-
tunity arises.
Where are these other avenues to
lead US?
The majority holds forth, as the
leading united front tactic Of today,
the establishment of unemployed
councils in which the Workers Party
should take the leadership. Very
well, let us proceed to form these
councils.
We are in the midst of our unem-
ployed agitation. Comrade x, of the
majority, is addressing a vast mass
Of five hundred unemployed workers.
We assume for the sake of charity
that in this unmixed crowd of unem-
ployed there are no Communists or
sympathizers. He speaks to them of
the necessity of forming councils Of
unemployed to fight for Work or
Wages" He proves that every
worker is entitled to job. He holds
them spellbound They stand con-
WINGED that it ought to be. They
accept his leadership, but within him
he knows that he has yet two tasks
to perform.
First, he must tell them how!
Second, he must win them tc the
Workers Party.
If he can approach his average
American crowd, even of unemployed,
and convince them only thru the
establishment of the dictatorship of
the proletariat, will they gain their
objective, the writer stands convinced
that the majority is correct in aban-
doning the slogan of the farmer-Iabor
party and the effort toward its at
tainment. At one stroke, Comrade x
has performed his double task, and
by repeating his success thruout the
country before the great masses of
workers he has prepared their minds
for the revolution and there is no
need for the farmer-labor party.
However, Comrade x of the major
ity will probably approach his task
by explaining that only when the
workers will control the government
will they be able to impose on the
bosses the Work or Wages" PROPOSE
ton. He will explain that to accom-
plish this, the workers must organize
their own class party and then like a
good Communist, he will judge rightly
that this is as far as he can go now
without losing the confidence of his
unemployed workers.
However, he is still under the nee
essity of gaining and holding prestige,
not only for himself but for the Work
ers Party, so he will go on to describe
fully the position Of the Communists,
emphasizing his own belief that the
Communist determination to establish
Soviets is the correct and only solu
ton, but being careful to explain all
the time nevertheless, that he and the
party join Loyalty in the effort of the
workers to attain government power
thru those methods that the workers
themselves deem best.
Now, what has comrade X Of the
majority done?
He has gone as far as he could in
urging a Communist program. He has
explained the Communist position
thoroly, without creating prejudice
He has implanted in the minds of the
listeners a doubt of their own remedy,
and left a slight but subconscious idea
that if this fails they can still try the
Communist tactic.
Very good Comrade X of the ma
jority has done as. well as anyone
could have expected of him. Never
theless, Comrade X lin company with
Comrade Y of the minority, who dis
likes the task fully as much as Com
rade X will have to march along on
the road chosen by the very workers
who have been made class conscious
by his own unemployment agitation.
until they get ready to try his Com
munist tactic. And that road is the