The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-27

tricts.
H. Party Strategy for 1925.
|. 35. Both official theses agree that
there was substantial F. L. p. move
ment early in 1924. and that it was
diverted into the LaFollette move
ment. The minority thesis holds that
this F. L. p. movement, as the polit-
ical expression of economic conditions,
cannot permanently be perverted in
Ito petty bourgeois movement, that
the economic basis of the movement
must inevitably re-assert itself, and
that therefore the slogan "for a farm
|er-labor party" must soon fall upon
fertile ground.
Sc. The majority thesis does not
deny the proletarian and semi-prole-
tartan basis of the involved moving
group Of workers and working farm
Iers; but it does deny that this basis
viii necessarily soon loosen from this
movement the hold which the petty
bourgeois party has ON 1t. Didn't
the parties of big business have a
|stranglehold on them for $3.50 years?
They could ask.l
81. The majority thesis considers
the F. L. p. movement as having been
mot only absorbed but assimilated by
the third party movement The pro
gressive detection Of the F. L. p.
movement passed several stages:
az The pre-convention period with
LaFolIette's anathema against the w.
lP. (which according to Foster reduced
he convention attendance by IS per
cent?
b. The partial failure of the June
IL convention.
81 The unconditional support of La
Toilette on part of the c. p. P. A.
convention on July 4.
d The final phase leading up to the
withdrawal of the F. L. p. national
candidates. and their replacement by
Nv. p. candidates.
S8. If there was any time at all
during which the F. l. p. movement
was absorbed" by the third party
movement it must have been during
any one or more of these periods.
SO. Let us consider the following
quotation: "Since S. June 1922
the party has carried on consistent
united front campaign with the end
in view Of uniting those workers and
farmers who were ready to break with
the capitalist parties in a mass r. Il.
p. with which the w. P. would be afEfI-
lated This campaign has been the
major political campaign of our party.
We have during this campaign adj
vanced the cause Of independent work
ing class action and made the r. l..
P. an issue in the. American labor
movement. We can also say, without
danger of the statement being chal-
Ilenged, that our party had made the
greatest gains for itself turnout this
campaign for the labor party. It is
thru this F. L. P. campaign that our
party has established itself as a pol
itical force in the U. 8. It is thru this
campaign that it has established its
prestige and its leadership among the
masses Of workers and farmers. No
thing has contributed so much to de-
velop our party from a sectarian
group to a recognized political force
in the life Of the labor movement of
this country than our manouvers in
relation to the F.. L. p. -. The cam
paign for +. L. P. was a correct
estimation of the situation in the u.
s. . =. must be continued and will
be a major campaign Of the party in
the future"
40. This quotation is from the doc
ument entitled Our Immediate
Work. Program Of Action" issued in
August by unanimous decision of the
C. p. c.
II. These statements, if correct,
establish the following facts: