The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-16
THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE
Geo. MAJORITY POLICY

central executive COmmlIIee majority
have risen to give the childish an
swer: "Of course not, because the
Workers Party is not dead" Such a
silly answer shows a lack of under
standing of the whole problem. We
are not considering in the party dis
cussion whether there exists in the
United States a Communist Party
which has as its aim the mobilization
Of the working masses for a revolu-
itonary class struggle against the
capitalist state power. It ought not
to be necessary to remind ourselves
Of that fact in every second sentence.
We are considering thru what STRAIT
egg and tactics can our Communist
Party revolutionize the masses and
thus build itself. 1t seems, however,
that for the supporters of the majority
thesis it is necessary to formulate
the question in every detail, thus: Is
the mass movement toward class
political action, which has developed
in the United States thru the intensi.
fication of the class struggle since
the end of the war, dead?
The minority thesis emphasizes
that the economic conditions which
produced this movement do not only
exist but will be intensified and will
produce even a greater movement for
class political action. The majority
agrees that the economic conditions
which developed the movement still
exist and will be intensified, but that
the movement of the workers and ex-
plotted farmers resulting therefrom
has been swallowed up" or come to
rest" in the non-class, third party La
Toilette movement, and that the
slogan, "For a class farmer-labor
party" has lost it's potency as a
means of developing class political
action on mass scale, and for build
ing the Workers Party in the process
of developing such class political
action.
With this review of basic reasons
for our policy and the forces under.
lying the movement for class political
action we are in a position to apply
the test Of actual application to the
present situation of the policies pro-
posed in the central executive COM
mittee majority and minority theses,
and thus come to conclusion as to
the present potency of the For a
class farmer-labor party" slogan for
the development of class political ac-
ton and the building of our party.
The A. F. of L. Convention.
The question of independent politi-
cal action by labor was an issue in
the A. F. Of L. convention. The Pot
ters, holders and Stonecutters, three
international unions, had resolutions
before the convention calling for the
endorsement of the formation of a
labor party. That in itself is good
proof that the movement for the for
nation of a labor party is not dead.
What was the position of the ma
jority of the central executive COM
mittee? 1t voted down the proposal Of
the central executive committee
minority that we introduce and cham
pion a resolution calling for the for
nation of class farmer-labor party
In place of such a resolution it
proposed a resolution calling for a
general labor congress. The minority
proposed an amendment to the gen.
eral labor congress resolution, that
there be inserted as one of the points
of the program OF such a general
labor congress the formation of a
farmer-labor party. Two or three
weeks later, as an afterthought, the
majority inserted in its general labor
congress resolution a clause calling fol-
support Of the Workers Party.
What was the consequence of this
abandoning of the slogan For class
farmer-labor party? The Molders,
the Potters, the Stonecutters appeared
at the A. F. of L. convention as the
opponents of Independent political
action by labor, the general labor
congress resolution was not heard
from and the Workers Party abdi-
Gated its position as leader of the
movement Of the workers toward class
political action.
Which course would have brought
the greatest results for building Che
Workers Party, the introduction of
meaningless general labor congress
resolution in which no one was inter-
ested and which was in no way live
question, or a militant espousal be-
fore the convention by our party of
the slogan For q class farmer-labol
party?" Which tactic would have
promoted most what is and must be
our major strategy, to develop class
political action, and eventually revo-
lutionary political action by the
worker?
The question answers itself. The
tactics in the A. f. OF L. is point one
indicating the bankruptcy OF the ma
jority Of the central executive COM
mittee
The Massachusetts c. p. p. A.
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