The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16

(which it has conducted a great cam
paign, is the question of the Farmer
Labor Party. The question of the
form of the united front in America
centers around the Labor Party and
the Farmer-Labor Party. The world
war, the, consequent development of
strongly centralized governmentpowe
the brutal interference of the govern
ment in the Labor disputes, tho great
agricultural. crisis which is driving
millions offfarmers from their farms,
has thrown up a strong mass move
ment which may split the non-capital.
list classes from the two great histori-
cal bourgeois parties. This great new
movement is flowing in two channels.
One is the so-called Third Party move
ment, which wants to combine all
classes whose interests clash with
those Of the class of big capitalists,
i.e., the town petty bourgeoisie with
the industrial workers, the rich farm
ers with the exploited tenants. The
other movement is flowing in the di-
rection of a class party of the indus
trial workers and the exploited farm
ers. The Workers Party takes part in
the second-the class party; on the
other hand, the Socialist Party, which
is the American Section of the Second
International, is affiliated with the
petty-bourgeois Third Party.
This complicated situation and the
necessity of maneuvering in this great
and in many ways novel, mass move
ment, has caused differences of opin-
ion in our American Party, and the
question Of the tactics to be adopted
in the Farmer-Labor movement will
be submitted to the Fifth Congress
for decision
Party Still Young Here.
"The Workers Party is a young
Party, without revolutionary tradi
tions, but in the agrarian question
in the question of the relations be-
tween the working class and the farm
ing class it has found the correct
Revolutionary orientation. The Party
has set up an agricultural section, has
sent organizers among the most ex-
plotted sections of the farmers who
are going bankrupt, founded paper
for the farmers and issued the slogan
of the Workers and Farmers govern
ment with great success. There is
still some opposition in the Workers
Party to the work among the farmers,
but these old, mistaken social demo-
cratic traditions will be completely
eradicated. The Party is taking into
its ranks only the really Communistic-
ally inclined farmers, so that out of
the 1900 members of the Party, not
less than IS per cent are industrial
workers. The non-Communist farm
ers who want to fight against Imper-
ialism, finance, capital, and the trusts,
are being organized by the Workers
Party into the Farmer-Labor Party
which was founded in Chicago, July
3, 1923. At the inaugural convention,
which will have an important place in
the history of the American revolu-
tionary movement, there were over
1900 delegates, who represented 600, 900
industrial workers and farmers The
Socialist Party betrayed this impor.
tant movement, and even the so-called
progressive" Trade Union leaders of
the Fitzpatrick group, went over to
Gompers at the eleventh hour, and did
not take part in the founding of the
Party. The formation of this Fed
Grated Farmer Labor Party and the
break with the Fitzpatrick Group, also
caused differences of opinion in the
American Party The Executive of
Comintern in its letter of December
Z. 1928, endorsed the founding of the
: Federated Farmer-Labor Party and
also sanctioned the break with the
Fitzpatrick Group. The Executive at
that time wrote:
United Front Tactics Right.
1.-THE Workers Party has applied
Communist tactics correctly in
seeking a united front of all forces
to fight the Capitalist system in the
United States. 1t has sought a
united front not only on the eco
nomic, but particularly, on the po-
litical field. That Gompers and the
, reactionary Trade Union official
/ dom oppose it because of their anti
quated treacherous policy of re-
. warding the friends and furnishing
D the enemies Of Labor in the Capt.
talist parties; that the Socialists,
] having renowned every revolution
I airy idea, and lined up with the re-
$ dictionary forces OF the country, also
= oppose it; and that a few so-called
: progressive" Trade Union leaders
Of the Middle West have betrayed
n the workers aud gone over to Comp
s ers, that they denounce the ideas
!. they once stood for, and, therefore,
g also oppose the united FRONTS
/. creating the best basis for the united
l. front policy The organization
g of the Moderated Earmar.T a hor