The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31

workers are not sufficiently conscious
of the character of the capitalist sys-
EN- so that today they win listen to
us if we carry on mere propaganda
against capitalism and for the
Soviets and the Proletarian Dictator
ship. On the other hand, we know
that in the process of the struggles
against capitalists over immediate
questions, there will arise those cir
cumstances which will make it pos
sible for US to point to the need of
a struggle against the whole system
of capitalism and to the Soviets and
the Proletarian Dictatorship as the
means Of expressing the workers
power.
For us as Communist Party this
latter possibility of the United Front
is of the greatest Importance. 1t is
because the United Front creates the
most favorable circumstances to
bring about an advance of the work
ing class toward the final struggle
for the Soviets and Proletarian Die
tatorship that we enter into the
United Front.
Every decision we make as to the
policy which. we are to follow must
be determined by the above state
ment of what we are aiming to
achieve in United Front movement
and our policy will only be a correct
Communist policy if it brings us
closer to our goal Of the Proletarian
Revolution, Soviets and the Prole-
tartan Dictatorship.
Errors in Policy Proposed to the
District Executive Committee.
When viewed in the light Of what
has been said above, the proposal
made by certain members of the
District Executive Committee that
we shall nominate candidates who
are members of the Workers Party
on the Farmer-Labor ticket, but
that these candidates shall make no
public declaration that they are
Communists, and that they shall run
for Office merely on the Farmer
Labor program, Immediately ap-
pears to be what it is, a non-Com-
munist policy.
How would such a policy help US
in our work of winning support for
our Communist principles, the Pro-
letarian Revolution, Soviets and the
Dictatorship of the Proletariat?
If our members are to run as other
candidates run for office on the
Farmer-Labor ticket, what will dis
tinguish them from these candidates
in the minds of the working class?
How will the Communist party gain
anything from the United Front I'M
der these conditions? We are not
interested as a Communist Party in
electing any individuals to public
Office, for the mere sake of electing
that individual to public Office. We
are not interested as a Communist
Party in electing candidates to pub
lie Office merely for the purpose of
supporting the immediate demands
which may appear in a Farmer-La-
bor Party program. We cay to the
working class, and it is our duty to
say to the working class during the
campaigns of the Farmer Labor
Party, that these immediate de-
mands will never bring about the
emancipation of the workers from
the exploitation and suppression of
capitalism.
It is the duty of a Communist
elected to a legislative body of the
capitalist state to carry on revolu-
tionary propaganda there against
the capitalist government. Frank
Miner, when a member of the Min
nesota legislature, correctly under
stood this policy when he introduced
a bill to abolish the existing govern
ment Of Minnesota and establish the
Soviet form Of government. But if
our candidates on the Farmer-Labor
ticket do not announce themselves as
Communists, do not, during their
campaign, carry on agitation for
the full Communist program includ-
ing the proletarian revolution, Sow
lets and the Dictatorship of the Pro-
letariat, they will have TO mandate
from the workers to enter the capt.
talist legislative bodies and there
conduct their revolutionary propa-
ganda.
The policy which was proposed to
Jne DlSCrlcC Executive Committee
does not in any way distinguish our
candidates from other candidates on
the Farmer-Labor Party ticket. 1t
means simply that our Party and
our candidates are part of the
Farmer-Labor Party and nocnyns
more. It would mean that we would
not do that work for which we en-
tered the United Front Of the
Farmer-Labor Party and in place Of
using our position as part of such
a United Front for Communist ac-
tivity and to advance the Commun-
list movement, that we ourselves
would merely become nm adjunct of
the Farmer-Labor Party.
The Central Executive Committee.
therefore, disapproves of these pro-
posals.
The Communist Policy in the
Fsrmer-Lsbor Party.
What then is to be the tactics OF
our Party as part Of the United
Front political organization called
the Farmer-Labor Party? We be-