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

tive Committee of the Communist In
ternatlonaI," Pages 1880.
"Since the Fourth Congress the
Communist movement in the United
States has made great progress. The
Fourth Congress was obliged to dis
cuss the question as to whether the
American Communists should aban-
don the illegal party and concentrate
| its Communist activities in the Work
ers Party. The Fifth Congress, how
ever, will take UP the question of how
the Workers Party can carry out COM
plicated maneuvers within the mass
movements Of the workers and farm
ers.
1.-THE fears expressed by the COM
rades who considered a separate IL
legal party indispensable for Com
/ munist activity in the United States,
were dispelled at the congress. Even
before the decision Of the congress
reached the American comrades, the
problem was being cleared up in
America so that at the Second Con-
vention Of the Workers Party, which
took place on December 25, 1922, as
surances could be given that the con-
flict raging within the ranks of the
party between the supporters of the
illegal organizations and those of the
open party, would shortly disappear.
The Central Committee Of the Com
munist Party, which assembled di-
rectly after the convention of the
Workers Party, adopted a resolution
for the gradual liquidation of the il
legal party. The convention of the
Communist Party, which took place
April II, 1923, dissolved the illegal
Communist Party.
Develop Centralized Party.
with the elimination of the faction.
al struggle, it became possible to
gather the half-dozen Communist
groups, which had existed inside and
outside the party, into solid, cen
tralized party
The united front was the basis of
general policy. of the Workers Party
of America. The party succeeded in
finding the special forms which the
united front must assume in America
and in adjusting these tactics to
American conditions.
"rhe first great campaign of the
party was the struggle for the sup
port of the Communists who were ar
Irested at the illegal Communist Par
ty convention in Bridgemau, Michi-
gan. The party succeeded in organ
izing Labor Defense Councils in all
the large cities and industrial centers
which rallied ten thousand workers.
"A second very important activity
Of the party was the fight against the
exceptional laws, which the American
government is planning against the
If3reign-horn workers of America who
comprise the lowest strata of the pro-
letariat. The Workers Party was the
only political party which concerned
itself with the struggle, and the Coun-
ellis for the Defense of the Foreign
born Workers, which were organized
by the party, have developed into or
CARNATIONS that embrace several hun
l0tNA ehOHooAA Wi hCAo
Discusses the T. U. E. L.
"In the Trade Union Field, the par
ty developed its activity in the Trade
Union Educational League, which is
ternational Of Labor Unions This
league, which is under the leadership
of the Communists, is active in the
left wing of the Trade Union move
ment. The principal campaign car
Tied on in the Trade Union field was
the campaign for the amalgamation
Of the craft unions into industrial un.
ions, and the propaganda for the
Farmer-Labor Party. The labor arts.
tocracy at the head of which stands
the Gompers clique, is fighting the
Communists most bitterly and not a
TRADE Union convention goes by al
which the question Of Moscow" is
not brought up. 1t is evident from
the capitalist press, and that of the
American Federation Of Labor, that
the question of Communism has be
come the principal point of conflict
within the Trade Union Movement
During the past year the Part,
took ND the fight against American
: Imperialism and strongly supported
! the important movement for the indie
pondence Of the Philippines. 1t is t.
the honor Of our American party tina
Il received the openly-expresset
thanks OF the mass organizations o
} The Philippine workers and farmers
FOR this fight OF course, the Part.
( must enlarge and increase its actiy
? ity against Imperialism.
) THE Workers Party took part II
} the Race Conference OF the Negroe
/ which took place in February, 1924
. This conference was a mixture OF tn
: pstty-hourgeoisie, fraternal, and La
) Dor organizations The Negro mem
. hers OF the Workers Party and tn
, African Blood Brotherhood submit
led an extensive labor program, whic
wac rejected by the petty-bourgeoi
elements. but the Communists sue