The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-06
BY j. POWELL


that directed the recent party cam
paigns SO splendidly, is beginning to
break down. The first signs Of weak
ing were displayed by Comrade Bit
lehman in his article: Preparing for
the Coming Struggles" (Oct. 25).
Regarding of the promising head
line, the article betrays marked ten
dency to prepare us for nothing else
but for abandonment of our United
Front policy on the political field.
Here are few lines to illustrate how
ridiculously simple the class struggle
appears to be to our Comrade Bittel-
man:
"The masses will be driven to fight
They win create, If neces-
sary, their own organs of struggle and
will proceed to defend themselves :.
What will be the tasks of the
Workers Party?-To assume leader
ship of these struggles !"
In other words: let the masses start
to fight and create their own organs of
struggle. Then we, of course, of
NO0AOOg VIII ooOuhlO tIC lCduCI6u1D.
The trouble with this formula is
that the one who waits for somebody
else to start something has a poor
chance to become the leader of the
affair What part we will
be able to play in the struggles of the
masses tomorrow depends a great
deal on what we are doing today
Giving up the Leadership
On Nov. the G. E. G. published
statement on election results. From
this it was not quite clear whether
discrimination of our farmer-labor
party policy was merely suggested or
definitely ordered. A few days later
statement issued by the National
Committee of the Trade Union Educa-
tionaI League completely dispersed
the uncertainty and went even to
the most extreme limit A complete
silence was maintained on one of the
biggest problems that faces all labor
unions and all labor conventions:
the question of political action.
This question has been settled at
Ell Paso according to Gompers's
wishes but this does not mean that
it will not come up before the local
unions again and again. What shall
the LEFT Wing" do? The N. c. Of
T. U. e. L. finds it convenient to ig-
more this question. This means but
one thing: They are giving up the
leadership. assesses #-a
The new T. U. e. L. program has
plenty Of demands all the way down
from amalgamation and naturalization
to abolition of the Ku Klux Khan. Yet.
it entirely overlooks the greatest need
of the working class of this country:
the necessity of a political party.
The c. E. C. election statement at
least says that the Workers Party it.
self must be built up. The T. U. E.
l.. declaration gives up even this
point, and does not even mention the
Communist movement, as il this was
of no concern at all to the Left Wing
of the Labor Movement"
It certainly must have been some
altogether immaginary syndicalistic
left wing that those who are respon-
sible for the abortive T. U. e. L.
statement have had in their minds
A BoIshevik Method-onIy Upside
Down
On Nov. 10th the c. =. c. announced
that preconvention discussions on
party problems in the party press will
be permitted after Nov. 22nd. Yet,
Comrade Bittelman was allowed to
disregard the party program on Oct.
25th, and again misrepresent and
knock it on Nov. 18th. The discus
sions on changes in the party program
are open only since Nov. 22nd, yet,
an Important section Of the program
has already been discarded since Nov
7th. This constitutes direct viola
tion of our constitution and the met
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