The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-26

list International. This means that it
is the duty of our party first of all
to establish contact with the rank
and file of the working class for inn
mediate struggles against the capital
lists and their government. In all these
united front campaigns it will be the
duty of the Workers Party to bring
forward its Communist position on all
problems confronting the working
class, frankly and severely attacking
all the betrayals of the workers and
utilizing these campaigns for the
Strengthening and ,upbuilding of the
Workers Party.
At present the main objective Of
our united front policy is to start a
movement from below to compel the
so-called labor wing in the LaFollette
movement to break its alliance with
the petty-bourgeoisie and to win the
masses to the class struggle and to
the leadership of the Workers Party.
While powerful labor bureaucrats,
such as Lewis, Hutchinson, and Berry
are openly allied with the parties of
the big bourgeoisie, we must realize
that the main obstacle to the further
development of the class struggle in
America is the social pacifist illusion
spread and cultivated by the LaFol-
lette movement among the working
masses. At present the main strength
of LaFolletteism and consequently the
main danger to the class struggle,
comes from the theological hegemony
of LaFolletteismove the minds of large
sections of workers and poor farmers
We must therefore concentrate our
energy to expose and defeat the petty
bourgeois influence of LaFolletteism
in the labor movement The only way
in which this can be done effectively
is by putting up against the LaFol-
lette movement the program of con
sistent class political action, that is
to propagate the revolutionary class
struggle as against social pacifism and
social reformism, which means put
ting up against the LaFollette party
the Workers Party.
This presents to us the problem OF
developing series of campaigns de
signed to expose the bourgeois nature
of LaFolletteism which can be accom-
plished in no other way than by rails
ing concrete issues and by assisting
and encouraging the rank and file in
the formation Of direct organs of mass
struggle. The working masses will
need organization and leadership in
the shops, consequently we must urge
and lead in the formation of shop com
mittees. The growing army of unem
ployed will need leadership and organ
ization, consequently, it will be the
duty of the Workers Party by means
Of the united front tactics to initiate
and lead in the organization of coun
ellis of unemployed. AS the working
masses gain militancy and aggressive
ness the situation will become
ripe and the necessity urgent for 9
general mobilization OF all the forces
Of labor for a concerted struggle
against the triumphant capitalist reac
ton. The working masses In Amer
lea will then feel the need of un
flying center for leadership and direc
ton and a general labor congress cleo
ted by the rank and file OF labor IL
the trade unions and in the shops ant
amongst the unemployed will become
the best means for the unihcation Of
the struggles Of labor II Is the dut,
OF the Workers Party to immedIatel,
begin 70 popularize the idea Of sucl
labor congress, thus preparing thu
minds OF the workers for the coming
tasks. The guiding tactical principle
In all these activities must be thu
following: That II is chiefly on the
basis OF the immediate needs OF IN,
workers and their immediate strug
giles that all these organs of the ranl