The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-04

from the LaFollette sweep. Our com
rades and sympathizers in the unions
had to Withstand during the past year
the most ferocious, at times bloody at
lacks, explosions from the unions, de.
NAL Of the right to work and many
other forms of brutal prosecutions.
But in spite Of all that, the left wing
under the leadership Of the T. U. E.
L. continues to grow. The future will
no doubt present US with many new
and difficult problems on the trade
union field, but there will be no cause
for worry as long as we follow the
feminist policy and tactics and keep
the main detectives Of our movement
clearly before our eyes.
(6) In the sphere Of party educa-
ton, we have made considerable
progress.
CD Thus we can safely state that
our party today is q better party,
larger party, much more Of a Bolshe-
visit party than it was a year ago. We
can hopefully look into the future for
bigger conquests and greater victories.
The Immediate Tasks Of Our Party
In discussing the present situation
and the immediate tasks Of our party,
the following points should be remem-
bered:
(a) Altho the Workers Party is yet
small party, it is the only party in
America that stands for the class
struggle. This means that, as condi-
lions will COMPEL the workers to
struggle against the capitalists, the
working masses will progressively &C
cept the slogans and leadership Of
our party. There is therefore no cause
for weakening or getting disappointed
in the slow growth of our party. Our
great task is to make the w. P. a
mass Communist Party.
(b) The Workers Party, altho a
party of Communists, is not yet a
real Bolshevist, feminist Party. In
the measure in which we succeed in
Bolshevizing the Workers Party we
shall be developing it into a mass
Communist Party.
(c) There is no movement now in
existence tending in the direction of
a farmer-labor party, distinct from
both the W. P. and the LaFollette
movement, standing between these
two. There is no such movement now
in existence, nor is there any basis
for the appearance of such a move
ment in the near future.
I'D There is no mass urge now to-
wards the formation of any new poll
teal party, except a mild sentiment
4 for the, formation of third LaFol-
lette party. The masses are at rest
as far as the organization of farmer
labor party distinct from a LaFol-
lette party is concerned.
(e) But the masses are not restful
at all as far as their immediate needs
are concerned. They will struggle for
whatever seems to offer immediate
improvement Of their conditions.
e. Hence. the farmer-Iabor party
slogan is dead. The slogans that will
set the masses into motion for organ
lied political struggles are precisely
those slogans that touch close and
burning needs. Our tactics there
fore must be the tactics of the united
front from below on the basis Of i'm
mediate elementary demands Of the
masses. y lL
This is the position of the G. q. O.
expressed first in It's statement on
the election results and now in the
theses on the present situation and
the immediate tasks of our party.
This policy calls for real struggle.
Not negotiations with farmer-labor
: leaders around a conference table, as
was the case in about one-half Of our
work for a farmer-labor party, but
actual struggle in the unions and in
J the shops and among the unemployed
directed against the capitalists and
: their servants, the reactionary labor
J bureaucrats.
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