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

cites that the workers are struggling
in New England. in California and in
West Virginia. He correctly says
that they should be united. He cor
rectly adds that they should be united
by political party Of the workers"
| (Which, according to Bedacht, how
ever, is not the Workers Party. But
wonderful to relate, even If the Work
ers Party gets these workers together
it must supply the slogan of the far
merlabor party" to them, or else
there would be no political action Of
all the workers everywhere" What
marvellous conclusion for a Marxist!
Yet there are, to cite one of many
examples, class war prisoners in the
same New England, California and
West Virginia cited by Comrade Be
dacht as an arena of struggle, as well
as many elsewhere. The French and
the German Communist Parties have
found that amnesty Of class war pris-
oners can be made political issue
on which to unite all workers every
where. Mass demonstrations and
even such "syndicalist" weapons as
the political strike could and should
be used in this country for this end.
Can the textile workers Of New Eng
land, the dock workers Of Frisco, and
the West Virginia miners be rallied
into a nationwide movement more
successfully around a slogan for
class farmer-labor party" or for the
slogan release the class war prison
ers!"
To conarade Bedacht, these work
ers are ready now any day, to down
tools for the minority thesis, while
the millions of farmers, angry, i'm
patient and armed with shotguns
and pltchforks are surrounding the
LaFoIlette henchmen in the county
seats, demanding, "Glve US a class
farmer-Iabor party or give US
deathW Nothing else Is political
action" to cornrade Bedacht. AS
for the rest" he says after Cato,
"the syndlcaIists must be de-
stroyed."
The next exhibit is Comrade Pow
ell, who is filled with as much re-
bellion against Capitalization and dis
cipline as an anarcho-syndicalis I. w.
W. Naturally, he sees that we of
the majority have abandoned the
united front on the political field" by
laying aside the slogan for a defunct
"farmer-labor party"
Particularly attacked is the T. U.
E. L., which our comrades of the mi
nority discover only when they have
to sleuth about for issues" The T.
U. E. L. is "syndicalist" because, tho
| it advocates a united front of unem-
ployed councils directed against the
state and federal governments, tho it
campaign for a united front for class
war prisoners, for united front
against criminal syndicalist laws 1--WE
are not yet criminal" syndicalists to
the minority, let us hope), tho the T.
U. e. L. advocates mass violation of
injunctions, campaign against race
discrimination, tho it urges a united
front against Imperialism and the
Dawes plan, still, to Comrade Pow
ellis mind, 1T abandons the political
field"
100000 convertsI Quick, The Farm
er-Labor GunI
Could absurdity go further? II il
cannot, Comrade Powell CAM He
says that "our election campaign de-
stroyed the LaFollette illusion in the
minds of masses of voters and they"
(listen to this) they stayed away
from the polls He then proceeds
to prove that because "only 30 million
out Of so million voters took part in
the elections while in 1916 more than
20 per cent voted"--therefore the diff
ference between so and 10 per cent Of
the electorate, or 100000 voters.
were so disguised with LaFollette be-
cause he didn't give them a CLASSY
farmer-labor party that they :.
Perhaps they voted for Foster" you
will suggest BY no meansl They
were disillusioned with Foster too, ac-
cording to Comrade Powell, and did
not vote at all!
The Lost Tribes Of Farmer-L aborisn,.
These are the lost tribes with whom
Comrade Ruthenberg makes common
cause against Comrade Foster and
comrade Powell wants these 12000.-
600 dream children to say they didn't
vote for Foster because the Workers
Party won't give them CLASS politi.
cal action" while the |. w. w. says
that the same 100000 didn't vote
for Foster because he does give them
political action" These 10000. 900
who are so advanced according to
both comrade Powell and the l. w. W. |
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