The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-11

~ June, 1SZZ, our party declared, IN mani
festo dealing with the application Of the
United Front policy in the United States, that
the problem of the United Front politically
was the problem of the formation of Labor
Party.
Since that time the party has carried on a
consistent United Front campaign with the
end in view of uniting those workers and
farmers who were ready to break with the
capitalist parties in a mass Farmer-Labor
Party with which the Workers Party would
be affiliated. This campaign has been the
major political campaign of our party.
We have during this campaign advanced
the cause of independent working class ac-
ton and made the Farmer-Labor Party an
issue in the American labor movement. We
can also say, without danger of the state
ment being challenged, that our party had
made the greatest gains for itself thru this
campaign for the Labor Party. 1t is thru
this Fafmer-Labor Party campaign that our
party has established itself as a political
force in the United States. 1t is thru this
campaign that it has established its prestige
and it leadership among the masses of work.
ers and farmers. Nothing has contributed so
much to develop our party from sectArian
group to a recognized political force in the
life of the labor movement of this country
than our nnanouvers in relation to the Farm
er-Labor Party.
The Central Executive Committee declares
that the campaign for Farmer-Labor Party
was correct estimation of the situation in
the United States. 1t declares further that
the campaign for the Farmer-Labor Party
must be continued and will be major cam
paign of the party in the future.
We must, however, consider fundamen-
tally the situation which our party faces in
the present election campaign. The June II
Farmer-Labor Party was not successful in
modifying all the Farmer-Labor forces of
the United States for a Farmer-Labor Party
campaign. The convention made tentative
nominations and adopted tentative plat
form and organization plan. 1t was consd-
cred possible that the Farmer-Labor eIe-
ments which still adhered to the Conference
for Progressive Political Action would break
away from that conference when it again
betrayed their hopes for a Farmer-Labor
Party and that an alliance with these forces
would create the basis for the Farmer-Labor
Party campaign in this election struggle.
The group in the Conference for Progress
sive Political Action which is for a Farmer
Labor Party did not have sufficient courage
to take stand for the principle of class
Farmer-Labor action in the United States.
Without protest it accepted the LaFoIlette
dictatorship and became the tail to the
LaFoIlette petty bourgeois progressive move
ment. The Conference for Progressive
Political Action has become petty bour-
geos progressive United Front extending
from LaF toilette to Debs.
1t is the supreme duty of our party to raise
against this petty bourgeois progressive aIIi-
ance which is misleading the workers the
slogan of revolutionary class action. LaFoI-
lette is menace to the labor movement. 1t
is placing the workers under the leadership
of the petty bourgeois-a class with a pro-
gram in direct contradiction to the interests
Of the workers and liquidatng their class
movement. II the Farmer-labor Party as
formed at St. Paul represented real United
Front unifying mass movement of farmers
and workers which would stand firm and
crary on the fight against LaF olIetteism and
the petty bourgeois progressive alliance, I'M
questionably the fight against LaF olletteism
should be made thru the Farmer-Labor
Party. Part of the organizations participant
ing in the June ~ convention are themselves
infected with LaFoIletteism and will be swept
along in the wake of the LaFoIIette petty
bourgeois progressive movement.
Our party, therefore, faces the question
whether It shall participate in a Farmer
Labor Party campaign in which the Workers
Party will have to bear the brunt Of the work
and will have to largely conduct the cam