The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-24
MAJORITY RETREATS RIGHT INTO ARMS
OF FARlNER-LABOR PARTY

LABOR PARTY, which he himself
has been compelled to accept in the
logical development Of his own speech.
The General Labor Congress and the
Farmer-Labor Party.
Another avenue that the majority
suggests as a good way to establish
a united front, is, to Immediately be.
gin to popularize the idea of Labor
Congress to prepare the minds of the
workers for the coming tasks"
OF course, one might suggest to the
majority that the sentiment for such
labor congress does not exist, and
according to their own law on the
labor party they contradict them
selves when they propose to work for
something for which no sentiment
exists. 1t is well to remember that
they criticize their own expenditures
for the farmer-labor party for which
so much actual mass sentiment did
exist when the Workers Party took
the field. How much more will it
cost to build up a movement for
labor congress to prepare the minds
of the workers for the coming tasks?
Let us remember-to build up a move
ment for a congress that holds out
no objective to the workers outside
of the proposition that the Workers
Party is to prepare their minds.
Let us assume, however, that the
majority has gained it's point. The
victory has been won in the party.
The farmer-labor party has been cast
aside. All obstacles have been over
come; labor congress lis in session.
Can the majority there offer the
program of the Communist Party,
/. e., the Workers Party, for accept
ance, in line with its own policy,
which reads as follows:
"A fundamental principle Of the
united front tactics is that Commun-
list Party must absorb into its own
ranks every section and group of the
working class that accepts in the
struggle the policies and slogans of
the Communist Party"
Will the majority dare to dismiss
this congress without affecting a per-
manent form of organization? No,
they won't dare. They won't even
dream Of such an absurdity. They
will provide permanent form of or
ganizatIcn. What will that organiza-
ton be?
We must remember if the form of
organization is anything less than the
Communist Party, that it becomes
violation of the thesis of the majority.
Let us be lenient, however. Let us
grope with the majority for a means
to avoid the formation of the labor
party, for this seems to be their real
objective Very well. Let them pro-
pose some form of organization whose
character will be such as to make un-
necessary for the organization to
enter the parliamentary field, i. e.,
the elections, for if it enters the par
Humanitarian field it becomes a politi-
cal party of labor which must stand
in conflict or in alliance with the
Workers Party
Perhaps the majority proposes a
new I. w. w. You never can tell
Who Are the Opportunities?
The majority is most solicitous of
the welfare of the minority. 1t wants
to save all these young Communists
who have but found the party within
the last couple of years as a result
Of the party's united front tactics. 1t
wants to save them from the clutch
Of the farmer-labor party, so it de-
clares war on the farmer-labor party
for their sake. Pepper, Ruthenberg,
Lovestone, Bedacht, Gitlow, must be
saved by Foster. Dunno and Browder.
In New York also, the old guard
minorityites are busily being saved,
by newcomers.
The Workers Party seems to have
disappointed our newer members. 1t
held forth the idea of a vast labor
party. Now it is evident that a labor
party can never be proportionately as
large as the labor party OF Great
Britain. What is more bitter still, is
that the labor party here cannot hope
to become q DoWerful factor nm the