The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-10
BY ANTON BIMsA.

THE convention Of the Workers
l Party is coming and there are
some very vital questions before us,
which must be thoroly discussed by
the membership.
Here l have before me two long
statements on the results of the cleo
ton campaign, by the majority and
the minority of the c. e. c., and two
sets of theses, each IA columns long,
on the results of the election campaign
And all of them eminating from men,
bers of the C. E. C. Do you, poor
rank and filer, understand them? No,
of course not. They we're not written
for you to understand them. The au-
thors of the documents themselves
know this fact, so, noticed they have
decided to go along with their theses
and explain them to you. SO there
you are; you got tired of working dur
ing the campaign, you got more tired
reading about 35 columns of massed
material on the results of the cam
paign and you will get still more tired
listening to the explanation of these
theses in a closed room filled with
smoke. And l think that when you
have passed thru this Turkish bath,
you will know just as much as when
you started
have read both of these state
ments and both sets Of theses. 1t was
quite hard job, tell you. l am
quite sure that only very small por-
ton of the membership will take pains
to read them thru. They will be scar
ed to death by their length and will
drop from exhaustion just looking at
them. Here is my opinion of the
theses of the majority and the mi
nority.
There are only two real questions
upon which the difference of opinion
arose and which is the foundation Of
these two sets of theses. One is the
question of our attitude towards the
| slogan "For class farmer-labor par
ty,' and the second, on the role OF the
Communist Party in the class strug-
gle. All other questions that are rails
ed in both theses are only a REPETITION
of the same things which were said
in the communications of the C. E. C.
during the last 10 or IL months. Take
for instance, the questions of the in
dustrial work, the Young Workers
League, or organizational work of the
party. There is nothing new added
to these questions and | do not I'M
derstand why they have been insert
ed in the theses.
stand for the general position of
the minority of the C. E. C. and here
by offer my criticism to the theses of
the majority. OF course, there are
minor points in the minority theses
with which one may disagree, but the
main conclusions are correct.
AS far as l can get anything out
from 20 columns Of this massed ma
terial, the general analysis Of the DO
litical and economical situation of this
country are alike in both sets of the
theses.
The majority says:
THE Dawes plan and the victory
OF the reaction in the elections
have raised the morale of the capital
list class in the u S., but have re.
yersed any of the fundamental fac
tors characterizing the present period
of decline of world capitalism.
The process of disintegration contin.
ues and is bound to produce further
crisis with further sharpening of the
class struggle.
"The expected low point In the
crisis has not been reached
1925 holds the prospect of repeating
the experiences of 1920-1921 when six
million workers were unemployed.
The known and predicted forces al
work all point to a renewed develop
ment of crisis"
Enough repetitions from this set Of
theses.
The minority in its theses says.
The economic crisis Of the U. s.
is not only passing shadow, but the
reflex OF the fundamental crisis of
the world capitalism. No per-
iod Of prosperity that may temporari.
ly arrest the downward tendency Of
American capitalism can save It from
it's doom. The future in the U. S.
holds period Of deep-going depres.
sions."
Hand in hand with the crisis march
the sharpening Of the class struggle.
The majority says:
1.-THE overwhelming weight Of eco
nomic tendencies now operating point
to an intensiiication Of the class strug-
gle. :"
The minority follows with the same
argument:
THE economic conditions of CAPT.
talism will develop sharper and sharp