The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-10
WHERE DO YOU STAND?

eT-ldBOI party 10 the JANUARY con
venticn CT the G. P. P. A.
If no one is proposing united front
from the top, so why all that talk
about the united front from below?
The united front from the bottom
must finally come out to the top, or
your united front policy is nothing
else but farce In the shops and
factories the Communists G't always
and continually in the united front"
with the workers, so much so that we
do not call it united front at all.
When we talk about the united front
we have in mind unity of action of
different organized groups of workers
on certain definite issues. The ma
jority goes even further, entirely for
getting that at the beginning of its
theses they had denied that there is
left any sentiment for a farmer-labor
party, and admit that there might be
such sentiment. Here is what they
say:
CAS- the class struggle develops
and our campaign against LaFollette-
ism progresses there will be found in
a number of localities organized labor
bodies ready to break their alliance
with the petty bourgeoisie and to en-
Ter election campaigns as labor or
CARNATIONS"
What does the majority propose to
do in such cases? Will we reject the
united front with these bodies as be-
ing from the top. Of course, not. First
we will try to win their support for
Inc Workers Party If we arenot sue
cessful in this attempt. then we will
propose united fronts for election pur-
poses" In what form these united
fronts" occur, the majority does not
know. It may be under the auspices
CT labor congresses, councils of action,
labor parties, ETC."
So, after all, we will have united
front in elections, and not one, but
many of them! They viii be scat
tered in different localities and under
various auspices But we must not
and will not strive to unite these sew
eral united fronts into one united
front: we cannot allow them to de-
velop on the national scale, because
that would require a national "aus-
pices" and national slogan. The ma
iority rejects the slogan for a class
farmer-labor party" so in place of one
united trent we will have many of
them masquerading ourselves under
various names. We are not going to
attack the LaFollette movement on
the national scale, but we will begin
to eat it up piece by piece in differ
emit localitiesl Such is the policy of
the united front as is proposed by the
majority theses and watch the mem
bership is asked to accept.
come to the point Of the majority
theses on the industrial work. What
is the primary object of our industrial
work? The majority does not point
out The minority theses say:
The mobilization of the party for
industrial work and its active partici-
patton in industrial struggles must
have as its primary object the devel-
opment of political activity of the
working class"
And again:
''The raising of political slogans in
connection with all industrial strug-
giles thus directing these struggles
towards political detectives and de-
veloping political action by the work
ers."
Why that very important omission
in the majority theses? Do you think
it slipped out unnoticed? Far from
that. Those of us who have follow
ed the leadership of our party for
the last year must have noticed the
systematic tendency in our industrial
work to get away from the political
issues as much as possible, or at least
to neglect as much as possible this
political objective. Today we are
getting rid of the slogan for a class
farmer-labor party" and say nothing
about the political phase of our indus
trial work. You see, we cannot go too
far at time. Tomorrow we will adj
vance the idea that industrial work is
sufficient in itself, that it exists for
it's own sake and that political issues
are of secondary Importance, and
finally the political movement itself is
of no value to the emancipation of
the working class. Do you think for
a moment that this omission has no
background, has no tendency, or an
idea or aim behind it? Just let us
abandon the constant and systematic
fight against the syndicalist tenden-
cies in our party and you will see
what will become of our party in
year or two.
The last point in the majority thes-
es on which want to offer my criti-
cism is on the question OF opportun-
ism in our party. First they speak
about the "Second-and-a-Hal Inter
national tendencies" as represented
by Comrade Lore's group. | do not
like to question any ones sincerity
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