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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
CANNON RECITES HISTORY

is the right wing that is resorting to
shifting issues"
No Courage to Stand Up
Comrade Cannon tells us that it was
not before "the August meeting of the
c. E. c." that Comrades Foster, Bit
lehman and myself began to ask a few
questions" 1t was only after the
August meeting that Comrade Foster
was beginning to assert his right
and duty to participate actively in the
party leadership" What does it mean?
Does it mean that Comrade Foster
while leading member of the c. E.
c. until August did not assert his right
and duty as member of the C. e. C?
Does it mean that he did not have the
courage to stand up and fight direct
ly for his policies?"
History
Now, as to history" quoted by
Comrade Cannon. He rightly reminds
us that the former c. e. C. was in
disagreement with him on a number
of occasions. We can add, we also op-
posed the expulsion of the right
wing" led by Comrade Olgin from the
Jewish Federation despite of the bit
ter opposition of the Comrade Bittel-
man. But we also did something else.
We split the right wing" (and not
the federation) of the Jewish fedora
ton, we broke the open alliance be-
tween Salutsky and Lore and between
Lore and Cannon. For Comrade Car
non has always occupied the extre
side of the right wing in the
The present minority never
Illusions about Lore and If
carried around" to use Comrl
mons expression, It was jus
nurse carries around sick chill,
the moment Comrade Lore ma
effort to make the +. +. L. an ind
ual membership organization he
called to order) At the same
serions efforts were made TO ce.
lie both the party machinery and
party press and with considerable
cess. There was no danger
right wing exertlng his inf
long as the party was cor
the left elements. The
the Second-and-half Int
doncy in the party
alive When Il is o.
by the ruling Yer
Q. e. G.
As to Comrade
minority never hat
(Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
BY MANUEL GOMEZ.

DARADOxES are often highly illu-
/ minating. Consider the astonish-
ing paradox of our minority: farmer
labor Communists who insist that the
idea of a mass farmer-labor party was
a childish illusion from the start.
The comrades Of the minority pro-
I fess to be greatly amused. They take
their amusement seriously and the
party should take it seriously too. It
would seem that they have been sud-
denly struck by the naive innocence"
with which our party entered origin
ally into the movement for a broad,
all-inclusive" labor party. Their pres
ent attitude-an attitude of ridicule
toward the conception that there
must be broad mass base for any
labor party agitation-is too import
ant to let go by without analysis. 1t
proves concIusively that the majority
has been right in labelling the minor
ity tendency opportunistic.
The labor party campaign was an
application of the united front. But
why do Communists go into united
front campaigns7 For the purpose
Of building the Communist Party. OF
course, but that is not all. 1T is a
question Of going forward
with the rising masses OF the work
ers," said Comrade zinoviev at the
letting OF the enlarged e. c. of the
Com'ntern, Dec. 4, 1921, when the
united front policy was being form
ulated.
Independent OF what organizations
al benefits may accrue 10 the Com
munist Party, a Communist united
front campaign must be based upon
an issue which in itself constitutes a
forward movement for the work class
Every step of our policy must be root
ed in the understanding that "the
Communists have no interests sep
arate and apart from the working
class as q whole"
Consequently, when local farmer
iebor parties we're springing up on all
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ization." without the slightest regard
for the objective needs OF the mass
es, and why they ridicule the major
ity for thinking in terms of the mass
es. The minority wants to Organ
ize," "crystallize." "maneuver" every
thing in sight--or out of it. A half
dozen fake. camounage farmer-labor
parties (which could, no doubt, be
"crystallized") would not help the
working class onward, but would only
confuse 1t. Nevertheless, we might
get few members for the Workers
Party.
And we find ourselves in the COM
Portable paradise of the subjectivist.
If it is good for us Internationally,
it must be good!
Comrade Bedacht and his group
have turned our revolutionary mot
to upside down. Instead of "The
Communists have no interests sep
arate and apart from the working
class as whole we find the fatuous
doctrine Of 1.-THE working class has
no interests separate anu apart from
the Communists"
A queer sort of Marxism this, which
bases its policy on the Workers
Party instead of on the working class
as wholei Such policy logically
translates itself into the slogan, any
thing to get members! Which is q
slight variation Of the old s. P. slo-
gan of, anything to get votes! Our
minority comrades are to be sharply
differentiated from the opportunistic
takers of the s. p, but that is where
their tendency leads.
Eduard Bernstein, the father Of
revisionism, wrote in 1893: 1.-THE
final aim is nothing, the movement
is everything" This is the beginning
and end Of opportunism.
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demanded they shouId2

demanded they should7
/ leave the answer to Hathaway,
who was chairman Of the steering
committee.
This capitulation was the logical
result Of the whole policy pursued by
Comrade Hathaway in Minnesota. It
is Of a piece with his lamentations
over the fact that he failed to be
elected secretary of the working peop-
les political league at the Duluth con-
vention Of July IS, 1923, where some
one exposed" the fact that he was a
member OF the Workers Party and
Of the executive Of the federated
farmer-labor party. His exposure ~
as a Communist came quite by &C
cident. It was no fault Of his. No
one would have ever suspected his
affiliations from his actions.
In my humble opinion, had we chaIr
Ienged Mahoney's ruling at Minneap-
oils in the September convention, we
could have carried our point. But
we had no floor leadership. Hathaway,
Of of the majority's prize trade union
lists, is helpless as a child on the
floor Of a convention. His forte is
conducting diplomatic negotiations
with gentlemen of the Mahoney cal
ibre and preserving unity" with
them.
Even after the contemplate perform
ance Of Mahoney, Hathaway still sang
peans to this fakir and knight Of the
double-cross!
In the report of the steering COM
mittee of this convention, signed by
Hathaway, Comrade Otto Wangerin
and ]. o. Johnson, the statement is
made that one OF these comrades had
been active in the railroad labor move
ment, but not in the political phase,
and the other had consistently OPP
posed political action and declared
himself a syndicalist. So, our sole
political expert was Comrade Hatha-
way. 1 am certain either Comrade
Wangerin or Comrade Johnson could
have done equally as well without the
guidance of Comrade Hathaway.
When Hathaway stated that l left
the building after the adjournment Of
that convention and before our party
members met to review the deviation,
he is right. That was a strictly
private" matter, tho it might have
had some effect upon the member
ship. was so Infatuated that con-
sidered 1t inadvisable to vent my ire
on many Of our comrades who had
done the best they could under the
circumstances.
After Gained down q bit came
to the meeting and endeavored to
make the best of bad situation,
knowing that many Of our comrades
were inexperienced and that even
Comrade Hathaway, despite his pose
as clever political manipulation, was
after all, but a mere novice in the
hands Of Mahoney.
The school he is now following will
not contribute to his political acumen,
if his attempt to assail me with SLAM
der, instead of replying to my ar
gument, is indicative Of the direction
of his development.
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AFEW FACTS ABOUT MINNESOTA

w. Davis and Lord Birkenhead OF
Britain. AS one Of the editors of
the WORKER it was my obvious duty
to cover such gathering. Every i'm
portant detail of this pow-wow was
published in the WORKER and writ
ten by me. This may have been a
purely personal" matter, in the eyes
Of Comrade Hathaway. This meeting
Of the bar association was the only
time l got near those who practice at
the bar.
A Few Facts.
Just what was our strategy in Min
nesota and how was it carried out in
practice?
Our task there was to break away
the farmers and workers from the
leadership of the petty-bourgeois pol
itical machine that dominated the
farmer-labor movement.
The former majority Of the G. p.
c. laid down three manouvers:
/. We were to endeavor to organ
ize the delegates to the Minnesota con-
vention into branch Of the federated
farmer-labor party. This was our
major demand. (The present majority
would have tried to organize them in
to the Workers Party.)
2. We were to yield a point and
simply call the organization the Min
nesota federated farmer-labor party,
without utilization with the national
party organized at Chicago in July
Of that year, and send delegates to
the January unity conference pro-
posed by the federated party.
3. AS very last resort and as our
minimum demand we were to elect
delegates to the proposed unity con-
ference. Failing this we were to
withdraw.
We yielded the first two before the
convention started and in spite Of my
instructions to the contrary, Hatha-
way and the steering committee refus-
ed to make a fight for the later.
Comrade Hathaway says l rushed
up the aisle and told them to split the
goddam thing wide open" Possibly
those were my words. Unquestionably
they were my sentiments. l sat thru
the whole convention, watched every
move, and the last moment, late Sun
day night, after we had successfully
fought Van Lear and railroad broth
erhood faker, the critical moment ar
rived, when we, as Communists, were
to strive for our one and only de-
mand from the convention. A certain
Jules Anderson, editor of labor sheet
at Crookston, Minnesota (the delight
full symbolism of the name of the
town in which Anderson lives strikes
one forcibly) made vicious attack
upon the Workers Party the federated
party and the world Communist move
ment.
Then came a fraudulant point of
order which Mahoney, with his GUS
tomary trickery, sustained. Why did
not our comrades at least appeal from
Mahoney's decision and endeavor to
defend US against this vile assault as
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new branches, and above all, we mob
illzed our membership into action. We
enthused our comrades to fight for
our party as never before, and during
this same period we carried on a
splendid and successful campaign to
help the Paterson strikers. Our com
rades were responsible for more I'M
ions endorsing Foster and Gitlow than
we could muster to the second con-
ference of the local f. l.. p. to hear
the report of the delegates from St.
Paul. Our comrades couldn't get
enthused over a f. L. p. because they
knew it to be huge joke. We can
learn several lessons from our local
situation.
First, our party needs Bolsheviza-
ton, lot of education and discipline.
Second, our membership will much
sooner fight for our party than for a
diluted f. L. p. Third, that even IL
we decide for a f. l.. p. we must de-
velop a real Communist Party to do
II with. Let us not fool ourselves,
even our Workers Party campaign,
which was about 400 per cent bet
ter and more effective than our f. l..
p. campaign, 1t was conducted by a
comparatively small percentage Of
our membership. IL you don't believe
1t, ask the secretary of your branch
to read the City Central Committee
minutes dealing with the reports of
the campaign committee. or ask your
delegates about It. Compared with
what we had before the party cam
paign, we made great strides forward
but there is much more to be done.
Let us build our party for a while SO
that when we are fighting for II in
the unions we will be conscious that
we are fighting for real Communist
Party capable of participating in all
united fronts.
In the meantime, this discussion
does not stop us from carrying on the
work In our unions today, even tho,
we have to pause every now and then
to answer an argument.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
By WILLIAM z. FOSTER.

The results Of the membership
meetings held in five principal cities
on Sunday, Dec. %, show that our
party is definitely emerging from its
farmer-labor illusions. Six weeks ago
practically the entire membership Of
the Workers (Communist) Party was
profoundly convinced that it could
very profitably use the slogan of the
farmer-labor party. In spite Of the
tremendous obstacles that have had
to be overcome, the inetria, the or.
ganized resistance to the discussion
In some sections Of the party, the
smoke screens that have been thrown
out by the minority to hide the real
issue, the behring's that have been
drawn across the trail-yet, after six
weeks discussion, the central execu-
tive committee can say that it has
convinced a majority Of the member
ship for the Communist policy laid
down in its thesis.
New York City and Chicago are the
largest centers of our party, where
party life is most intense and where,
therefore, the discussion penetrated
deepest among the members. The
vote in these two cities is therefore
most interesting.
Chicago, for example, had mem
bership meeting six weeks ago which
was carried by the minority over.
whelmingly-by a vote of It's to rs.
Even after the discussion in the
party press for six weeks, the mem
bership in Chicago was still largely
in favor Of the farmer-labor slogan
When the membership meeting, the
largest in the party history, opened
on Dec. %, the farmer-labor advo
Gates undoubtedly would have car
ried their proposition if a vote had
been taken without discussion.
But when the minority, advocates
of the farmer-labor party, were forced
to defend their position in open de.
bate, before the assembled member
ship, they collapsed entirely. During
the actual progress Of the debate, in
the few hours between o'clock and
IL, the block of farmer-labor senti-
ment was shattered. When the smoke
cleared away, the central executive
committee had a clear majority Of
399 against 1862.
New York City showed us this pro-
cess carried even further than in Chi.
cago. The farmer-labor advocates had
banked upon New York. They exerted
every effort to win it, and sent their
star speaker there. The central
executive committee not only won a
majority there, completely overcom-
ing the Illusion that the farmer-labor
slogan can be used to assemble
masses under present conditions, but
the majority vote was very decided,
being 4S2 against 800. We can see
that in New York it is question of
but few weeks until the farmer-la-
Dor ghost will be laid to rest.
The twin cities meeting, Minneapo-
lis and st. Paul, where the central
executive committee gained a decided
majority vote Of the membership, is
also interesting. There our party is
actually faced with a functioning
farmer-labor party, something that
exists nowhere else in the United
States. 1t might have been supposed
that there, if anywhere, the member
ship of the Workers Party would be
the most obsessed with the illusion
of the farmer-labor slogan. But it
seems that practical experience with
the farmer-labor section of the LaFol-
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By \. M. wIcKs


co desperate are the majority at
- their complete rout In the present
party discussion that their sole re-
naming weapon of offense and de-
Tense is personal attacks. This des-
peration has permeated even the
wind-swept plains of Minnesota, where
Comrade Hathaway diverts attention
from the facts of his great united
front" with Mahoney by charging that
Wicks, while in Minnesota, evidently
misunderstood the instruction of the
c. e. c. and thought he was on a
vacation" He assails me on account
of my article concerning feminist
leadership, but he does not reply to
the articleI
Hathaway says the "blood Of the
Minnesota comrades boils" when they
read my article. l strongly suspect
Comrade Hathaway presumes too
much when the processes to speak
for all Minnesota comrades. 1t seems
rather strange that at this late time,
In the period Of party discussion their
blood" should boil"
AS to the part l took in Minnesota,
as the representative OF the then CEN
trail executive committee, / will re-
mind Comrade Hathaway of the fact
that the district committee in Min
nesota, of which he was a member,
unanimously adopted a resolution
praising my work there, and sent it
to the G. E. c. and copy to me per-
sonally in New York which have
before me at this moment. Evidently
my imperfections only became ap-
parent to Comrade Hathaway in this
month OF December, 1924, but certain
ly not in September, 1923.
AS the late unlamented Mr.. Post, of
Battle Greek, would say: There's a
Reasonl"
l think this assault can be taken
for what 1t Is worth.
AS to other Minnesota comrades, !
am certain they will recall that there
was never a meeting of our comrades
that did not attend. In addition to
that | spoke at meetings of the de-
Tense society, Young Workers League
celebrations, a picnic, lectured before
branches, attended general member
ship meetings in both Minneapolis and
st. Paul, wrote publicity daily for our
press regarding the convention we
were helping arrange. familiarized
myself with the complicated election
laws Of the state, Strengthened out a
local fight in the party, held confer
ences with progressive labor people,
wrote constitution and bylaw for
the proposed organization, besides pre-
pairing exhaustive and detailed reports
to the C. E. c. and writing articles
for the DAILY WORKER in my
capacity as one of its editors. Aside
from these few tasks that kept me oc-
cupied from twelve to sixteen hours
a day devoted my time to private"
matters.
The one time I left a committee
meeting before it was concluded, when
there was nothing but formal routine
to finish, l spent the evening at the
home of Comrade R. c. Hedlund, who
was not then member of our party,
but who was supporter and whom
Comrade Hathaway. personally, adj
vised me to cultivate.
On the few occasions I did not
spend the whole day at party head
quarters, engaged in preparations for
the convention, l attended the ses-
sions Of the convention of the Amer
lean Bar Association and listened to
Mr.. Hughes dilate upon the Monroe
Doctrine as applied to this stage of
capitalist imperialism, Mr.. Taft, John
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-31
BY ABRAHAM JAkIRA


"THE right wing never has any
courage to stand up and fight
directly for it's policy, but tries by
devious ways, by indirection and by
shifting issues. to advance it's infiu-
ence and smuggle in its policy" says
Comrade Cannon in the DAILY
WORKER of Dec. 18th. We are not
going to discuss the validity of this
statement, but will try to show that it
applies to the majority fully one hun
dred per cent.
What Are the Issues?
The theses of both groups deal with
several important issues. The farmer
labor party, undoubtedly, occupies the
outstanding place among these, but
each of the other issues are at lest
of sufficient importance as to be dis
cussed by the party membership. We
must not try to smugge in these is
sues just because we are discussing
the farmer-labor party The issue of
the Second-and-half International ten
dency was important enough to be
seriously considered by the enlarged
session of the Communist International
last spring. SO why all the excitement
of Comrade Cannon when Comrade
Ruthenberg raises "the issue of the
opportunistic errors of Comrade
Lore? Before the discussion is over
many other issues will undoubtedly be
given consideration whether Comrade
Cannon likes it or not.
What Is Not the Issue
The majority on the other hand
raises quite a number of shifting is
sues" which have little to do with the
present discussion. An active COM
rade here suggested to me that an
article be written entitled-"What is
not the issue" This was after he par
ticipated in the discussion In one Of
the party branches where another
comrade reported for the majority
side. The majority spends consider
able time to prove" that the ANAL
gamation slogan is good, that the
trade unions are important factors in
the class struggle, that there many
issues which can serve as basis for
our united front campaigns etc. Are
these the issues involved in the pres
ent discussion? And In order to fur
Their befog and confuse the issue the
cry of "opportunism' and right wing"
is raised by the majority against the
minority. stop Thief" Comrade Can
non. win not do At this later hour. II
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