The daily worker., 1924-12-27
A YEAR OF PARTY PROGRESS
(Conitnued from page 81

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can Federation of Labor be modified
for a struggle against American i'm
perialism; condemnation of imperial
list schemes against China; demand
that the R. /. L. U. plan for inter-
national unity be endorsed and the
solidarity of labor be achieved; pro-
test against criminal syndicaiism
laws, against the deportation of
Oates, Mailer, Moran, and Nigra; the
organization Of the youth; release Of
Mooney, Billings, Ford, Suhr, Rangel,
Kline, Sacco, yanzetti, and other
political prisoners; condemnation Of
the Ku Klux Khan and American
Legion.
This program was designed to
serve as a basis of action in the
trade unions to rally the masses to
the left wing. Special mention should
be made Of the resolution ''For la
Dor congress" which contains a prac-
tical program Of partial demands, all
Of which respond to immediate burn
ing needs Of the masses, and which
provides for united front action by
the organized labor movement in al
lance with the Workers Party. 1t is
highly significant that all the minor
ity contributed to making up pro
gram for the A. F. of L. convention
was motion to add the opportunist
slogan ''For class farmer-labor par
ty." They violently objected to fight
ing in the convention for the Workers
Party.
In connection with this we must
mention the convention of the Pan
American Federation of Labor held in
Mexico City, Mexico. The party had
its representative, Comrade Johnston
in the field with a definite program
Of policy and organization designed
to achieve two aims One, to pro-
mote and unity the left wing move
ment in the trade unions of North,
Central and South America under
the leadership of the R. l. L. U. Two,
to coordinate the activities of the
Communist Parties of the United
States and Mexico for common strug-
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Latin-America. The only improve
ment the minority could suggest to
our Pan-American program was to
insert some additional comas, semi
colens and incidentally an addition
al word.
1t must be stated in passing that
the minority exhibited a woeful lack
of consistency and imagination when
they failed to propose a Pan-Ameri-
can farmer-labor party as an amend
ment to our program. But that may
come yet. 1t is also noteworthy that
altho the c. f. c. adopted a Pan
American program, upon the report
of Comrade Lovestone sometime in
May, the executive secretary could
find no better use for it than to put
it in his files. Now, however, the
C. E. C. has taken the matter into
its hands and is determined to see
that it's program is carried into eff
feet.
Educational Activities.
This was field sadly neglected by
the former c. e. c., who could see
nothing but the farmer-labor party
campaign. We realized the burning
need for systematic Bolshevist educa-
tion in the party and at the first op-
portunity established a special edu-
cational department with a respon-
sible national director, Comrade Can
non and committee under the super
vision Of the G. e. c.
Already the party is realizing the
beneficial results of the activities Of
the educational department. There
have been established party schools
and classes in New York, Chicago.
Philadelphia and Boston, also large
network Of elementary study classes
in the A. B. C. Of Communism, thru
out the country. There are also in
operation circuit study classes in the
districts OF Ohio, Illinois and Penn
sylvania. Provisions have been made
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