The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-28


3. The Communist international
has well pointed out that the United
Front must never be an agreement
between leaders. The United Front
must be built from below. by direct
appeal of our party to working mass
es to join in a common fight against
the capitalists. The party must never
hide its identity in these United Front
manoeuvers. 1t must stand out open
ly and boldly as the leader in initial
ing and conducting the united front
struggle.
4. Our farmer-labor party campaign
was an application of the United
Front tactic. For our party the ap.
plication Of this tactic was a success.
The test Of our manoeuvers was not,
as some elements Of our party CHROME
ously believe, whether we actually
succeeded in forming a farmer-labor
party, but whether through the United
Front slogan for a Glass Farmer
Labor Party" we were able to increase
the influence and prestige Of the
Workers Party among the masses OF
workers and poorer farmers of this
country and thus hasten the develop
ment of a mass Communist Party.
The united front farmer-labor party
tactic developed our party into an
acknowledged political force in the
lives of the workers of this country.
1t was through this United Front
tactic that our party emerged from
the status of propaganda sect tc
that of Communist Party. The Com
munist International recognized this
in declaring in its statement on the
Third Party issue 1.-THE Workers Par
ty, which Immediately after it had
been established, was capable Of en-
crying from the stage Of agitation and
propaganda and of taking up with
great energy the political strug
gle :" !.
6. In our farmer-labor party cam
paign, in and prior to the June II
convention, we hesitated to openly
establish our Communist leadership
This was an error in the application
of the United Front tactic. The I'm
tied Front tactic does not mean that
the party shall not carry on cam
paigns in it's own name and under its
own leadership. 1t means precisely
the reverse, that our party shall seize
upon and develop issues of the class
struggle and through such issues mob
ilize the workers in common struggles
with itself. The masking of our lead
ership in the farmer-labor movement
led us into many difficulties and op-
portunist errors. In applying the un-
tied front farmerlabor tactic in the
future and in other united front man
.oeuvers we must openly establish our
leadership and consistently seek to
develop Communist understanding in
the groups with which we surround
ourselves in these actions.
B The Farmer-Labor United Front
Slogan.
1. In its statement to our Party
on the Third Party issue the Commun-
list International declares:
"The first task of the Workers Par
ty is to become a mass Communist
Party of workers. 1t can fulfil this
task only by most actively participant
ing in the establishment of a Labor
Party which will embrace all elements
of the working class willing to con-
duct policy independent of the cap
italist class and by establishing a
bond with the farmers who are at
present in a state of strong fermen-
tation. These two independent tasks
the task of building around the
Communist Party a broad, class labor
party, and-of establishing a bond
between a labor party and the poor
est elements OF the farmers
have developed in the United
States thanks to the peculiarities
Of historical evolution, as one prob
lem, namely the building Of common
party of workers and exploited farm
ers. In many states farmer-labor par
ties are already springing up. This pc