The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-04
BittGman Speaks at German Federation National c

situation, and executed In a manner
most satisfactory and successful from
every point Of view.
1t is perfectly clear now that the de-
cision of the Comintern was correct,
not only because the third party al
lance was wrong strategy but also be-
cause it was wrong tactics. The
farmer-labor movement could not be
saved from the LaFollette sweep even
by the dangerous expedient Of the
third party alliance.
would like to say in parenthesis
that according to the Comintern the
third party alliance was no good, not
because 1t was a ''maneuver" and that
maneuvers are no good, but because
this particular maneuyer happened TO
be bad one. We are Marxians, Len
inists, and therefore, dialecticians. To
us maneuver is not an abstraction.
A maneuver is nothing else than a
political act, a concrete move in def
mite direction, designed to weaken our
enemies and strengthen the workers
and their leader, the Communist
Party. A maneuver is good if it tends
to produce favorable results for the
class struggle and for our party. A
maneuver is bad if it fails to produce
such results or If it tends to produce
contrary results. The third party al
lance, under the existing conditions
would have produced results contrary
to the interests of the class struggle
and of the Workers Party. Therefore
it was a bad maneuver.
/ also want to say that the second
change in tactics, the one made on
July s, by our party nominating its
own candidates, proved to be correc'
and of great benefit to our movement
We established our party as the only
party OF the class struggle. The
100000 votes that were undoubtedly
polled by our candidates, which indi
Gates the strength Of our party only
among those workers that have the
right to vote, is proof sufficient thai
there are in the United States many
more hundreds of thousands of work
ers, particularly among the unorgan
lied, unsettled and disfranchised, tha'
are in sympathy with our movement
and that are ready to follow our lead
ership. 1t is something that oul
party may very well be proud Of.
In looking over the past ten months
we shall find that in addition to oui
gains as manifested in the election re
turns, our party has been making
steady progress all around. True, W.
have no spectacular victories to reg
lister, no sensational successes base'
on sand or on infamed imagination
which disappear in smoke and nois
at the firsth touch of reality, bu
steady, solid progress in every phas
of our work.
Despite the critical situation II
which our party found itself due I
the LaFollette sweep and our thir'
party entanglements. the followini
characterizes the development of gu
party.
ID Constant increase IN dues-pay
ing membership
(2) DAILY WORKER is MAXIM
steady progress. The present cam
paign which is bound to bring in a
least $40, 100000 and five thousand neV
subscribers will undoubtedly insur
the existence of our Daily for tn
year 1925.
go The workers Monthly" alth
only in the third month Of its exist
ence, is establishing for itself soli
basis financially and is becoming tn
theological leader of every activ
working class militant on every feel
of the class struggle.
"a The language press of on
party is growing ever stronger an
more influential
CD Our activities for the develoT
ment of the left wing in the trad
unions is constantly moving ahea
despite the difficulties created by III
split of July and the comparativ
isolation of our party that resulte