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

the LaFollette movement into a left
class-party-blo with the view Of even
tually splitting them away from that
movement. AT the same time we must
direct our efforts toward organizing
this group and those elements which
are for class party which have not
joined the LaFollette movement
around themselves and Of establishing
our open, revolutionary leadership
over this group.
AS part of this agitation under the
slogan For a Glass Farmer-Labor
Party" we must raise immediate is
sues rising out of the class struggle
against the LaFollette movement and
by the fact that this group will not
fight for the workers and poor farm
ers prove to the workers that this
movement will not fight their battles
against the capitalists.
6. Our immediate campaign must
be one of agitation. Whether the left
class-party elements will be eventual
ly actually organized into farmer
labor party lighting the class battles
of workers and farmers is not the
essential question at present. The in
evitability of the formation Of farm.
er-labor party is not the basis of our
campaign. We use this slogan as a
means of agitation and to establish
contact with workers who are moving
toward Independent political action,
to win them for the Workers Party
and to build our party It is quite
possible that the actual organization
of class farmer-labor party which
will estblish itself firmly and function
over period of time will not be the
line of development, but that the best
of those elements which we bring un-
der our influence and leadership thru
the campaign under the slogan for
Glass Farmer Labor Party" can be alb
sorbed into the Workers Party with
out passing thru the stage of actual
organization into a separate party.
z. The campaign for a Glass
Farmer-Labor Party if conducted up
on correct conception of the United
Front tactic will not obscure and hide
the Workers Party or substitute some
other organization for it. On the con-
trary it will bring the Workers Party
to the fore as never before. 1t will
make our party stand out as the lead
er in the struggle in the interest of
the workers and poorer farmers.
The United Front farmer-labor par
ty campaign is united front man
oeuver to build the Workers Party.
1t was the error of the Foster Cannon
group on the G. E. c. of the party
that they considered the formation Of
a farmer labor party as goal IN It.
self and were ready to sacrifice the
bringing under the leadership and in
fluence of the Workers Party Of
left wing farmer-labor group which
was ready to form With us radical
farmer-labor party for the illusion of
the organization of a broad all-inclus-
i've farmer-labor party, by the official
dom of the socalled bona-fde trade
union movement. This point of view
accounts for their present policy of
abandoning the farmerlabor cam
paign. For them the LaFollette pro-
gressive movement is the all-embrac-
ing labor party. They took the posi-
ton that to try to build the Workers
Party through the farmer-labor united
front was "a split theory" which was
contrary to the United Front tactic.
This error must not be repeated. Our
aim in carrying on the campaign "for
a Class Farmer-Labor Party must be
to bring the left wing bloc in the labor
movement and among the poorer
farmers under our influence and lead
ership, impregnate this group with
Communist understanding and to alb
sorb the best elements into the
Workers Party with the goal of max
ing it mass Communist Party.
8. The concrete steps which we
must take in carrying out this policy
are the following:
(a) Our members in the trade un-
ions shall conduct strong campaign
of criticism against the LaFollette
progressive movement pointing out