The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-12
Reply to the Thesis of Comrades Lore and OIsin


movement is effectively a transitory
stage to the class Farmer-Labor Par
ty. The successful development of
the Third Party movement will seri-
ously affect if not shatter the domi-
nation of the Gompers machine in
the A. F. Of l. thereby opening the
way for favorable changes in the
labor movement.
3-The movement toward and the
formation of a third petty-bourgeois
party creates a favorable situation
for the development Of class Farm
er-Labor Party which is the main OBJ
Jective of our present strategy.
The thesis of Comrades Lore and
Olgin fails to take cognizance Of any
of these considerations. 1t admits
that this movement "is important for
the working class mainly thru the
general political agitation it creates
in the country and particularly thru
the attacks it levels at the old capi-
talist parties" But it fails TO uu-
! derstand the far-reaching implication
even of this statement. What it
does see is the probable coming into
existence Of "a third bourgeois par
ity, which would be no more than
United Front of the big bourgeoisie
and the mass of the middle and pet
ty bourgeoisie which would become
an obstacle for the creation of a pro-
letarian party and may subsequently,
be much more difficult to combat
than an open and avowed enemy Of
the working people"
What this Third Party movement
may eventually materialize into. no
body knows as yet. For the present,
however, it is not United Front of
big bourgeoisie with the middle and
petty bourPeoisie but a movement of
revolt of the workers. explo ted and
weli-to-do farmers and various ele-
ments of the petty bourgeois,e
against the rule of big capital.
That the Third Party movement
carries with it serious dangers for
the success of the Fa-mer-Labor
Party movement goes without saving.
The thesis Of the Central Executive
Committee clearly points out these
dangers, and proposes definite meas
ures to meet them.
After setting forth the conditions
under which it is possible for the
Farmer-Labor Party to support the
candidates of the Third PARTY in the
1924 elections, the thesis Of the c.
E. c. says the following:
If under the conditions set forth
above an election alliance, either
national or local, is made the
| Farmer-Labor Party must main
tain a distinct organization and
carry on an independent campaign
/ for Its own program and utilize
the situation to the utmost to
crystalline in the definite form of
an organized Farmer-Labor Party
all those workers and exploited
farmers who can be brought to the
support Of class party.
Turnout any ca mpaign in which
we maintain an alliance with the
third party, we must constantly
criticize and expose it and its can
didStes, show up the futility of its
program, and make it clear to the
workers who are reached by our
own campaign that the third party
will bring them no salvation and
no relief. We must make it clear
that the whole campaign is simply
starting point in the struggle for
the establishment of a workers
and farmers government. which in
turn is a step towards the Prole-
tartan Dictatorship, the ore and
only instrument for their liberia
ton.
All the elements Of the classes
which are participating in the re-
volt against and split from the old
capitalist parties will be represent
ed in the St. Paul convention on
June 18th. But the probabilit- Of
the class farmer-labor elements
the rank and file WORKERS and poor
far mers-predominating will be
greatly increased by the aggressive
role Of the Workers Psrtv in the
campaign for tho convention and |
the tendency Of the third party
elements (includiu.. 4ha H..