The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-16
Discussion Of Our Party's Immediate Tasks

What are our tactics in this situa-
ton? The only tactic possible under
the policy of the central executive
committee majority is to offer resolu-
tions for the endorsement of the
Workers Party against the call for the
G. p. P. A. convention. Endorsements
of the Workers Party are very fine,
but in the first place they will be
few and far between, and secondly,
they will leave us in the same position
that we are left in by the paper en-
d0rsements of amalgamation by two
million trade union members which
Comrade Foster boasts about. We
cannot affiliate trade unions and farm
organizations with the Workers Party.
Our party as a Communist Party is
based upon individual membership. 1t
is utopian notion to believe that
we can during this campaign move
more than a few thousand of the
quarter or a half million members of
the trade unions and farm organiza-
tons who might be put on record
against the LaFollette third party and
for a class farmer-labor party thru
a militant campaign by our party, to
join the Workers Party as individual
members.
1t is Communist tactic to build a
united front in order to enter into a
common struggle with such organiza-
ton. The farmer-labor party slogan
expresses the form of the united front
we can build with the elements which
we could win in such a campaign
against LaFolletteism. The raising Of
the slogan of For a Glass Farmer
Labor Party" would be our most effec-
tive means for fulfilling our major
task, the development of class politi-
cal action and our campaign in sup
port of that slogan would do more to
build the Workers Party than any
number of sterile resolutions for the
endorsement of the Workers Party.
1t is only necessary to study the
situation as here outlined in regard
to the c.. P. P. A. convention to see
that the policy of the central execu-
tive committee majority is sectarian-
ism and reputation of the united
front tactic in relation to the most
significant development of the Ameri-
can labor movement, the movement
toward class political action
The central executive committee
majority says: Oh, but we propose
united front on other questions, un-
employment, child labor, etc. Well
and good. We have had such united
front and we must continue to enter
such campaigns as often as possible,
but such united front campaigns are
not an answer to the requirements of
the development of the movement for
class political action. The c. P. P. A.
LaFollette movement is offering an
organizational capitalization to work
ers and farmers organizations in the
folds of the petty bourgeoisie third
party. Shall we abandon the field and
permit this capitalization to take
place? That is what the abandon
ment Of the slogan For a Glass
Farmer-Labor Party means. The
raising of the slogan means to offer
to the most conscious elements
crystallization around the Workers
Party in a united front organization.
The central executive committee ma
jority policy abdicates our leadership
and hands it over to LaFollette, to
permit the workers and exploited
farmers to remain "at rest" in the
third party.
The few facts cited show where the
central executive committee majority
policy is leading us to. 1t is taking
us out of the main stream of the
movement for class political action by
the workers and exploited farmers
which has sprung out Of the life ex-
periences of these classes in new
epoch of capitalism brought by the
world war The majority policy spells
bankruptcy both in leadership in de-
veloping class political action by the
working masses and in building up
our party into a mass Communist
Party.