The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-10
WHERE DO YOU STAND?

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1--WE must look forward to the
sharpening Of the class conflicts grow
ing out from these economic condi-
tions.
SO the analysis of the development
of the economic crisis and the class
struggle in the U. S. Of both theses is
the same. The Communists must
form their tactics on the basis Of these
analysis. So, naturally, we would ex-
pect that the same tactics will be for
INFLATED by both the majority and the
minority. But it is not so. Here is
where the difference comes in:
The majority says:
1.-THE basic reasons for our support
of this movement d. e. the farmer-la-
Dor party movement-A. 3D. are not
in existence.
"There are no longer present the
basic conditions which moved our own
party and the Comintern to adopt a
farmer labor party policy
THE Workers Party, therefore, can
not advantageously promulgate the
slogan of 'farmer-labor party at the
present time"
And in practice the majority of the
c. E. G. have already liquidated that
slogan without even waiting for the
convention of the Workers Party,
without even consulting the member
ship of this very important question.
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gan was relegated to the background
Our party did not raise that slogan
at the convention of the American
] Federation of Labor There was a
golden opportunity to raise it and
crystalline the sentiment in the fedora
alton for an independent political ac-
ton around it. But, you see, the ma
jority thought that we cannot do it
"advantag so they did not do
anything just sat down tight and
kept quiet.
The minority says
1.-The slogan of farmer-labor party
supplies the propagandistic basis for
the development of political consci-
I'm intensive struggles of the i'm
mediate future, the slogan of the farm
er-labor party also becomes the basis
for real campaigns.
THE slogan for a class farmer-la-
Dor party remains our most effective
means Of agitation for political action
on class basis by workers and poor
er farmers"
We see, then, that the majority in
its theses rejects the slogan "for a
farmer-labor party" even in theory,
what they have already done in prac-
tice. The minority says that we
should maintain that slogan.
think that the position of the ma
jority is a wrong position. It has
neither logic nor common sense.
Why did we ever raise the slogan
for class farmer-labor party? Was
there a real foundation for it or did
we invent it from our own heads? No,
we did not invent it from our own
heads. There was a real foundation
for it. There was an industrial and
agricultural crisis which produced a
more intensive class struggle In that
struggle the capitalist class used its
political power openly and brutally
against the workers. That forced the
masses of the workers and poorer
farmers TO lean towards the indepen-
dent political action. This gave us
a real foundation for our slogan.
The majority theses admit that the
industrial and agricultural crisis is
not over On the contrary, it will
grow more acute. They also admit
that, as consequence, the class
struggle will become sharper. They
further admit that the capitalist class
will use its political power against
the masses in the strikes even more
openly than in the past. Therefore,
all factors for the development Of the
independent political action on the
part Of the masses still exist and will
exist in the future even to a greater
extent. But someway or other, the
majority discovered that there is not
and will not be sentiment in the
masses for the independent political
action. Therefore, we must abandon
the slogan "for a class farmer.labor
party" You see, there is the same
cause, but there is not the same eff
feet. Can you see any logic in this
reasoning?
II the majority thinks that there is
no sentiment for the farmer.labor
party today and there will not be in
the near future, then 1t must admit
openly that there was no such senti-
ment in the past, too. Therefore, our
slogan was a mistake. But the ma
jority finds somehow TO its advantage
not to repudiate the past openly. but
after beating around the bushes. they
can and repudiate the present and