The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-12
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litical fermentation among the
masses in order to drive wedge
between the bourgeoisie, no matter
how insurgent and liberal, and the
working class, no matter how little
enlightened. We must remember
not only the immediate outcome of
the elections and cur glory in its
results, but also the future strug-
giles of the working class.
The Conference for Progressive
Political Action is an embodiment Of
that part of organized labor which,
under the leadership Of reactionary
labor officials allowed its lot to be
thrown with the bourgeoisie. Domi-
mated by the bureaucrats of the
railroad craft unions who were
eager to deliver the organizations
represented in the conference to the
democratic party under the candi-
dacy of McAdoo; faced with a scan
dial which for a while made the
nomination Of McAdoo undesirable
while the appearance of another
democratic candidate with a reputa-
tion of so-ealled friend of labor is
highly improbable, the Conference
for Progressive Political Action is
biding time, still in expectation of
a contingency which will make the
creation of third bourgeois party
unnecessary. Further than a third
party the Conference for Progress
sive Political Action is not ready to
go. In this it is eagerly sustained
by the socialist party on the one
hand, by the liberal groups, such as
the Committee of 48, etc. on the
other. There is little doubt that at
best the July 4 conference of the
Conference for Progressive Politi-
cal Action will result in the proc,a-
nation of it's readiness to support
third bourgeois party. This de
parture. being a decisive break with
with the tradition of labor support
ing one Of the old capitalist parties,
will also strengthen our work in ia
vOr of real class labor party. We
will have to create a center which
either in these coming elections or
in the near future will separate the
masses of the workers from their
liberal bourgeois leaders, as our ac-
Invites in the industrial field. are
trying to separate them from the
conservative bureaucracy in their
economic organizations.
Ell. The Oil Scandal.
The monstrous frauds unveiled in
the entire government machinery in
connection with the oil Investigations.
far from shaking the foundations of
American capitalism, or even chang
L. w.l.k.A.1 .~lA-~s.. -
congress has nevertheless created
that state of political amazement
and widespread mockery at the ac-
cepted bourgeois political phrase
ology which makes the masses more
susceptible both to class propa-
ganda and to the formation Of a
class political party. The material
furnished by the investigations,
however, must be utilized not in the
same spirit as it is done by third
party spokesman, but as proof of
rottenness of the capitalist system
as a whole, and as our urge for the
workers to become a political
power.
ii. Principles of Our Election Policy
1t follows from all these circum-
stances that our role IN the coming
elections must be based on the fol-
lowing principles.
"a We pursue lAe policies Of a
United Front of Labor as outlined
by the Communist International;
namely: we strive to unite the larg-
est possible number of workers and
poor farmers on a program of
struggle against capitalist domina-
ton.
ca We did not como to the work
ing masses with full and detailed
program OF revolutionary class
struggle as exemplified by the pro-
gram Of the Workers Party, but we
come with a minimum of class de-
mands which, while drawing a line
between the proletariat and the
borgeoisie, will make the begin
ming of a political struggle against