The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31


Dear Comrades: 1t has come to
the attention of the Central Execu-
tive Committee, that the question of
policy to be followed by our Party
organization in the Farmer-Labor
Party has been before the District
Executive Committee and divergent
views have come before that COM
.mittee on this question. The Cen
trail Executive Committee directs me
to make the following statement to-
the District Executive Committee re-
garding the matter:
The situation in Minnesota is Of
vital Importance to our whole Party
organization. In Minnesota the
Farmer-Labor Party is in existence
in definite, crystallized form, and
the policy which we adopt in Mime
sofa will be a precedent for the
whole Party in relation to the Ma
tional Farmer-Labor Party when
that organization is finally crystal
liked. 1t is therefore important that
we adopt the correct Communist pol
icy in Minnesota as a guide to our
whole Party for its work inside of
the Farmer-Labor Party turnout the
country.
Our Work as Communist Party.
In order to put the question of this
policy in a correct relationship, we
must proceed from the basis of what
is our work as Communist Party.
The Workers Party prides itself in
being a Communist Party; that
means, that it considers its work to
build up and lead the forces which
will bring about a proletarian revo-
luton in the United States and es-
tablish Soviet form of government
and the Dictatorship of the Prole-
tariat. Our struggle to achieve this
end gives US our right to call our
Party a Communist Party. We are
organized to attain tha< end and all
the work which we do as a Party
must lead to this goal which we are
striving for.
Methods of Reaching Our Goal.
With this fact firmly fixed in our
minds, the next step is to consider
thru what methods we can build up
the forces which will create the pro-
letarian revolution and establish the
Soviets and the Dictatorship of the
Proletariat.
One method which might be con-
sidered as a means, is that of con-
vincing the majority of the workers
thru propaganda that the present
capitalist system is a system of ex-
y1O;fo4fov, anI On,rasssor Fow 4bo
workers of this country and that the
government is the instrument of the
ruling class for maintaining this sys-
tenn and that they must establish the
Soviet Government and the Prole-
tartan Dictatorship. This method of
propaganda is the method of such
organizations as the Socialist Labor
Party and the Proletarian Party.
As Communist Party we use the
method of propaganda in carrying on
our work, but we know that merely
thru theoretical propaganda about
the evils of the capitalist system and
the necessity of the Proletarian revo-
luton, Soviets and the Proletarian
Dictatorship, we can never win the
majority of the working class and
mobilize them for the struggle to
achieve these ends.
The Communists method of work
includes, besides the method of prop
uganda, the method of participating
in the everyday struggle of the
workers, and thru such participation,
winning leadership of the working
class and thus creating the movement
which can bring about the prole-
tartan revolution. We know that the
class conflicts which the capitalist
system produces continually, bring
the workers into conflict with the
ruling class over immediate questions
of wages, working conditions, and
other matters affecting their daily
lives. 1t is the Communist policy to
enter into the struggles of this char
acter which arise under the existing
order and to fight side by side with
the working class, showing at each
development of such struggles the
necessity of steps forward, because
the working class cannot win any
final victory until the proletarian
revolution is achieved.
The United Front Policy.
In the application Of this Commun-
list STACEY, the Communist Interna-
tional has developed the policy of the
United Front. For us, the Farmer
Labor Party and in other United
Front movements, we associate our
selves with other groups Of workers
in struggles over immediate ques-
tons affecting the workers lives. We
fight with them against the capitalist
oppression which they are conscious
of.
Our purpose in thus fighting with
the workers is to help them win
whatever can be won thru such
struggles. But this is not our only
purpose. We have as our principle
aim in the United Front, to win the
masses of the workers for the strug-
gle against capitalism and for the