The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-13

Conference-if all signs ara not mis-
leading-will decide to support Nc
Adoo as candidate, that is, to sup
port the party Of Wilson, the party
OF the world war, the party Of the
raids of Palmer.
But the st. Paul convention win
also not be a pure class gathering
OF workers and exploited farmers.
The May Both convention viii be a
conglomeration of Third Parties and
real Farmer-Labor Parties. There
will be on the one hand representa-
tlves Of workers and exploited farm
ers, and on the other hand. repre-
sentatives of well-to-do farmers.
small businessmen and intelligentsia.
The st. Paul convention will not
create real class party of workers
and exploited farmers, but a Third
Party of all the above-mentioned ele-
ments. But this new party will have :
within it the Federated Farmer
Labor Party which is the beginning
OF the class party of the laboring
masses and which will rally around
itself the workers and exploited
farmers.
But even the representatives Of
small businessmen in st. Paul will be
different from the Democratic or Re-
publican Party. The small business
men and Well-to-do farmers who re-
main in the old parties accept there
by the political leadership of the capt.
talists. DISCONTINUED and revolving
small businessmen and farmers mani
fest by their break with the old
capitalist parties and their entering
Third Party that they no longer ac-
cept the leadership of the capitalists.
that even with all their characteristic
hesltancy, wavering and half-meas-
ures, they nevertheless want to COM
bat the capitalists.
We Communists must understand
this difference clearly, the difference
] between uHter-Fevelutionarv and
revolutionary compromise. Il is
counter revolutionary compromise
when the labor aristocracy concludes
an alliance within the old capitalist
parties to conserve the existing social
order. But it is a revolutionary
compromise when Communist work
ers enter into the May Both conven-
ton to form the united front with
militant workers and desperate
farmers, even though these masses
DO not as yet see clearly the differ
ence between themselves and well-toJ
do farmers and small businessmen.
1T IS a revolutionary compromise
when Communists seek and accept
the alliance of farmers or Third
Party forces generally, if these ele-
ments are in revolt against the two
party system end wish to fight Against
ruling big capital A COMPRISE which
creates allies for the working class
for weakening and undermining the
present social order is a revolutionary
compromise. When Secretary Of
Commerce Hoover, the most con-
scious representative of the interests
of the capitalist class saws that the
two-party system is the best guar
antee for the present seal order.
Communi its must und rstand the
revolutionary significance of a Third
Party. When Gompers, the capital-
list agent within the ranks of labor.
iN~oAAAAli1 10 tite PpllCy OF hpWarQ-
ing the friends and punishno TIE
enemies" within the cd capitalist
parties, Communists must understand
the revolutionary significance of in
dependent political action of the
working class. When the whole
capitalist rress with urit~d forces.
dav by dav "~rovesv th~t tha in
vests If h f~--.-o,.s - 'ieo-ant
from those Of the w rkers, Com
munists must unaerstand IL
tionary significance of the alliance
between farmers and workers. When
yellow Socialists yell that the Com
munists have become opportunists
because they remain with the masses
of workers and farmers, though these
are not as yet class conscious, Com
munists must understand the revolu-
tionary significance Of the COM
promise between the advance guard
and the rear guard Of the working