The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-28
I iscussi0n on Immediate Tasks of Our Party

ers and organizers OF such defensive
actions win be another target or the
attack Of the employers The estab-
lished bureaucracy OF the labor union
will, in this crisis, follow the way Of
least resistance--it will try to use the
unions as instruments to pacify the
workers rather than to organize their
resistance. The American Imperial
list interests are more and more meet
ing with success Ia hitching to their
chariot the upper crust Of the working
class, the highly skilled workers
This consciously fostered aristocracy
Of labor is seeking to transform the
trade unions from organizations Of
class struggle for the workers into
capitalist agencies for more intense
exploitation of the great masses OF
unskilled and colonial workers. Wit
ness the Baltimore and Ohio plan, the
extension Of labor banking, the owner
ship or non-union coal mines by mem
bers Of the Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers. The sacrifice OF the well
fare OF the great mass OF workers,
price for peace with the employers,
win be the tactics Of the trade union
leaders, the more so the more the
resistance OF the victimized workers
against the offensive Of the employ
ers turns into partial revolts against
the very system OF capitalism itself.
| Under these conditions, all policies,
based exclusively on the so-called
bona fide trade union movement, for
revolutionizing broad masses OF work
ers are doomed to fail
2. Thus the struggle OF the work
ers in the near future will increasing
ly take the form Of revolts Of the IN.
organized and unauthorized, OUTLAW
strikes. These strikes viii be revolts
Of the working masses. not only
against their capitalist employers,
but also against their own leaders.
8. The task of the Workers (Com
munist) Party. is clear. to give leader.
ship and direction to these struggle.
All the slogans of our party for the re-
volutionization OF the labor movement
must be developed from propaganda
slogans against the old trade-union
bureaucracy into objects to be real
lied in actual campaigns. Amalgama,
ton Of craft unions and the building
up OF Industrial unions must become
an immediate object Of united front
campaigns in such "outlawed" strug.
gles and other mass struggles. to be
realized by rank and file action where.
ever possible.
The organization OF the unorganized
must become an immediate object OF
campaign for the mobilization Of the
1 full strength OF the working masses
for their defensive struggles.
Reorganization Of the party on the
basis of shop nuclei will adapt our
organization to these tasks. II win
facilitate the formation Of shop COM
mittees, these to be made the instru.
ment for the defensive struggles of
the workers, for the task of carrying
on actual amalgamation campaigns.
and for the Organization of the unor-
ganiEed.
All successful attempts to widen
strikes will strengthen the workers in
their defense and win facilitate the
achievement Of tangible results in
campaigns for amalgamation and the
organization OF the unorgsnized.
For carrying out OF these tasks.
the party must mobilize Its Industrial
department in full strength.
4. The mobilization Of the party
for Industrial work and its active
participation in industrial struggles
mast have as its primary object the
development OF political activity Of
the working class. The realization OF
this object depends upon our ability
to inject political issues into the
everyday struggles and to mobilize
the struggling workers for political
action. Political problems arising ONT
OF strikes Cuse OF state power in an
forms against striking workers) WIN
supply ample basis for political uu-
tied front movement The slogan az
"Farmer.Labor Party" supplies the
propagandistic basis for the develop-
ment OF political consciousness. OF thu
masses.
In intensive struggles of the i'm
mediate future, the slogan Of the
farmer-labor party also becomes the
basis for real campaigns. Today the
iarmer-labor party supplies the form
which political united 'front.' movement
Of the Communists with non-com.
munist working masses will take.
The political alliance of the trades
union bureaucracy with the petty
Dourgeoisie viii make the slogan OF a
larmerlabor party an entering wadge
between the working masses and their
treacherous leaders. The conflicts
arising between the workers and
these leaders on the basis OF the lat.
ters abandonment OF the cause OF
the former in their immediate econ
nuifr N