The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-24
BY MAX BEDAcHT & JAY LOVE.
STONE.

STONE.
II ouestion-Who must be the
rs leaders Of all united front cam
paigns?
A s W THE Communists, of
course. In this connection it is neces-
sary to state that the Ruthenberg-
Pepper group has had considerable
difficulty in impressing this elemen-
tary Communist truth upon many of
the comrades high in the councils of
the present majority of the central ex-
ecutive committee. We cite the
following from report on the united
front farmer-labor campaign in the
city of Chicago made by Comrade
Swabeck, district organizer, on June
10, 1923, to the central executive
committee.
I'VE had decided and did pursue
the method of as much as possible
following the lead Of the national
officers Of the farmer-Iabor party
and mainly stressed the necessity
of unity"
The comrades of the present minor
ity of the trail executive committee
fought against this Communist
concept of the united front tactics and
will continue to do so.
1E Question-Where does the Eos
IvI ter-cannon group oct the notion
that because Of the fact that HlIIqult
and some other socialist party leaders
may attempt to use the farmer-labor
party slogan, therefore, this slogan
becomes useless for the Communist
Party?
Answer-This argument is the trade
mark of the centrist. The centrist
has so little confidence in his own
principles and tactics that when he
meets apparently the same principles
and tactics from some enemy he does
not dare to put forth his own for fear
that the masses wouldn't know the
difference.
1H Question-Sinee the Foster
iV' Cannon group is bitterly OPP
posed to submitting the question i'm
mediateIy to the C. I. where does it
get the nerve to fool the membership
that the c. !. has as good as endorsed
its stand already? What is the mean.
ing Of the c. (. c. majority spokes
men talking themselves blue In the
face repeating the following section
from the last advice from the C. l.
on our farmer-Iabor campaien7 an
case Of split at the June II conven
ton the question of whether or not
the Workers Party shall act alto.
gether independently in its own name
In the election campaign or whether
Il shall launch campaign under the
name of the =. L. p. will depend
largely upon whether II (the Work
ers Party Is successful in the split
and will depend on how far II main.
talns contact with the working
masses at the June II convention?
Answer-The declaration Of the c
l. applies only to and was given only
for the consideration of method OF
conducting a specific election cam
paign at hand and was not put for
ward in any way at all and does not
at all pretend to deal with the ques.
ton of the farmer-labor party as an
issue and slogan.
Commenting on the American ques.
ton at the meeting of the commission
in the presidium OF the e. C. of the
G. !. on May 20, 1924 Zinoviev said:
Il believe that II we study everything
we will say that in the year 1924
things are not so elementary that we
can simply go along with any move.
ment that is against the trusts and
we cannot propagate the idea of an
independent labor party. WE MUST
DARE TO PUT FORTH THIS IDEA
AND 1T MUST BE REALIZED.
NAMELY, A SEPARATE LABOR
PARTY. 1T is OUR MAIN DUTY
TO SEE THIS IN NOTION. IN AM.
ERICA THERE is A DANGER OF
OUR FALLING INTO DE LEONISM.
THAT WE MUST STATE QUITE
OPENLY :. The tactics of
forming farmer-labor party were alb
solutely correct on condition OF
course that we retain q Workers
Party OF our own. That is the Am.
erican plan. In France II was pos
sible to conduct the election cam,
paign under the slogan OF work.
ers' and peasants bloc" In America
we must drive this party forward but
1t the same time we must build our
own party. That must remain
We must not regret that we formed
the F.. f. L. P. We are glad about
this fact that We have q farmer.iabor