The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19

control OF production.
How was it possible to defeat it on
the ground of these slogans which it
recognized? Only if the Communist
Party would say to the Social Demo
cratic workers: You are for the
same fighting aims as we, therefore,
we want to fight in common for these
aims, we want to establish the united
front.
United Front-But How?
How was the united front to be
established? The left comrades said:
Only from the bottom! The Com
munist international and the majority
of the Communist Party of Germany
declared: This attitude is incorrect.
If we would rally the Social Demo-
cratic masses to the common strug-
gle for common slogans, it is neces-
sary to show concretely that the
Social Democratic leaders do indeed
recognize the common fighting aims
IN words, but do not want to move
a finger in the fight for them. The
establishment of the united front
from the bottom necessitates the at
tempt to form the united front from
the top. Only when the Social Demo-
cratic leaders rejected our demands
for common action 10 fight for the
necessaries of life of the workers,
were we able to convince Social
Democratic masses that we alone are
the defenders Of their necessaries of
life.
But if the Social Democrats agree
to our proposals, the Let's ask, what
becomes of the unmasking of the
Social Democracy? We reply to
them: The seizure Of real values, the
control of production necessitates re-
volutionary mass struggles. The
capitalist class, which pays no taxes,
which lays its hand on the last utili-
ties still found in the hands of the
democratic state 1.-THE demand Of
SHINES for pawning Of the railroads)
will neither pay taxes nor permit the
control of industry by the organs of
the working class without a bitter
struggle. This struggle will require
of the Social Democracy to break
with the policy of cooperation of the
classes, to break with the policy of
coalition with the capitalist class.
The Social Democracy as an entirety
will not join in with this break. It's
leaders of the right will strive with
might and main against the hquida-
ton of their policy carried on since
August a, 1914. 1t is thus that they
will best unmask themselves before
the Social Democratic masses. The
laboring masses which we cannot
separate from the Social Democracy
through the propaganda for the
dictatorship of the proletariat we will
break away on the ground of the
struggle for the immediate demands.
Should the Social Democratic work.
ers succeed in forcing out the leaders
of the right, and replacing them from
below with left Social Democratic
leaders who though not Communists
as yet, nevertheless wish to fight
honestly for the transitional demands,
then we will fight in common with
them a part of the way.
The Slogan of the Workers
Government
For this common struggle we fixed
the slogan of workers government as
the controlling idea, that is, as
political guide. In the final instance
it meant the readiness of the Com
munist Party to fight together with
the left Social Democracy for the con-
quest of power for while even on
the road of democracy. The theses of
the Fourth Congress of the Commun-
ist international state that wherever
the united working class has captured
majorities in Parliament, we are
ready to form workers governments
for the purpose of instituting control
of production, seizure of real values,
arming of the workers. We know
that in this attempt the Democratic
framework would burst, that the capt.
talist class would not submit through
ballot, to control by the work
ing class. And we know at the same
time that the slogan of workers gov
eminent" will once more bring to the
fore the question Of the seizure Of
power, and that in the second place,