The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-26

Judging by the lack Of response on
the part of the C. E. c. majority mem
bers to the unemployment campaign
proposals made by the minority mem
mers, one would say that it was Brow
der's economics and not MARKHAM eco
Monies which was the basis of our
failure to achieve results in the I'M
employment campaign today. In
March the Foster majority could not
see the economic slump which assum-
ed an acute character as early as
May.
Executive Committee Brings
prosperity"
2. After the Coolidge election the
official prosperity drummers of the
American capitalist class became
rather noisy. They saw in every rip
pie on the economic surface a torrent
of prosperity. The Foster group prac-
tically accepted this vulgar bourgeois
unscientific estimate of the political
situation when it informed the Com
intern as follows: "Our unemployment
campaign yet propaganda stage
Awaiting opportune moment for or
ganization. Coolidge election started
high boom stock exchange. General
tenor capitalist press business future
highly optimistic. Announcing pro-
jects large orders railway equipment
Number unemployed decreasing"
The inference of this economic
analysis" is clear. The intention is
even clearer.
3. In the attitude towards indus
trial work by the party we find fur
Their substantiation of the Cominterns
correct estimate of the two groups
With the Foster group industrial ac-
tivity and mobilization for the same
are an end in itself. Of course, since
Marx declared that all class strug-
giles are political struggles, the Eos
ter group, in effect, maintains the at
titude that industrial activity per Sc
is political activity.
With the MARKHAM group, the minor
ity of the C. E. c., industrial activities,
our work in the trade unions, are only
means to an end, are only a most
effective means for the political radi-
calization of the masses. We propose
to utilize the economic struggles of
the workers against the exploiters
and to develop a revolt of the work
ing masses against the reactionary
trade union bureaucracy primarily be-
cause these channels afford us an ex-
cellent opportunity Of Fastening the
| establishment of the leadership of the
Communist Party over these masses.
AS Communists, it is our purpose to
unity the struggles of the workers, to
lend conscious character to these
struggles and to give political edge
to them.
Profintern Instructions Dead Letter.
The industrial program prepared
for us with the aid of the Profintern
last May has been dead letter. In
that program our party industrial
department was specifically told that
fall the struggles of the workers
shall be turned into political chan
nels" and that our industrial policy
must broaden itself beyond the mar
row confines of trade union conven.
ton policy. We were told that our
industrial department must not only
have convention policies against the
bureaucracy but must also have strike
policies, policies for the everyday
struggles against the exploiters with
view of giving the struggles a po-
litical edge.
The program of the Profintern is an
excellent one. But since its arrival
in June 1t has been dead letter.
The Miners Convention.
The difference between the two
groups was evidenced in the c. e. c.
debates on the policy for the last ma
tional convention of the United Mine
Workers. To Comrade Foster the bat
tie to reinstate Howatt and to democ-
ratize the trade union machinery was
the central, the dominant struggle. To
Comrade Pepper these were very inn
portant issues. But the political de-
inands were to be stressed. Fight for
Howat! or Counsel Fight for the de-
mocratization Of the trade union ma
chinery in order to facilitate the I'M
dermining of the bureaucracy! Most
assuredly! But stress and make
major issue out of naturalization Of
the mines; out Of the demand for gov
eminent maintenance of the disem-
ployed miners at full union wages; out
Of the farmer-labor united front cam
paign.
The Chicago Garment Strike.
And in his report to the executive
committee on the Chicago garment
strike, Comrade tombstone declared
on April 2, 1924, that the DAILY
WORKER, by raising the issue ION to
City Hall" gave the workers the i'm.
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