The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-26

and file will be brought into existence.
AS the class struggle develops and
our campaign against LaFolletteism
progresses there will be found in
number of localities organized labor
bodies ready to break their alliance
with the petty bourgeoisie and to
enter election campaigns as labor or
CARNATIONS. In such cases, it will be
the duty of the Workers Party to
secure the political support Of these
labor bodies for the Workers Party
Wherever this is impossible because
of the immaturity of the masses, the
Workers Party will propose united
labor fronts for election purposes. In
proposing whether such united fronts
will be carried on under the auspices
of labor congresses, councils Of action,
labor parties, etc, the Workers Party
will be guided by one principle only,
namely, whether they will promote the
class struggle and enable the Workers
Party to build itself into mass Com
munist Party.
IMMEDIATE TASKS OF THE PARTY
1. Exposure Of the Bourgeois Ma
ture of LaFolletteism.
This becomes the central problem
Of our agitation and propaganda. 1t
must be carried on along the follow
ing lines: (a) Formulate concrete
political demands based on immediate
burning needs Of the masses; (b)
popularize these demands among the
masses; (c) call upon the rank and
file in the shops, unions, among the
unemployed, to address resolutions,
petitions, and to hold mass meetings
i demanding that the Tabor" wing in
the LaFollette combination and the
LaFolIette group in congress propose
legislation along the lines of the de-
mands of the masses, at the same
time creating the necessary united
front rank and file organization for
the struggle; (d) by these campaigns
unmask the bourgeois nature of LaFol-
j. letteism and of the labor lieutenants
of the LaFollette movement expose
/. the futility of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS par
Iiamentarism and demonstrate the
necessity of following the leadership
of the only class political party, the
Workers Party; (e) the economic and
political slogans that will be en-
ployed in these campaigns should be
grouped around the Following central
slogans: (a) break the alliance with
the big. middle, and petty bourgeoisie;
o. form the united front from below
of the workers and poor farmers with
the Workers Party; Co as against
the LaFollette party, the Workers
Party; (d) as against the futility Of
LaFollettes parliamentary reformism,
the use of the organized mass power
Of the workers aoltical ends UNI
der the leadership Of the revolutionary
} working class political party, the
} Workers Party.
2. Work Amongst the Agricultural
Laborers and Poor Farmers.
With regard to the agricultural
proletariat our party has practically
the same duties to perform as with
regard to the city proletariat. We
must encourage and assist the organi-
! cation and strengthening of unions
: of agricultural workers, giving full
, support to the l. W. W. where it is
! functioning as a mass union in this
) field. These agricultural unions to be
linked up to the unions of the indus
: trial workers for common action
! against the capitalists and rich farm
ers. Hand in hand with this must go
; the building up of the Workers Party
branches The class conscious ele-
ments among the agricultural workers
must be organized as Communists and
become part of the Workers Party.
While keeping in mind that the
basis of our party is the industrial
proletariat, we must also pay close
= attention to the semi-proletarian ele-
ments on the farms, the poorer sec
tions of the farmers. These can be
: brought over politically very close to
7 our party and eventually a consider
able proportion of them may be assim-
( Hated into our party organization. In
J. OIu6I W DIiuB tuln ABOUT, OuI tdSh
. will be to separate the semi-prole-
tartan elements from the well-to-do
. farmers and the urban petty bour-
geoisie on the basis Of the specific
. economic and political needs of the
! tenant farmers and other groups Of
, exploited farmers against the land
holding corporations. grain specula-
tors, the banks, and the rich farmers
It will be the duty Of the Workers
: Party, after II has established Com
! munist organizational base among the
I agricultural workers. to assist the
e semi-proletarian elements of the farms
5 to form their own economic organiza
3 tons and TO link up their struggle
+ with the general class struggle of the
3 American working class. It is Of SUI
y preme Importance that the Central
E Executive Committee OF the party
a establish an agrarian department with