The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-17
Let Us Go Ahead

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The fire directed against the convention Of
workers and poor farmers to be opened in st
Paul, Minnesota, June IL, is the best evidence Of
its prowess, the best proof of its being grave
menace to the organized clique of capitalist ex
ploiters.
The very fact that the charge of communist is
being hurled at this giant political gathering OF
the exploited workers and appropriated farmers
by the bitterest enemies of the rural and city
ses is the hopeful sign of its inevitable success
TO the employing class, to the grain gamblers, tc
the financial sharks of lower Broadway, New
York, the word communist is SYNONYMOUS with the
most effective challenge to their right to exploit
ruthlessly the great masses of the country.
just now the greatest danger to the maximum
success of the June 18th convention is not the
vicious attack launched against it by Gompers
Heating, the National Republican, and the Wall
Street Journal A real danger to the development
of all the possibilities open to the delegates at
St Paul is the tendency to waver the incIina
ton to hesitate at this time, as to the organiza
ton of a permanent all-inclusive national work
ing and farming class political party to lock horns
with the employers.
The tendency to limit the coming monster con
yention merely to the setting up of an election
machinery and then, if voting results warrant
working and farming classes, must be fought To
day, more than ever before, is the time ripe and
the need great for the organization of class far
mer labor party totally distinct from and opposed
to the parties of the bosses and the "good men,
and independents serving as the fig leaves hid
ing the ugliness of these parties The Commun.
lists have been the lightning rod the dynamic force
IN promoting amongst the workers and poor far
mers the country over, the consciousness for the
need OF the organization of a powerful political
party committed solely to the interests of these
masses. Since the last national strikes of the
miners, the railway workers, the textile workers.
when great numbers of workingmen and farmers
were given painful lesson in the capitalist char
acter of American democracy, the conditions max
ing for the building of a party of the laboring
and farming classes have become more pressing.
We can realize why it is that men who have
spent their lives in playing politics in the re-
dictionary republican party, why it is that half
baked liberals whose height of contact with the
organized working class movement was achieved
in their working for "good men, and "progres-
sivism" within the decrept democratic party,
should waver again and be hestant about launch
ing class party of the workers and farmers. But
no member of the working class, no spokesman of
the farmers who have lately been "getting" it
harder than ever from the capitalists, can sound
ly advocate delay in such urgent political organ
zation. To postpone the organization of the class
party of the city and rural Masses to make the
building Of such party contingent upon the
whims of any individual, whether he be LaFollette
or who not or upon the numerical trend of the
votes, trend which can only be big if real class
party is organized, is to throw away the best
chance to strike effective blows against the exploit
ing class that has offered itself to the workers
and poor farmers since the close Of the Civil War.
The Communists have always stood for strik-
ing the most damaging blows against the enemies
OF the working and farming classes. Consequent
ly the Communists stand for the organization of
a mighty, national class party Of the workingmen
and dispossessed farmers by the ST. Paul Conven-
ton. Let us go ahead