The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-29

become the D6SL means TUX If1E
| UNIFICATION Of the struggles of
labor. 1t is the duty of the Work
ers Party to IMMEDIATELY be-
gin to popularize the idea of such
LABOR CONGRESS" emphasis
mine j. J. 3D.
A unifying center for leadership and
direction! We had thought that the
Workers Party was such unifying
center and that nothing else could re-
place. Is it possible that our majority
patriots" are losing faith in the Work.
ers Party? Or-horrible thought
does Foster propose dual union? an
other l. w. w? Is Foster getting
ready to liquidate the T. u. e. L. in
favor of a GENERAL LABOR CON-
GRESS? Who will come to the GEN
ERAL LABOR CONGRESS called by
the Workers Party? VIII the big inter-
national unions send delegates? Will
we gather together more than we did
at the F. F. L. P. convention? VIII
Foster launch his own LABOR PAR
TY in his GENERAL LABOR CON-
GRESS? Come out with it, Comrade
Foster, the whole party is breathless-
ly awaiting more particulars about
your LABOR CONGRESS.
And is this tenuous LABOR CON
GRESS the only substitute that the
majority have to offer in place of the
farmer-labor party slogan? Oh, no!
Listen:--
"As the class struggle developes
and our campaign against LaFollet-
teism progresses there will be found
in a number of LOCALITIES organ
lied LABOR BODIES ready to break
their alliances with the petty-bourge-
oisie and to enter the election
campaigns as LABOR ORGAN
IZATIONS. 1t will be the duty of
the Workers Party to secure the
support of these labor bodies for
the Workers Party. Wherever this
is IMPOSSIBLE because of the i'm
maturity of the masses, the Work
ers Party will propose UNITED
LABOR FRONTS for election pur-
poses. In proposing whether such
united fronts will be carried on I'M
der the auspices of LABOR CON.
CROSSES, COUNCILS OF ACTION,
LABOR PARTIES, etc. the Work
ers Party will be -"
Try as our majority may they can
not get away from the farmer-labor
party slogan. They are like men spit
ting into the teeth of gale-the wind
drives the spit back into their faces.
All their syndicalistic substitutes for
a farmer-labor party amount to the
same thing. They can't get away
from it. The farmer-labor party slogan
is with us because it is inherent in the
present movement Of the poorer farm
| ers and workers in their attempts to
break away from the republican-demo-
cratic party of the big bourgeoisie
and in their attempts to find a common
basis for Independent political &C
ton in their struggles against the cap
italist class as whole. 1t maybe that
the rapid development of the class
struggle will forestall the actual estab-
lishment of a farmer-labor party in
America and that thru the operation
and effects Of the Dawes plan an in
tensive economic and political crisis
may drive the workers into extensive
revolutionary activity. In such per-
iods the working class learns more in
few months than in years of ordin-
airy struggle and in such a revolution
airy epoch the Workers Party will
know how to raise the slogan Of FALL
POWER TO THE WORKERS." But
we are writing our program for 1925
and there is no such deep-going cris-
is on the immediate horizon.
Therefore the slogan "for a farmer.
labor party remains potent to mob
ilize the workers for Independent pol
teal action and to break the heg-
emony Of the Electromagnetic over
the poorer farmers and workers-to
quicken them into class political ac-
ton for their immediate demands and
to draw them closer to the influence
and leadership of the Workers Party.
Our party will be the only party or
organization which can or will raise
this slogan. The slogan for farmer
labor party" will become a COMMUN-
lST slogan since the socialists, the
progressives, the petty bourgeois pol, !
itician and their labor lieutenant@ tba
reactionaries Of all stripes, vii on
pose and denounce it. Under this
slogan we will be expressing tba
hopes, the sentiments, the aspirations
OF millions Of workers and moor farm
ers, organized and unorganized ana
by this means we will draw into our
ranks the most ADVANCED, the most
developed and the MOST REVOLUTIONARY
elements.
In this movement the Workers Par.
ty remains intact, spreading its Com