The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-13


you some past history on the munich
pal campaign in Toledo. The mistake
of How to Apply the United Front
Tactic is not the mistake of all the
comrades of Toledo, we as as Com
munists accepted the decision of our
next higher unit, the district organic
err Comrade Wagenknecht. AT the
c. G. c. meeting Of Local Toledo of
June 2, motion was carried after
a lengthy discussion that the Workers
Party of Toledo do not participate in
the municipal election. Comrades
Willnecker and Stephenson speaking
for the motion, Comrade Buehler fight
ing against the motion At the D. E. c.
meeting of June Z, motion was pass
ed that the district organizer be in
structed to go to Toledo and demand
that Local Toledo participate in the
municipal campaign and same was
done on June II at general member
ship meeting. At the G. C. c. meeting
of June IS we placed Communist can
didates in the field including the may
or vice-mayor and five candidates for
council. Then proceeded to get the
required number Of signatures till
July II. The next fight in the G. c. c.
was over local platform for the
primary election. You will find en-
closed same of which we distributed
10000 the day before election on Au-
gust II.
At the election of August II we won
the election of Vice-Mayor Comrade
Smith and one councilman, Comrade
Buehler for the goth ward to run as
candidate for the final elections.
At the c. g. c. meeting of August
% We took up the question of what
action to take regarding the united
front of labor in the final election to
be held on November 3.
Comrade Topping and Buehler brot
in a recommendation for the calling
of a conference of labor to have a
united front in the election.
Comrade Stephenson and Willnecker
recommended the sending a letter to
Tomis Devine, the socialist candidate
for mayor, with the result that the
CCC committee was deadlocked.
Whereupon armotion was passed that
the secretary of c. c. c. draw up
letter on the political situation in
local Toledo and send same to the
district organizer, Wageknecht, and
let him give us the correct guidance
on policy to pursue.
Same was done by the secretary and
on Sept. 18th l received a reply from
the district organizer headed: Policy
for the Toledo Elections. You will
find copy of same enclosed. We COM
piled with the district organizers in
structions on Sept 23rd and up to
date have received no answer from
Tomis Devine
Hoping these few lines will give
you some light on the political situa-
ton regarding the municipal cam
paign,
Yours for the cause,
(signed) Buehler, sec'y.
The Instructions received by the
Toledo comrades from the district or
ganizer, Comrade Alfred Wagenknecht
read as follows:
Policy for the Toledo Elections.
In general the policy for our party
in Toledo should be to bring about an
election united front between the
labor unions, the socialist party
forces, other workers organizations
and the Workers Party. A conference
should be called and before such a
should be placed the i'm
mediate problems for the workers
in Toledo as they appear in the party
(Toledo) platform
But to make such conference more
successful and to make It possible to
have united front with the socialist
forces, even if the unions do not enter
into it you should at once:
l. Address letter to Devine ques-
tioning him regarding his agreement
with the immediate demands in our
program. Make an attempt to secure
his agreement with as many points
as possible.
2. Make the letter to Devine public
In the press. labor and daily, and
among the labor unions.
3. Introduce resolutions in the trade
unions calling for united front of
all workers for all the labor candidat-
rs running for election and calling
upon Devine to make clear his posi-
ton on the immediate needs of the
workers.
4. Whether Devine agrees with the
major demands or only few Of the
demands as they appear
N our program, we should enter into
negotiations for a united campaign.
But in the letter to Devine and in
our united front campaign we must
make it clear at all times that we
lisagree fundamentally with the
socialists in principles and that we
reserve the right to criticise Devine