The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-03
BY JACK PRokoP,
Eastern Organizer czeeho-Slovak
Federation.

N FTER both sides, the majority
n and the minority of the c. e. G.
had presented their arguments as to
the chief tasks, timely slogans, and
immediate necessary operations, let
us examine the nature of the tasks,
the timeliness of the slogans, and the
necessity of their operations. AS
Communists, we must deal in this
examination only with facts, real
things, that is, objective and subjec-
tive conditions, which alone serve as
the determining factors in analysis of
situation. Thus effectively examin-
ing, we 6nd that:
l.. The federated farmer-labor
party was a fCrcible amputation from
the real trend toward a third party
and therefore dissolved under the
breath of LaFollette.
2. The majority of the G. E. C.
has been seduced by the minority to
exaggerate and misrepresent the
strength of the F. L. movement be-
fore the membership of the w. P.
3. Besides the "trend for a third
party" there is among the farmers
neither tendency to oppose its or
ganization or under-rate its effective
ness, nor the much sought tendency
for farmer-labor party, all mythical
proofs to the contrary having been
exaporated under the x-rays of Fos-
ter's and Manley's illumination.
4. The trend to organization and
growth of the third party is insured
by the actions of the G. P. P. A., and
all it's affiliated organizations of craft
and industrial unions, as well as the
debris from the F. L. and cooperative
movements of the farmers, whom La
Toilette alone is able to stick to-
gether" and lead, altho to disillusion-
ment.
5. When in the past year or two,
two million bankrupt farmers left
and dispersed in the cities and indus
trial centers, it was not proof of an
impending crisis and revolt and re-
orientation Of the farmers political
conception and policy (outside the
trend for a third party but on the
contrary, it was a proof of an un-
paralelled elasticity of the capitalist
system in the U. S. A. and its enorm-
GUS capacity to absorb Temporarily
at least) the victim of its exploitation
and dump them in other spheres
disarmed. Disarmed, because they
ceased to be factor in the farmers
movement the moment they emigrat.
ed into the cities. The possibilities
for the bankrupt farmers to earn their
living in the cities, and further, the
alienation (altho smalD which the
remaining farmers felt thru the dis
appearance Of 100000 competitors,
rather dampened than intensified the
Imaginary revolutionary tendency
of the farmers, at the same time re-
storing to great extent faith
in institutions of existing order, re-
storing faith In their Improvement,
by the policies of LaFollette and his
program for the third party.
Altho it would be folly, for Com
munists, who base their calculations
of directives and policies on funda
mental laws Of history, economics
politics and sociology to be
lieve that capitalists will stop the
appropriation of farmers, and their
forcible emigration into cities, or tc
believe in the much blazened Foolidge
or Coolidge prosperity, unless a mar
ket is found on the moon, Venus OIL
Mars, the fact remains that, during
this period of artificial prosperity &C
companied by the election shock
and it's resulting confusion among the
farmers (and workers., and before
the effects of ''the crisis to come" car
be appreciably felt, slogan
"for a farmer-labor party" would be