The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-07

mediate economic and political issues
and the minority thesis has not at
all excluded it. It recognizes that the
united front on the basis of the imme-
diate issues is one of the major weap-
ons in the campaign against the enc
mics of labor whether in the camp
of the old parties or lin the LaFol-
confronted at the present time with
the necessity Of making a decision.
Shall they affiliate with the third par
ty? What shall we propose? What
shall the party do? The chasm be-
tween the broad masses of workers
and the party is too great today, to ef-
fectively make the counter-proposal Of
supporting the Workers Party"
against Join the progressive party"
And the majority, tho it insists that
this must be done as in the case Of
the Massachusetts c. P. P. A., shows
itself to be wiser in other instances
when it proposes independent work
ing class political action" in the case
OF the carpenters, miners, and most
recently in the left wing program of
the machinists.
The slogan "cIass farmer.labor par
ty" aims to utilize the sentiment
which exists for the formation of an
independent party of labor and in that
way not only combating the LaFol-
lette movement, but steering the
workers into a party independent of
the petty-bourgeois.
In England and France.
The Communists in England faced
similar situation in the case Of the
Macdonald labor government. Zinov-
lev tells us in the Lessons Of Mac
Donaldism," that there the Com
munists employed the slogan "a
real labor government with a class
program" with telling effect. In France
where the socialists and the petty
bourgeois Herriot organized the left
bloc the Communists answered with
the slogan of a workers and pea
SAINTS bloc" Fraught with danger,
as the slogan farmer-labor party I'M
doubtedly is because of the illusions,
it may create within our own ranks, it
nevertheless serves usefully in the
present political situation in
fighting the LaFollette movement.
The Use Of Middle-of-the-Road Slogans.
The majority has raised the cry of
opportunism against the middle Of
the road organizations. This applies
only where there is a systematic pol
icy Of building middle of the road or
CARNATIONS irrespective of the poll
teal situation where there is a gen.
eral policy of building political organ
izations, to accommodate masses not
yet ready to join the Workers Party.
However, the use of middle of the
road slogans is not opportunism. 1t
is the only method with which to mob
ilize the masses. The necessity of
providing a link between the immedi-
ate demands and the dictatorship of
the proletariat brought forward the
slogan of the workers and farmers
government" In fighting against the
LaFollette movement, it is not only
necessary to have the immediate de-
mands, slogans-it is necessary to
have a slogan which can lead the
masses further than the immediate
struggle-lead them to desert the
third party. They are not yet ready
to bridge the gap between the LaFol-
lette party and the Communist Party
h. Go IoT Il
them on in that direction.
Combating Two-and-a-Half Inter-
nationaIlsm.
The majority has avowed that it is
opposed to Two-and-a-Half Interna-
tionalism in the party. 1t charges the
minority with bad faith in it's fight
against this menace. What, however,
is the record of the majority on this
issue? Not until Olgin began writing
his articles, had the majority done
anything. However, as if to counter
balance Olgin's attack. Bittelman lost
no opportunity to whitewash Lore of
his past sins at the convention of the
German federation. What admission
had Lore made or his past mistakes?
Lore has been opposed to every policy
Of the Communist International with
out exception. He opposed the tao
tics of the Communist International
in the Levi-Serrati controversy, but
these are old errors. Most recently
and most important Of all, he support
ed the position Of the Trotsky oppo-
sition and the right wing group in
the German party during the Octo-
Der days. II he has admitted very
weakly that he was wrong in the Levi
and Serrati matters and in his criti-
cism of the past policy of the G. l.,
which was made in his article in
March Of this year, there is very lit
tie to his credit. Even an infant can
now see that Levy was a rank OPP
portunist. But what about the oppo-
sition in the Russian party? This is
now the main internal question Of
the Communist International. The
whole Second International bases its
hopes for the disruption OF the Com.