The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-09
DISCUSSION of Our Partys Immediate Tasks

how much bigger than the bloc among
the poorer farmers (aside from Com
munist sympathizers) that you speak
of in your thesis, but propose no ways
to reach on the F. L. matters.
Tell us, how many Of these six state
parties are holding together, and, if
any, what is it that keeps them going,
the demand of the rank and file
member--units for a mass-class or
class-mass F. L. P. or the prospect
seen by them and the leaders of some
kind of national third party speak
ing in the name of labor and the
people? And if they amount to any
thing locally in their respective states,
is it because they are genuine class
farmer-labor parties? Is it not true
that such are farmer-labor in name,
but third party progressive in fact?
Is it so desirable (if not necessary
that the left wing bloc in the labor
movement be at all costs organized
into class party of their own? Or
so necessary to our leadership of left
wing labor and farmer blocs that the
slogan be kept in spite of new
situation? Is our task so helpless,
otherwise? Shall we give out to the
workers and farmers the impression
and hope that a INSTRUMENTATION
party will fight their battles, rather
than the Communist Party? Is it de-
sirable Tor necessary that we hide
our face? Or do you insist that we
wear mask, let's say, just for the
sake of some kind of fancy "maneu.
ver"?
Do you disagree with Comrade Ra-
dek, writing on the American party
future, when he says while they (the
American party will continue their
work with an unveiled face, the
masses will have time to get rid Of
their illusions of LaFolletteism"
DAILY Worker, December A, front
page.) Understand, this means we
will be most actively working to dis
pei those illusions.
If the minority wants to be so '1ogic-
all and ignore facts, l suggest they
add to their slogan for a class farm
er-labor party--its logical" Perhaps
then, at least, the great mass of des-
perate farmers who are ready to join
in class farmer-labor party" would
logically join such party. So much
for the word logic
The November 1923 thesis of the
minority (page 40 of second year, said
that the detection of that part of the
labor movement controlled by Com
pers and Johnston, would "be counter
balanced by the great mass Of desper-
ate farmers who are ready to join in
class farmer-labor party" Comrade
Pepper first saw "the LaFollette revo-
luton" then he saw great mass Of
revolutionary farmers.
The minority claims to be logical /"
and ignores facts. Lovestone and
Bedacht, to be sure, give what they
claim are facts, but not about this
farmer-labor business. No, they list
lot of "sins committed by the major
ity" Maybe to them logic means ir-
relevant misrepresentation. Won't
someone, please, draw up fer private
circulation only a list Of "sins" of
the minority? want to contribute
some facts to such list. For instance
Comrade. Nat Kaplan-and other
leading theoreticians" of the minor.
ity have been throwing Pepper in our
faces last year. because that peculiar
condition" (of the partly in America is
by them deemed essential to the real.
ization of a mass Communist Party.
The majority thesis proposes the
correct Communist policy-and has
the facts.