The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-11
Adopted by the Central Executive
Committee Of the Workers Party.

all industrial centers for the idea Of a
national labor party and for the
formation Of local and state labor
parties. This agitation shall be car
ried on in every labor organizatior
with particular concentration upon 10
cal unions. The issue of the labor
party shall be raised at all trade union
conventions local, state and national
and also at the forthcoming conven
ton OF the A. F. of L.
q Wherever the issue Of the Labor
- Party is raised, this shall be
done in connection with and on the
basis of the present day issues Of the
workers, such as a struggle against
wage cuts and unemployment, for the
right to organize in unions, against
imperialism, for the naturalization OF
the mines and railways, etc. Our
campaign for a. labor party shall be
carried on along the following general
lines:
a. Formation Of concrete economic
demands based upon immediate
burning needs Of the masses.
b. Popularize these demands
among the masses and the labor or
CARNATIONS.
c. Call upon the rank and file in
the shops, unions, and among the
unemployed to address resolutions.
petitions, and to hold mass meet
ings, demanding that the tabor"
ring of the LaFollette progressive
combination, the LaFollette group
in congress, and the non-partisan po-
litical bodies of the trade unions
propose and fight for legislation
along the lines Of the demands of
the masses. At the same time we
shall create united front organiza-
tions from below to carry on the
struggle Of the rank and file for
these demands.
4 d. BY these campaigns unmask
the bourgeois nature of the LaFol-
lette movement and OF its labor lieu
tenants, expose the futility Of the
non-partisan political methods of
the trade union bureaucracy and
demonstrate the necessity of form
ing labor party, political party of
the trade unions and other labor or
carnations, independent of and OPP
posed to all political parties of big
and small capital.
2 The practical objective of this
" agitation in the local unions Of
each locality is to prepare the ground
for the labor party issue in the cen
trail labor councils. The issue should
be raised in the form of a resolution
committing the local unions and the
central labor bodies to the organiza
ton of local labor. party. AS mat
| ter Of general policy every effort shall
be made to win the central labor
councils over definitely to the labor
party idea, and to the formation o.
local labor parties. The central Labor
councils shall be made the centra
strategic point in our struggle for the
formation of local labor parties. w,
shall favor the actual organization o.
local labor parties when the volume
OF support for the project in the loca
unions and in the central labor bodies
is sufficient to assure the mass char
! acter and the vitality of the organiza
etion. But we shall not favor the OF
ganization of fake" labor parties
that is, labor parties consisting mere
ly of the Workers Party and it's close
circle of sympathizing organizations
A AS part Of this campaign Their,
:" shall be given wide distribution
in the trade unions and among tn,
masses Of workers the manifesto is
sued by our party on the experiences
of the campaign for labor party an,
the betrayal Of the labor party by La
Toilette.
A resolution sharply formulating
VI the experiences in the labor part,
campaign and the betrayal by the La
Toilette movement shall be introduced
in the trade unions and a campaign
for adoption carried on.
G We shall endeavor to draw tn,
VI Trade Union Educational Leagu
into the labor party campaign in tn,
trade unions We shall propose tina
I the T. U. e. l.. issue manifesto in
itiating campaign for labor party IL
every local union city and state labol
body, and at all trade union conven
tons. The slogan For a Labol
Party shall be linked up with all tn,
other immediate issues of the T. u
". l..
7 The Educational Committee o.
80 the Central Executive Committed
will prepare an outline OF agitation
and propaganda for our labor party
campaign.
IN Workers Party members in this
'o' campaign shall in their speeches
call attention to the united front pro
gram of the Workers Party, to IT.
role in the class struggle and the
labor movement.
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