The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-12
. For a Labor Party =

I Of this capitalist order-the capital
| ist government.
The labor party represents the first
rharshalling of the workers for strug-
gle against the political rule of the
capitalists, and even tho the program
of a labor party was purely reformist,
the fact that half million workers
were modified to fight against the
capitalist political rule for such pro-
gram, would mark definite step in
advance for the American working
class. The experiences of the fight
itself would be the greatest factor in
developing ever more conscious class
struggle and ultimately the revolu-
tionary struggle for power. The slo-
gan for labor party gains such inn
portance and meaning just because
it is the lever thru which the Ameri-
can workers can be started on their
march against capitalism.
The Communist Party and the De-
veIopment of Class Consciousness.
THE development Of class conscf
L BUSINESS of the massesNof workers
is inseparabIy connected with the
development, and building of a<mAss
Communist, Party. If the mass. of
workers are<still so unoonscioua CT
their class interests that they will not
even support the formation of &
labor party, but continue to support
the republican and demoeratic part
les of their class conscious enemfeg
1T is inconceivable that~.they would
support the Communist. Party We
cannot build az mass Communist.
Party in the United States without
at the same time pulling forward the
masses. of workers. On the contrary,
the reversel is the process of develop
meptAA. mass Communist Party con
onlysbe developed as a result of de-
velopment of the class consciousness
of the whole working mass. 1t is in
the process of developing the class
consciousness of the working masses
that we will create a mass Commun-
ist Party.
+ 1t was because of this fact that the
efforts to place the building of the
Workers Party into a mass Com
munist Party in opposition to the
work Of creating a labor party which
represents the development of class
consciousness of the American work
ers, which manifested itself in the
party discussion last November and
december, were so ridiculous to any
one who could grasp the basic prob
lem of our party in the United States.
Why the Labor Party Formed.
The question may well be asked, |
accepting the basic premise that our
present problem is the development
Of the class consciousness of the
working masses, why must the meth
cd of achieving this end take the
form Of campaign for the formation
Of labor party? What is there pc
culiar to labor party that makes it |
especially suitable to achieve the
end we are aiming at?
The labor party as it has developed |
historically is based upon existing or
CARNATIONS of the workers. 1t de-
veloped thru a combination Of these |
organizations for a political struggle |
in the interests of the workers. It |
comes into existence as delegated
body with representatives from exist
ing organizations of >the workers.
coming together to fight their com
mon struggles.
These characteristics of the labor
party make it exactly such a medium
as is needed to meet the present state
of development Of the working class
in the United States. The develop-
ment of class consciousness is indi-
Gated in the. workers struggles TAX
ing on more Of the form of general
struggles of the workers, and of be-
coming political struggles. The labor J
party fulflls these specifications \
combines the existing workers organ