The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-29

oNRS bAA "a Va 6GAA1AHE anu WOlhAuB Will
in farmer-labor party" And then
later on: This Communist con-
ception of the role of our party mani
tests itself particularly in the tend
ency to resort to all kinds of new
political organizations, substitutes for
the Workers Party, wherever an OPP
portunity presents itself to appeal to
large masses of workers on concrete
issues Of everyday life.%
This, comrades, is the reverse OF
Section speech. Not in contradiction,
but the reverse side of the picture.
In his article he says that you can
only build movement against CAPT
talism if the Workers Party creates
that movement, and here we have a
refusal to build united front organi-
cations for the purpose OF carrying on
a struggle against capitalism. If you
believe that the Workers Party must
create a movement itself, then you
must be opposed to creating a labor
party. You must be opposed to organ
izing the women's councils for fight
against capitalism. You must be OPP
posed to non-party organizations thru
which the party carries on it's strug-
giles. This, comrades, shows that this
was not merely an error on the labor
party issue but was a fundamentally
wrong policy, a fundamentally non
Communist conception in the minds
of those who were in the leadership
of our party. (Applause)
COMRADES, that conception has
~ manifested itself thruout the party
work. Comrade Bittelman has spoken
of our criticism of the united front
policy Of the majority group And
here is very significant thing in
relation to that criticism. We have a
section in the written report starting
"other united fronts and special party
campaigns" (other than the labor
party, is the meaning), the Save the
Lansutzky Campaign, Anti-Abramo-
vich, Unemployment, World Trade
Union Unity, the Release of Croucn
and Trumbull. Not one of these cam
paigns, supposedly initiated as united
front campaigns, were they actually
organized, on any important scale,
thru united front committees for the
struggle for these policies. Not one,
comrades! Yet they are listed here as
examples of the united front, And
then, comrades, we had one campaign
during the regime Of the present
G. e. c. which succeeded in uniting
half a million workers in a common
struggle, in carrying on an aggressive
fight, and that is not mentioned in this
report. What was that campaign?
That was the campaign first initiated
in 1922 by our group, for the protec-
ton of the foreign born, and carried
on in 1924 against the new laws with
the successful uniting of at least half
million workers in that struggle, as
the reports Of the national office show,
and yet this is forgotten, and these
campaigns which fall short of correct
application of the united front is used
to show how the united front tactic
is applied,
That, comrades, shows the line of
thought, the line of thought manifests
itself in issuing manifestos but yet we
do not go to the point of organizing
support, of organizing groups, uniting
groups of workers, for the struggle in
support Of these campaigns which we
initiate. Comrades, the task of a unit
ed front compaign is to draw other Or
ganized groups of workers into strug-
giles with us thru delegates OF commit
tees and carry on the campaign thru
tnese committees and thus the Gee
has not sufficiently understood and
has not sufficiently and aggressiyelv
carried on the campaign for such com
mittees because that would be the or
ganization of all kinds of new organi-
cations between ours and the masses
against which they protest in their
last thesis.