The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-06
BY GEORGE MAuRER.

BY GEORGE MAURER.
(OMRADE BEDACHT, in one of
~ his recent articles on the party
discussion, starts out by accusing the
majority of our party of mud-slinging,
and then he turns around and throws
stones, evidently forgetting that the
minority is living in a glass house.
Comrade Bedacht, instead of discuss
ing the point at ISSUE goes into a
long TRADE and accuses the majority
of all kinds of crimes, and states that
the minority is in favor of action YER
sus programs. Comrade Bedacht then
pours out story which Comrade Pep
per attempted to tell in the last con-
vention Of our party, which this con-
vention repudiated. The same old
story is repeated of accusing the COM
rades in Chicago of failing the rank
and file in the central labor council
and the unions for the good old faker-
ated.
1t is we'll to remember a few facts.
since this question has been brought
up again. The writer happened to be
the industrial organizer of the party
at the time that the struggle took
place in the unions for afiliation to
the federated. The district commit
tee and the Industrial department in
Chicago made all the efforts in its
power to organize the party to carry
this struggle to a successful conclu-
sion. Some thirty-two meetings of
our members in the various unions
were held, and in a good many unions
the question was taken up, and we
succeeded in few affiliations to the
federated farmer-labor party.
However, in good many of them,
we were badly defeated, altho a
strenuous fight was put up by our
comrades. We could not, however.
affiliate those unions where we had
no membership, and secondly, Com
rade Bedacht, Comrade Lovestone and
all the rest of the minority profess
themselves extremely ignorant when
they speak about the Chicago labor
council
What were the facts in that situa-
ton? There were about twenty-five
Communists who were delegates
there, fighting among a crew of an
proximately 300 business agents who
were tails to the A. F. of L. official
dom. Another fact is that the So
called minority failed to bring in very
many affiliations themselves, for the
reason that they happened not to be
connected with any trade unions
themselves. Comrade Bedacht, who is
so ardently trying to accuse the ma
jority of gross neglect, has for a year
neglected to join the BARRIERS Union.
to which he is eligible OF course.
there are always technical excuses for
Marxist who swims in technical alb
stractions. This very question of the
federated farmer-labor party was de-
feated by only few votes in the
BARRIERS Union. 1t would undoubted-
ly have been carried If it had been for
the fighting qualities of Max Bedacht
within It.
Another fact when the question
was up in one of the Machinists' I'm
ions, a very prominent member and
leader in one of our declarations, who
also shouts fight, failed to show up
when the question came up. This
same comrade, who still shouts fight
also failed to show up when the La
Toilette question was fought out in
his union.
Comrade Ruthenberg. who likes to
form farmer-labor party by father
ly smiles, would do well to remember
the discussion that took place in his
own branch upon his own request
after the call had been sent out for
the st. Paul convention. He then re-
quested that the branch members re-
port as to what they had done in re-
gard to the farmer-labor party. To