The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-29

| of the farmers against the big capital
list interests.
Differences are also developing
within the capitalist parties on the
question of the tariff. The interna-
tional bankers, faced with the neces-
sity of devising means thru which
their creditors can make payments,
favor reductions in the tariff which of
course, will be opposed by capitalist
industries which are profitting there
| from.
These conflicts and differences will
reflect themselves in the future politi-
cal struggles in this country.
The progressive third party move
ment which succeeded in diverting the
labor party movement from its track
and which has been broken up and
greatly demoralized following the last
election has disillusioned certain Sec
lions of the workers with LaFollette-
ism, thus giving a lesson in the need
of independent political action. The
open rule of the capitalist powers in
Washington is giving the workers new
examples of how the government is
working for the capitalists. These
facts, together with the experiences
of the workers in such strikes as that
at Passaic, where all the forces of the
government are lined up against the
workers, legislation such as the
Watson Parker bill, can be made the
basis for giving the movement for a
labor party new momentum.
The Tasks of The Party
THE immediate tasks which the
i party must undertake in this
situation are the following:
1. Work in the trade unions. The
work in the trade unions remains the
major task of the party. The spirit
and letter of the Communist Interna-
tional decision must be carried out.
To the end of carrying on this work
successfully, the campaign to draw
the members of the party into the
unions must be continued and intensi-
fed. The party members must learn
that active participation in the daily
work of their unions and systematic
support of the program of the party
for the trade unions is the basis for
building mass party. The system
attic organization of party fractions
and instructions in their tasks, must
be speeded up. The trade unions are
the basis, of many of the united front
activities of the party and the success
OF the trade union work of the party
means the drawing of new masses of
workers into the struggle with the
party. The party must support ener-
getically and with a maximum of re-
sources the expansion of the T. u
E. L. into broad left wing organiza-
ton.
2. Labor tickets and the labor
party. The party must mobilize i'm
mediately for widespread election
campaign carrying on this campaign
in such form as to make it serve as
a means of bringing about the crystal.
lization of labor party. The party
must endeavor to initiate the placing
of united labor tickets in the field
having general mass trade union sup
port in all of the great industrial
states of this country. In addition, it
should give support to the existing
farmer-labor or labor parties in those
states where these parties have been
organized and initiate a movement to
place a labor ticket in the field thru
these parties. The party must use the
1926 congressional and state elections
to mobilize as many workers as pos
sible for independent political action.
! Where the party does not find it pos
sible to place united front tickets in
the field, either thru existing parties
of workers and farmers or thru united
front conferences it must nominate its
own candidates.
3. Organization of the unorganized
The history of the American labor
movement shows that it has been in
periods of so-called capitalist pros
perity that the movement for the or
ganization of the unorganized workers
has gained the greatest Roadway. The
comparatively favorable conditions OF
the last year have created movements
for organization among the workers
in a number of industries. The party
has participated in this work. But IL
must bring greater energy to the task