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litical party of the American
masses.
4. The Party must carry on active
campaigns for the organization of
united front action with the masses
from below on concrete and imme-
diate issues of struggle against the
capitalist offensive, on the political
rs well as economic fields. More
than ever must the united front
policy from below be applied by our
Party in the fight against the re-
formists and to win the masses for
the class struggle.
5. In the present period, the Par
tvs chief means of furthering the
political awakening of the American
masses, is the vigorous participation
and leadership in the everyday
struggles, deepening the content of
these struggles, carrying out ener-
getically the program of the organ
ization of new unions. In the process
of these struggles the Party will
establish united fronts with the
masses on the political field.
6. The theory that the CP of the
U.S.A. can make little or no gains
in election campaigns until a labor
party appears must be combatted
vigorously.
The grave opportunist errors of
the Lovestone group in the labor
Party work, places squarely before
our Party the need of disseminating
the old labor party policy. The fol-
lowing are the main errors:
1. Abandoning the industrial base
by failure to carry on political cam
paigns among the working masses
in the industrial centers.
?. ORIGINATING the struggle for
independent working class political
action largely on the farmers and
farmer-labor movements of the
Northwest.
8. Persistence in advocating the
organization of workers and farmers
in one party (Farmer-Labor Party)
contrary to CT decision.
4. Proposals to send Party men,
bers into the socialist party to fight
FOR labor party.
5. Reliance upon the trade union
and socialist bureaucracy for the
building of the labor party, criticized
in the April letter of the CT, mis-
take shared in also by the minority
of the Polcom.
s. Wrong conception of the role
of the labor party in the class strug-
gle ("emancipation of the working
classy noted and criticized in the
Comintern letter of April.
7. Wrong conception of the rela-
ton between the Communist Party
and a labor party. Reducing the
Communist Party to left wing in
the labor party and farmer.labor
movement minnesota, Allegheny,
county labor partly. Reducing the
Party to an instrument for the or
ganHation of the labor party.
8. The Panken and Bearak man.
euvers criticized by the CT.
X. Failure To Build the T.U.E.L.
In numerous letters and resolu-
tons the Comintern and Profintern
have repeatedly stressed the neces-
sity of building the Trade Union
Educational League. With our Par
ty ORIGINATING itself towards the
organization of new unions the
TUEL acquires added Importance.
It must through its general organ
zation and industrial committees,
actively proceed with the organiza-
ton Of the new unions. 1t must
continue and extend its activities in
building the left wing in the old
unions and coordinate these with
its major task of organizing the
new unions.
Notwithstanding the Importance
Of the TUEL as a factor in the
trade union work, little is being
done by the Party to build it up.
Party support of the TUEL is most
ly mere lip service. 1t still re-