The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09

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The Workers (Communist) Party
alone carries on fight to unite the
workers of this country through
their organization into a labor par
ty. The Workers (Communist)
Party has issued the slogan to the
workers, "Let your union affiliate
with the Labor Party and you join
the Workers (Communist) Party"
This slogan sums up the position
of the Workers (Communist) Par
ty. The Workers (Communist)
Party stands for labor party not
because labor party will solve the
tremendous problems facing the
American working class and will
abolish exploitation and oppression,
but because such a party will be
taking the first step on the part of
the American working class to
break with the old capitalist par
ties.
The Workers (Communist) Party
supports the formation of those la
Dor parties that are based on trade
unions and other organizations Of
the working class. 1t is willing to
participate in the formation of
such labor parties because it con-
siders this the first decisive step
towards Independent political action
by the working class, the first step
of the workers to break away from
the parties of the bosses.
At the same time, the Commu-
mist Party considers it its duty to
tell the workers frankly that la
Dor party has it's limitations and
that it will not be able to lead the
workers in their final struggle for
their emancipation. Only a Com
munist Party can do this. Only I'M
der the leadership of the Commu-
mist Party can the American work
| ing class emancipate itself from the
yoke of capitalist exploitation and
oppression.
Support Workers Communist
Party.
In the present election campaign,
all those who stand for genuine
labor party based on the class
struggle, have only one choice, and
that is to support the candidates Of
the Workers (Communist) Party
and to support the demands put for
ward by our Party for the struggle
against capitalism. The platform
put forward by the Workers (Com-
munist) Party in connection with
the building of a labor party states:
"The Workers (Communist) Par
ty stands for the independent poll
tical action of the working class;
the formation of labor party on a
national, state, and local scale. A
genuine labor party must be based
on the trade unions and other labor
organizations, on factory, mill, and
mine committees of the unorganized
workers. A genuine labor party
must exclude all politicians of big
and small business. 1t must include
A., as a true federated body all sec
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any discrimination, which will ac-
cept the general principles of the
class struggle and will be willing to
fight for the interests of the work
ers and exploited farmers"
The Chicago convention is in the
interests of the capitalists, for the
liquidation of any genuine labor
party sentiment existing.
The workers, therefore, must see
clearly that the Chicago convention
called by these politicians who have
not yet openly announced that they
are part and parcel of the two capt.
talist parties in the present election
campaign, is nothing more than an
order to lead those elements Of the
workers and exploited farmers who
are breaking away from the capital
list back into the republican and
democratic parties. In this case,
most likely, these politicians gath
cred in Chicago will try to lead
this sentiment into the Smith camp.
In this connection our Party and
its representatives everywhere will
carry on a struggle to expose these
elements as the enemies of the