The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-05
THE COMMUNISTS, THE CO..
OPERATIVES AND. HALONEN|

These compromises in the early history of
the Second International led to its collapse i'll
August, 1914. They paralyzel the revolution
airy section of the working class in their strug-
gle against the imperialst war, at least for
some time
HalOnen. Rom etc, Split Class Line.
. The struggle which recently manifested it
self in the Northwestern cooperative move
ment grows out of attempts to pull the cooper
atives entirely over into the camp of the bour-
geoisie While the revolutionary co-operatives
in the past clearly recognized the dividing line
in the class struggle, the leaders in the fight
against revolutionary policies in the co-opera-
tive-HaloGen, Rom and Others are endeavor-
ing to pull the co-operatives over into the
camp of the bOurgeosie. They try to put
them entirely under the control Of the bour-
geois Warbass and the social-fascist Allane.
When Haonen and Rom speak of unity they
do so in the hope that their talk of unity will
blind the co-operatives to the dividing line of
the class struggle That is why Communists
must emphasize, against Halonens cry for
unity, the Importance of the dividing line of
the class struggle.
Halonen and Rom. in spite of their cry for
unity, are splitters They want to split the
prOletarian cooperative away from the work
ing class and want to link it up with the bour-
geOisie. They want to break the influence of
the revolutionary workers in the co-operatives
and establish in its place the rule of the bour-
geOis Warbasse and the social-fascist Aliane.
The Communists on the other hand, in en-
phasizing the dividing line of the class struggle
endeavor to maintain the co-operatives on the
side of the working class. The Communists
want to maintain proletaran unity Halonen
and Rom, together with Allane and Warbasse,
are crying unity to win the cooperative men,
bers for the policy of split. The Communists
on the other hand, declare there can be no
unity with the bourgeoisie and with bourgeois
leaders of the cooperative movement. Thereby
they seek to maintain the proletarian unity of
the cooperative with the rest of the revolu-
tionary labor movement.
Workers Co-operatives Are Partisan.
Halonen stresses his love for unity with the
assertion that the cooperative must be nom
partisan. To be non-partsan means to care
nothing whether you are allied with the work
ing class or with the capitalist class. The
workers and poor farmers in the co-ooaratives
cannot be AMI are not non-partisan. They are
partisan for the exploited. They are partisan
against the eXploiters They are partisan for
the revolutionary party of the working class,
for the Communists They are parisan against
the agents of capitalism, against Warbasse
and Allane.
When Haonen and Rom preach non-partisan-
shin, they do so in order to make the workers
and poor farmers in the cooperative believe
that their alliance with Warbasse and Alane
is not betrayal of the interests of the CO.
operatives. But it is. Allane and Warbasse
stand for the interests of the bourgeoisie The
interests of the bourgeosie are Numerically
oppose to the interests of the workers and
poor farmers.
(Cont9HUed)