The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-17

who desired to establish fighting
united front, and the leaders did not
dare fight against it, but they came
to the conference in an attempt to
take away the militancy and make
it simply begging proposition to
the authorities.
After some of the above mentioned
leaders spoke in this light, it was
very correct on the part Of Comrade
John Williamson, a delegate Of the
Communist Party, to draw very
sharply the line between these So
cial-fascist leaders and the men,
bership. The masses Of the dele
gates expressed their agreement
with the speech of Comrade VIII
hanson.
VERBLINS RIGHT WING LINE
This correct policy advocated by
Comrade Williamson at the United
Front Conference met with some
opposition on the part of the right
wing elements in the Party. The
crassest example is Comrade YER
bin, who at the Party committee
declared openly:
"Our aim is not so much that we
expose the leadership QMuste, So
cialist Party, Chicago Federation Of
Labor but that the leadership ex-
poses itself"
Comrade Verblin declared further
that he wanted ito please every
BODY, to establish peace at the
Conference with those who from
the very beginning attempted to
prevent the development of the
militant struggles of the unem-
ployed Mr.. Borders, Mr.. Dixon Of
the Workers League, and others,
spoke and acted openly against the
demonstrations against the SO per
cent cut in relief in front Of the
local charities and aldermen. They
also heritated on the question of a
militant demonstration in front of
the City Hall. Unity at any price
means no unity of the masses, no
united struggle, it means negation
Of the struggle.
The point of view presented by
Conrade Verblin that the social
fascist leaders would expose them
selves is very definite capitula-
tory position and a, complete lack
of understanding that social-fas-
cists (leaders of the Socialist Party,
Musteites, etc), are the main social
base Of the bourgeoisie and are
agents OF the bourgeoisie in che
ranks of the working class, and that
they are more dangerous when they
use revolutionary phrases, as they
did. The revolutionary phrases are
used for the purpose of covering up
their policy Of class collaboration,
their policy of no militant struggles
of the masses.
ANOTHER WRONG TENDENCY
This theory of not exposing So
cial-fascist leaders among the
masses is not only denying the role
and task of the Party to expose in
concrete manner the role OF the
social-fascists before the masses, but
it also links up very closely with
the conception that capitalism will
collapse of itself. In short, it is a
capitulatory theory Of no struggle
to win the masses, to revolutionize
the working class, to consolidate the
unity of the workers from below.
The position Of Comrade Verblin
in acton is the main danger in the
practice and policies Of the united
front from below. But this is not
the only tendency against which
the Party and the revolutionary
workers must fight. There is also
another tendency which in reality
means no united front. This theory
is expressed by Comrade M, who
maintained that it is wrong to seat
leaders like Borders, ETC., at united
front conference, that by doing SO
we are compromising ourselves.
This policy shows very clearly that
we are afraid of the masses, that
we are not sure of the correctness
OF our policy for the masses, a
united front only with ourselves,
and that If the workers would elect
as their delegate a social-fascist
leader, we should not seat him. If
we had adopted such policy we
would have been the ones who would
be guilty Of splitting the united
front movement. without combat
ting the theory OF Comrade M, that
is, not opening fire against secta-
rianisn, we cannot successfully de-
stroy right opportunism.
CORRECTNESS OF POLICY
SHOWN
The correctness of the policy
carried out in the Chicago united
front clearly demonstrates the fact
that we were successful in under
mining the influence of the social
fascist leadrs among their own
membership and among the masses
in general and were able to mob
ilize the masses and lead them in a
successful struggle.
In all our united fronts we must
always carry the sharpest differ
entiation between social-fascist
leaders and the workers and men,