The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-25
AWAY WITH DLLLETANIISM IN THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN

fixed, the whole slogan is weakened
Slogan number three is hopeessly distorted
The first half of the Central Committee slogan
Emergency relief, without restriction
by the government and banks for the poor farm
ers." The Kansas slogan reads:-"For emer-
gency relief without restrictions) by the gov
eminent and banks for the poor farmers" BY
leaving out couple of commas and by adding
a set Of parentheses our Kansas comrades have
the Communists demanding that the banks pro-
vide relief to the farmers Ridiculous! The
farmers have enough Of such relief But even
more important, the Central Committee de-
mands, 1.-THE exemption Of poor farmers from
taxes and no forced collection of debts" Our
Kansas comrades apparently feel that the poor
farmers should pay taHes. They leave out all
references to taxes ana even weaken the for
mutation on debts. This is "carelessness" at
least, which would prevent us from winning the
farmers,
Impermissible Opportunism.
Slogan number four reflects the most inper-
missible opportunism on the one question--the
Negro question-where, above all, clarity is of
major importance. The Central Committee
clearly demands Equal Rights for the Negroes"
BY this we demand unconditional political econ
omic and SOCIAL equality; we are stubbornly
against lynching, Jim Crowisrn, political dis
franchisement and discrimination in any form
But the Central Committee goes much farther;
we demand SELF determination for the Black
Belt" We know that in the South all talk of
equality is only talk, unless the Negro masses
win the right to rule in the Black Belt, where
they constitute the majority Of the population
BY winning the right to rule in the Black Belt
they win equality there and at the same time
give powerful impetus to the struggle for
auualitV thr0upl1Out vet
Kansas comrades, with half of their District
territory in the South omit completely the de-
nland-"Self determination for the Black Belt"
The errors made on the other slogans can easily
be attributed to carelessness, but this omission
on the Negro question is a serious and apparently
conscious opportunist error. On this we think
we are justified in categorically demanding a
complete and immediate correction in the form
of an explanatory statement by the District
Committee.
Slogan number five, we will not dwell on at
length, This has been converted into beautiful
liberal slogan
Pacifist Slogan.
Slogan number six has been transformed into
q pacifist slogan entirely suitable for Sunday
school society. We are again st imperiaIist war
as the Central Committee states but we are not
pacifsts as the Kansas comrades would make Us
when they omit this one word 'imperiaIist" We
are for the class war, for the revolutionary war
of the workers against the capitalists We can
not in our slogans preach pscifism and expect
to mobilize the workers to overthrow capitalism.
This, comrades, shows the danger of playing
with slogans. We hope the instructions which
insist these slogans are ito be used unchanged"
will now be grasped by all comrades, by all local
and district organizations in the mass mobilizs-
ton for the Chicago convention
AS for the Kansas District We think that the
District Committee owes an explanation, both to
the Party and to the toiling masses of its terri
tory.