The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-09
A NeeV Barrier

THE left social fascsts headed by A. j. Music Or
ganized until now in the Conference for Progress
sive Labor Action, have at last set up their po
litical party. According to reports from the CPLA
convention in Pittsburgh, they have created socaled
American Workers Party"
This, they admit, is centrist party, one Sin be-
tween the Socialist Party and the Communist Party.
They do not wish to take the cear-cut, revolu-
tonary road road that leads through relentless class
struggle for the day-today needs of the workers to
the revolutionary struggle for power, for revolution
airy workers and farmers government, advocated
by the Communist Party
At the same time the movement of workers away
from the Socialist Party and the welknown discomfort
of Socialist Party workers with the reactionary class
collaboration policies of the sP leadership, made it
inadvisabe for these left leaders to adhere openly
with this group.
Therefore we have the birth of the American
Workers Party" a party that pretends in words to
be revolutionary, but in reality is designed by A. j.
Music and his cohorts to hamper the development of
the revolutionary consciousness of the workers and
their increasing movement toward the Communist
Party. While pretending to stand Gin between" the
SP. and CP., it actually becomes an ally of the SP
in the fight against Communism.
This is not new development The Music group
born in struggle against the revolutionary Com
munst Party. Some of its most outstanding members
Ludwig Lore, J. B. S. Hardman Gerry AIlard Larry
Cohen, etc.-are expelled renegades from the Com
munist Party Continuously, their first aim has been
the fight against us.
IN THE early days Q92S to 1880 they were either
4 members of the SP. worked closely with them
in the trade unions, in the Brookwood Labor College
ETC. Their whole line which served to tie
the workers firmly to the A. F. of L. bureaucracy and
to that of the Socialist Party
1t was only with the deepening of the crisis and
the growing rehabilitation Of the workers that their
left mask was fully brought forward as cover for
their reactonary deeds But just as in the earlier
days when their former policies served to strengthen
the official SP. and a. f. of l.. leadership so also
their recent left policies designed to accomplish
the same purpose under the changed conditions.
Their left maneuvers take various forms. One
moment they pretend to be more revolutionary"
than the Communist Party. At another moment the
Communist Party is "too revolutionary" And then
on still other occasions, they accept the Communist
proposal for united front. In this way they try
to confuse the workers to their real position But
always, the Communist Party has pointed out even
while engaged with them in Joint action, the real
purpose Of this group the creation of barriers
the movement Of the masses into the revolutionary
camp.
THE program of the so-called American Workers Par
ty is not yet availablewe will return to this when
it is made pubc-but regardless of their words their
deeds will serve reaction. They will join with the
other refost and renegade groups in struggle against
the Communist Party and in paving the way for fas-
cism.
Militant workers. interested in furthering the class
struggle and in the victory Of the working class over
capitalism, serve that aim only by Joining the
revolutionary Party of the workers, the Communist
Party