The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15

NEW YORK.-The National Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Socialist
Party has decided to postpone con-
sheraton of proposals for united
action between the two parties I'M
til its December meeting the let
ter of the Socialist Party to the
Communist Party, states. The let
ter, made public yesterday, follows:
Sept. 6, 1884.
"The National Executive Com
mittee of the Socialist Party real
izes the immense value to the labor
movement of united action of all
elements against the danger of war,
fascism, and continued exploitation.
We realize that such united action
on specific issues by no means re-
quires organic unity of parties be-
tween the Socialists and Commu-
nists. United action does, however,
require evidence Of good faith and
the intention to use any agreement
which may be arrived at not as a
vancouver for power within the la
Dor movement but as an instrument
in the struggle against an oppres-
Siive master class. No united action
on specific issues is possible be-
tween Socialists and Communists
except on basis which also gives
hope of ending fratricidal strife
within the trade union movement.
"On the basis of these principles,
which are accepted by all Socialists,
we have thoughtfully considered
the proposals Of the Communist
Central Committee and the an
sWers to questions given at our
meetings by Robert Minor on its
behalf. We have been particularly
impressed by Comrade Minors two
statements. First that after a
lapse Of six years the Congress of
the Communist International is
shortly to meet; and second, that
ne could not speak authoritatively
for the Communist international,
which, as everybody knows, sub
scribes to the highly centralized
"monolithic" theory of information
al party organization and exercises
rigid control over its various ma
tional branches.
The French Pact
1--WE were also impressed by the
fact that the very promising
French agreement for united &C.
ton has not long been in effect,
and that it has not yet been du-
plicated in any other country. Fur
thermore, while we have no desire
to dwell on the past to the hurt of
the future, we cannot accept Rob
ert Minors statement that since
1921 there has been an honest de-
sire in the Communist Party for a
united front as something other
than 'maneuver.'
In every country and in every
language the highest officials Of the
Communist Party times without
number have specifically asserted
that the purpose of the United
Front was to destroy the Socialist
Party. At one and the same time
they have proposed the United
Front and in the most unmeasured
terms abused the party to which
they proposed it and its leadership.
They have dubbed Socialism So
cial fascism," that is, as the wit
ting or unwilling accompiice of the
very thing which it is the purpose
Of united front to fight.
Numerous quotations could be
found to prove this point. For in
stance: Stain - 'Social-Democracy
is effectively the moderate wing of
Fsscism;' the 18th Plenum's decla-
ration that 'Social-Democracy con-
tinues to play the role of the main
social prop of the bourgeoisie also
in the countries of open Fascist
Dictatorship; the editorial in the
Rote Fahne (July 5, 1oS2)-'Our
struggle for a red united front is a
struggle against the Social-Demo-
cratic politics, against the Social
Democratic party, and its represen-
tatives'; the article by Earl Brow
der in The Communist of August,
1933-'The united front is a meth
cd of struggle against the Social
Fascists for the possession of the
masses; and the article by c. A.
Hathaway in The Communist for
October, 1932-'We have to get
down to bed rock in our fight
against the Socialists.
Although Robert Minor said
that only irresponsible individuals
had tried to use the united front
as a maneuver. we find in the OIL
cial histnrv Of The fret ten wears