The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
BrOWder Gives Answer
ToArgument ThatVote
For C.. p. Is ''Wasted''
Says That Communist Representatives in Congress
Would Bring to the Fore the Daily
Struggles of TOiling Masses

and leaders Of the toiling masses.
On the contrary, they will remain
such and will connect their activity
in Congress with the task Of Or
ganizing the toiling masses against
misery and for the way out of the
crisis.
Would such actions of the Com
munist representatives in Congress
help the struggle Of the toiling
masses and develop it? Undoubtedly
it would. Millions Of working people
are looking at Congress, they are
still putting some hope in Con-
gress. These millions of toilers would
hear the voice of the Communists,
they would see the difference be-
tween the revolutionary Spokesman
of the people and the politicians,
the corrupt defenders of this de-
cayed system. They would more
quickly find out which is the party
that really defends the interests of
the people against the parties that
are defending the interests of cap
italisrn.
Gains Possible
Would it be possible, with the
help of the activity of the Commu-
nists in Congress, based on the ac-
lions of the masses, to win con-
crete gains? Undoubtedly it would
The bourgeoisie will grant conces-
sions to the masses only when it is
afraid, when it is forced. The bour-
geoisie grants concessions only
when it is afraid that, by refusing
persistently, it will lose more. This
is the lesson of every strike and
this is also the basic rule in all poll
teal struggle. Communist repre-
sentatives in Congress would make
easier the struggle of the toiling
masses, for the very reason that
they will base themselves on the or
ganized mass struggle, because, as
representatives of the Communist
Party they will closely connect the
struggle in Congress with the mass
struggle.
And this is how the Communist
parliamentarian is distinguished
basically from the socialist parlia-
mentarian, like Solomon, Thomas,
Lee, Ladder, and the others. The
latter sabotage every mass struggle
outside of Congress. They ally
themselves with the worst A. F. of L.
reactionaries, with Green, Vol,
Dubinsky, as they showed in such a
dastardly manner during the recent
textile strike. They sabotage the
organization of the united front
with the Communist Party, because
this united fronS is one of the strug-
gle for the immediate demands,
urAted front against the reaction
aries, including the reactionaries
who call themselves leaders Of the
A. F. of L. Such labor leaders"
in Congress would be Of no value to
the workers. They would only be
few more representatives for the
lulling of the masses; at best they
manufacture empty phrases that
mean nothing, because they do not
base themselves on broad mass ac-
tionS. A party which is not always
ready to organize the mass strug-
gle outside Congress, and which does
not whether it has representatives
in Congress or not organize the
struggle Of the masses, in strikes,
among the unemployed, among the
farmers-such party's representa-
tives will be only buffers of corrupt,
bourgeois parliamentarism. This was
shown very clearly by the road
which the German and Austrian
cial-democrats took, and this is
also being shown now by the lead
ers of the American Socialist Party
who have allied themselves with the
Greens and VOLS and who Gust
as the German and Austrian So
cialist leaders did sabotage united
struggle with the Communists.
Workers, friendsl 1t is necessary
to strengthen the election cam
paign. The Communists will fight,
whether they will send representa-
tives to Congress or not. But the
more votes we Communists get, the
more difficult it is for the capitalist
politicians to steal the Communist
votes; and the more workers we &C
quaint with our program during
these elections, the more will the
workers win now and the whole rev.
dictionary struggle be advanced.
Strengthen Election Campaign
repeat: strengthen the election
campaign, carry it into every fac
tory, into every shop, into every
trade union, into every workers
home, into every farm, into every
organization where there are masses
of working people; carry it to the
oppressed Negro masses, to the
working youth, to the women Of the
working class.
Organize the. sympathizers for the
election campaign. We must utilize
the last days of the election strug-
gle to stir the toiling masses to q
still larger degree, to convince and
organize them.
Organize and convince! We must
win tens of thousands of new work.
ers for the cause Of the emancipa-
ton of the toilers, we must get
thousands of the best workers into
our Party, we must make thousands
of A. F. of l.. workers active sup
porters of our election campaign.
The toiling masses in city and
country, hungry and exploited, are,
despite all the den1agogy of the
politicians, despite the oppression by
the political machine, by the police,
today ready as never before, to
listen to and consider serious ar
gumentS.
Communism in America must take
great leap forward. Strain every
thing to make the election cam
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