The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Class as. CIGSS--The AnsWer
To the Fdrmer-LdbOr Party
Communist Party Must Expose TrGitOrOus Role
of the FLIP. and Its Socialist Supporters


lions Of the working class They
Justify their betrayal with pre-
tense that such party will bring
4 workers and farmers close together,
but they hide the fact that they
want 10 subordinate the interests
Of the working class to that Of the
petty bourgeoisie. The Communist
/ Party points out that it is necessary
to win over broad masses Of farmers
as allies of the working class in
order to successfully fight against
capitalism and for the victory Of
the working class. but not to sub
/ ordinate the interests Of the work.
ing class 10 that Of the farmers.
The Open Letter Of our Party
membership last July very clearly
( exposes the reformists on this ques-
ton; AS opposed to our policy.
namely: alliance of the proletariat
with the poor farmers and ruined
middle farmers under the hegemony
Of the proletariat and struggle for
+ the revolutionary way out Of the
crisis-they are putting forward their
policy, namely: policy which goes
in the direction Of establishing 2
Farmer-Labor Party, in which the
workers become an appendage to
the petty bourgeoisie and the petty
bourgeoisie becomes an appendage
to the bourgeoisie. and the demo-
cratic methods Of struggle
In the present situation the or
. r,v,s1~tTo., If - y-v,s a. 1v D. ~
would not be a step forward for the
American proletariat. Reformism
in the United States, just as in
Europe, has travelled very rapidly
in the last few years on the road
OF Social-Fascism. Any Farmer
Labor Party organized today would
from the very first be a recruiting
ground for Social-Fsscism, which
would tie the American working
class to capitalism, to prevent a
/ revolutionary solution Of the crisis.
/ The slogan for labor party is no
/ longer useful for the mobilization Of
/ the American proletsrist for inde-
/ pendent political action. The world
/ crisis Of capitalism, the end Of rela-
4 tive sterilization; the siarpened
class struggle, and the growing revo-
/ lutionary upsurge has developed
new and various forms Of struggle.
/ Only the slogan of the Communist
/ Party - class against class" will
/ break the workers away from bour-
| geois politics and Social-Fascism and
bring them under the leadership Of
/ the Communist Party for Soviet
Power. The American working class
/ has also learned something from
events in Europe; two labor govern
ments in England, which defended
/ the interest of imperialism as loyal
as any conservative government,
were a good lesson for the American
I proletariat. The events in Germany
and Austria further convinces the
workers that there is no third road.
It is, therefore, the task Of the
Communists to expose and unmssk
the Social Fascist leaders and the
/ Farmer-Labor Party. Farmer labor
ism is not only phenomenon pecu-
liar to Minnesota and Wisconsin, but
a tendency in many other sections
Of the country which we must COM
bat. Should the La Toilette Pro-
! gressives decide not to organize
such a party this month, this would
/ not be the end of this tendency,
but only postponement because Of
/ political expediency.
We must, through our everyday
struggles in the factories, in the
trade unions, among thee unem-
/ ployed, convince the decisive sec
tons of the American working class
that the Communist Party is the
only political Party Of the working
class. The Party in District 10 will
initiate an theological and organ
national campaign to expose the
third or Farmer-Labor Party. We
will already now prepare for the
coming election campaign to spread
I our election platform containing
state and municipal demands among
/ wide masses of workers and farmers.
/ Our nominating convention which
( takes place in Milwaukee. July 1,
must be broad United Front, in
/ volving various sections of the work
/ ing class under the leadership of
the Communist election slogans.
BY the carrying out of the de-
/ cisions Of the Eighth National Con-
vention, as well as the control tasks
adopted at the convention of Dis
/ trict 10, we can defeat the agents
of the capitalist class, who will hide
/ themselves behind the mask Of
/ Farmer-Lsbor Party. The District
/ Committee at its last session de-
cided upon the following steps in
the campaign against labor party;
l. To initiate discussion in all
units and section committees on the
Farmer-Labor Party.
q To organize a vigorous Com
munist Party election campaign and
wide distribution of our program as
the best means of combating the
Fsrmer-Labor Party and Social
Fascism. To sharply raise the reyo-
lutionary way out of the crisis and
the slogan of a Workers and Farm
ers' Government. Sections must
nominate local candidates immedi-
stely.
3. To mobilize All trade union
fractions ana opposition groups to
deal with ibis problem To get local
unions to endorse Communist Party
candidates.
4. To deal with this problem at
shop gate and street meetings. also
special articles in shop bulletins on
this question.
5. To exchange speakers with
Minneapolis for mass exposure Of
Farm er-Laborism and Socialist
Party.
6. To issue statement to the
press, giving the Communist Party
position on labor party; also articles
0 for the Dailv UTorl-er