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

support to the A. F. of L., particip-
! alton in the N. R. A. and its sub
divisions, together with the policy
Of arbitration which surrenders the
workers interests into the hands of
their enemies 1t demands ap-
proval of Matthew VOLS leadership
and participation in all plots and
attacks on the workers fatherland,
the Soviet Union. 1t demands that
we must withhold our fight against
war and fascism to await the lead
ership from Green and Vol, who
are a part Of the war preparation
machinery and in the forefront of
oppressive measures against the
workers.
1--WE saw that within the Social
ist Party at its last Convention
these two contrary interpretations
exist and have stubborn defenders.
We declare, frankly, that to the
degree your letter expresses the
latter Interpretation of unity with
Green and Vol, to that degree it
is equivalent to a rejection on your
part Of any possibility of united
action. This makes it all the more
necessary for the N. E. G. to
Clarity the question as to which of
these interpretations shall be placed
on the sentence quoted from your
letter. We sincerely hope that the
first. not the second, is the correct
Interpretation.
C. 1. Encourages United Front
I'VE note your contents on the
influence Of the Labor and Socialist
International and the Communist
International on our concrete
united front problems in the United
States. You failed, however, to
bring out the fundamental fact that
the Communist International in no
way places the slightest obstacle
to the development Of united action
in the United States. On the con-
trary, the G. I. has advised and
encouraged all its constituent par
ties to come to agreement for
united action with the Socialist
Parties in the respective countries.
Unfortunately the same is not true
of the relation of the Labor and
Socialist International to the So
cialiSt Party, which seems to consti-
tute one of the stubborn obstacles
to the achievement of united action
in the United States.
you state that the French agree
ment for united action has not yet
been duplicated in any other corn-
try While this is technically cor
rect, yet standing alone it would
deny the equally important and
and even more basic, although not
duplicate agreements reached be-
tween the Socialist and Commun-
list Parties of Austria, Italy and the
Saar. Furthermore, may we point
out that if the Socialist Party of
France had waited for the Socialist
Party of the U. S. to first prove the
possibilities of united action, there
would never have been this promis-
ing beginninG for the united front.
On &C 'ganic Unity
"We are glad to note that you
agree with us that such united
action on specific issues by no
means requires organic unity of
Parties between the Socialists and
Communists? Certain conclusions
however flow from this agreement
which you do not yet make in rela-
ton to some of the questions you
raise. OF course, in the long pers-
pective, full working class unity can
be achieved only under a single,
revolutionary, Party, but this is not
the problem we are now considering.
On our side this agreement that
organic unity is not the immediate
objective means that we must not
demand from the Socialist Party
that it abandon what we consider