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

its fundamentally false and dan
gerous opinion that the Communist
program of proletarian dictator
ship and Soviet Power is the prime
cause for the rise of fascism. On
your side it means that you shall
not demand of the Communists the
abandonment of our fundamental
opinion that the policies followed by
the Labor and Socialist Interna-
tional Outstanding examples being
the German and Austrian Social
Democratic Parties) actually paved
the way for fasciSm, enabled it to
come to power and constituted what
We Communists designate as Social
Fascism. We have never classed
the members and adherents of
the Socialist Party as Social Fas-
cists, but on the contrary consider
them our class brothers. We have
nothing to repudiate or correct in
our expressed positions on this
question, nor in the clear and au-
thoritative words of Comrade Stain
which you quoted. These contra
dictory positions Of our two Parties
express the basic programmatical
dierences which make necessary
differences which make necessary
that conclusion which you expressed
that organic unity of Parties is not
possible nor is it required to bring
about united action on specific
issues.
United action to meet the most
pressing immediate problems of the
working class despite existing pro-
grammatic differences is a field in
which tremendous possibilities are
open. This is especially true if you
draw the lessons from Germany
and Austria that not collaboration
with the bourgeoisie and its brazen
heutenants of the type of Green
and Vol, but only a fighting
united front of the workers includ-
ing Socialists and Communists can
defeat faScism and war.
PIanks for a United Front
what Socialist workers can fail
to agree, for example, with the
Communist workers on the neces-
sity for a broad solidarity move
ment in support of the heroic tex
tile strikers, of protest against the
cold-blooded murders being car
ried through, especially in the
South, and in opposition to all pro-
posals to end the strike without
winning its demands? What So
cialist worker can fail to see the
enormous advantages to the whole
working class from the participa-
ton of his Party in the great
movement rising in the American
League Against War and Fascism
and its Second Congress, which
meets in Chicago Sept. %? What
Socialist worker can fail to see the
great gains we would get from a
united drive for the Workers IN
employment and Insurance Bill,
HR. 1898, which your spokesman
Thomas, as an individual at the
Youth Congress and officially in
your NEG. meeting, described as
the best before the country, and
which is the only project that
means anything to the millions
now unemployed? What Socialist
worker can fail to agree with our
proposal that all the mass organ
izations of the unemployed should
be unified under an agreed system
of organization and a common
platform of struggle?
THE whole aim of the Commu-
mist PARTY is to achieve the great
est possible working class unity in
the struggle against the capitalist
attacks, against rising fascism anc
war preparations in this country
This is our fundamental strategy
that is our larger plan of action