The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Does the american Workers Party
KnOU With What II Is Uniting /?
by Burck

thing more to say on this. Writing
officially to Dear Comrade Swa-
beck" on october 7, he says: 80
long as our membership will be
confronted with accomplished facts
and reaoy-made turns, it will not
be educated into political adult
hood"
Spector forgets to add that "edu-
cation" in Trotzkyism is education
in counter But we are
now interested in Cannon demo-
crazy. AS is known, the Trotzkyists
(Cannon-Schachtman & Coz have
especially distinguished them
selves by their collaboration with
the reactionary bureaucracy of the
A. F. of l.. III Minneapolis, with the
farmer-labor politicians and Gov
ernor Olsen, in leading the workers
to defeat. 1t is also known that
the Trotzkyists in Minneapolis
have gotten for the workers the
same sort of victory" as German
did for the textile workers. The
truth of this is beginning to pene-
trate also into the demoralized
ranks of the Trotzkyists. And
Spector reflects this uneasiness
about Minneapolis in his letter to
Swabeck. Respectfully and polite
ly, Spector asks:
May 1 take this opportunity
of pointing out that though
have the proud honor tironical,
Is it?-A. b. to be a member of
the NC, 1 am completely at a
loss to give an intelligent account
of the role, the measures, the
strategy, and the political bal
ance of cur leading representa-
tives in the Minneapolis striker"
Spector, a proud member of the
Trotzkyist National Committee.
does not criticize. No, he humbly
begs for information and enlighten-
ment. But he injects a bit of irony
into the situation when he says:
"The Minneapolis strike may
have been, as you claim, 'magnifi-
Gently conducted; I am open to
conviction but cannot accent on
simple, animal faith. | propose
that something be done to give
an adequate report on this strug-
gle before it passes into the limbo
of forgotten things and turns into
a Legend
Spector does not want much: lust
explain to him what it was all
about; just save his dignity SO he
Goes not have to accept the dictum
of Cannon-Swabeck on animal
faith" This-from a member of
the Trotzkyist National Committee.
The democratic centrahsm of the
Communist Party is not good
enough for A. J. Music; it is too
"dictatorial." Picking up the coun-
ter : revolutionary inventions of
Cannon g. Co.. Music tells the
membership of the A.W.P. that the
membership of the Communist
Party is not allowed to participate
in the discussion of party policies.
This is not true and every worker
can find out the truth first hand
by coming closer to the Commu-
mist Party. But what does Music
think of the Trotzkyist inner
democracy" Is that the sort of
party democracy Music seeks to in
stall in the A.WP. through the
organic unity" with Cannon :
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES? The mem
bership of the A.W.P. will hardly
cherish such prospects.
The big question for the A.WP
members to decide is: do they want
to become tool for counter
revolutionary struggle against the
Soviet Union? Do they want to be
Unanswered into going to the
Second International and the So
cialist Party? This is the meaning
of the organic unity" with the
Trotzkyists. At the same time, the
A.W.P. must consider another uues
ton: Is it not fact that the pro-
posal for organic unity" with the
decaying Trotzkyist sect followed
inevitably from the rejection Of
the united front with the Com
munist Party? The issue is drawn
squarcly: With the Communists
Party for united front struggle
against capitalism or with the de
caying Trotzkyists into the Seconc
International for a struggle against
the revolutionary movement anc
the Socialist Fatherland. This i.
the question that now confront,
the A.W.P. and every one of it,
members,