The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
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VanderveIde. - Our Young So
cialist Guards have adjourned for
three months precisely because
they had certain difficulties with
the Young Communists.
Notice that don't at all dispute
everything you say, only put your
selves in our situation; we have
been appointed to listen to you; IN
certain countries, they have &C
tually refused us the right to Go
anything else; you are anxious to
proceed very quickly, that's fine, but
at another time when We addressed
proposals to you, We received no
answer.
THERE CANNOT BE TOO MUCH
EFFORT EXERCISED IN THE
BATTLE AGAINST FASCISM
Thorez.-I win also say word on
this subject.
This objection against the united
front coming from those who direct
a party of the working class and
who possess sufficient influence, if
only by means of their own forces,
to raise a powerful barrier against
fascism, makes us Communists fear
for the workers; we consider such
an objection dangerous. The ex-
perience of Austria in this matter IS
significant enough and even in
France, we can say last Sunday and
the Sunday previous, that wherever
there is still a tendency in the So
cialist Party to weaken united &C
tivity and not unitedly to apply the
terms of the pact-neither the So
cialist Party nor the Communist
Party advanced, while the bourgeoi-
sic parties gained; this was partic-
ularly 50 at Lille. On the other hand
when we struck great blows together
we both progressed, Socialist and
Communist.
However. you cannot say that the
G. I. in its time formulated any
answer which prevented the Or
ganization of united action. You
know it. and I tell it to you bluntly,
cur only desire is instantly to or
ganize united activities; but if we
must argue, we shall argue. We have
adopted the habit in France Of
discussing things very frankly with
our Socialist comrades; and if
someone says to us: you should have
accepted our former offers, we
answer; perhaps when proposals
were made by the Communist Party
in July 1882 and January 1898, the
SOciaI-DerCcracy could else have
accepted the proposals of united
action made then by our party, but
low would that have helped us? /
remind you of these things simply
because, precisely there too, it could
Rave been said that the united front
was not important; there also is
was true that one party was strong
and the other weak.
Vandervelde.-The German Com
munists represented a very large
force.
-horez.-That's why it was a
great crime not to have answered
these appeals in 1892 and in 1888
for the organization of united
resistance against Hitler. Now
since March 1888 you have made
such responses as allowed the or.
ganization Of united action, since
il is on the basis of such moves
that we succeeded in organizing
our united front in France. That
is why I am afraid your declara-
ton will not encourage the reali-
cation of the united front where
it does not yet exist, and that it
will not contribute very much to
those actions which have elready
been cOnsummated.
It isn't that we would not like TO
discuss all problems and quietly
breach every delectable controversy;
but the problem for us is to deter
mine how we can actually, from this
very meeting on, come to an agree
ment on at least a minimum Of two
or three huge meetings, two or three
large demonstrations in favor of our
Spanish comrades.
There is the spirit in which we
have come to obtain united action.