The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21

front it is necessary to intensity the
united front with the socialist Or
CARNATIONS despite the decisions Of
the last N. E. G. meeting of the
S. P, and to organs2 the united
front on local and state scale to
the point that the Socialist leaders
will be forced to reconsider their
shelving of the united front until
the 1886 convention Of the S. p
Labor Party Question
Most Of the discussion conferred
around the question of the Labor
Party (see Browder's remarks on
this question in a previous issue of
the D. W.. The report and the dis
cussion as well as the resolution ex-
planned what changes had taken
place that once more placed the
question Of the Labor Party on the
order of the day. At the time of
the Sixth World Congress of the
Communist International 1929 it
was QeClQed Gn6C.
1.-THE Party concentrate its at
tention on the work in the trade
unions on the organization of the
unorganized, ETC., and in this way
lay the basis for the practical
realization of the slogan Of broad
Labor Party organized from be-
low"
After 1928 because of the changes
in the trade union movement, their
decline, especially among the masses
of the workers in the basic indus
tries, the dissipation of the Labor
Party movement and it's diversion
into bourgeois reformist channels,
with the aid of the La Follettes and
the Socialist Party, the whole Cool
idge era, ETC., any Labor Party
could be either an appendage of the
old bourgeois parties, or consist of
the Communists and their closest
supporters.
Under these conditions the slogan
could not be used in the interests
Of the masses. Now however, with
the growth of the trade unions, the
growing rehabilitation of the masses
generally and the A. F. of L. mem
bership, the beginnings of mass
breakaway from the two old parties,
the slogan became once more very
potent force for the separation of
the masses into a Labor Party for
independent political action-that
is, those large masses who already
through experience are willing to
take up the militant struggle for
their immediate interests as against
the policies of the Roosevelts, and
the A. F. of L. bureaucrats and
other reformists while they are not
yet advanced to the point Of accept
ing the full program of the Com
munist Party.
This position of the Party has
nothing to do with the renegade
Loyestone position on the Labor
Psrty--to be organized by Green,
Hillman, German, Dubinsky, VALID
man, Lovestone and zimmermans,
any more than the Party policy in
the trade unions has anything to
do with that of the Lovestone rene
gades who unite with the Dublin
skys and German, with the Jewish
Daily Forward to fight against the
Communists and all militant work.
ers. Our object in organizing a
genuine Labor Party is to free the
MASSES from the bourgeois parties,
prevent the breakaway from being
diverted by the La Follettes, Sin
clairs, OIsons, ETC., into some new
progressive party or into a Labor
Party dominated by the A. F. Of l..
bureaucracy and the Waldman So
cialists.
The &C. meeting took up many
other questions such as the work
among the youth, the women, the
farmers, etc. Special attention was
given to the work among the Negro
masses, especially with regard to
penetrating the Negro mass organ
izations and the mobilization Of all
forces for the Scottsbcro boys.
Discussion on Weaknesses
The discussion while revealing
progress on many fields especially
in the work in the AT. of l.. unions
at the same time was self critical
The failure to bring the Party men,
bership up to 10000 by the end OF
the year, the slow growth of the
circulation of the Daily Worker, the
weakness in the organization and
leadership of the trade union frac-
tions, the slowness in carrying
through of the policy of concentra-
ton as laid down in the Open Let
ter was thoroughly discussed by
the meeting, and steps taken to i'm
prove the work and to create bet
ter guarantees for the carrying