The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-23

this is evidence of a terrible de-
generation in the G. l. How many
debacles like that in Germany do
we have to permit before the wor-
kers have a Fright" to call halt,
brush the C. 1. aside, and build a
new International?
3. All the leading policies of the
C. P. of the U. S. in recent years
have proven bankrupt and have re-
Gently been tossed overheard. The
A. F. of l.. unions are company
unions and must be smashed; ere
evolutionary" unions dual to the A.
F. of L. must be built; fedora
ton of labor dual to the A. F. of
L. must be established; we do not
enter into united front with the
S. P. etc. but only into a united
front from below" with the MEM
bers of the S. P; Socialists are
social-fascists, "Social Democracy
is the twin of Fascism"; those
who advocate a labor party are
simply trying to keep the masses
out of the C. P.-these have been
the basic policies of the G. P. in
this country for six years. They
were reaffirmed by a unanimous
vote (all votes are unanimous In
the G. P.) at a party convention
last June. Any who questioned any
of these policies were denounced
in the most vicious and scurrilous
manner as Observation-Disclosures
and social-fascists. Today all these
policies are tossed overheard with
out even the formality of a party
convention. A somersault in fact
has been executed. Stalinists have
to go into A. F. of L. unions. c.
P. leaders fawn upon trade union
!, bureaucrats and S. P. leaders
They are silent as the grave about
the dearly beloved united front
/ from below. 1t seems that there
are no more social fascists on the
} earth. The G. P. takes the initia
tive in building a 'labor" party
a mass, class, federated, class
struggle, not reforTnist, not revo
e lutionist, highest form of unite,
: front "labor" partyl l cannot i'm
e agine that this group of worker
: meeting at your house will "fall
for this G. P. conversion, con
version like that of the habitua
!, drunk at the Rescue Mission; an,
!. for the colossal impudence of tn
G. P. plea to American workers
4 eve have 100 percent record o
: failure on all our policies. Every
! body else saw it years ago. Eve
= we see it now. Consequently, W
= are the only qualified revolutionar
leaders Of the working classl"
?, 4. A dictatorship of one maj
l. Stain, exists in the Third Inter
.e national. Earl Browder, secretar
Ie of the opus. is his messenge
20 boy. Under these conditions the {
> P. is utterly incapable of correc
ID ing its mistakes. It can only ex'
n. cute zigzags. Consider what hal
st pened a month or two ago. TT
P. c. P. is against a "labor" part
r Browder steps off the boat; ju
I'd returned from Moscow. He hurri,
III to Washington. A non-party gat'
I'd ering, the Unemployment Insu
nd ance Congress, Is in session ther
ed Some Lovestoneites (whose ma
ch aim in life, curiously enough,
ne still to get back into the c, P
st distributed leaflet calling for Il
he building of a labor party. Usi1
n the type Of argument at viii
Il they shine most brightly, the st
n linists tore up the leaflets al
NJ beat up the Lovestoneite distrib
r. ters! Then the meeting opened a,
s. Browder made a speech informil
te. them that they were now for a
tn Dor partyl
% What happened? True some
the comrades turned pale nome
his tarily and experienced that 81
VI feeling at the stomach. There h
of to be some explanation in the [
in lily Worker. The nature of Il
On. explanation is the best evider
it'll anyone could ask of the low
ew tellectual level which has be
cts reached in the C.. P, and that
list cludes the "intellectuals'', crit
Ire nOvelists, poets, artists, social W
Tou kers, preachers etc who are c.
rk- members or stooges.
'" The Daily Worker explain
The Labor Party question is
has Of tactics not principle, so we
3 change the line without muck q
In Anyway, it was not really
in change of line; we always "
Ioz- for a labor party under pro
the conditions. AS for having a pa
cry discussion before changing the
Y: in the first place In the G. p.
OF members have such confidence
be the Political Committee that
lare Committee can act without {
or sulting the membership; in
lard second place, in the C. P. dis
ork- sion does not precede action
men discuss and act at the same
OF Though to the eye of the sim
pre- minded outsider it looked
no though Stain gave the order,
e is WIDER obediently repeated it,
snip party leaders and members bl
sted ed their eyes, swallowed hard,
How cepted the order like the 70
by they have become, and only
!. l. INDUCED in a little "discussi
t IN very little discussion" in W
;. l. no one breathed the least d.
t it of the omniscience of Stain.
for beloved and genial leader of
Ter party and Of the working cl;
as he is now described in the
the let Union with a fulsome fiat
any. which Lenin would have h,
;om- word for). Naturally enough a
alist all that emerged from a "dis
bow sion" conducted On that level
had the charge that 'aTrotskyist"
owe position to the labor party or
loon citism of the way IN which
bout turn N the party line bad bee1
at fected was part Of eounter-z
rely iutiOnary plot to assasanate X