The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 7

\ \ January 13, 1924 SECOND SECTION ‘The American By C. E. RUTHENBERG Seventy-two hours of intense work, during which most of the . posses of the United States. Ty * 7. . ; ‘, delegates did not secure more Bietignlabcaktention Witt a cian The Central Executive Commit- than ten hours of sleep, was the e campaign for independence of the tee as elected by the Convention} record of the Third National Convention of the Workers Party of America. | The Convention summarized the achievement of the Party during the previous year and restated its policies for the _ coming year’s work. The report of the Central Executive Committee submit- THE DAILY § DAILY WORKER. Revolutionary M An Analysis of the Many Achievements of the Third National Conventio Page Seven SECOND SECTIOW ipines, which it will endeavor + to the. workers of- these and the various colonies and cou: Phillipines. The Ps will demand the immediate and coimplete indepen- dence of the Phillipines and will ¢ ,deavor to extend its paganda work among the people of the Phillipine |Islands to arouse them against the imperialist domination of their coun- try. t the American capitalist jcon ion countries. Protection of the Foreign-Born The Second National Convention of ovement Grows n of the Workers Party (Fr yy The New Executive con 8 of the following members: Alexander Bittelman Earl R. Browder Fahle Burman James P. Gannon William F. Dunne J. Louis Engdahl William Z. Foster Benjamin Gitlow Ludwig Lore Jay Lovestone John Pepper A the Party adopted a resolution in- C. E. Ruthenberg ted at the opening of the Con- structing the Central Executive Com- J vention, brought out vividly f |mittee to y on a campaign PEUSTENG SD FM ts iffe | against, ption laws directed)... ae “sem seen between the | against foreign-born_workers. This | William Z, Foster and James P. Can- Workers Party of a year ago jtesolution was re-affirmed and the|®0R.. : i ‘and the Party of today. A year {Central Executive Committee in-| With this group there united some ago the Party had not yet made itself felt as a political influence in the United States. . It . was still in the period of prepara- tion for work rather than hav- ing a record of achievement. }pending legislation before Congress. \ th f / Jvention arose to state the importance jstructed to take immediate steps to | launch this campaign in view of the Speaker after speaker in the Con- of this campaign and the possibility fifteen odd de es under the leadership of Ludwig Lore who op- posed to the Third Party policy of ie former Central E ve Com- mittee majority, altho t! group re- ferreq to above w: or of this policy. he in fz These two gro of launching a great national move-)two-thirds of the de of the At this Convention the Cen- ent which wilt include both foreign-| convention and elects "majority tral Executive Committee was orn and native workers against the! o¢ the new Central Executive Com- -able to report that the Party, thru its work during the year, had achieved a place as a polit- ical influence in the lives of the workers of this country and that this influence | was continually — being strengthened gnd extended. The United Front The report of the Central Executive Committee showed that. it. was.thru the application of the United Front policy of the Communist Internation- al that’the’Workers Party had made the progress. ~“United-Front cam- paigns~had-beer carried on for pro- tection of the foreign-born workers, for detense of the Communists arrest- ed in Michigan, and in the struggle for a Labor Party. The latter cam- paign, which had its first culmina- tion in the July 3rd conference at which the Federated Farmer-Labor Party was organized and which is now in its second stage with the May 30th convention of the Farmer-Labor Party organizations at St. Paul, as its expression, had brought the Workers Party the leadership in the struggle for a class Farmer-Labor Party in the United States. The second major achievement sub-|" mitted. by the Central Executive Com- mittee, in its report, was in the form ! Teamonbs of the statement that the Communist Party in the United States had at last consolidated its forces and that the period of splits and factional strug- gles was over and there was no longer danger of the Party flying apart into various sections as had so frequently been the case in the years from 1919 to 1921. Organizational Achievements * During the course of the year the Workers Party added 2,000 members to its ranks. It extended its work Farmer-Labor Party was an achieve- JouNS TONE BITTLEMAN ~~ GITLOW inadvisable for the Convention to in which all the facts were brought, ation developed in various aspects of attempt to enslave the foreign-born | workers and thru them the native- born workers, which is behind the proposed legislation against the for- gign-born, Party Re-Organization The proposal to re-organize the} Workers Party on the basis of shop | units which was submitted as part of the agenda of the Convention, is an indication of the growth of the! Workers Party and the fact that it is| preparing itself for greater struggles against capitalists of this country. The Communist International has| laid down the principle that Com-' munist Partigs must be organized on! the basis-of the shops and factories, | in place~--of ‘purely _ territorial | branches, For the Workers Party the prob- lem of creating such an organization | is complicated by the fact that there are some seventeen language sections within the Party and the branches of the Party consist largely of language groups. The Convention of the Party faced this problém squarely and de- cided that during the next year shop units should be organized as an or- ganization alongside of the existing Party structure. Thus, during the work of building the shop units dur- ing the present year, there would be no interference with the if, 1 é aWlye da? § wi branches, each member maintaitimg his relationship to the branch of which he is at present a member. The Convention left to the next National Convention the question of extending this work, feeling that the experiences of the year would pre- pare the way for new developments in organizing the Party upon a new basis. The New Leadership During the year 1923, the Central mittee. Summary b The work of the Third National Convention does not represent any new departures in the policies of the Party. Rather, the Convention was a study of the year’s application of. policies already adopted, the drawing of lessons from these experiences, and the re-statement of the policies for the purpose of consolidating the Par- ty behind these p ies for the next year’s work, The application of the United Front policy in the struggle for the forma- tion of a mass Party of farmers and industrial workers remains the cen- tral point of the Party work for the coming year. The campaign for pro- tection of foreign-born. workers, the campaign against American imperial- ism, and the agricultural work of the Party all have been undertaken to some degree in the past, and the de- cisions of the Convention will result in more aggressive work along these lines. The program adopted by the Second Convention was re-affirmed. On the organization side, the Party begins—its_firststeps towards sink- ing its roots in the shops and fac- tories thru the organization of shop units, as it has already sunk its roots into the trade unions thru the sup- port of the work of the Trade Uniog S rate geen auivead sone, The impression of the Conventio was of an organization that had gone thru its experimental stages and had got down to hard, practical work. The year 1923 had been a year of such work. The year1924 promises to be a greater year of achievement for the Communist Party on the road to its final goal, the Soviet Republic of the United Statés, For Recognition of Soviet Russia! into the agricultural section of the|ment of primary im P 4 ure or : «| Executive Committee of the Party A ° p portance . . force the issue of the Third Partyjout lasted for many hours with the|this work and proposed certain ares) fs rnd keg Pe Oe a Successful cam- ‘There is one problem to which the | policy and he recommended that the|final result that the Chicago resolu-;concrete organizational steps to Sis ae gion Posen aeaaeaaasaaaaaaasabaahnid” Seta oe sas ablishment of cane Shiai Party have not applied|'Third Party section of the thesis of|tion was adopted by the Convention. |s*~-ngthen the Party in this work. of the’ consolidation of the former SLIP COVERS the first of a Serer oe eok cores relat ed saa sufficient energy,|the Central Executive Committee be} This debate and both resolutions) {pis report became one of the|underground Communist Party with edited tikes jas ae s us 2 eae sti ‘ - i : 7 a " "an jaterial the sale of Communist literature, be-| isn: .. .” q merican imperial-| withdrawn and the question of the|will have a greater value to the/storm centers in the Convention. A the Workers Party. The Committee ncluding La’ e gan the work of producing a Com- munist literature in the United States by the publication of eight books and pamphlets, and maintained a press . New Policy Together with the report of the Central Executive Committee there was submitted a thesis containing a correctness of the policy contained therein be referred to the Communist International for decision. This mo- tion was adopted by a vote of 43 in favor and none against, ten delegates Party than the issue of responsibility and the character of the errors made which were the dividing point in the convention. What was said on. both! sides should help to clarify the Party | organization of the unemployed, resolution was offered from the floor proposing a series of new policies, such as an aggressive campaign for a | proved a very unwieldy instrument |thru which to carry on the- work of ‘the Party and it was generally agreed that the Third National Convention Davenport - - $9.50 Chair - - - - $5.50 Satisfaction Absolutely service i ich © i ‘ ; : Yjcampaign to organize industries not | would reduce the size of this Commit- Guaranteed po ug Phi loan Ecard ae declaration of policy for the year|not voting. membership generally on the ques-| organized at the present time, and|tee. The Contra: Bxweneivs Commit- AL derful selecti ¢ 2/ ae Cont MMPaoebent cen tk 1924. This thesis contained a new The United Front in Chicago tion of the United Front and its limi-| similar measures. baie ‘nana taunted’ “x dinaamalttes, ob Keely ais Coltaes te sige te / Proposal in-the form of a statement! Since the Party activities during| ‘tions and the necessity for main-| ‘the counter-resolution from the| thirteen members and this recom- seoditce vidisction did: Some a a of the Workers Party in the United States. The comment on the year’s work of the Party was submitted in the form of a letter from the Communist In- ternational, which thus summarizes the work of the Party during the year: “To perform this and many other tasks confronting the Party, the Cen- tral Executive Comimittee of the Workers Party has rightfully con- ceived as the most important step the of the policy to be followed by the Workers Party in relation to the existing tendency for the formation of a Third Party and toward such a party when it is organized. The thesis declared that it was correct Communist strategy to endeavor to promote a split of the Third Party} group, containing the ‘middle class | elements, from the Republican and Democratic Parties and if such a split was achieved that the Workers Party could, thru a Farmer-Labor Party, the year on the political field had been carried on under the United Front policy, it was natural that the ques- tion of the correct application of the United Front should be a major ques- tion before the convention. The issue came up in the form of a discussion of the United Front as it existed in the city of Chicago. The Central Executive Committee submitted a resolution in which acknowledgement was made of the taining the independent position and building up the independent power of the Workers Party during any United Front action. + The Policy for the Coming Year After the elimination of the sec- tion devoted to the Third Party policy of the Central Executive Committee, the thesis it proposed was unanim- ously adopted by the Convention. The resolution adopted declared’ that the Convention thesis was the floor of the Convention was actually a critcism of the industrial work of | the Party in the form of a proposal of new policies. The Convention viewed it as such and referred the proposals to the incoming Central Executive Committee for its con- sideration, adopting the report of the Industrial Department as submitted to the Convention. Agricultural Work This Convention of the Workers |mendation was adopted. In the election of the Central Exe- jeutive Committee there developed a bitter struggle. A caucus had been |formed of a group of delegates who differed with the former Central Executive Committee majority on the question of the Chicago United Front and who had been in opposition to the policy of the Party in relation to the Federated Farmer-Labor Party prior to the November meeting of the wide experience in the making of Covers, enabling us to give you superior quality. Save 30% on your Automobile covers. Order direct from — GOLLIN BROS. Formerly With Mandel Bros, UPHOLSTERING done in your own home very reasonable. r A . , rf ited Front arrange- : 3 s Nia) : ; establishment of an English Com-|enter into an alliance with such a|Y@lue of the Un only statement of policy by the Party | party was the first Convention which |Central Executive Committee. This Call REPUBLIC 3788 ; munist daily... - ® Third Party for certain specific pur-|™ent between the Party in Chicagoland enumerated certain definite cave enauidevation tthe situation | group was under the leadership of “The excellent work that has been done by the Communists in the Left Wing of the labor movement in the United States... “The propaganda that the Workers ty i i independent : " “S Party has conducted during the past |Farmer-Labor Party groups may be| tS failure to carry on an indepe ing the past year. The affiliation of tended its work into the agricultural | a Nitandina bean those eifective Past | dominated by the middle-class-pro- ho ge boy Cone ee the Workers Party with the Federat-|feld and had organized some 200 Reasonable Prices “The vast sentiment for Commun- ism that the Workers Party has poses. The problem of the Third Party be- came a tactical question of immediate policy in view of the possibility that the May 80th convention of the gressive-La Folette elements and not by those groups which stand for a aroused must be organized. The Central Executive Committee acted tightly in inaugurating a campaign for membership .. . “The Workers Party has panied tactics correctly in seek- inga United Front of all forces to fight capitalist system in the Here’s How To Do It lass Farmer-Labor Party, The discussion of issues before the Convention in the various District Conventions which elected the dele- gates to the National Convention had centered on the Third Party question. In all of the District Conventions in which a vote was taken the Central were in the Convention a bloc of some fifteen delegates out of the total of 53 who opposed the Third Party poli- and the progressive leaders of the Chicago Federation of Labor in help- ing to launch the Party policies on a nation-wide scale but which criticized the Chicago District Organization for Against this resolution there was presented a resolution of the dele; tion from the Chicago District which emphasized the value of the Chicago United Front to the Party on a na- tional scale and charged that if er- rors were made in carrying on the United Front in Chicago the Central Executive Committee was responsible, in view of the fact that it had direct- ness of criticism of the C. E. C. on some minor. points of poliey of the District Executive Committee. achievements during the year, and pecifically approved each. The thesis adopted simply @arries into the work of the new year the policies which governed the Party work dur- ed Farmer-Labor Party is approved and the Central Executive Committee is instructed that it should” aid in organizing the Federated Farmer- Labor Party as a Party and at the same time should propose that the Federated Farmer-Labor Party act as an organizing. instrument to bring into existence a greater United Front Farmer-Labor Party. The policy of the industrial work of the Party for the Party showed substantial pro- gress in the work among the labor among the farmers of this country and the relationship of the Commun- ist Party toward the workers on the land. North Dakota and this work is being conducted in other agricultural sec- that a profound unrest and dissatis- faction among the farmers of this country and the opportunity for organization which this situation pre- sented. ance of this work. American Imperialism The Communist International, During the year the Party had ex- | farmers as members of the Party in! tions of the country, The reporters | in this connection emphasized the fact | in} LNNNNNSNNNNNS Pep Recast EN tcl hepa cls lee 2a ~— neo iE ei Dependable Office Furniture at A FEW OF OUR SPECIALS L) + 80x42 Mahogany Flat Top Desk.. $27.00 Double Pedestal Mahog- \, Executive Commi it te participation in the May 30th con-|" ‘Phe Convention adopted a series of | a ven “The organization of the "ederated held, 1 was pesnnbvod ae fh hap on eo at Pg renga ec peli venion was also approved. proposals for relief of the farmers pcm any Desks ..........$44.50 3 tion would be the storm-center of the: situation in Chicago. The opposition Industrial Report and endorsed the work which had [=| Convention proce as there] resolution acknowledged the correct-| The report of William Z. 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Jetter to the Convention, had ' The ate Worker, Phe tet by ie A criticized the Workers Party only on} We have at i times a large stock of used Office Chicago, Illinois. pon tae Bey 84 one point; that is, that it had not . _ i ol ‘ ‘ John Pepper made a statement to the carried: on’ ® ‘scM@olehtly aggressiva | Furniture and equipment, refinished in our shop, LIEBKNECHT MEMORIAL MEETING ADDRESSES AND CONCERT JAN, 18, 1924, 8 P.M. - effect that the Panty membership a not been sufficiently prepared for the ed, he said, sul oe Ssihie See e said, si e ion ieved that a Communist Party should be a dig organization for|| . lutionists Dear Comrades:—I spent my time during the holidays te gather: ing the ‘subscriptions for THE DAILY WORKER and I got 16 ‘new subscribers in less than one week's time, One full list was campaign against American Imperial- ism. 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