The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1924, Page 8

Workers Party Cen Wai PROGRAM OF ACTION Adopted Unanimously by the C. E. C. The Program as a Whole. organization will have to take place| Farmer-Labor tral Executive Cy swept along in the wake of the LaFol-|the nomination of presidential electors | dustrial work ¢ lette petty bourgeois progressive movement. Our party therefore faces the ques- tion whether it shall participate in a Party campaign in N March the Central Executive Com-|around each policy. This will develop| which the Workers Party will have to mittee issued a statement entitled, “Activities of the- Workers Party,” in which was pointed out the necessity for a balanced program of action for the party. At that time attention was called to the tendency of various groups in the party to unduly stress certain activities of the party and to neglect others. The consequence of this course naturally leads to a lopsided development of the party and to the growth of unnecessary factionalism. The C. BE. C. stressed the necessity of so organizing its program of work that the tasks of building the party, edu- cating its membership, and utilizing it in the class struggle would go ahead simultaneously and in such manner 4s to give the party a thoroughly rounded character. The present Program of Action, herewith outlined, is the put- ting into effect of the principles en- larged upon in the statement “Activi- ties of the Workers Party.” The Program of Action contains several points: 1) Labor Party and election policy; 2) Trade union and industrial work; 3) party membership campaign; 4) educational work; 5) reorganization of the party on the shop nuclei basis; 6) unémployment oplicy; 7) DAILY WORKER subcrip- tion campaign. These propositions cover most of the main activities of the party and consist of the matters to which the party must direct its con- centrated attention. This does not mean, however, that other activities of the party shall be neglected. On the contrary, they, too, shall be pushed with redoubled energy. In order that the Program of Action may be put into effect systematically, energetically and uniformly thruout the organization, and all these activi- ties carried on continuously in the sense of their comparative importance, a certain amount of specialization and from the top to the bottom of the par- ty. In the C. &. C. individual mem- bers will be commissioned to devote special attention to the various phases of the Propgarm of Action, this spe- cialization not to interfere with the proper centralization of the party. The D. E. C.'s will also carry out the same principle, organizing the necessary committees to specialize upon each of the points of the program. Likewise the C, C. C.’s and local branches will create the necessary specialization so bear the brunt of the work and will have to largely conduct the campaign thru its organization, or whether it shall conduct a Communistic cam- paign against LaFolletteism in the name of the Workers Party. A cam- paign in the name of the Farmer-La- bor Party would, in the face of the Cleveland betrayal, unite only a rela- | tively small part of the Farmer-Labor forces with the Workers Party. On the other hand, our Party would be greatly hampered in its agitation and that they can be brought systematical- propaganda and could not use the po- ly and effectively into the work of put-| litical campaign for the direct up- ting the whole Program of Action in-| puilding of the party, if the campaign to operation. were conducted under the name of the In addition to creating the neces-| farmer-Labor Party. The United sary committees around each phase of| Front campaign is only of value to the Program of Action, a fundamental) our party if it unites with us large necessity is to require that all of these| groups of workers for common action. responsible individuals and commit-| The degree to which this would be tees submit regular reports as to what| true in the Farmer-Labor campaign is is being accomplished in the line of} not sufficient for such a United Front activity dirgctly under their super-|campaign. The Central Executive vision. Thus the C. E. C. will require Committee of the party therefore has regular reports from those of its mem-| ynanimously decided that the Workers bers commissioned to carry out these Party shall enter the campaign in its activities. Likewise the C. E. C. will|own name, nominate Communist can- receive similar reports from all dis-|qidates and conduct a Communist in every state in which we can get on the ballot. 2. The National Executive Commit- tee of the Farmer-Labor Party formed at St. Paul has indorsed the candi- dates of the Workers Party in this campaign and called upon all Farmer- Labor groups who stand for working class action to support these candi- dates. Our Party shall urge all local and state Farmer-Labor Party organ- izations to indorse the Workers Party candidates, maintaining their organ- ization intact and using them to sup- port the Workers Party campaign dur- ing the election struggle, thus also preparing the ground for continuance of the fight for the Farmer-Labor Party after the election campaign. 2. (a) A campaign fund of $50,000 shall be raised thru circulation of sub- scription lists and «aunations from sympathetic organizations. 3. Every unit of the Workers Party must at once form election campaign committees for the purpose of organ- izing and carrying on the work in sup- port of the campaign of the party. 4. The National Office will at once place in the field a corps of speakers who will be routed to every part of the country in a speaking campaign in support of our candidates and pro- gram, 5. The National Organization will class members mass trade unic exist, they mu; party who wor join the Tre. League and tak work. The ca members into t league must bk ly thruout the tom. 5. Finances. Trade Union E establish the ganda Fund. 1% be to regulariz of the league. membership ¢ this fund the r look upon its ; duty. In addit the industrial least one pic: ment or dance Trade Union F T a meet ers Pai immediate | subject the before the | This pr cal campai; trict organizers explaining in detail what is being done in their respective territories relative to all the points in the Program of Action. So far as practical the D. B. C.’s, C. C. C.’s, and local branches should put the same principle into effect. Only in this ‘man- ner, by creating the necessary special- ized machinery and then seeing to it that this machinery functions effect- ively, will it be possible to achieve the highly beneficial effects possible un- der this program. The following statement of policies and the manner of their application deals in the main with general prin- ciples. Detailed instructions on each policy will be sent to the party units. OUR ELECTION CAMPAIGN AND THE FARMER-LABOR PARTY N JUNE, 1922, our party declared, in a manifesto dealing with the ap- plication of the United Front policy in the United States, that the problem of the United Front politically was the problem of the formation of a Labor Party. Since that time the party has car- ried on a consistent United Front cam- paign with the end in view of uniting those workers and farmers who were ready to break with the capitalist par- ties in a mass Farmer-Labor Party with which the Workers Party would be affiliated. This campaign has been the major political campaign of our party. We have during this campaign ad- vanced the cause of independent working class action and made the Farmer-Labor Party an issue in the American labor movement. We can also say, without danger of the state- ment being challenged, that our party had made the greatest gains for itself thru this campaign for the Labor Par- ty. It is thru this Farmer-Labor Party campaign that our party has established itself as a political force in the United States. It is thru this campaign that it has established its prestige and its leadership among the masses of workers and farmers. Nothing has contributed so much to develop our party from a sectarian group to a recognized political force in the life of the labor, movement of this couniry than our maneuvers in relation to the Farmer-Labor Party. The Cejiitral Executive Committee declares that the campaign for a Farmer-Labor Party was a correct es- timation of the situation in the United States. It declares further that the campaign for the Farmer-Labor Party must be continued and will be a ma- jor campaign of the party in the fu- ture. ; We must, however, consider funda- mentally the situation which our par- ty faces in the present election cam- paign, The June 17 Farmer-Labor Party was not successful in mobilizing all the Farmeér-Labor forces of the United States for a Farmer-Labor Party campaign. The convention made tentative nominations and adopted a tentative platform and or- ganization plan. It was considered possible that the Farmer-Labor ele- ments which still adhered to the Con- ference for Progressive Political Ac- tion would break away from that con- ference when it again betrayed their hopes for a Farmer-Labor Party and that an alliance with these forces would create the basis for the Farmer- Labor Party campaign in this election struggle. The group in the C. P. P. A. which is for a Farmer-Labor Party did not have sufficient courage to take a stand for the principle of class Farmer-La- bor action in the United States. Without protest it accepted the LaFol- lette dictatorship and became the tail to the LaFollette petty bourgeois pro- gressive movement. The Conference for Progressive Political Action has become a petty bourgeois progressive United Front extending from LaFol- lette to Debs. . It is the supreme duty of our party to raise against this petty bourgeois progressive alliance which is mislead- ing the workers, the slogans of revolu- tionary class action. LaFollette is a menace to the labor movement. It is placing the workers under the leader- ship of the petty bourgeois class with a program in direct contradiction to the interests of the workers and liqui- dating their class movement. If the Farmer-Labor Party as formed at St. Paul represented a real United Front, unifying a mass movement of farmers and workers. which would stand firm and carry on the fight against LaFol- letteism and the petty bourgeois pro- gressive alliance, unquestionably the fight against LaFolletteism should be made thru the Farmer-Labor Party, This is not the situation. Part of the organizations participating in the June 17 convention are themselves in- fected with La¥olletteism and will be issue a series of campaign leaflets which must be distributed by the par- ty organization in millions of copies. 6. The Party National Organization will print during the campaign a se- ries of campaign pamphlets dealing with the issues of the campaign and with the fundamentals of the Com- munist movement for the purpose of education of the workers to support our movement. 7. Party papers in all languages must give special attention to the elec- tion campaign supporting the party campaign in every way possible. 8 We must make consistent use of the election campaign for the upbuild- ing of our party. No meetings must | pass without inviting the workers) present to join our party. No piece of literature can be issued without con- taining a similar appeal. TRADE UNION AND INDUSTRIAL WORK: ipo effectiveness of the Communist| upon the party to put into effect the movement everywhere depends di-j following general measures: rectly upon the success it has in sink-| 1. Build the League. In every indus- ing its roots into the industrial organ-| trial center where the party has local izations of the working class. This| branches there must be formed local principle is so generally recognized | groups of thé Trade Union Education- that the Communist International-has|al League. In the organized districts reiterated time and again the supreme|the district organizers shall consider necessity for carrying on intensive|it a part of their most urgent tasks to ‘and persistent work among the trade| see to it that in every industrial city unions in all countries. The Workers|or town within their districts there is Party, following the general policy,|an active section of the league. They has also repeatedly insisted upon the| will be held responsible for the rigid need for well-organized effort among | fulfillment of this provision. The D. E. the industrial workers. But neverthe-|C.s, C. C. C.s and local branches shall less our party has not yet come to|give fullest co-operation in this mat- realize the great importance of it. The| ter. trade union and industrial work is still] 2. tmdustrial Registration. A first in its infancy. Many units of the or- necessity for successful work among ganization ignore it altogether. They|the trade unionists and unorganized seem to look upon the Trade Union} masses in the industries is a complete Educational League as either some| industrial registration of all party foreign organization or one capable of|members. Such a registration will be running along entirely upon its own| carried out by the C. K. C. in the near resources. The consequence of this|future. All party units, including Fed- glaring neglect of trade union work is|erations, D. B. C.’s. C. C. C.’s, and that the party is failing to draw sus-| local branches, are instructed to make tenance from the richest field of op-|this a special order of busirpss. The portunity lying before it. All its ac-|district organizers are especially in- tivities suffer accordingly. A firm grip| structed to see to it that the industrial im-the industries is the first consider-| registration is a success in their res- ation for the success of our whole] pective districts, movement. 3. Industrial Organizers. In order The C. E. C. is determined that the|to carry out the industrial work suc- party shall take the industrial work| cessfully, it is necessary that the much more seriously than in the past./various units of the party commission For this purpose all the party units| industrial organizers and industrial will be required to make it a definite| committees to have charge of the and constant feature of their activities.| work, The local branches shall each The present state of neglect must| appoint an industrial organizer. The come to an end at once, We must-aim|D. E. C.’s shall specialize themselves to a condition where in every indus-| accordingly and shall devote direct at- trial center there is a large and/tention to the industrial work. The flourishing section of the Trade Edu-| function of the industrial machinery cational League, and where every: part| of the party shall be to bring the party of our party is functioning vigorously | membership into the league and into industrially. The real health and|the industrial work generally, in ac- growth of our party depends upon the| cordance with the policies of the accomplishment of this condition. As} party. 5 the most vital present necessities of} 4. Union and League Membership. the industrial work, the C. EB. C. calls|It shall be a leading aim of the in- the industr ployment si the basis of On eac adopted a organized. WORKER, program ci the immedi campaign. The alignment in the elections will be: the capitalist republican and democratic parties, the LaFollette ‘petty bourgeois progressive alliance, and the Workers Party, raising the slogan of working class action on a Communist program against the cap- italists and against the petty bour geois misleaders of the workers. This situation should nerve every member of our party for the most agressive and militant struggle our party has ever made. Our program and policy during the campaign will be the following: 1. To run candidates nationally, in the states, and locally, under the name of the Workers Party, wherever it is possible for us to put these can- didates on the ballot, this te include | OM its i Internatio point out th reorganizing the various rial form of « upon shop form of loc: itance from democratic } fective Com only be car munists are place where reasons this basis is vite Workers Pz sons, which cessity of o campaigns t masses into can accomp) lished elabc institution c industries. turn united ciple. Like cation of tl Workers Pa ing the clo: ing masses thru a well nuclei, f All over Parties are_ ing from th form as th { M: ‘HE stre an orgi future grov party amor ers. Increz furnish a | activities, will furnis] financial s) the scope | The acti the past t large grou movement. in carrying necessary are ripe fc into the or now take — We must | party ac work of