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Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Friday, November 28, 1924 Discussion on Immediate Tasks of Our Party and draw the most conscious and mili-pouliarity of the situation which does (Continued from Page 4.) particular moment subjects for mem- bership in the Communist Party. 5. The Tasks of the Workers Party. 1. Based upon the foregoing analys- is of the economic and political situa- tion the tasks of our party are: A. The United Front Taotiocs. 1. The Fifth Congress of the Com- munist International reiterated its en- dorsement of the tactic of the United Front as “a method for agitation and revolutionary mobilization of the pro- letariat.” Our party must continue to apply the United Front tactic for these purposes. 2. The economic situation of capital- ism will produce recurring crises. During these crises the capitalists continually seek to force down the wages of the workers, lengthen hours and in other ways improve their posi- tion in relation to the workers. Unem- ployment on a large scale is one of the features of these crises. The move- ments of resistance against these con- ditions on the part of the workers create the favorable conditions for the application of the United Front. Our party must be in the forefront of these struggles. It must take the lead ership in raising the issue of the class struggle and developing slogans with which to rally the workers fora com- mon struggle against the capitalists. It must call upon all working class or- ganizations to form a united front in fighting these struggles.” It is only by thus openly standing in the fore- front of the fight for the workers against the capitalists on questions of immediate interest of the workers that we can win leadership ovér the work- ing masses and of the poorer farmers Your Union Meeting FOURTH FRIDAY, NOV. 28. Name of Local and Place Re of Meeting Blacksmiths, 64th and 8. Ashland Avenue. Boiler Makers, 106th and Avenue M. Boiler Makers, 65th and Halsted. Boiler Makers, 62nd and Hails‘ Streets. Electricians, 19 W. Adams St. Engineers (Locomotive), Madison and Sacramento. ineers, 180 W. Washington St. Firemen ‘and Enginemen, Wentworth Avenue. Fur Workers. Hod Carriers, 1860 Sherman Ave., Evanston. Lithographers, 639 8. Ashland Blvd. Bakers and Confectioners, Roosevelt Road. Trades Council, 180 W. Washington Street. Carpenters’ District Council, 505 8. State Carpenters, 175 W. Washinj Carpenters, 4339 S. Halst Conductors (Sleeping Car), 91: Capitol Bidg., 10 a. m. Electrotypers, 175 Stree 2 35 82 £8 & 8 Re @ in St. St. Granite Cutters, 180 W. Washing- ton St. Machinists, 118 S. Ashland Ave. Machinists, 55th and Halsted Streets. 83 @ u af. .» E. cor. Lexington rn. 53rd Pl. and Halsted y Carmen, Biue | Railway Carmen, 52nd and Robey. Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. Watchmen (Stock Yards), 3749 S. Halsted St., 9 a. m. Electricians, 2901 _W. Monroe St. Glass Workers, Emily and Marsh- field Ave. La ba ag Workers, Joint ino and Organ Work: Harrison Street. Railway Carmen, 11405 Michigan Avenue. Railway Clerks, Atlantic Hotel, BAAABAARORAAR EREDAR EDDA “The American Boom Is at an End...” Says Prof. EB. Varga in his “The De- cline of Capitalism,” a pamphlet just received from Europe. Also: “Will Rot the militaristic-imperialist policy of Poincare gain the upper hand, which fact would lead to a new ca- tastrophe of the mark, since the Rentenmark, an artificial creation, would by no means be able to with- stand such a blow?” A most timely SITTING pninsescsnsarsebsssnactssassutisssinitertvone 250 From the 4th to the 5th World Congress. Report of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, cov- ering 45 different sections, including U. S., Canada, Mexico, Argentine, etc. It briefly summarizes the activities of the Executive Committee and its va- rious sections. The United Front, the Trade Unions, Agrarian Questions, ete. A year book of the C. I. Single In lots of ten or more 15 cents. Order while the supply lasts. Literature Department WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, 1118 Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. YOUR Ni and Morning to Pb aay mend pipn Pecr nd Write for Fi Care” ee orca Murine Co., Dept. H. S.,9 B. Ohio St.,Chieago W. Washiigtéh | tant workers into our party. 8. The Communist International has well pointed out, that the-United Front must neyer be an” agreement between leaders. must be built from below, by a direct appeal of our patty to working mass- es to join in a‘common fight against the capitalists. The party must never The United Front] Workers Party special methods. not permit a separation of the task of creating a labor party from the task’ of coming into closer contact with the farmers, requires | ofthe The American Communists must, establish within the farmerlabor party a strong, consolidated labor Wing’: in- cluding the agricultural wage) work- hide its identity in these United Front| ers. This wing shall lead the exploited manoeuvers. It must stand out open- ly and boldly as the leader in initiat- ing and conducting the “united ‘front struggle. 4, Our farmer-labor party ‘campaign was an application of the United Front tactic. For our party the ap- plication of this tactic was a success. The test of our manoeuvers was not, as some elements of our party errone- ously believe, whether we actually succeeded in forming a farmer-labor party, but whether through the United Front slogan “for a Class Farmer- Labor Party” we were able to increase the influence and prestige of the Workers Party among the masses otf workers and poorer farmers of this country and thus hasten the develop- ment of a mass Communist Party, The united front farmer-labor party tactic developed our party, into an acknowledged political force in .the lives of the workers of this country. It was through this United Front tactic that our party emerged from the status of a propaganda sect tc that of a Communist Party. The Com: munist International recognized this in declaring in its statement on the Third Party issue “The Workers Par- ty, which immediately after it had been established, was capable of em- erging from the stage of agitation and propaganda and of taking up with great energy the political strug: gle . Peat 6. In our farmer-labor party cam- paign, in and prior to the June 17 convention, we hesitated to openly establish our Communist leadership. This was an error in the application of the United Front tactic. The Un- ited Front tactic does not mean that the party shall not carry on cam- | Daigns in its own name and under its own leadership. It means precisely the reverse, that our party shall seize apon and develop issues of the class struggle and through such issues mob- ilize the workers in common struggles with itself. The masking of our lead- ership in the farmer-labor movement W./led us into many difficulties and op- portunist errors. In applying the un- ited front farmer-labor tactic in the tuture and in other united front man- oeuvers we must openly establish our leadership and consistently seek to develop Comihunist understanding in the groups with which we surround ourselves in these actions. B The Farmer-Labor United Front Slogan. 1. In its statement to our Party on the Third Party issue the Commun- ist International declares: “The first task of the Workers Par- ty is to become a mass Communist Party of workers. It can fulfil this task only by most actively participat- ing in the establishment of a Labor Party which will embrace all elements of the working class willing to con- duct a policy independent of the cap- italist class and by -establishing a bond with the farmers who are at .| Present in a state of strong fermen- tation. These two independent tasks —the task of building around the, Communist Party a broad, class labor party, and—of establishing a bond between a labor party and the poor- est elements of the farmers— have developed in the United States thanks to the peculiarities of historical evolution, as one prob- lem, namely the building of a common party of workers and exploited farm- ers. In many states farmer-labor par- ties are already springing up. ‘This pe- Charge Fire to Pyromaniacs, JERSEY CITY, N. J., Nov. 27.— Police were working today to deter- mine the truth or falsity of a report that pyromaniacs caused the $2,000,- 000 blaze which swept several piers, injured three men and menaced the entire waterfront in the lower sec- tion of the city yesterday. CUO UUULA AULA TENET Dr S. ZIMMERMAN En ris’ 52h MY NEW LOCATION Special ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS, My Examination Is Free inteed Extracting. Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY ED. GARBER QUALITY SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN 2427 LINCOLN AVENUE . CHICAGO farming masses instead of falling under the influence of the petty- bourgeois character of the latter.” We endorse this statement as a cor- rect summary of the task before our party. 2. Thejslogan “for a Class Farmer- Labor Party” remains our most effect- ive means of agitation for political action.on a class basis by the work- ers and poorer farmers. Our use of this slogan for mobilization of the left class-party bloc against the La- Fellette. progressive movement has made a deep impression upon those workers and poorer farmers who stand forja fight against capitalism. The slogan offers the most effective weapon against the LaFollette gressive movement whether the latter organizes-a third party or not. Through this slogan we can again establish connection with the trade unions and with the organizations of poorer farmers. 3. If we abandon the United Front policy politically by abandoning the slogan “For a Class Farmer Labor Party” we will surrender the most effective agitational weapon we have tor drawing the workers close to our party and building the Workers,Par- ty. The experiences of the workers and poorer farmers in the struggle against Capitalism will produce even a stronger movement for independent .| political: action than has existed in the past. To deny this is to deny the fundamentals of our Communist prin- ciples, and the correctness of the analysis of the present world situa- tion of capitalism. Should- we sur render the position of leadership in this campaign we will give to the yellow socialist and reformist leaders a free field to bring the workers and farmers who become politically con- scious under their influence and lead- ership. “Our failure to raise this issue in the A. F. of L. Convention has al- ready lost us an opportunity for lead- ership and to strengthen our in- fluence. 4. The farmer-labor groups which were temporarily brought under the leadership of the LaFollette move- ment can by carefully directed agita- tion be split away from the LaFollette progressive movement, ~dn .a. number of states such as Washington, Mon- tana, Colorado, South Dakota, and Minnesota the farmer-labor parties ran seperate farmer-labor tickets al- though accepting LaFollette’s, can- didacy indicating- the’ fundamental conflict between the farmer-labor movement and the LaFollette move- ment. A tendency is already in evi- dence for these farmer-labor parties to reassert their independence as for instance in Minnesota where is al- ready developing bitter criticism of the LaFollette progressive movement for its attitude toward the farmer- labor party during. the campaign. Other groups such as:the North Dako- \ta Farmer Labor Party, the Washing- ton County Pa. Farmer Labor Party, ete, never entered the LaFollette movement but maintained their in- |dependence. Part of the LaFollette vote—that cast by workers and farm- ers—is an indication of the extent of the farmer-labor party sentiment among the workers and farmers. 5. The goal of our policy must be to crystallize around the Workers Party those elements who are ready for the formation of a class party. We must crystallize the elements of workers and poorer farmers now in’ pro-| REPORT OF MEETING OF CITY — CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF Y. W. L. Trade union economic work was the main subject under the LaFollette movement into a left- class-party-bloc with the view of even- tually splitting them away from that movement. At the same time we must direct our efforts toward organizing this group and those elements which are for a class party which have not joined the LaFollette movement around themselves and of establishing our open, reyolttionary leadership over this group. As part of this agitation under the slogan “For a Class Farmer-Labor Party” we must ‘raise immediate is- sues rising out. of the class struggle against the LaFollette movement and by the fact that this group will not fight for the workers and poor farm- ers prove to the workers that this movement will not fight their battles against the capitalists. 6. Our immediate campaign must be one of agitation. Whether the left- class-party elements will be eventual- ly actually organized into a farmer- labor party fighting the class battles of workers and farmers is not the essential question at present. The in- evitability of the formation of a farm- er-labor, party is not the. basis of .our campaign. We-use this slogan as a means of agitation and to establish contact with workers who are moving toward independent political action, to win them for the Workers Party and to build our party. It is quite possible that the actual organization of a class farmerlabor party which will estblish itself firmly and function over a period of time will not be the line of development, but that the best of those elements which we bring un- der our influence and leadership thru the campaign under the slogan “for a Class Farmer Labor Party” can be ab- sorbed into the Workers’ Party with- out passing thru the stage of actual organization into a separate party. 7. The campaign “for a Class Farmer-Labor Party” if conducted up- on a correct conception of the United Front tactic will not obscure and hide the Workers Party or substitute some other organization for it. On the con- trary it will bring the Workers Party to the fore as never before. It will make our party stand out as the lead- er in the struggle in the interest of the workers and poorer farmers. The United Front farmer-labor par- ty campaign is a united front man- oeuver to build the Workers Party. It was the error of the Foster-Cannon group on the C. E. C. of the party that they considered the formati . a farmer labor party as a goal imi self and were ready to sacrifice the bringing under the leadership and in- fluence of the Workers Party of a left wing farmer-labor group. whi was feady to fornt With farmer-labor party for the illusion of the organization of a broad all-inclus- ive farmer-labor party, by the official- dom of the socalled bona-fide trade union movement. This point of view accounts for their present policy of abandoning the farmerlabor cam- paign. For them the LaFollette pro- gressive movement is the all-embrac- ing labor party. They took the posi- tion that to try to build the Workers Party through the farmer-labor united front was “a split theory” which was contrary to the United Front tactic. This error must not be repeated. Our aim in carrying on the campaign “for a Class Farmer-Labor Party” must be to bring the left wing bloc in the labor movement and among the poorer farmers under our influence and lead- ership, impregnate this group with Communist understanding and to ab- sorb the best elements into the Workers Party with the goal of mak- ing it a mass Communist Party. 8. The concrete steps which we must take in carrying out this policy are the following: (a) Our members in the trade un- ions shall conduct a strong campaign of criticism against the LaFollette Progressive movi it pointing out discussion at the last city central committee meeting of the Young Workers League. This discussion is the beginning of an intensified activity in the trade union economic has been somewhat pushed in the background heretofore due to the reorganization of the league, tg! campaigns, etc. Comrade itman reported yery ably on this subject. He po that the American ear ded reached the third f the’ de- velopment of economic trade union work, namely the period of propa- ganda for a number of special de- nted/out theoretical discussion, and that-of the journalistic propaganda, our struggle for the immediate demands can begin in the trade unions where we have members as well as in the campaigns in the factories. Registration Must Be Comp! Every league branch in the city of Chicago has been instructed to com- plete its registration of members as to place of work and trade union affilia- }tion. The industrial organizer of the city has Instruced to furnish the branches with data on initiation fees, Applications, etc. in the unions of the trades our members work in, A drive. work by the Chicago league. This ALL PARTY MEMBERS AND ORGANIZATIONS JOT DOWN THIS DATE Fourth international bazaar for political prisoners of Europe, India, and America will be held jointly by International Workers’: Aid and ‘La- bor Defense Feb. 11, 12, 13 and 14. All organizations are re- quested to avoid conflicting affairs. will be made to get every member of the league into a’union. Our union members will have to work in much closer co-operation with our party than heretofore and wherever possible form youth fractions. Meetings of all will be called and immediate work The report of the city ; brot in a number of pote ered ganization of shop nudlel, -jatter all, and realizing this there comrades working in one industry. tions on the factory campaigns, or- that it is a liberal capitalist third party, and not a farmer-labor party and raising the slogan of a class Farm- er Lebor Party and spliting these trade unions away from the LaFollet- te progressive movement. (b) Wherever labor unions are affili- ated with units of the LaFollette pro- gressive organization, our members shall seek to become delegates and to make in these organizations the samc criticism and raise the slogan of the “Class Farmer Labor Party” and to split them away from the LaFollette progressive movement. (c) We shall oppose the affiliation | with the LaFollette progressive organ- ization of any unions not already af- filiated. (d) In relation to the coming nation-| al convention tentatively set for Jan-| uary by the LaFollette progressive er- ganization, our policy shall be, that wherever we have party members in organizations affiliated and entitled to send delegates, to have our party members elected with instructions to make the same criticism against the LaFoliette progressive organization in its national convention and raise the slogan of a “Class Farmer-Labor Party” in order to build a left-bloc and split it away. (e) We shall mobilize all the class farmer-labor elements with which we have contact and which are now affili- ated with the LaFollette progressive organization for the same campaign against this as a liberal, third capi- talist party and not a labor party and to have them raise the slogan of a “Class Farmer Labor Party” and to split with the LaFollette-progressive movement. Cc. Our Industrial Work. 1. We endorse the new program for industrial work prepared in collab- oration with the Red International of Labor Unions. We particularly em- phasize the necessity of the indus- trial department of the party carrying out into actual struggles of the work- ers the following points of this pro‘ gram: (a), Greater participation and the establishment of our leadership in strikes. (b). Actual organized effort to or- ganize the unorganized. The shop nuclei as the basic units of the party are an important step in this direc- tion. ‘The shop nuclei should be the jinstruments for the creation of shop committees which should be the basis yot the organizations formed. ~ (ce) Energetic taking up of the problem of unemployment, and actua’ work in the trade unions in support of our, unemployment program. (a) The raising of political slo- gans in.connection with all industrial str thus directing these strug- ‘gles toward political objectives and developing political action by the workers. 2. The actual organization of the industrial department of our party har not yet been achieved. In only a very few places is there an actual, func: tioning organization of the industrial department. We must remedy this defect and create units of the indus- trial department wherever we have members in the trade unions and see that these organizations carry on regular systematic work in support of our political and industrial program. 3. In the thesis of the Communist International our party is criticized for its “supercilious attitude toward the revolutionary unions formed paral- lel to the reformist unions.” We must give more attention to the in- dependent unions and _ establish friendly relations and co-operation with them, 4, The industrial department of the party must be mobilized in all the party campaigns to give active sup- port to the party in all its work. D. The Negro Workers. 1, The Negro workers of the United States offer a special problem for our part; The Negroe: re work, a membership drive, literature sale and collection of campaign funds. Shop Nuclei Is Discussed. Branches reported on their activi- ties in the organization of shop nuclei, The difficulties and the sue: cesses of this work, were the main topics for discussion on their reports The discussion brot out that while it is comparatively easy to organi a nucleus and elect its officers, it re- quired persistent and intelligent ef- forts of the branch executive and branch members to make it flourish, which is the most important thing should be no neglect on the part of the branches to “nurse” the newly formed nuclef: The matter of printing a local bul- letin was endorsed and publication heldup pending arrival of policy in- structions from the national office. The work of Chicago League is srowing and expanding. However, more comrades must take part in the work. More young comrades must be drawn into responsible work so that Greater results can be achieved and the future work of the league as- New York Workers’ School. Regi ister Now—208 E. 12th St. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum, READ THE DAILY WORKER? 4 among the most exploited groups of the workers and the poorer farmers We must seek to develop special slo- gans which will appeal to these work ers and seek to draw them into the general strigglés’ of ‘thé worets and poorer farme: The party in the fu ture must stiidy this problem more thoroly and .carry on active work toward bringing the Negro workers into the struggle under its leadership. E. The Young Workers League. 1, The Young Workers’ League should be a powerful ally of the party in all its campaigns and the party must give it its support in order to strengthen it and develop it as the ‘means of supporting the party cam- paigns thru its special appeals to the young workers to take up the strug: gle The special task of the Young Workers’ League is to reach the young workers in industry, it musi develop its work so that its major attention is given to this field. With this work must go intensified anti- military propaganda among the youth of the nation. The full support of the party must be given to the Young Workers’ League in strengthening itself for this work. 6. Bolshevization of the Workers’ Party. ‘ 1. The Communist International in the thesis on tactics adopted by the Fifth Congress laid down the follow ing qualifications as essential to make the party a truly Bolshevik party: “(a) The party must be a real mass party, i..¢., while being an open party, or obliged to go underground, it must maintain the closest and unseverablr ties with the masses of the workers and serve as the expression of their needs and aspirations. “(b) It must have the ability to maneuver, i. e., its tactics must not be dogmatic or sectarian. It must be able to resort to every strategical maneuver against the enemy which will enable it to remain true to itself. It is one of the chief errors of our parties that they frequently fail to understand this. “(c) It must essentially be a revo lutionary and Marxian party, non- deviating and in spite of all circum- stances proceed toward the goal and make every effort to bring near the hour of the victory of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie. “(d) It must be a centralized party, prohibiting factional tendencies and groupings. It must be a monolithic party hewed of one piece. “(e) It must carry on a regula: definite propaganda in the bourgeoi army.” 2. Our immediate policy to realize these qualifications for the Workers’ Party must be: (a) Crystallization around us thru the slogan of a “Class Farmer Labor Party” of semi-revolutionary working masses and the ultimate absorption of these masses in the Workers’ Party. (b) The consistent application of the united front tactic and its stra- tegical maneuvering against oura ene- mies. (c) Intensive Marxist Leninist ed- ucational work within our party. (d) The most rapid steps consis- tent with the safe-guarding of the party structure to reorganize the party on the basis of shop nuclei. (e) The enforcement Of strict dis- cipline in all party units and all party work. 3. The Communist International has pointed out that the tendency of the Lore group in our party in a Twe and a Half International tendency— that is a left social-democratic tend: ency. The Central Executive Com mittee of the party during the last year has not carried on an aggressive ideological struggle against this tend: ency. Contrary to the decision of the C. I, the Foster-Cannon group, in place of carrying on a_ struggle against the tendency has maintained an organizational alliance with it The incoming Central Executive Com: mittee must carry on a systematic campaign against this tendency an¢ Toot out every vestige of this non PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST E, W. RIECK LUNCH’ HOOMS Seven Places ok wen Buren 62 White Terror? tout thomas i3 “White Terror in Europe— Can America Be Far Behind?” By ROSE KARSNER. Be sure to read it in the Decem- ber issue of the WORKERS Communist Viewpoint. 4, Certain of ovr sections require }y special attention in carrying on ay work of Bolshevization of the party. There are large numbers of members in some lahguage sections who have no understanding of what it means to be a Communist and a member of a Communist Party. We must, in co-op eration with the bureau of such sé¢- tions begin systematic work to draw these members into the actual activi- ties of the party and carry on an edu- cational campaign to give them Com- munist understanding. Our party can: not. be merely the means of maintain. ing social activites for any section of its membership. Such a membership is a source of weakness and not of strength. 7. Organizational Steps. 1, Our party has not given suffici- ent attention to the organizational work of the party, either in bringing into the party new members or the strengthening of the party structure. |We must increase this phase of work in the future thru the following steps: (a) Continued organized efforts to |bring the workers whom we win thru jour agitation and propaganda and thru our united front maneuvers into the party. The organization of shop nuclei will give us a powerful weapon to draw into the party those workers from the shops, the very elements which are most needed to strengthen the party. (b) Close attention to the organiza. tional functioning of the party with the view of strengthening the party structure, and teaching the party units constructive methods of conduct: ing their work. 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