ABSTRACT
The alternative to a party realignment— one party becoming progressive and the other conservative— which is now before American labor and its progressive allies is government by non-partisan Congressional bloc. The American Congressional bloc, all allegations to the contrary notwithstanding, is altogether new and unparalleled in any country. President Calvin Coolidge and Vice-President Dawes denounce the bloc system as representing "organized minorities". The Congressional bloc is attacked by conservatives as an effort to destroy the two major parties, but in reality it stands for an adaptation of the two-party system to the needs of modern life and to the purposes of economic democracy. Political and economic history is a record of blocs and party formations, which are replaced by other blocs and other parties. The existence of a bi-partisan progressive bloc in Congress gives several possible political alignments; a clear bloc majority; a bloc-and-opposition majority; a one party anti-bloc majority; or a bi-partisan anti-bloc majority.
