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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1928 >ART Y PRE CONVENTION * By JAY LOVESTONE (Continued) The Menace of Opportunism in 2 Workers (Communist) Party :— cause of the might of American perialism, our Party has been bject, for a number of years, to e menace of social reformism; has len faced for some time with the nger of opportunism, of Right ng policies. The committing of ght errors in the Party by one adership or by another cannot be parated from these objective con- tions. Of course, the amount of litical experience of the comrades, e extent of their theoretical devel- ment, the years of connection th the labor aristocracy and bu- aucracy, these are also factors nich make a Party leadership more * less susceptible to the above- entioned conditions which lay the jective basis for the development id growth of social reformisin out- Je of our Party and its influence t our Party. The fight against opportunism, cainst Right wing policies, first ystallized into definite shape in i Party in the fight against the | esent Opposition, when the latter as the majority. The leader of is fight was Comrade Ruthenberg. An examination of some Party scuments reveals this to be the un- allengable truth, Thus we wroté the resolution of the Minority resent Majority) on the report of e Central Executive Committtee nresent Opposition) at the Fourth ational Convention, August, 1925, e following: “The C. E, C. Majority has ig- 1ored the independent unions in he trade union work. This was orrected by the decision of the -rofintern in 1924, but the de- ision of the Profintern has not een carried out. The failure to ake actual steps for the organiza- ion of the unorganized has been mother neglect of the trade union FROM THE FOURTH TO THE SIXTH CONVENTION. work of the Party. The organiza- tion of the unorganized is of vital | importance in influencing the rev- olutionizing of the organized labor | movement in this country and the | Party must take up this work en- | ergetically ... “The Majority (presen: Opposi- tion—J. LL.) found its greatest strength in the support of the ex- | treme Right wing of our Party, without which it could not have gained the Majority in the Con- vention.” “The Majority (present Oppo- sition) maintains its present re- lationship with the Right wing in the Party, withcut which it could not be a majority in the Party, and its policies are those of strug- gle against the Left wing repre- sented by the Minority group (present Majority), the actions of the Majority in the Convention can only lead to a new and more bitter struggle between it as the leader of the Right wing of the Party and the Minority (present Majority), the Left wing, which has shown that it is able to for- mulate and follow a true Commu- nist policy and lead the fight for really Bolshevizing our Party. It leaves to the Minority (present Majority) no other course than to continue the struggle against per- secution and extermination and to keep the Party on the line of the Communist International.” (See Fourth National Convention, pages 67 to 70), This clearly establishes the fact that the change in the Party leader- |ship, which brought about a condi- jtion whereby the 1924-25 Central | Executive Committee is the Opposi- \tion and the 1924-25 Minority is the | Central Committee, grew out of the struggle in the Party, in which | struggle the platform of the present |Central Committee was against op- |portunism, against the Right wing ‘line of the present Opposition. | LINE OF CEC FOR BOLSHEVIZATION. Tt was only after the Fourth Na- onal Convention that the Party be- an to follow consciously a line rainst opportunism, against Lore- m, against Trotskyism, against the enace of Right-wingism and for a rlicy of Bolshevization. In the irsuit of this policy, the present adership made numerous errors, ome to the Right, some to the Left. It is instructive to note that in e various attacks against the pres- it leadership by the Opposition nee the Fourth Convention of the arty, the main line has been, until sry recently, that the basis of the ‘esent Central Executive Commit- e is ultra-Left, is Leftist in char- ‘ter. It is only in recent months, Moscow on the eve of the Sixth mgress, that the Opposition has ianged its cry. For this there are vecial reasons, which we will point it in-the course of these articles. hatever else one may say we can least agree that it is a fashion- le Opposition, that it knows how speculate on a specific conjec- re in the Communist Interna- mal. Such tacties border on the yeotage. This is the strategy of ' e Bourse (the stock exchange) land not strategy for the Communist Party. Let us examine some of the main steps toward Bolshevization, toward eradicating the menace of cppor-| tunism taken by the Party under its present leadership. Merely to enu- merate, these are: 1. The reorganization of the Party on the basis of shop and street nuclei. The abolition of the Federation system--a Party of nine- teen Janguage federations, actually nineteen Parties. The establishment of a centralized Party was an abso- lute prerequisite for a successful fight against opportunism, 2. The theoretical level of our Farty is still too low, but in the course of the. past three years con- siderable headway has been made by us in the ideological advance of cur Party ranks, 3. The Party has been thrown into mass work. Today more than half our membership is in the trade unions. In 1924 only about 30 per cent was in the trade unions. Every decision of the Comintern has recog- nized the great headway made in mass work since the 192) conven- tion. 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The Party has within the last | three years, time and again, fought | against opportunism, instead of | tolerating or fostering it as it did under the leadership of the present Opposition. It is only the driving force of the present Central Com- mittee, which yanked Lore and his henchmen out of our Parity, which | threw Salutsky into the gutter of the trade union bureaucracy. The Central Committee has con- ducted a vigorous policy against | pessimism. For example, the Cen- tral Committee, despite opposition’ from Cannon and members cf the present Opposition, severely con- demned Swabeck (once Chicago Dis- trict Organizer, now expelled as a Trotskyist renegade) when he said in his August, 1926, report to the Political Committee: “A pessimistic attitude has seized the Party membership. . . generally a certain lack of faith within the Party membership in any leadership is the result... “As to the present time, when our Party can no longer live and feed upon the glory of the Rus- sian Revolution, we must recog- nize more than ever that our main task is to gain working class con- tact and actually become part of the lives and struggles of the American working class.” | It is clear that already in 1926) |there was the basis for Trotskyism Jin the conception of Swabeck. To him already then the proletarian vic- tory in Russia had lost its revolu- tionary lustre and inspiration, To| 8. The fight against the menace of Right wing policies has been con- ducted by the Central Committee with special vigor in the industrial | work. For instance, the fight) against united fronts from on top | ‘with reactionary trade union bu-| feaucrats. We have in mind such a glaring case as the proposal of | outstanding leaders of the Opposi- | tion as Browder and Johnstone, to | the effect that the policy of the Communist fraction in the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers | Union, at the end of 1925, should | have been: “To endorse the maneuver at the Convention (I. L. G. W U.) of trying to swing the Sigman forces behind the candidacy of Hyman (Left wing candidate) for presi- dent of the I. L. G, W. U. on the | basis of our forces getting a ma- | jority of the General Executive Board, and a fight for propor- tional representation, general am- nesty (for expelled members) and as many other of our planks as possible in the Left wing pro- gram. That in the whole cam- paign from now on until the con- vention and afterwards, our com- | rades be instructed to carry on | the sharpest criticism and expos- | ure of Sigman, as* well as Bres- lauer.” | Fortunately for the Party, it did not entertain such illusions about | Sigman, even in 1925, as the Oppo- | sition did. 9 For years the Opposition hammered away at the Central Ex- | ecutive Commitee, that it is in fa-| vor of dual unionism. For example, | in a confidential document presented | to the Comintern in 1926 by Com- rades Foster and Bittelman, entitled | “Weaknesses of the Present Central | | | | | | ers (Communist) Party in Trade | Union Work,” we find on page 6, the following enlightening com- ment: “In the textile industry, where the workers ure in a state of fo- ment over repeated wage cuts, the previous C. E, C. of the Party (present Opposition) through the T. U. E. L,, put into effect a pol- icy of bringing together the many unions into united front commit- tees for a common struggle against The present C. E. C. | | 10, Finally, we must cite a most Party in the labor party question. We refer to the emphatic rejection Ly the Central Committee of the fol- lowing opportunist policy toward the labor party question proposed by Comrade Browder in his docu- ment entitled “The New Orientation of the American Labor Movement and the Platform of Building a Mass Left Wing.” The comrades will recall that in the December, 1925, Plenum, Comrade Browder de- growing in the ranks of the trade union bureaucracy a two-and-a-half international tendency. In this now “historical” document, Comrade Pa ly’s PARTY’S STRUGGLE AGAINST OPPORTUNISM. | aristocracy, ‘tie conception of the jis | inated the revolutionary move- Browder said as follows: iy 't 5. Our ranks are still far from complete unification, but great progress has already been made in this direction, as shown in the re- sults of the present Party discus- sion and elections, Bi iwe Navelia(d ths: Berlaniies | CAMPAIGNS AGAINST TROTSKYISM AND OTHER FORMS patted ta cf effective Negro work. This wo’ is still weak. It has many error Jof labor party committe clusively ee with individual members. based ex on the e: ing trade unions, that Comrade Bittelman de- veloped his theory of labor party DISCUSSI: Development and Growth The! Party can weil greet the fact t! all of the above opportunist co tions on the labor party question were rejected by the Central Com- mittee, p- OF THE RIGHT WING. Tt has shown manifestations of, 11. The Party under its present) Right iam, bub esanain li d leadership, has been among the ight wing! its main line and) sist sections of the Communist In- trend are in the correct Communist direction, | him, Swabeck, already three years | ago there was an anti-thesis be-| tween the proletarian Russian Rev- olution and the development of a| mass Communist Party in the United | States, And when Comrade Foster further | yeiced pessimism in his overestima- | tion of the strength of American | imperialism and the power of the trade union bureaucracy and labor the Central Committee in the Com- spoke firmly and clearly. July, 1926, Workers Monthly, rade Foster declared in his article “Even with their present | meager financial resources, which they use unscrupulously to defeat democracy in the unions, the trade union bureaucrats are ex- ceedingly difficult to replace. But once they get the resources of a whole series of trade union cap- | italist institutions behind them, they will become virtually invin- | cible. “The savings (workers’) exist: Their total is enormous and they are full of dynamic possibilities. (Our emphasis.) Of course the Central Committee rejected this opportunist, pessimis- Opposition. | ‘The policy of the Party in the trade union field has shown, especially in ‘our various big struggles of recent date, that the above conception is \dangerously false and could lead jonly to the most harmful results for our Party, if translated into action. | FIGHT AGAINST RIGHT POLICIES IN TRADE UNION WORK, {has diverted this movement frem its proper course by turning the univ ¢ front committees into dues-payizc dual unions. This fake policy brok:< our connections with other unions in the industry. Reporting to the C. E. C. on this ‘united front’ duc union, Secretary Johnstone of thc T. U. E. L. says: ‘, | . Within the past two weeks, two organizers have been placed in the field to or- ganize individual members, and the whole united front program has been completely forgotten by our people. But while we dropped the united front and cut ourselves off from the unions by organizing a new rival among the sixteen existing unions, the conservative offi- cials took. up the united front idea and are now forming a ecom- mittee of the United Textile Workers, the Associated Silk Workers, the Machinists’ Union, ete., while our forces are being frittered away in a dual union.’ “The textile situation shows two | | distinct weaknesses of the Ruthen- | against /D. ternational in combatting deviations from the Leninist line. The Amer- ican Trotskyists, Cannon, Eastman, Central Committee has conducted a vigorous fight against this leader- ship and its outright opportunist policies, despite the interference| and opposition of the Minority. It is the present leadership of the Lore, have denounced the present! Perty that has destroyed politically, leadership of the Party as American banner fight against international Trotsky- | ism. Our Party has pursued an ener- getic policy in the struggle against Brandler and Thalheimer and the other Right wingers and conciliators in the German Party. In the Fifth Plenum of the Comintern, the com- rades representing the viewpoint| |now held by the Majority of the| Party were amongst the most ag-| gressive in the struggle against Right wingism in the Finnish Frac-|™¢ Bubnik and’ tion, " |the Trotskyist deviators from the| pledged to extirpate these sources | Central Com-| of opportunism and to speed up the entitled “Trade Union Capitalism”: | mittee gave prompt and energetic further Bolshevisation of our Fin- | endorsement to the struggle of the nish Fraction. CPSU | Brandler, Thalheimer, Leninist line. Our Committee of the the Right danger. The Right wingers and the conciliators in the Communist Party of Ger- many, were repeatedly sharply con- demned by the Central Committee. 12. One of the strongest sources | of Right wing errors, one of the | Central | tematically the| such notorious Right wingers as As- bearer of the) keli, Sulkanen, Boman, Alanne. Saari, Aine and Hyrske, in the face of systematic resistance by the Op- position (whose leading supporters amongst the Finnish comrades have all been expelled as Right wingers and Trotskyists) which was engaged in a merciless struggle against the Left forces in the Finnish fraction, |led by Puro and Heikkinen. There are still dangerous remnants of The Central Committee 3. A real beginning of Bolshe- vik self-criticism has been made in the Party. It isno longer a ques- tion of mere admission of errors.| The Central Committee tries to avoid the repetition of errors thru an analysis of the objective sources of the various most redoubtable centers of oppor-| mistakes and thru taking the nec- tunism in our Party, has been the/ essary steps to make leadership of the Finnish Federa-| their recurrence by means of, tion in the days before the Fourth | of all, re: The ticism of its own errors. National Convention (1925). impossible t rting to the sharpest cri- RIGHT ERRORS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE SINCE THE LAST PARTY CONVENTION. Since the Fifth National Conven-|to what extent the Right danger i tion, the Party, under its present/a menace in our Party. leadership, has made a number of ious Right errors. have been severely criticized by the! um, in orientating the Party Sixth Congress of the Communist International, which has emphasized that they cannot be attributed to the Majority leadership alone. But | being primarily responsible for the} Central Committee, no doubt the burden of guilt for these Right er- vers rests on the shoulders of the sent leadership. The Panken mistake was a Right aistake, ctimation of the socialist party and “ts role. A similar mistake was aade in Milwaukee. In the latter astance the error was condemned and corrected by the Political Com- nittee. The open letter to the socialist was an example of crass op- portunism. It is true, the initiative in the sending of this open letter came from Comrade Bittelman, the theoretical leader of the Opposition. But the Polbureau as a whole must be blamed for it. The underestimation of Negro) work is likewise a deviation to the Right. White chauvinism has been| fought with energy by the Central Committee, but there has not been a sufficient systematic ideological campaign against white chauvin' and for the drawing in the entire Party into the Negro work. In our fight against the imperial- ist war danger, we have made many berg C. E. C. in trade union work. The first is its misunderstanding of the united front policy and how to apply it. The second is that it | not yet free from the ultra- Leftist dual unionism which dom- | ment in the United States for 30 years. In many instances the | present C. E. C. displays this sec- | tarian dual union tendency.” We must register very clearly the fact that the painted canaries of our Opposition (as Comrade Kal- fides has very well said) are now singing a different song. We won- der whether it is only a change of leage. We know it is a change of paint. It is especially significant to note that the heaviest attack against the present C. E, C. as dual union- ists came at the time of iis first effort to organize a new union and over an event which later proved to be one of the best pages in the history of our Party, despite all its shortcomings and errors—the heroic organization and struggle of the Passaic textile, strikers. What is more, the errors which were made in Passaic were primarily of a charac- | ter against the line of the Central Committee, 2s criticized above by | the Opposition. “We must fight the Gompers non-partisan policy on principle. But where trade union non-par- tisan political committees have real mass support we must pene- trate them and raise the slogan For a Labor Party.’ If the trade unions, either individually or com- hined together as local Jabor par- ties, affiliate with such petty- bourgeois organizations as the progressive party and the various state former-labor parties, we should not split with them, but shall continue our agitation with- in them for the labor party.” Note this one-sided orientation— this orientation exclusively on the labor aristocracy. It is out of this dangerously false orientation that the Opposition developed the theory | Right errors. The Central Commit-! \tee is to be condemned roundly for It grew out of a wrong) permitting so full fledged an op-)| portunist, so hopeless a Right wing- er, as Comrade Gomez to be direct-| \ing this work for so long a time _and to make such a great variety of Right wing errors as typified by the slogan “Stop the Flow of Blood in Nicaragua,” stration of last Spring. The Party as a whole has not fought with enough vigor against Yankee im-| perialism in Latin America. slow response of the districts to the Central Committee’s call for the in- tensification of the activities against the imperialist war danger, shows hina ge BAT SCIENTIFIC VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 1604-6 Madison Ave. Between 107th & 108th Sts. Patronize No-Tip Barber Shops 26-28 UNION SQUARE (1 flight up) 2700 BRONX PARK EAST (corner Allerton Ave.) Unity Co-operators Patronize SAM LESSER Ladies’ and Gents’ Tailor 1818 - 7th Ave. Between 110th New York and 111th Sts. Next to Unity Co-operative House Cooperators! Patronize E. 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This is espec’ ly true for the United States where imperialism is still on the upgrad and where, therefore, social reform- ism has a broad objective basis of support. The role of the A. F. o 'L. and the socialist party in dis- se-ninating the poison of opportun- Automobile — |; INSTRUCTION TAUGHT. Complece Course $10, until license granted; also private and special Instruction to Ladic sup AUTO 845 Longwood Empire Scroot Avenue, Bronx INTervale 10019 (Cor. Prospect Sta.) ;| leveled against Comrade Ruthenberg | att NN SECTION fis m in the ra of the labor move-|types of Right errors committed by le can: be overestimated. The|the Central Committee since the Party must continue a most thor-|last Party Convention. We have also committed a number of Left agencies of the capitalist class in| deviations. This is particularly to the ranks of the labor movement. |be noted in the mining strike and We have mentioned the dominant! ia our election campaign locally. HAS OUR PARTY GONE RIGHT OR LEFT. the discussion.| work—to fight in an unprincipled some of the Opposition comrades| manner for capture of offices in the have repeatedly said: “Yes, the) trade unions. No one would today Left mistakes; | think of proposing amalgamation as the Party was once to the Left.|the cure-all slogan. None of us to ‘Those were the days when Comrade|day confuses the labor arisivucracy Ruthenberg was the leader. Ruth-| with the whole working class. To~ enberg was a Leftist. But now that) day the center of gravity in our in- Ruthenberg is gone, the Party has/ dustrial work is amongst the unor- | gone to the Right.” ganizéd, the unskilled and semi- What. are the°facts? It is true skilled, the decisive section of the that the Opposition has always at- American proletariat. Compared with tacked Comrade Ruthenberg as a/v trade union work and See Leftist, But this attack was not! before the Sth National Convention were far to the Right. ough-going campaign against these In the course of as an individual but against hi policies. Comrade Ruthenberg w: the chief formulator and the driv- ing force in the policies of the Par- y. The attack of Leftist leveled against Ruthenberg was an attack on him not as an individual person, but an attack on the policies of the Party. If one were to examine or| rely to recite a fraction of the acks on the policies of Comrade Ruthenberg, on the policies of the Party in the days before the 1927 convention, he would find that we |were always accused of being the Left and that the Opposition seemed to be suffering congenitally from opportunism, from Right wing in- clinations and ten es | In the campaign against the war danger, our Party has moved con- siderably to the Left. The slogan of partial disarmament, which was | the red, or shall we say the yellow, \thread of our 1924-26 election pro- grams has been very properly di carded and thrown on the junk heap. The Party’s anti-war pro- gram is a truly Bolshevist program. It would be folly even to attempt a comparison between the 1928 elec- tion campaign and that of 1924. In 1924 our election campaign was out- right opportunist. The election plat- form spoke even of workers’ con- trol of production, one of the pillar slogans of Brandler, Thalheimer & Company. This was the program which all of us followed in 1924, to an- has the Consequently, if one w wer correctly the questi Party gone to the Right or to the|The 1928 election platform is a Left since Comrade Ruthenberg’s| Communist platform in the best death, he would have to examine sense of the word. In our 1928 elec- the policies of the Party since the tion campaign we committed a num- last Party convention. To do this| ber of errors, some Right and some one must examine the policies of| Left and some stupid. But in the Party in the principal cam-|main it was a Communist campaign. rg vedas Finally, regarding the Negro were the principal cam-| question. Our policy, with the help s of the Party since the 1927 They were (1) in trade (2) in the fight against ist war danger, (3) the (4) the Negro y proceed to ex- ies of the Party in campaigns. and see - these policies are to the Right or to the Left of the policies which we pursued before the 5th National Convention in 1927. of the C. I, is a Communist policy in Negro work. No one in our Par- ty today would propose even for consideration the 1924 Negro policy of our Party. Here we have gone considerably to the Left. Here we now have a correct Communist ‘ap- proach and policy. To Be Continued Comrade Frances Pilat In the trade union work, the Par-| ty has moved considerably to the Left. 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MINDEL SURGEON DENTIST 1 UNION SQUARE Room $03—Phone: Algonquin 8183 Not connected with any other office For a Real Oriental Cooked Meal VISIT THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRESSIVE CENTER 101 WEST 28TH STREET ree? Phone; DiCkens 1096 Blue Bird Studio || “Photos of the better kind.” 1598 PITKIN AVE., Cor. Amboy St. BROOKLYN, N. ¥. English, Spelling Grammar, Litera- ture, History, Arithmetic, Algebra taught to beginners and advanced pupils at your home or institute. WE HELP CHILDREN IN THEIR SCHOOL HOME WORK 301 LIVINGSTON ST., B’KLYN TRIANGLE 0509. NGLISH Elementary — Intermediate | Advanced—Private or Group | - DANCING NEWEST STEP: j poise, balance, lead, follow in vonfl- BENIKOFF SCHOOL | | 287 GRAND STREET, N. Y. | Phone: Orchard 7312) dence, quickly, finest teachers, guar- |anteed to teach you correctly waltz, | fox trot, collegiate, Peabody, Ar- | gentine tango, given in separate |rooms, without. appointment; indi- | vidual lessons, $1; open 10 A. M. to |11 P. 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