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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1929 Page Three The efforts of Bertram D. Wolfe to function as publicity agent for’ the opposition to the Communist Party and the Communist Inter- national, met with a severe Bolshevik rebuke from Comrade A. Bimba, who received a mass of Lovestone factional documents. The following is, the reply of Comrade Bimba: “ MY REPLY TO THE RENEGADES. July: 15th I received a letter from Bertram D. Wolfe marked “personal.” Its contents are: A document of 38 pages headed: “Appeal tothe Comintern on the, last Comintern Address and the expulsions and removals now taking place in the party.” Signed by “Ella Reeve Bloor, Tom Myerscough, W. J. White, Benjamin Gitlow, William Miller, Bertram D. Wolfe, Jay Lovestone, Edward Welsh, and Otto Huiswood.” «Another: “To the Buro of the National Executive Committee of the Communist Youth League of America.” Signed by: “Minnie Lurye, } Jack Rubenstein, Miriam Silvis, and Edward Welsh.” And the following typewritten letter: New York, N. Y., July 11, 1929. Dear Comrade: Inclosed you will find a copy of the appeal to the 10th Plenum of the Communist International by the Majority of the delegation elected at the last 6th National Convention of the Communist Party of the Unitéd States. ‘L-wish you would read it over carefully and send a copy of your endorsement to the C. E. C. and to the following address: BERT WOLFE, 632 Throop Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. My reply is as follows: I have nothing personal with anybody on the ‘party questions. I am not endorsing your appeal. On the con- ttary, I condemn you and your entire group of careerists and rene- glides‘ with Jay Lovestone at their head for their disruptive and eduntér-revolutionary activities. You fully deserve an expulsion from the party’for your opposition to the Communist International and for your attempt ‘to organize in its American section a right wing, opportunist, menshevik faction, and I am for your immediate expulsion from our ranks, Your way is a way of all renegades. We will fight you with évery ounce of our energy. ! You are careerists of the worst type. You have been defeated politiéally and organizationally. You have lost in the Communist International. Now your position is: either you must be the leaders of our party, or you would destroy the party, if you can. But you will:fail. The Communist Party of America will march forward under the leadership of the Communist International. The Communist Inter- national will be so much stronger by purging itself from renegades and petty-hourgeois intellectuals. Your political line is wrong. Your organization conception of the Communist Party is a menshevik conception which must be rejected and fought’ by all sincere, honest and loyal revolutionary workers. The 6th National Convention of our Party did not elect you to go to Moscow and fight the Communist International and its decisions, and to, split the party. The comrades of the former majority at the 6th Convention were for the acceptance and endorsement of the final décision of the Comintern on:the American party. You have no right té’claim.the authority of the 6th Convention or of the former majority for your disruptive, counter-revolutionary activities. * “Our party is determined to smash all factions and all factionalists. Our. Party.is with the Comintern and for the Comintern, and against you and against all other right wingers, Your letter to the comrades arid your. appeal to the Comintern against the Comintern has only one purpose: to split and smash the Communist Party of America. Through their action Lovestone and his followers have exposed themselves as eriemies of the Communist movement and the working class. Your disruptive activities have convinced me that you belong to the com- pany -of Cannon and Trotsky. ° Especially now we need unity in our party. In Gastonia fifteen revolutionary workers, our comrades, will be soon on trial for their lives because they fought loyally for the working class. Their hope is in. our-ability to arouse the wide masses of the workers to fight in their behalf. Their fate demands our united efforts. But what do you do? By your attempt to split our ranks you are hindering our efforts to save their lives. Therefore you have allied yourselves with the hangmen of the South, with the enemies of the working class who are determined to smash our efforts to organize the textile workers by exterminating their leaders. “We are in the midst of the campaign to organize the unorganized. In this work we need all our forces. You are hindering this great campaign by your attempt to demoralize our ranks. © The Soviet Union is about to be attacked by the united imperialist =— Intérnational and Soviet Union. Our party will defeat your efforts. over the heads of all its enemics. A. BIMBA. eet ae The following telegram from Comrade Trachtenberg, whose name is being used by the Lovestone splitters, is self-explanatory: the copy. -IN. VIEW OF LOVESTONE’S CLAIM MY SUPPORT PUB- LISHED DAILY DECLARE FOLLOWING. HAVE SOLIDARIZED MYSELF.POLCOM ACCEPTANCE ECCI ADDRESS AND SUBSE- QUENT CAMPAIGN. FULLY SUPPORT LOVESTONE’S EXPUL- SION FOR HIS ANTI-COMINTERN ACTION. . TRACHTENBERG. powers of the world. We need unity in the Communist International, | more than ever before we must mobilize the masses for the defense of | the Soviet Union. But you have joined the enemies of the Communist | Our party will march forward | LOVESTONE SPLITTERS DENOUNCED BY Comrade Ella Reeve Bloor, exposes the fact that the Lovestone | Telegram from Platt: clique is still resorting to its old tactics of trickery, deceit and plain lies by signing her name without her permission to a document slander- ing the Party and the Communist International, The following are the telegram and letter received from Comrade Bloor: STATEMENT TO THE SECRETARIAT OF THE C. P. QF A. Philadelphia, Pa. 1—I firmly believe now, as I always have, that we should be absolutely loyal to the Communist International, not only in a formal way, but whole-heartedly. I would not, by any word or action, weaken the faith of the workers in the C. I. or the Workers’ Revolution in Soviet Russia. Because of this loyalty, and fully recognizing the com- plete correctness of the Address of the Comintern to our Party, I accept, without reservations, this Addre: with all its decisions on the Ameri- can Party question. 2.—Of course, I will carry out the Address, and all its decisions, and will urge the membership of our Party to support and defend the political correctness of the C. I. Address and to carry out its decisions. 3.1 pledge myself to support our Party leadership in the carry- | ing out of the Comintern line, and will fight all forms of opposition | to the C. I, in the future, as I have in the past. 4,—I further declare’ that, to my knowledge, there was no attempt to organize an anti-Comintern opposition in the CPUSA by our delega- tion, If such an attempt had been made in Moscow, or should be made in the future, I should be the first to denounce it. I most emphatically condemn any action that would tend to divide the Party. Just before leaving Moscow, the entire delegation signed a statement, which I | firmly believe it was our duty to sign—a pledge to carry out the | decisions of the C. I, and to urge the membership to do the same. If that pledge should not be carried out by any one of the delegation, I most certainly would condemn their action. As for myself, in making this statement, I am only reiterating what I said there and what I shall continue to say here: that I fully submit to the C. I. decision, and I desire, above all else, to help build our American Party into a strong section of the C. I. Let me say right here that, to me, the carrying out the decisions of the C. I. Address means ALL its decisions, and therefore, I firmly believe all factions should be dissolved absolutely; that any symptom or action that would tend toward dividing the Party or obstructing its UNITY, | should be construed as meaning opposition to the C. I. Address which | was emphatically against FACTIONALISM. Fully realizing the great tasks we have before us as a Party, the responsibilities we face as Communists, I pledge myself to help carry out all the decisions of the C. I., to fight any sort of opposition to the | American Party, to reaffirm my faith in the Russian Revolution, and my loyalty to the Communist International. ELLA REEVE BLOOR. . * 8 list’ INTERNATIONAL LETTER ON ACTIONS OF WOLFE. COPY. ANY USE OF MY NAME TO LOVESTONE AND GITLOW AP- | PEALS ABSOLUTELY UNAUTHORIZED, PLEASE PUBLISH MY | STATEMENT AM UTTERLY OPPOSED TO ANYTHING THAT WOULD TEND TO DISRUPTION ESPECIALLY NOW AT THIS CRITICAL PERIOD WORLD LABOR. LETTER FOLLOWS. ELLA REEVE BLOOR. COPY. Dear Comrades: Comrade Wolfe, who voted against the Open Letter of the ECCI, and who made a statement to the effect that he will not live up to the decision of the ECCI, insisted, after his release from the post of the representative of the American Party in the ECCI and the head of the I,tin-American Secretariat, that he must immediately return to America, in spite of the fact that the Secretariat of the ECCI was urgently in need of his services in the performance of certain other work, He declared that he will not be in a position to perform any kind of work for the Comintern even if there should be a decision to the vontrary. He said that he will unconditionally go back to the | States “in order to study.” Under these conditions the Polit. Secretariat was compelled to dispense with his services and to allow him to go to America. It, at the same time, however, decided to inform the CEC of the American Party of this matter. With Communist Greetings, BUREAU OF THE SECRETARIAT OF THE ECCI. y eae Telegram from Crouch: CROUCH AGAINST RIGHT CONCILIATION. Endorse wholeheartedly Buro action against Lovestone supporters in League. Surprised Rubenstein Silvis position against Comintern line injurying workers cause time of growing class struggles. I urge every comrade energetically support League Party against Right con- ciliaters and for Comintern. PAUL CROUCH. PLATT CONDEMNS LOVESTONE AND FOLLOWERS. Emphatically condemn statement Lurye Rubenstein Welsh Silvia | written Lovestone’s supervision written as anti-Comintern based plat- form international Right wing fighting line Comintern. Call League members reject charge Sixth Congress decisions being revised and utiliz- ing League Party mistakes shortcomings factiot ly and anti-Comintern befitting Trotskyites. Support all measures C' NEC struggle against Right line Lovestone and followers. Recognize my previous stand Rubenstein Silvis removal wrong. Answer splitters Right wingers with intensified League work inform Same Party. LEON PI P. Distriet 3: LEAGUE DISTRICT BUROS ENDORSE LOVESTONE EXPULSION. BURO DEC District 3 CYL condemns statement of Silvis, Ruben- stein, etc., as worst sort of opposition to CI and as call for mobiliza- tion against CI. The position of these comrades as expressed in their statement is in line with the position of the conciliators and the Right wing in the Russian and other Parties of the CI. The Buro in upholding the line of the CI and the CYL will mercilessly fight such ‘comrades as propose to follow the line of the conciliators as against the CI. The Buro condemns the maneuvers of some of these comrades in first accepting and endorsing the letter of CI and then continging to fight it. The Buro recognizes that for the carrying out of the Lenini of the CI as expressed in its decisions and letter to the CP USA we must have a united Buro. We, therefore, endorse the action of the NEC Buro in suspending Rubenstein Silvis and we will fight and rally all the membership to fight against any opposition to the line of the CI. Accepted unanimously with exception of two com abstained on last paragraph. Poet Wet oS 3 District 4: * The District Buro of District No. 4 (Buffalo) unanimously endorses the action of the CEC in the expulsion of Lovestone from the Party and the removal of Wolfe from the Polcom. We also greet the quick action of the NEC in the suspension of Rubenstein and Silvis from the Buro. These comrades in their state- | ments defy the CI; YCI and the American Party and League member- ship with slanderous attacks. Their theses, in the form of a state- mgnt, is used to undermine the prestige and integrity of the League leadership. Also the action of these comrades, together with Lurye and Welsh, since the CI Address, has had a demoralizing effect on the entire League. Such actions of any comrade, especially leading comrades, cannot be tolerated. Disciplinary measures against all splitters and opportun- ists must be taken immediately. We call upon the NEC and the membership to unreservedly sup- port and rally around the CI and the YCI and to carry out the tasks before us. We further demand more drastic measures against these com- trades, unless they repudiate their actions and withdraw their state- ments immediately. x AGAINST THE RIGHT DANGER. FOR A MASS LEAGUE. DISTRICT No. 4 BURO (Passed unanimously). * 8 8 District 6: The District Buro of the Communist Youth League, District Six, approves the action of the Central Committee in expelling Lovestone from the ranks of our Party. We denounce the activities of Love- stone in his attempts to split the Party. We are certain that the Party and League will mobilize firmly behind the Central Commitee in the fight against the Right Danger. We call attention to the danger of accepting the Comintern Ad- dress by word of mouth merely. accepted in terms of action. In this light we denounce the action of Rubenstein and Silvis of the CYL in accepting the Comintern Address and not accepting the expulsion of Lovestone, when Lovestone clearly showed not only by his tactics of intrigue and falsehood that he was not following a Communist line—but actually by his open and un- ashamed attempts to split the Party. We approve the action of the NEC in regard to these comrades. These comrades, by refusing to support the expulsion of Lovestone, actually, support the splitting activities of Lovestone and others. The members of the Communist Youth League District Six are wholly mobilized behind the Comintern Address—are wholly mobilized against all those who resist the concrete application of the Comintern Address—are wholly mobilized against all those who attempt to split the Party and League. The proletarian membership of this district demands full speed ahead in the carrying out of all our tasks, DISTRICT No. 6 BURO (Passed unanimously). The Comintern Address must be | COMRADES BLOOR, BIMBA Comintern Sends Letter Regarding Wolte’s Return to the United States Against Wishes of the Executive Committee of the Communist International ! } District 8: The Buro of District No.8 considers it necessary, in order to maintain the Bolshevik integrity, of our movement, and unify our ranks, to endorse most heartily the decision of the C. E. C. IN EXPELLING THE RENEGADE LOVESTONE, who not only disagreed with the C. I. but also fought its decisions and broke the most elementary forms of Communist discipline. We approve the suspension of Wolfe from the Polecom for his refusal to condemn the actions of Mr. Lovestone, and to repudiate the stand of the majority delegation to the Comintern. The Buro is in full agreement with the N. E. C. in suspending Rubin- stein from the N. E. C, Buro and Silvis as a candidate to the Buro, for their support of Lovestone. We condemn the concealed opposition attitude of Comrade Shohan expressed in his statement. We register our most emphatic condemna- tion of the position of Luyre and Welsh. Luyre has sent a slanderous anti-Comintern letter to a comrade in St.. Louis, which reveals how far she has degenerated politically. We support the actions of District No. 2 of the Party D. E. C. in removing Comrade Miller from the posi- tion of org. secretaryship. We condemn the comrades of the former minority who claim that the decision of the C. I. is a victory for them. Such a position is a factional interpretation of the C. I. decision, and is incorrect. Such a position only gives aid to the splitting and dis- ruptive w of the Rights and conciliators. The Buro is of the opinion that the decision of the C, I. is a victory neither for the former majority nor for the former minority, but a victory for the Party as a whole, as was pointed out by the C. J. Some recent occurrences of utmost significance have taken place in the League in our district. Comrade Plott* has expressed his opposition to the removal of Rubenstein and Silvis, while. Comrade Held has gone so far as to voice his opposition to the removal of Wolfe from the Poleom. The Buro definitely rejects these positions as being injurious toward the effective struggle against the agents of Lovestone in the Party and League. The shielding of Wolfe, Silvis and Rubenstein has for its purpose the paralyzing and hindering of an effective struggle against Lovestone’s agents in our movement. As for Wolfe, the Buro is of the opinion that he is not worthy of member- ae in the C. E. C. and therefore recommends his removal from that ody. *See Comrade Plott’s statement repudiating his previous position. The Buro endorses the struggle of the C. I. and its affiliated sec- tions against the Rights and Conciliators. We approve and highly commend the actions taken by the C. I. and Y. C. I. and our brother parties and Leagues of the Soviet Union, Germany, Czechoslovakia and France in this struggle. The Buro pledges to mobilize the membership for a successful struggle against the Rights and concealed opposition, who we realize are particularly dangerous, because they conceal their opportunist struggle against the C, I. The Buro will carry out the task of mobilizing the young workers against war for the TUUC, for the defense of the Gastonia strikers. We will mobilize the youth for the struggle, and thereby bring in new forces into our movement, free from Social Democratic factional traditions. The League will carry on work on the basis of self criticism and bring into the leadership of the League proletarian elements, and will carry out a relentless struggle against any deviations from the corréct Communist line. While centering our fire against the Rights and Con- ciliators the Buro will at the same time mobilize the membership to destroy all remnants of counter-revolutionary Trotskyism. The Buro will do everything possible to win over all proletarian elements who have been misled, for the C. I. and C. Y. I. The Buro goes on record for an immediate enlightenment campaign, which has been so crimin- ally neglected, not only in our district, but in the League nationally. We are 100% behind the CEC and the NEC in the struggle against the Right danger, and for the unification of the Party and League. FIGHT AGAINST THE RIGHT.DANGER WHICH IS THE MAIN DANGER. DEFEAT THE INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNISTS AND SPLIT- TERS AND THEIR AMERICAN AGENTS. DOWN WITH FACTIONS AND FACTIONAL INTERPRETA- TIONS OF THE C. I. FOR THE UNIFICATION AND BOLSHEVIZATION OF THE PARTY AND LEAGUE. SMASH THE CONCEALED OPPOSITION. SMASH ALL REMNANTS OF COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY TROTSKYISM. HAIL THE REVOLUTIONARY INTEGRITY. OF THE COMIN- TERN. \ FORWARD TO A MASS COMMUNIST PARTY AND COMMUN- IST YOUTH LEAGUE. — TO THE IMPERIALIST PLANS FOR WAR ‘(Phe peaceful and industrious character of Soviet Union life at moment when the imperialists of the world whooped theif Chinese iilitarist ‘running dogs on the U. S. S. R., may be gathered from the j g dispatches from Moscow. They are a few which happened to be ‘at hand when the Manchurian situation broke out, and may be taken ‘as.a random picture of chance incidents in heavy and light in- dustry. in the Soviet Union. . The Soviet Union workers were cm- sed upon a great Five-Year Plan for economic development, de- sighed to raise living standards and reduce the hours of work, when imperialists flung their Chinese militarists at the U. S. S. R. * . . OIL IN DAGESTAN, (AKHATCH-KALA, July 1 (By Mail).—A few days ago a pow- érfal-fountain’ of combustible gas began to break forth near. the town of; Derbent, Dagestan. In view of the fact that the character and aree of the gas gave reason to assume the existence of oil in. this ‘scouting operations were undertaken by means of shallow which revealed oil bearing strata. |The Geological Committee has now sunk two deep shafts in Dages- tan in‘ order to ascertain the local oil possibilities. 4 The gas resources of this region are believed to be very extensive. The daily yield of the gas fountain which recently broke out amounts to oy 00 cubic meters of gas which is equivalent to about 300 cons of oil. : / “° IMPROVEMENT OF TRANS-SIBERIAN TRAFFIC. ly, { MOSCOW, June 29, (By Mail).—The Soviet representatives to the eonference for drawing up a new trgns-Siberian time-table, who have returned to Moscow from Harbin, state the following: ¢\ Beginning with next May 15th the movement of trans-Siberian trains, particularly those headed westwards, will be considerably. expe- ited.” Thus Viadivostok—Stolbzy—(Soviet-Polish border) trains will ‘route 170 hours instead of 184 as at present. It has also to introduce through coaches from Mukden to Shanghai. e direct communications arg to he established also hetween ng and Stolbtzy, Chanz-Chung and Riga, Viadivostox, Khar- ‘and Stolbzy, and Vladivostok, Kharbin and Riga. PEACEFUL LIFE OF USSR A CONTRAST The conference was attended by representatives of the railways of the U. S. S. R., China, Japan, Corea, Southern Manchuria, the Chinese Eastern Railway as well as the Soviet and Japanese shipping companies. (This, of course, was written before the Chinese war lerds seized the railway). . * 8 HOTHOUSE COTTON. MOSCOW, July 1, (By Mail)—The Presidium of the Supreme Economic Council of the U, S. S. R. has decided to cultivate a large | area in Southern Turkmenistan and Tadjikistan with Egyptian cotton plants grown in hothouses. The Supreme Economic Council has ap- propriated the necessary funds for the organization of this work which will be handled by an institution specially created for this purpose, known as “Rassadkhlopok.” ‘ This new method of growing cotton by first raising its seéds in hothouses -is the result of experiments by the agricultural specialist ‘A. Kratzov. This method is much superior to the ordinary method of growing’ cotton for it reduces the growing period by 2 months, in- creases the cotton crop five times and greatly reduces the amount of seeds (2 kilograms per hectare instead of 80) required by the cotton plantations. In appreciation of the enormous importance of Krutzoy’s work the Supreme Eeonomic Council issued a special monetary reward to him. Sie aha! BREEDING FUR ANIMALS NEAR MOSCOW. MOSCOW, July 1, (By Mail).—In the autumn of 1928 a farm for breeding valuable fur animals was established within 60 kilometers of Moscow. most important achievement of the farm, however, has been in the line of breeding sables under conditions of captivity, and in the Mos- cow climate. During the year the 54 sables owned by the farm gave birth to 10 offspring. This is the first time on record of sables breed- ing under farm conditions. The farm has also succeeded in securing 34 offspring from 11 minks, and a large number of newly born skunks, racoon dogs, American racoons, ermines, ete, The animal farm is directed by the German zoologist, Dr. Schmidt, and has already yielded a sufficient return to cover the cost of its organization. Simultaneously with the achievements of the Moscow animal farm, Prof. Manteufel has succeeded in breeding sables in the Moscow | Zoological Garden. The People’s Commissariat of Trade has taken cog- | nizance of the new method employed by Prof. Manteufel in breeding sable under conditions of captivity and in appreciation of his services issued special rewards to himself and his closest associates, ind irrigation water | At the present time there are in this farm 200 Canadian | black and grey foxes with a brood of 250 born during the winter. The | HUGE DEMONSTRATIONS TO FEATURE AUG. 1 THRU EUROPE The plans of the Italian, British, Scandinavian and Finnish Parties which are reported in: the dispatches below were completed before the present attack of the world imperialists against the Soviet Union, under the mask of the Nanking and Manchurian warlords. They deal with the general plans for International Red Day Against War, August | First. Now, in every country, demonstrations and strikes are being held in protest against this new serious attack upon the U. S. S. R., leading up to the August First protest. 5 . * * PARIS, July 18.—The Communist Party of Italy, in spite of the fact that it is illegal, is planning for a big demonstration on Anti-War Day, August First. Under fascism, any struggle for better conditions is illegal, and therefore all such struggles become directly struggle against fascism. In the Anti-War campaign, therefore, the Italian Party plans to link up the fight against imperialist war in the closest | possible fashion with the struggle for better working conditions. The Party is calling on the workers to demonstrate in every way and every possible place against war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The demonstration is to be made by a mass stoppage of work, by a delay in starting work, by leaving work early, by demonstration when entering the factories, by cries of “Long live——!” and “Down with——!”, depending on the local conditions, Wherever possible the electric current will be switched off and the works brought to a standstill. The main effort in all of these plans will be concentrated on the works producing war material, and transport, This will be the biggest undertaking of the Party in some time, but the successes on May Day and in local wage struggles assures that this is not too much. Especially at this time when the workers are seeing a fresh reduction of wages taking place, especiall@ since the alliance between the church and fascism, for neither of which the work- s ers have any use, the Party can count on a good response to its campaign, The anti-war campaign is to be particularly linked 0 with the Party campaigns for a rise in wages, for amnesty for tne. political prisoners, and for the reestablishment of the trade unions. Agitation against taxation, in favor of the right of assembly and freedom of the press, against the fascist influence among the youth, and against the church are all to be brought into the major campaign against war. All of these things are part of the fascist war program. * 8 8 LONDON, July 19.—The British Communist Party is planning to hold a national demonstration on Sunday, July ‘28, in Trafalgar Square, famous for its revolutionary and working class mass meetings. This demonstration is to be a final rally for International Anti-War Day on August First. The women will play an important part-in the meeting, and ar- rangements have been made for all districts to send delegations of women to London on that date. The Workers Legion, the British Red Front Fighters, is also plan- ning to take an active part in the national demonstration. The British Party is preparing for International Anti-War Day through the press and especially through open-air meetings before the factories. The demonstration last Saturday, July 13th, at the Hendon Aerodrome, near London, during the display of the Royal Air Forces with MacDonald present, was part of the campaign. From Manchester to South Wales the Party is carrying on its ideological campaign. In the Lancashire district, where the textile | workers are being threatened with a 121-2 per cent cut in wages, a house-to-house campaign is being conducted to get signaturés enough’ to call a special union meeting at which the Party’s anti-war cam- paign will be put forward. . . . STOCKHOLM, July 19.—Representatives of the Communist Par- ties of Scandinavia and Finland, at a meeting held here recently, Have decided to call a Scandinavian-Firmish Workers’ Conference at Gothen~... burg in Sweden. This conference will include, besides the Communist Parties, all organizations sympathetic to Communism, The conference will be for the purpose of mobilizing the workers for International Red Itay Against War, August First. The Scandinavians cannot consider themselves as not involved it the coming war, as they were in the last war. For the relations be- tween the governments of Norway, Sweden and Denmark have become of the closest nature with the “butcher” governments® of Finland, Esthonia and Latvia. The Baltic countries are under the direct in- fluence of England and serve as tocls for her imperialist designs. » , = .