The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1929, Page 2

rage lwo DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK ECCI MAKES Condemns To the categorical directive of International Control Commission sent to Lovestone July demanding him to come to Moscow in order to be present at consideration of his appeal Lovestone replied by refusal to carry out directive of International Control Commission. In the directive it was pointed out that in case of his non-appearance to examination of his appeal, appeal will not be considered and decision of Tenth Plenum ECCI re his expulsion will be regarded as definitive. Consequently decision of Tenth Plenum ECCI comes into force and Lovestone is expelled from ranks of CI. In replying by refusal Lovestone and his adherents who signed this reply proved correctness of characteristic given DECISION WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 14, 1929 by Tenth Plenum ECCI of Lovestone as right opportunist, liquidator, finally landed in camp renegades from Commu- nism. This reply represents attack against ECCI insolent in tone and renegade in regard to political content. It shows that signatories entered road of splitting Party and forma- tion of new anti-proletarian party agency of American social imperialism. After having exhausted all means and terms to help American comrades who had joined Lovestone to come back to Party road, ECCI is now compziled to come to conclusion of necessity of immediate expulsion of all those who solidarize themselves with Lovestone’s secessionist and renegade reply unless they immediately and without reservation withdraw their signatures from it and also from documents of May 9th and 15th. i The unreserved submission to all decisions of Central Committee of CPUSA and ECCI including present one is the condition of farther remaining of these comrades in ranks of CPUSA and CI. In view of open renegade character of Lovestone group which tries to organize anti-Comintern Party ECCI decides to consider the belonging to this group and equally political and ideological solidarity with it and also any concealed or open support of it by members of CPUSA as incompatible with membership in CPUSA and CI. IN LOVESTONE EXPULSION Lovestone Group as Anti-Proletarian Agency of American Imperialism On basis of broad inner party democracy, of mass self- criticism, Bolshevist self-activity, widest attraction of new proletarian cadres to Party leadership the Party must con- tinue to develop in its own ranks the struggle against all kinds of opportunism, first of all against right opportunism and equally also against all remnants of factionalism and group spirit, against passivity, against khvostism, for Bol- shevist leadership, for mobilization of all forces of Party on | basis of rising tide of revolutionary labor movement in USA, This cable to be published immediately. Signed ECCI ICC. Press Corrections (In Part 11, War Danger Thesis of the C. E. C., printed on page 3 of thé Daily Worker of Friday, Au- gust.2, 1 ) FOSTER TO SPEAK AT T.ULE.L. MEET gr given as a have been placed in parentheses at the end of the first paragraph, as the source of the quotation, 2, First column, second paragraph, insert between lines 7 and 8: “the role of American imperialism in planning a war ag: t the So- viet Union; to denounce’ and continue: “all preparations by the United States...” 3. First column, third paragraph, Expect Railroad Men >: In Cleveland {Continued from Page One) 20, in Irving Plaza hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. This, and the Atlantic Coast Con- fétehce of the Marine Workers Leagiie, to be held next Saturday Statement of Central Committee on Lovestone’s | To the decision of the Tenth]lished in the Party press, the Cen-, Plenum of the ECCI, dealing with | tral Committee of the CPUSA de- the political line and factional ac- | cides: tivities of Jay Lovestone, the group| 1. That after the return of da represented by Gitlow, Lovestone, | Lovestone to America in violation Miller, Myerscough, Welsh,.White,|of the decision of the Comintern, and Wolfe replied with an outrage-|he and his group have consistently | s ous ultimatum, by which they break | carried on against the unity of the the last remaining threads that |Party their factional splitting ac- linked them with the Communist | tivities based on the opportunist movement, In reply to the decision | political platform already con- of the Tenth Plenum, which con-|demned by the Comintern, demned Lovestone’s platform as an| 2, That they have circulated in| opportunist platform contraposed to|the Party many factional documents | the program and decisions of the | directed against the line of the Com-| Sixth World Congress, they|munist International azd against the} answered with a pélitical declara-|line and the decisions of the CC of and. Sunday, at the headquarters of thé International Seamen’s Club, 24 South St., are the two most im- ortant preliminary conferences in omit balance of paragraph after the word “bourgeoisie” in line 9 4, First column, sixth paragraph, lines 14 and 17, delete quotation marks, and in line 15 change “a con- _ne East. A new, fighting industrial union of marine workers will be formed at the Atlantic Coast Conference | and delegates will be chosen for the Cleveland convention. crete” to “the concrete.” . Third column, first paragraph (Sect. 20), line 4, change “South” “youth.” 6. Fourth column, second para- graph of Sect, 23, line 2 should read tion that it is not the platform of|the American Party, and: under| Lovestone but the Address of the| cover of an Appeal to the CI they Comintern which revises the line of have spread an appeal against the the Sixth World Congress; after|CI, having set up complete faction making a hypocritical declaration | headquarters and machinery, have | that they are “ready” to go to Mos-|sent their anti-Comintern and anti- cow to fight against the Address, | Party circulars to non-Party as well | they put to the Commuffist Interna-|as Party members, and have been| tional conditions in the nature of an/| persistently at work with the ultimatum, such as “immediate ces-/ spreading of demoralizing propa- | Ae ie “Party’s mass activity.” sation of the Enlightenment Cam-| ganda aimed at misleading prole-| oe F toast? eh 1; i eas ‘ i Ww 0 ize. 7. Fifth column, seventh line, de- | paign,’ unconditional reinstate- | tarian Party members trying _ to} Barca Werkars Organise lete the word “thees.” ment” of Lovestone, his followers,| mobilize the American working | NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 13.—A lo- ; cal of button workers was organ-! Pid ae Scant Cae ized at a meeting held here last Paeeir as iene night and addressed by John Wil-| S7°W Serve to call to the . . . liamson, assistant national secre-; § KERS read: tary of the Trade Union Educa- HOLD tional League. The meeting was the culmination of a series of meetings of workers from four shops. At the meeting last night offi- cers were elected, and delegates | chosen for the Second Metropolitan iGreat Red Day Protest Area Conference to be held in New next to last} and “immediate condemnation” of | class against the Communist Inter- |the CC reply to the Lovestone Ap-| national. ‘peal, that is, political approval of} 3, That amongst these factional | |the Lovestone Appeal directed) documents was one directed against against the Communist Interna- | the Communist Party’s slogans on| | tional. “Otherwise there is nothing | Gastonia, its call to the workers to} for the ECCI and ICC to investi-| fight for the right to organize them- | gate,” declares this group. |selves in trade unions and to de-| ing the political position of these|the thugs hired by the bosses and/ renegades. They have completely | the forces of the capitalist state, | unmasked themselves. |thus belittling the class importance | As the answer of the ECCI and jof the Gastonia strnggle and taking é §| Truly, nothing remains for any |fend themselves and their class or-| |Communist to investigate regard-| ganizations against the attacks of | they repudiate in writing an dis-,C. instructs all organs of the sociate themselves from Party to put to these elements the (a) The majority delegation’s | following political conditions: atements in Moscow of May 9th| 1. To recognize the correctness of d May 14th; the political line of the Address of (b) The cable answer to the deci-|the C, I. and of the Tenth Plenum ons of the Tenth Plenum regard- thesis and decisions. ing Loveston appeal; 2. Openly and decisively to cut (c) The scurrilous factional doc-| themselves off from Lovestone and uments that are being throughout the Party, such as the|ness treasonable and counter-revolution-| 3. To carry out, not in words but ary circular about the August Ist!in deeds, an active fight against demonstration; the right deviation in the American (d) The political content and the |Party, openly represented by Love- printing and circulation of the ap-/stone’s group. peal; 4, To submit themselves uncon- (e) The various resolutions intro~) ditionally to all decisions of the C. duced in Party organizations in supj/C, and to carry them out without port of Lovestone’s line, | reservations, The C. C. warns all members| All these elements must be of the Party that any defense of|Wwarned that non-fulfillment of any Lovestone’s opportunist opinions|one of these conditions will place and factional activities inside the | Whosoever breaks them outside the Party, as well as any political re-|ranks of the Communist Party. lations entered into with him, are| In the opinion of the Central incompatible with membership in| Committee sufficient time has al- the Party. ready been given to all comrades who | displayed hesitation or vacillations as regards the political line of the iators, correctly characterized in the|C, I. and of the Party to enable Thesis of the Tenth Plenum as|them to make up their minds, The “cowardly opportunists,” who are|line of the Address was not only not carrying on any real fight/ endorsed by the authoritative deci- against the Lovestonites like Lif-|sion of the Tenth Plenum of the shitz, who, while formally accepting | Executive Committee of the Com- the Address, have been, in practice,|munist International, but was supporting the opportunist line of| proven correct by the recent devel- Lovestone. They did not always|opments of the Party and its mass openly solidarize themselves with | activity. Lovestone’s documents and actions,| It is high time that such wavering so behaved only in order the better|elements should make a definite to combine with Lovestone in an at- choice to be either with Lovestone, jtack upon the Party line and deci-|in the swamp of the renegades of of Lovestone’s expulsion. As regards the so-called concil- Splitting Activities circulated |his group, recognizing the correct-| Admit Coast to Coast | Hop of Nine Bombers Preparation for War | WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—The {squadron of army bombing planes, which last week flew from the At- lantie to the Pacific in 51 hours,| demonstrated the practicabiilty 0! using this type of aircraft for ex- jtended flights “to reinforce the coun- try’s coast defenses” (and M Gden | Lacit Approval by the |tally to stage air attacks on the So-| German Government viet Union), the war department an- — |nounced today. Significantly enough, the fact was acclaimed by the jingoes as “one of if . re |the most important tactical missions | Two Italian armed cruisers “Pisa performed by the air corps since|@nd “Ferruccio” training ships of the last war.” *\the Italian navy are expected at The ni ; ge «| Kiel on August 19th for a stay of e nine four-ton p! lanes were in| several days. |the air 30 hours on their trip from|" 4+” about the same time four Muay dew Wiehe Sy amet | Spanish destroyers will visit Swine- IMPERIALIST NAVY MANEUVER BERLIN, Aug. 13.—British naval maneuvers in the Baltic compris¢ 44 war vessels. under unfavorable weather condi- tions, and only one plane was forced |down on the last lap. Melchett Nicket Mines In Canada Sweat Huge Profits From Miners SUDBURY, Ont., Aug. 13.—Speed up in the mines of the International Nickel Company of Canada enabled the company to declare a quarterly dividend of 25 cents a share at the New York Stock Exchange today. Previously the stock paid 80 cents annually. International Nickel is largely controlled by the British Lord Mel- chett, sponsor of the Mond plan for “industrial peace” at the expense of munde, from where they will pro- ceed to other German naval ports. A Swedich submarine, a flying boat squad and two training ships |are coming to Kiel at the end of | July. > | The close connection of German | imperialism with all the other im- |perialist state sfinds adequate ex~ pression in these frequent and num- erous visits of foreign warships in German naval ports. The German navy and the naval | ports of Germany are to serve as a basis for the enemies of the Soviet Union, when the time for a con- jcerted attack on the republic of the |workers and peasants by land and sea will have come. MINER CRUSHED TO DEATH. DANVILLE, Ill. (By Mail).— Robert Shepperd, a miner at the the workers’ wages, Seven months Taylor-English Mine, near Catlin, the ICC, published elsewhere in this |met instant death when he was issue of the Daily Worker, declares: The group of Lovestone has become Of Michigan Miners the same position as the Trotskyites |sions, thus gnaking themselves a|Communism, or to be with the Com- of the USA, Lore, Cannon and Co.|mouthpiece of Lovestone within the | munist International in the fighting Especially treasonable was the de- |Party; who have not been applying | ago company officials of the Sud- York City Aug. 20. bury*mines were active in the em- ee * Raidroad Delegation. HANCOCK, Mich., Aug. 13—Three A representative delegation of |speakers at the International Red railroad men to the Trade Union| Day demonstration here are still un- Unity Convention in Cleveland is| der arrest, held on $5,000 bond, and \“Right opportunist liquidators” and their reply represents “an attack | against the ECCI, insolent in tone featist and counter-revolutionary | the Party line inside the Party — sheet, broadcast by Lovestone group /as regards those and all who had during the preparation of Interna- | hesitations in connection with Love- ranks of the world revolution, | FOR THE CENTRAL COM. MITTEE OF THE C.P.U.S.A. assured in a communication.just re, ceived by the Trade Union Educa tional League, 2 West 15th St., from O. H. Wangerin, secretary-treasurer of the International Railroad Amal- gamation Committee, which is af- filiated with the T. U. E. L. | This group, representing every| branch of ralroading, will come/ from many centers of the United States, according to Wangerin. “We will have men from Los An- and renegade in regard to political | tional Red Day, against the Party’s | peberend with criminal syndicalism, | Vwhich carries, on conviction, a five to ten year sentence. | No specific charges are made yet, | but they have been told by police that these charges will be based on leaflets distributed at the meeting. Those arrested under the criminal \syndicalism law are: Sam Reed, | Superior District Organizer of the | Young Communist League; George {content. It shows that the signa- |tories entered the road of splitting the Party and the formation of a |new anti-proletarian Party, agency |of American imperialism.” The Tenth Plenum of the Com- | munist International has completely call to strike. | 4, That a few followers of | Lovestone in the ranks of the Party | continued within the Party organi- | |zations the propaganda against the | CI, as, for example, the members | of the New York DEC—Zam, D. | stone’s line and activity, the C. THE POLITICAL BUREAU. |crushed beneath a fall of rock, ployers fight which led to the con-; ee TOE vietion of Arvo Vaara, editor of the “Vapaus,” organ of the Finnish organization of the Communist Party of Canada, for sedition. PA. BUILDING STRIS! CLARION, Pa. (By Mail) +-Build- ing workers here are s ng for | unioh conditions and wages. confirmed the analysis of the world| Benjamin, and Nemser—who pre- | geles, Cal.; Superior, Wisc.; New-| Maki and Vilma Harju. port News, Va.; New York and| Hancock is the center of the cop- other points,” he writes in his let-| Per mining region of upper Michi- ter to John Williamson, assistant| gan, and is also the stronghold of national secretary of the T. U. E. L.| the copper trust. The workers have | News from South. been totally unorganized since the At the same time word comes|©°PPer strike of 1914. Now steps ii, theo Oshler, southern epee been taken to start organizing | ides GE the ‘National Textile ‘Work-| these workers and that is the reason political and economic situation given by the Sixth World Congress, not in the opportunist manner in which Lovestone and the conciliators | interpret it, but in the revolutionary |manner in which it has been in- terpreted and applied by the Politi- cal Secretariat and by the Presidium of the Communist International. | The Tenth Plenum of the ECCI pointed out as new events since the time of the Sixth World Congress, sented and voted for a resolution, | in which, as an answer to the Tenth | Plenum decision condemning Love- stone’s platform, which decision was printed that same day, they de- manded the withdrawal of the Ad-! dress of the CI, solidarized them- selves with Lovestone’s Appeal, de- manded his immediate reinstate- ment in the Party, and launched a slanderous campaign against the Party line and decisions, Daily ers Union, that in addition to the} 50 textile mill delegates to the| Cleveland convention, there is a pos- | sibility of a strong delegation also | of carpenters, painters and railroad | men. | Communications from T. U. E. L.| representatives and militant work-| ers in the shops are continuing to come to the national office of the| T.U. E. L. in ever increasing num- | bers in connection with the Cleve- | land convention, which will build a néw,.fighting trade union center | injthe United States. H a ee 3, Chicago Meet Aug. 18. | (EHICAGO, Aug. 13. — The Chi-| cago T. U. E. L. has called its city | conference in preparation for the! Cleveland conference for Sunday, | Agg. 18. In preparation for this | cofiference, activities within the lo- unions and shops is being in-| i€ Nels Kjar, Chicago T. U. E. L., secretary, reports that Chi- gmwill be represented in Cleve- iby a minimum of 100 delegates, | gin Southern Jersey | ILADELPHIA, Aug. 13.—One) er was killed, several were in-| jured, two 50,000-gallon tanks of | gasoline were ignited, a train was teked and considerable property damage was caused by a violent electrical storm which struck Phila- delphia and Southern New Jersey last, night. Robert Cella, lifeguard at Brigan- ting! Beach, N. J., was killed and Howard Neefer, another lifeguard ‘was paralyzed when a bolt of light- ning struck them as they sat in a boat. Two tanks of the Atlantic Refin- ing Company at Point Breeze, N. J., were ignited by lightning. The loss has not been estimated today. A West Jersey and Seashore road freight train was wrecked and traffic tied up for hours at Linden- wold, N. J., when lightning struck @ contro] tower. 7 the bosses them. Just about a week ago the steel trust agents arrested 11 young workers in the mines in Ishpeming for speaking at a street meeting. Nine of them were released and two are out on bail with a charge of “making and exciting a disturb- ence.” so viciously suppress * 8 Rail Negaunee Meeting NEGAUNEE, Mich., (By Mail).— The International Red Day demon- stration was able to mobilize a great crowd of workers here. The Steel | Trust agents in Negaunee prohibited the holding of a street meeting and a@ parade. But disregarding police orders, a street meeting was adver- tised. The workers began to gather at the street corner and by the time the first speaker got up there were approximately 1,900 to hear him. They were not only from Negaunee, but from Ishpeming and Marquette also. The bosses had prepared them- selves for this meeting. They had besides the city police force, the county sheriff with a couple of | dezen armed deputies, and many car- |loads of armed American Legion- naires. The Legionnaires openly threatened to “take over the situa- hae if the police could not handle rt? Big Audience in Hall They allowed the street meeting to be held for about ten minutes, after which it was dispersed by the police. The crowd was then asked by the speakers to go to the Labor Temple a few blocks away, The Labor Temple was filled with workers, where they were addressed by Martin Kuusisto and Onni Kar- tinen. The steel trust had also sent its agents into the meeting to see if any of their slaves attended the meeting. This demonstration in Negaunee was very successful. FAKERS FOR RESTRICTION. WINNIPEG, Canada (By Mail). The Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council misleaders haye asked the government to restrict emmigrant workers from entering Canada. the continued sharpening of the fundamental contradictions of capi- |talism, a sharply outlined radicali- |zation of the international working |class (that is, in the United States }as well), and the oncoming of a new rising tide of the revolutionary proletarian struggle (including therein the working class movement of the United States). In connec- tion with this analysis the Tenth Plenum laid down as a task for all | Communist Parties the fight against Right opportunist deviations, openly represented in the CPUSA by the Lovestonites, the fight against fac- tionalism—as the formulation of the Tenth Plenum Thesis puts it, “the fight against the demoralizing in- fluences of the opportunist factional leaders (Lovestone, Pepper) upon |the Party cadres.” Following the line of the Sixth World Congress decisions, the Ad- dress of the Communist Interna- tional to the American Party, and the Thesis of the Tenth Plenum, and the final answer of the ECCI to Lovestone’s refusal to appear be- fore it, and basing itself upon the opinion of the overwhelming majotity of the Party, expressed in numerous resolutions already pub- Steamship Grounds in Boston Bay with '600 Passengers Aboard BOSTON, Aug. 13.—The steam- ship Far North of the Farquhar Steamships Ltd., with 80 passengers aboard, grow in Boston harbor fog today, as she was entering the harbor after a run from St. Louis. Because the water was smooth, the vessel was considered in no im- mediate danger and line officials an- nounced the passengers would not be | transferred to another ship, Tugs sent to the seene were not able to float the Far North im- mediately, but it was believed the steamer would be freed later today. A whole day of fun and enter- tainment Sunday, Aug. 18, Pleas-* 4 ant Bay Park, 5. That the outrageous answer sent by Lovestone’s group contain- | ing Lovestone’s refusal to go to Moscow, putting conditions to the! Communist International, the effect | of which was to demand that the| Communist International should change its Bolshevik line, and by which they set themselves up as a power separate from the Communist International and standing over against it, proves that this group has already put itself outside of the Communist International. For all these reasons the Capital Committee decides to expel from the Party the official leaders of this group who signed its documents, viz., Benjamin Gitlow, Wm. Miller, Tom Myerscough, Edward Welsh, Wm, J. White, and Bertram D. Wolfe, as well as those who in a political resolution entirely soli- darized themeslves with this group, viz., Herbert Zam, D. Benjamin, and Morris Nemser unless within 48 hours they specifically endorse the Comintern Address, the thesis and the decisions of the 10th Plenum, recognize the political correctness of the Lovestone expulsion, the latest reply of the ECCI and the ICC to the answer of Lovestone, and unless Young Worker School Affair in Cleveland to Give Awdy Ford Coupe CLEVELAND, Aug. 13.—At a re-| cent affair of the Young Workers | School in Cleveland, a Ford Coupe was given away to the holder of the lucky number 4097. The lucky per- son was Dick Young, of Chardon Falls, Ohio. The Yord was raffled off in an attempt to raise money for the Young Workers School, to be held in Cleveland, an which will be a National Training School. for young workers. All donations should go to the Young Workers School Committee, 2046 East 4th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, Lil An- drews, Secretary, Weinstone, Gold, Olgin, Grecht and others will speak at the Press Carnival, PLEASANT Sunday, Aug. 18 | / FROM NOON TILL DAWN Entertainment — Sports Dancing—Refreshments BASEBALL GAME BETWEEN PARTY AND LEAGUE — SOCCER, Etc., Ete. Let’s Go! Admission 35¢ only PRESS Carnival The Fisrt Election Campaign Rally Will Take Place. Weinstone, Wicks, Engdahl, Olgin, Gold, Bidenkapp, Rebecca Grecht, Rose Wortis and Others Will Speak BAY PARK Fifth Avenue Buses will take you from 177th subway station direct to the park - We'll All Be There!