The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-06

eous statements in regard to the
Communist International and in
structs Comrade Lore to write an
editorial correcting them" | stood
On my original proposal that the cen
trail executive committee issue
statement against Comrade Lore's
editorial My motion and that Of
Comrade Pepper were defeated by the
central executive committee majority
and the -Bittelman proposal
adopted, the minority voting against
it. st
Thus the central executive commit
tee saved Comrade Lore from censure
and from denunciation by the central
executive committee of the Two
.and-Hah International tendency ex-
pressed in his editorial before the
whole party. The story Of other
efforts made by. the minority to COM
pei the central executive committee
to fight against Loreism make more
emphatic the above evidence that the
central executive committee majority,
which for election purposes thunders
against Loreism, has been the pro-
tector Of Loreism in our party.
The Controversy in the r. c. p.
The attitude of the Foster-Cannon
group toward the controversy in the
Russian Communist party last year
is fact number four throwing some
light on the question in which group
in our party this tendency called
''Farmer-Labor Communism" has it's
breeding place.
4 The issue in the Russian Communist
Party was whether the party should
retain its Old Guard Bolshevik leader
ship which had won the revolutionary
struggle and maintained the victory
of the proletarian revolution against
all its enemies. In February, 1924,
Comrade Pepper proposed that he
write an article for the March Lib
orator endorsing the stand of the Old
| Guard Bolsheviks. Cemrade Cannon
objected. In the central executive
committee meeting on March IS
Comrade Pepper moved: THAT we
endorse the Old Guard in the Russian
Communist party" Comrade Foster
submitted the following amendment:
I'm view of the fact that the contro-
versy in the Russian Communist party
has been decided by a conference
the central executive committee is of
the opinion that it is not called upon
at this time to take a position on the
merits of the controversy. The CEN
trail executive committee will print
in the party papers all the documents
bearing on the debate and will en-
Lcourage the members to study them
and to discuss the question in the
party papers. The central executive
committee will condemn any attempt
to make a factional issue of the
matter in, the American party"
Some weeks later, in reply to an
appeal from the representative of our
party in Moscow, that we send a
cablegram to the convention Of the
Russian Communist party endorsing
the position Of the Old Guard Bolshe-
viks, sent such a cable on my own
responsibility, there being no oppor-
unity to consult the central execu-
tive committee. 1t was not until
Comrade Fosters return from Moscow
that the majority of the central ex-
ecutive committee consented to the
adoption of a resolution officially
putting the party on record for the
Old Guard Bolsheviks. Evidently
/ Comradeg Foster had learned while
there that the Communist Interna-
tional did not look with favor on
parties which refused to take a posi-
ton on such a vital question as the
controversy in the Russian Commun-
list party.
Who Are the Farmer-Labor
Communists?
= On the basis of this record we hurl
back into the teeth of the Foster
/. Cannon RrOup the anithaf "Farm ar.