The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30

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section accepts the report Of the cen
trail executive committee submitted
/ to it by Comrade Bittelman and
pledges it's full support to the pro-
gram Of Bolshevizing the party as out,
lined in the program of the central
executive committee particularly the
section which calls for an theological
struggle against all opportunistic tend
encies in the party"
He wanted the Hungarian conven.
ton to pledge itself for an theological
campaign against opportunism and op-
portunistic tendencies In the party.
Opportunism BitteIman defined as par
ticipation by the party in the farmer
labor party movement and the oppor-
tunistic tendencies are the tendencies
Of the minority. When the Hungarian
comrades suggested that Comrade Bit
lehman, If he did not want the Hun
garian convention to go on record for
the majority, that he change that
clause in include acceptance Of c. E.
G. report and fight against the Two
and-a-Half International tendency, Bit
lehman refused. Bittelman, who re-
fuses to include in his resolution a
plank against Two-and-a-Half Inter-
national tendencies in our party
brands the Hungarian convention as
petty bourgeois paoifist and opportun.
istic because they insist that the G. l.
decision in this respect he carried
out. The antics of Comrade BitteI-
man are really ludicrous. The trag-
edy Of 1t, however, is due to the fact
that they are seriously considered by
our membership which holds in high
esteem whatever the political secre-
tary of the party has to say or do.
Comrade Bittelman objects because
the Hungarian convention wants to
see the decision of the R. l. L. U.
put into effect. The Hungarian COM
rades as well as all other comrades
would really like to know what the in
dustrial department has actually done
to put the decision of the Profitern
into effect. They know that unless it
is that our industrial work will con-
tinue to suffer severely. Don't be-
come indignant Comrade Bittelman
but show us what the majority has
really done with this most important
decision affecting at the present time
one of our most important tasks.
Comrade Bittelman after distorting
everything that Comrade Amter said
at the convention objects because
Comrade Amter brought in Comrade
Peppers name in his speech to the
convention.
Comrade Bittelman, without the
wink Of an eyelash, on the matter OF
injecting Comrade Peppers name has
this to say:
"The point that wish to raise
here is on what ground will Com
rade Amter and the minority justi-
fly the raising Of this issue in the
party? BY what arguments will they
prove that such speeches as Comrade
Amter's are contributing to the we'll
fare of the Workers Party? Fac
tionalism as a rule is most ram
pant in pre-convention periods but
it would seem that there must be
limit to it somewhere"
1t little behooves Comrade Bittel-
man to preach against factionalism in
our party. He has been an arch fac
tionalist in the Jewish federation of
which he was secretary and at all
times in the party. The manner in
which the present majority of the
party succeeded in removing Comrade
Pepper from valuable service to our
party was crime against the party.
1t was actuated by the ugliest faction
al motives. Comrade Bittelman was a
party to that crime. No single man
has rendered the American party as
much valuable service as did Comrade
Pepper. The majority of the G. e. c.
having closed an alliance in a bound
caucus with Comrade Lore branded by
the C. I. as a Two-and-a-Half Interna-
tionalist, unable to withstand the
Communist criticism of Comrade Pep
per decided to get rid of him. The
mistake the majority made is that
they did not as they had hoped to,
get rid of the Bolshevik elements in
the party when they got rid of Pep
per. And now after the majority has
been and still is guilty of thousand
fractional sins, after they have con-
taminated with their unholy alliance
the party with the theology Of the left
social democrats, they come out and
try to raise the cry of factionalism
against the minority. We hurl the
charge back into Bittelman's teeth
and into the teeth Of the whole ma
jority- Why does the majority stilk
support Lore and with his suppg N
seek to crush the minority in spitg OF
the fact that the Communist lntqrna.
tional, March, 1924, has ordered that
unity be established between N e ma
jority and minority?
Comrade Bittelman closes his arti.
Gle with a resume OF the actiTitiea of
fho Zimmerman aaoffou He ch,,rIot.,.