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

Cu0 luluOI1Jys ne IS however dITdlu
to make a definite charge SO he
frames it in the vague terms that 1t
seems as If.
Says Bittelman, ut seems as if
the farmer-labor party idea had be-
come an obsession with the COM
rades who cannot imagine the fur
Their development Of our movement
without this slogan"
Please, Comrade BitteIman, don't
tell us that it seemed so. What &C
tually did the delegates say? Many
delegates spoke and pointed out why
it was necessary to continue the use
Of the farmer-labor party slogan. Why
don't you present quotations from
their arguments to prove what seemed
to you was actually SO? The truth
Of the matter is that Comrade Bittel
man was either asleep while the dis.
cussion was on or that from the argu-
ments presented the above conclusion
can not logically be drawn. A mere
assertion, Comrade Bittelman, is no
proof.
Then Comrade Bittelman with his
political sagacity quotes from the G.
l. and comes to another conclusion.
This time the political secretary Of
our party gets an impression. Afte
all we are living in an impressionistic
age.
Thus states Comrade Bittelman:
1.-THE impression forced upon me by
the debate at the Hungarian conven-
ton was that at least some sections
Of our party are becoming contami-
mated with (petty bourgeois pacifist)
illusions. That this is a menace
to our party every one will admit"
Comrade Bittelman, concretely, what
did the Hungarian section and its con.
vention do to warrant such a serious
charge? Why does not Comrade Bit
lehman, the political secretary Of the
party, bring definite motions before
the G. E. G. to eradicate the danger
GUS petty bourgeois pacifist tendencies
manifested at the Hungarian conven-
ton? To fail to do so in the face of
such a serious menace to our party is
to neglest ones Bolshevik duty to our
party. For a @. q. G. member who
is aware of such dangerous tend
ency within our party and not to &C.
lively combate it is crime. But
Bittelman and the majority of the G.
E. C. will not take action against the
Hungarian section because the insinu
atoms of Comrade Bittelman contain
not one iota Of truth. The damaging
insinuating charges that Comrade
Bittelman so carelessly INDUCES in
should be severely condemned.
The Hungarian convention and the
activities of the section conclusively
prove the opposite of what Comrade
Bittelman contends. The report of its
executive committee and the resolu-
ton passed proves that the Hungar
ian section is Bolshevik, an active
section of the party and a whole
hearted and loyal supporter Of the
Communist International.
Comrade Bittelman, will you con-
tend that fight against the Two-and-
a-Half International theology as pro
posed in the report of the federation
secretary, is a symptom of petty
bourgeois pacifist illusions? Or will
you hold that to insist upon Marx
ian-Leninist education Of our party
membership together with the reor-
ganization of the party on the basis
Of shop nuclei, also part Of the report,
is a sign that the Hungarian section
is petty bourgeois pacifist and there
fore a menace to our party? Comrade
Bittelman is using methods that are
a real menace to the party in an at
tempt to discredit a whole section of
party workers who are good Commun.
lists and who are acting as true Boil
sheviks only because he happens not
to agree with them on party tactic.
Comrade Bittelman then takes up
my presentation of the minority at
the convention. Says Bittelman in his
article:
"Comrade Gitlow resented very
much the charge of opportunism di-
rected by the central executive COM
mittee against the minority for its
policy Of emasculating the Workers
Party and building a substitute for
IT, In reply to this charge Comrade
Gitlow advised the Hungarian con-
vention to examine the personnel Of
the majority and minority Of the
central executive committee. To
assist the convention in this examin-
alton Comrade Gitlow volunteered
q bit Of information. He said the
minority is composed of comrades
OF long standing in the labor move
ment, people who have suffered for
the movement, have served prison
terms for their ideas and have there
by proven their fitness for leader
ship in the American Communist
Party. do not recall whether
Comrade Gitlow volunteered any in
formation on the record of members
OF the majority. But the conclus-