The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-26
Discussion Of Our Party's Immediate Tasks

entry into the war. And perhaps l
am mistaken but have the impress
sion that Lore represents this section.
II he has the support Of the Finnish
federation, an organization with for
tune Of $15,OOO,O0O, made up Of en-.
cellent skilled workers having more
reformism in them than others. For
that reason, believe that the G. e. c.
acted incorrectly when it regarded
the lapses of Lore as lapses of pecu-
liar fellow. This is a eentrIstIc tend.
ency in the party against which the
c. &. c. must fight.
Lore-SocIal Democratic.
"The comrades must oppose Lore in
the press, they must attack him. The
comrades must not be misled by the
fact that in the question of the sun
port Of the third party he has gone
along with us. He did so from a ira
ditional social-democratic point OF
view-because of compromises with
petty bourgeois parties. We are on no
account against such compromises. In
revolutionary situation when the
petty bourgeoisie is compelled to
adopt revolutionary policies, we are
prepared to make compromises. In
the elections we were for compromis-
es in Russia with the mensheviki or
the l-revolutionaries. But in Lore
we have sociaI-democratic point OF
view meeting with a communIstlc
point Of view and II would be very
wrong If the decision Of the executive
committee Of the Comintern should
be so Interpreted as If the executive
committee puts the banner of the exc.
cutive committee into the hands Of
Lore and would say he represents the
point Of view of the executive. This
Is merely coincidence"
zlnoviev Tells Truth About Lore.
And Comrade Zinoviev was even
more emphatic in his evaluation of the
Lore tendency as a menace to the de-
velopment of our party to mass Com
munist Party. We quote from Tin.
oviev's speech at the same session:
"As regards Lore; from what have
read, he proves that he is in no case
Communist. really do not know
whether he belongs in the c. {. C. In
the resolution we have said that very
politely. Perhaps we will be COMPEL
ed to tell it to him less politely. The
fact that Lore, too, was against the
support of LaFollette is Of no mo.
ment We know the manners of the
social-democrats who hide behind
some barbados, who say they are
against the work among the farmers
because they are orthodox Marxists.
The American party will find WAYS
and means of stating openly what is
the matter with Lore"
Foster-Lore Alliance Serious Menace
to Party.
The danger to the party in the Eos
ter-Lore alliance is inestimable. If
the Foster group had mistaken
Communist political point Of vew of
its own, the matter would be serious
enough for our party. But, in fact,
the Foster group today lacks a politi.
cal point of view. In its alliance
with the Lore group, the Foster group,
in which there are found number
OF comrades who can be of great
service to the party, is thus uiven a
political point of view which is dis.
tinctly sociaI-democratic, which is de.
cidedIy non-communist, as the Com.
munist International, has shown.
The menace to the party in the
Foster-Lore alliance lies in the fact
that group of comrades who are
only beginning to develop a political
point Of view are being imbued with
the spirit of the rankest opportun.
ism which is the basis of Two-and-a-
Half Internationalism. In order to
avoid just such a calamity for our
party, the c. /. instructed the Foster
group to work together with the
Ruthenberg group against the Lore
tendency.
Fosterlore Alliance Violates c. 1.
Instructions.
But what has Comrade Foster done
to carry out the c. I. instructions, re.
garding Lore? / quote from a docu.
ment officially signed by Comrade
Fable Burman, executive secretary of
the Finnish Federation, and secretly
transmitted to Finnish Branch score
taries from Chicago on Dec. A., 1924
This document is series of instruc.
lions to the Finnish branches to send
a full quota to each C. C. c.. meeting
with the purpose of electing dele
gates and participating in the discus.
sion with full efrengfh The oIo.ot