The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-20
Time to Become FuILFledged Communists! syMa.ss

one with Party? If it exercised no
discrimination it would not be Com
munist Party. opa.s
Tales of conspiracy are being ped
died among you, The bugaboo of
sinister &c U u 81 has been
brought into play in order to stir
your imagination C"Bittelman's eau
GUS, "CostrelT's caucus, the "Olgin-
Yuditch caucus''). 1t is the task of
the caucus, you are being told, to
conspire against the members of the
former socialist federation. This is
all woven out of whole cloth. The
name caucus is here being applied to
those comrades who put their party
allegiance and the party disciplipes
above their mebersrip in the former
socialist federation. The vicious
caucus is nothing else but the Par
ty, the Central Executive Committee
of the Party and all those who carry
out the policies of the Party. If
only your dissatisfied elements tried
to put themselves into close contact
with the party as whole, If they
tried to forget their past and their
group allegiance, they would soon
frealize that there is no conspiracy
and that nobody is interested in wag-
ing a fight against them. The very
fact that these comrades see con-
spiracies, persecution and discrimina-
ton everywhere, proves their aleinat-
ing themselves from the Party, their
looking upon it with suspicion. First
they put themselves into seperate
camp and then they complain that
they are being treated ,as an unassi-
inflated and unfriendly group. First
they develop an attitude of suspicion
towards the party representatives, and
then they are dissatisfied when they
complain that they are being treated
as an unassimilated and unfriedly
group. First they develop an attitude
of suspicion towards the party repre-
sentatives, and then they are dissatis-
fled when they are not being treated
like Communists of good standing.
You are being told by the leaders
of the former socialist federation that
there is no difference between them
and the Party. This is camouflage.
They have retained a great deal Of
their former theology which does not
allow them to become communists
One instance of our party life may
serve as an ample illustration. You
/ all remember the attitude of the lead
ers of the former Jewish socialist
federation towards work among the
unions. It was one of the beliefs OF
! those leaders that the Party ought to
leave the greatest freedom of action
to those who are active in the unions
as they, it was asserted, know better
than the party how to conduct the
work OF the left wing. The federation
leaders are now careful not to make
such assertions openly, but when you
follow the activities of their adherents
in the needle trade you will recognize
those ideas in practical operation.
You are being told that b ~ main
currents of our party, the majority
and the minority, are wrong and that
the only correct line is that of the
federation group. But does not this
declaration vividly recall to your mind
the days when the socialist fedora
ton people had the sad courage to
declare that eve d y was
wrong the Communist Party, the
Comintern, the representatives of the
I Comintern in this country, and only
\ we, the federationists, were in full
4 possession of the unalloyed truth
4 There were then some federation
: elements WHO conceded that the Com
intern might be right, but, they said,
the Comintern adherents in America
were mo good" and this view stii
holds sway among some members Of
the former federation.
The group was dubbed Lorietes
The name is not very well chosen
Lore is only a pretext, peg the dis
grunteled use to hang their grievances
on. Having discovered in Lore an op
position to the party and to the Com
intern, this Federation group leaned
against Lore. When they found
Juliet Ponytz in a feud with Com
munism, they crowned Poyntz theil
prophet. When the needle trade grouI
proved to be stubbornly resisting
to the detriment of our Party, the
| policies outlined by the Party, which
: are the policies of the class-struggle
! they closed their ranks around thi,
group fighting the Gee and defend
J ing the opportunist deviation. Should
: new right wing opposition develop
} tomorrow anywhere in the Party, ont
J may be sure that the leaders of thu
former federation would discover al
affinity of souls between themselves