The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-28
Declaration of the Parity Commission:

an outrageous SANDER against Com
rade Lovestone and the leaders Of the
majority. The Parity Commission
warns that any member of the party
who will circulate such rumors or
raise this question in any way from
any standpoint will be subject to
severe party discipline.
THE Lore ouestion-In an atmos-
4 phere OF monstrous fractional sus-
picions. the inevitable satellite of
every factional struggle, both groups
began, after the plenum Of the Exc
cutive Committee of the c. l., to sus-
pect and to accuse each other of an
alliance with Lore and Loreites
(Poyntz, Zimmerman, Jampolsky, etc.)
for the purpose Of securing, thru such
an alliance, majority of the party.
After the adoption OF the resolution
by the Executive Committee of the c.
/. characterizing Lore and his adj
herents as opportunists. and proposing
that the party wage an theological
struggle against the Lore tendency,
the charge of an alliance with him
and his adherents has become a most
serious political charge.
The reciprocal attempts of both
sides to expose one another in an al
lance with Lore proves first of all
that both factions, that is the over
whelming numbers of the party, are
in complete accord in determined OBJ
position to Loreism. Despite the num-
bre of great obstacles first of all the
low theoretical level Of the party, and
its incorrect socialdemocratic form of
organization), the process of Bolshev-
ization Of the party is moving the par
ty ever more away from Loreism and
has reached the point where a polit-
ical alliance with Lore is already be-
coming impossible without direct be-
trayal OF the principles of Leninlsm.
Hence, the complete political accord
of both factions despite the excep-
tionally bitter factional STRUGGLED with
regard to Loreism, which the Parity
Commission establishes first of all.
The Parity Commission further de-
clares that the reciprocical accusa-
tons of both factions of a political
alliance with the Loreites are abso-
lutely incorrect and without founda-
ton. Neither faction is at present in
alliance with Lore. Both factions have.
since the plenum of the Executive
Committee of the c. l., actually proven
their complete readiness to wage a
determined struggle against oppor-
tunism Uoreism) in our party. But
the extreme bitterness of the fractional
struggle paralyzes all the efforts of
both groups in the campaign against
Loreism. has created a number of
fractional Misunderstanding around
this question. caused mutual misun-
derstanding, and led both groups to
a number OF errors.
The Parity Commission calls the
attention Of the party to the fact that
Loreism is at the present time the
most dangerous tendency in the party
which offers strong resistance to the
Bolshevization of our party. and ex-
presses full confidence that at the
coming party convention Loreism will
be unanimously condemned by both
groups, and that in the coming dis
cussion the theological struggle
against Loreism will have the central
place.
THE Parity Commission declares
L that all the above decisions have
been adopted unanimously and are
therefore considered as final. ANY
attempt to again raise the questions
which have been settled by the Com
mission will be considered as nothing
less than a desire to rekindle the
fractional struggle and to bring the
party to a split Any attempts of this
kind will meet with most severe par.
ty punishment.
In conclusion, the Parity Commits
sion expresses confidence that the COM
ing party convention will be able to
put an end to the fractional struggle
within the party, enabling the party
/ to face the great tasks which are
/ confronting it. The Parity Commits
sion calls upon all members of the
party to consider seriously the critical
situation in the party and to exert
every effort to bring the party out
of this grave situation
E>P. Green, Chairman,
William z. Foster,
James p. Cannon,
Alexander Blttelman,
c. e. Ruthenberg,
Jay Lovestone,
Max Bedacht.