The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-11
BY JAY LONESOME.


can question before the last Plenum
lof the Executive Committee of the
Communist International, Comrade
Kuusinen declared as follows:
THE question upon which the con-
fict arose in the American party was
whether the party should fight in the
immediate future for a labor porty or
not AS you know, the majority of
the Central Committee of the party
opposed it and the minority supported
it. In the opinion of the commission,
the majority based its policy in this
respect too much on superficial tenn
porary phenomena. The minority is
absolutely right in its confidence Of
the vitality of the labor party moVe5l
ment" (Our emphasis) =
Here we have stated concretely and
tersely what has been the major po-
litical issue before the membership of
our party until the C. l. made the
above declaration endorsing the stand
taken by the minority of the Central
Executive Committee.
AN =iHlNeS W NtGiC rNCNCPbdUCCs
All but an insignificant handful in
our party have declared their accept
ance of this decision of the Commun-
list International. But, since this de-
cision was made by the plenum, some
of our leading comrades have taken
it upon themselves to interpret this
decision as a reputation of the labor
party policy pursued by the Ruthen-
berg group. If our party is to carry
out this Comintern decision whole
heartedly and effectively such misin-
depreciation must stop. The comrades
must remember that a mere declara-
ton of acceptance of c. !. decision
does not give them a license to con-
tinue policy Of misinterpreting to
the membership the fundamental
meaning Of so basic a policy as the
labor party declaration Of the last
plenum.
This article is written in order to
help secure the conditions for effective
execution of the c. l. decision-a
proper understanding of this decision
Some leading comrades have, perhaps
unconsciously, perhaps unwillingly.
perhaps even without full understand
ing, accused the Ruthenberg group of
for fake" labor parties. In
view of the fact that this charge is
hurled against those comrades whe
have always stood for a vigorous la
bor no rfv no1fov fha aooucofiov, fando
to have an effect of discrediting our
whole labor party campaign. 1t must
be remembered that now, more than
ever before, is it necessary to Undue
our membership with an understand
ing of, rather than a sceptical atti-
tude towards the need for a labor
party campaign by our party. No one
can deny that the months Of insistent
propaganda waged short ago In our
ranks against a labor party have
borne harmful effects which still have
to be counteracted ideoIosIeaIIy.
ANY comrade who spreads such UNI
founded accusations, as that OF fake"
labor party, is making a serious mis-
take. This is true despite the fact
that many comrades insist that the
only requisite to being Bolshevik is
to make mistakes and then say:
We'll, we admit our mistakes" How
eyer. admission Of mistakes is no
license to repetition Of mistakes. Let
rs look the facts squarely in the face.
How unwarrantable and dangerous
such tactics are in party discussion
Is to be seen from the following ir-
REPUTABLE facts:
From January, 1924, when the pres