The daily worker., 1925-08-08
STATEMENT OF THE MINORITY IN THE SOUTH W
SLAVIC FEDERATION ON THE SITUATION
IN THE FEDERATION AND IN THE PARTY

Executive Committee, they encour-
aged 1t in abusing it. Such an at
titude is impermissable in a Com
munist Party. In all controversial
questions between the minority and
majority in the bureau, the minority
in the party sided with the Novak-
Zinich majority, thereby sanctioning
the unjustified suppression Of the
minority by the majority. in spite Of
the fact that the minority in the feder-
alton has shown itself in the work
of the party to be sound Commun-
list group. To support the majority
of the bureau in its fight against the
minority means strengthening the
Cvetkov ideology in our federation,
for the most outstanding figures and
staunchest supporters of the Novak
Zinich faction even today in their
work show clear marks of Cvetkov-
ism, as for instance Vrkljan. who
participated in the Cvetkov caucus
during the 18th convention of the Ma
tional Croatian Society, and then
voted for a scab printing shop in the
executive committee of the n. c. S.
Cvetkovism is a species OF Loreism
or opportunism, and both groups in
the party should help the minority in
the federation to combat this non
Communist tendency; this is in line
with the decision of the c. L on Lore
ism, which demands that both groups
in the party unite in the struggle
against Loreism.
Tie above mentiorcd, coupled with
the decision of the Enlarged Execu-
tive Committee of the c. /. on the
American question, especially on the
Labor Party policy, which is mot the
rejection of the struggle for the Labor
Party, but an adjustment and further
development of our tactics in this
struggle are called for, by the present
situation in America. The conditions
for the successful formation are not
ripe as long as there is not a firm
mass basis of trade union support.
The majority of the Central Commit
tee was quite right in emphasizing
this point If the Workers Party were
merely to be combined with the or
ganizations sympathizing with it, no
Labor Party could be formed from
this combination" prompted many
comrades from the federation minor
ity, who previously supported the
minority. in the party TO change their
position in favor of the majority. That
they acted quite right in this can be
seen from the fact that the basic pol
icy of the party majority in regards
to the Labor Party was that the Labor
1 Party can only be formed when ii has
solid basis of trade union support
In this respect we consider the deci
sion of the International closer to the
tactics of the majority on the Labor
Party then of the minority. BY this
we do not mean in the least to gloss
over the mistake Of the majority when
tit temporarily dropped the slogan for
labor party last fall Today it has
corrected its error and is Loyalty car
rying out the decision of the C. L.
Today it is firmly engaged in the fight
against Loreism in all its manifesto
tions, especially in the trade unions,
where Loreism is most harmful to our
movement. The minority in the party
erred in putting the question of the
Labor Party on a too narrow basis.
and even today trys to minimize its
mistake by continuously reverting
back to its erroneous policy which