The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-13

least Communist in the party.
From this development, said Com
rade Ruthenberg, we were saved to a
certain degree by the decisions of the
Communist International. The pur-
pose of the decision of the Comintern
was to precipitate in our party a
crisis which would lead to another
stage of its Bolshevization Those
who have studied the decisions of the
c. l. will observe that the G. l. saw
in the relationships of the groups of
the party the fact that the Foster
right wing. The c. l. wanted to cut
apart that alliance, not only in rela-
ton to Lore but to the right wing in
our party. The c. l., in addition to
declaring that Lore's connection with
the party must come to a conclusion,
saw that it was impossible to toler-
ate any further alliance based upon
the right wing
The G. /. had desired to unite with
in the party all Communist elements,
declared Comrade Ruthenberg, and
that was the political purpose of the
decisions that were made prior to the
convention. The crisis in the conven-
ton was the enlarged result of the
failure to carry out the decisions of
the Comintern by the group which had
the majority of the C. E. c.
In what did that failure consist
asked Ruthenberg. At the time of the
return of the delegations from Mos
COW, instead of uniting against Lore
and the right wing, instead of attacks
against Lore and efforts to free the
rank and file from the influence of the
right wing, we found attacks direct
ed against the minority group. We
found the needle trades" statement,
and the statement attempting to con-
meet the minority group with Juliet
Poyntz, and statement on the mine
points" Instead of the political ques-
lions which should have been the
major issue discussed, we found a
thousand petty questions and scandals
raised in order to evade the important
matters which really faced the party.
This situation eliminated in the con-
vention which showed the same char
acter as the convention of 1923-that
is, the same leadership based upon the
same right wing, carrying on a bitter
fractional warfare against the Com
munists in the party-that is against
the left wing. This situation created
the basis of the decision of the C. /.
which came during the convention and
which stated that 'it has finally be-
come clear that the Ruthenberg group
is more loyal to decisions of the C. I
and stands closer to its views" and
which provided certain guarantees for
this group in the party. It was be-
cause we. represented in the party the
willingness and power to fight against
sectarianism, against Loreism, against
the tendencies in our party which led
away from Bolshevism. because we
represented the impetus toward
making our party Communist, a
3olshevist Party. "A
Cannon-Foster Disagreement.
And the accuracy of the judgement
of the Comintern, Comrade Ruthen-
berg continued, is shown by the latest
developments in the party which are
reflected in the speeches of Comrade
Cannon and Foster to the Y. w. L.
convention, published in the DAILY
WORKER. These speeches, said
Comrade Ruthenberg, show a cleavage
between two sections of the former
group led by Foster and Cannon, a
cleavage on the question of the at
titude toward the Communist Inter-
national.
And this also is a part of the pro-