The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-03
BY MAX BEDAcHT.

trail executive committee was crowned
by the great sensation" 1t had pre-
pared for the membership meetings.
This @. q. g. majority was not salts
fed with It's unenviable record Of
poverty of ideas set up In the party
discussion and poorly covered with
threadbare slogans OF nQuidators, op-
portunists, ct. Our G. q. @. majority
insisted to set up another record-a
record Of demagogy. s
! once watched prosecutor in a
capitalist court walking up and down
before the Jury trying to incite the
jury against Us Communists, before
the bar, by waving red nag before
their eyes, by throwing It on the foor
by Jumping on II and by other such
convincing arguments against the
Communists.
Expert Demanogues at Work.
Our central executive committee
majority seems to have gone to school
to that gentleman. Comrade Foster
pulled the same trick in the Chicago
general membership last Sunday. But
his performance was even surpassed
by Cannon in New York. But then
Cannon is indispensable when it
comes to such arguments"
A book made its appearance at
these membership meetings. This
book was denounced; it was flung
around in well feigned disgust: it was
condemned as menshevism incarnate
And all this comedy was enacted to
get verdict against the author of the
book-not on the book itself, because
hardly line was read out of the book,
but on the question now at issue be-
fore the party.
The book Is "The Government
Strikebreaker" and its author is Jay
Lovestone.
If anything were needed to show
that our majority does not give
damn about our party and is inter-
ested solely and exclusively in the
central executive committee majority
this latest sensation" would supply
proof.
A few facts about the book will
suffice to show up the majority and to
condemn it for what it is: group of
unprincipled demagogues or a group
of totally unitarian Marxians.
Foster-Lore Group Loses It's Head.
The subject, plan and the very
method of the book as well as the
author were suggested by Comrade
Brooks, the representative Of the
Comintern at the Bridgeman conven-
ton of the Communist Party of
America. The book was written at
time when the Workers Party. altho
already few months old, still had not
overcome the handicap Of the primo
geniture of it's older brother, the G. P.
of A. Only about six months later at
the time when this book was publish
ed, in May, 1923, the Workers Party
began to function formally as the
Communist Party and what is more
important began to function as a
political party.
What was the purpose of the book?
Was it to be history of the Workers
Party? No. Was it to be a history
of the achievements of the Workers
Party? No. Was it to be a propaganda
book pure and simple for the Workers
Party No. Great strikes had taken
place in the years just past. The
steel workers, the miners, the railroad
workers, the textile workers had gone
thru mass struggles against their
exploiters.
During the war compulsory arbitra-
ton by government agency was estab-
lished, ostensibly as a measure of war
against Germany. But now, in the
postwar struggles of the workers
this war measure, against Germany"
was shown up in its true character as
a war measure against the workers.
The official leadership of the organ
lied workers In most cases made itself