The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-29


majority wasn't quite sure for five
months whether they were Trotskyites
or mott
In January, comrades, in the edito-
rial board Of the Liberator, Comrade
Pepper made a proposal that he write
an article for the Bolshevik group and
against Trotskyism in the Liberator.
Comrade Cannon opposed II, saying
he did not yet sufficiently know the
facts and wasn't ready to make a de-
cision.
In March there was a full meeting
Of the O. e. O. and our group offered
q resolution to endorse the old group
In the Russian Party and Comrade
Foster answered by motion that we
take no position but print the mate
rial in the party press, and then, com
rades, what happened7 Along in April
when Comrade Foster was already in
Moscow, a telegram came 20 me from
.Comrade Scott saying that our party
should send a telegram to the Russian
Party convention endorsing the Boil
Shevik group, and was compelled on
my own responsibility to send that
telegram and put the party on record,
while the O. q. C. had refused to take
action on It before. (Applause.)
Comrades, on the first of June Com
rade Foster came back from Moscow.
He had seen the situation there, and
then the @. q. @. did endorse the Boil.
shevfk group with vote of IL to /.
In other words, It took FIVE months to
get an understanding OF the situation
into the minds Of the majority group
and get them to act on this question.
We say this was not a chance. this
was not happenstance. It was due
to the fact of their relationship to
the Lore group that made it impos-
s1DIe to get earlier action from them.
to get action until after the decision
mad been finally made in Russia.
NOW, comrades, on the issue of Lore
ism. Loreism developed in our party
in violent form when Lore became
part OF the majority of the C. E. C.
de thought he was part of the leader
ship of the party now and he could
speak. He. could express himself, and
he did express himself in writing an
article on the fifth anniversary of the
G. l., very bad article The minor
ity said, 1--WE must correct it. The
c. e. c. must issue statement con-
demning this editorial" 1t moved to
that effect, but the c. E. C. said "No,
we will not issue such a statement.
Let Comrade Lore write a new edi-
torial in which he corrects these ideas.
In other words, they had to protect
the member of the majority-Lore-
from a public condemnation by the
c. E. c. of the party.
NOW we cite these two facts about
4 Loreism and the Trotsky matter
to show what the connection was, and
/ say that it is due to this connection
this basis of the majority, that dur
ing the year that followed that it sue
cessfully moved step by step to Lore
list policy, that it went toward right
wing sectarianism in our party. 1t
was the influence Of this support in
the party reacting on the majority of
the c. E. C. that brought about these
mistakes, in addition, of course, to the
mistaken conceptions of the members
of the majority itself, and am going
to cite some of those mistaken concep-
lions.
During the first half of 1924, our
party was still working under the poll
cies that we're formulated by the pres
ent minority. The policies Of 1922 and
1923 were accepted unanimously by
the last convention. Our policies. And
we continued those policies during the
first six months and our party con-
tinued to make progress. 1t was when.
the majority had to formulate its own
policies on main political events that
errors began to appear, and the results
for the party you know, Let me show
you what happened as to figures.