The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-28

Of the City Central Committee of
March 16 in the ABSENCE Of the
minority delegates, even if the minor
ity delegates had sabotaged the meet
ing. 1t was not permissible for the
majority, In the absence of the minor
ity to pass decision suspendins
nine minority delegates from the city
Central Committee, particularly for a
cause which was not sufficiently seri-
GUS (making a noise and creating dis
turbance at the previous meeting of
the City Central Committee) Such
actions inevitably led the minority to
a violation Of party discipline and
split situation.
But, 1t was Just as impermissable
for the minority, in the ABSENCE OF
THE MAJORITY DELEGATES, to
elect new City Executive. and to
nullify the former decisions of the
City Central Committee and the Cen
trail Executive Committee. This was
not only serious violation of party
discipline, but this was factional de-
cision amounting to a split, which was
an attempt to suppress the majority
having the advantage of only one vote
Off such was really the easel. The
suppression Of minority, even with
a large majority of votes. is not the
proper method to solve internal party
differences. Having in mind precisely
the possibility Of such suppression of
ia minority, and in order to prevent
such occurrences the Executive Com
mittee of the Communist Information.
al has secured for whichever group
will be in the minority at the party
convention the representation of one.
third in the next Central Executive
Committee.
TT was not permissible for the Jew
= ish Branch minority to refuse to
carry out the decision of the party or
CARNATIONS. This constituted a seri-
GUS violation of party discipline. and
the City Central Committee and the
Central Executive Cimmittee had
every formal ground to reorganize
this branch and to suspend as well the
membership of the branch who re-
fused to submit these decisions. But.
it was a mistake on the part of the
majority. in a situation where the
party is in danger of a split, when the
basic question raised by the Execu-
tive Committee of the Communist In
ternational is the unification of the
party, to resort widely TO severe
repressive measures toward the other
faction for its factional acts.
Taking into consideration the fac
tional nature of the struggle which
was manifested by both sides in
Cleveland, and prompted by deter
mination by all means to achieve the
speediest possible liquidation of the
fractional differences and thus to
achieve, at the next party convention
the complete unification of the party
the Parity Commission deems it Dos.
sible,
1. To reconsider the decision sus-
pending Comrade Benjamin for six
months
2. To reinstate the suspended 25
and expelled 9 members of the Jew
ish Branch
3. To remove the prohibition
against the right to be elected of the
former nine City Central Committee
delegates and to reinstate Comrades
Boich and Bartov.
At the same time. the Parity Com
mission deems it necessary to en-
phasize that the actions of these
comrades who have committed seri.
GUS violations of party discipline de-
serve the most severe party condem-
nation, and that after the party con-
vention. when the party will have
been unified, such actions will be Sc.
verely punished by the party.
> The Situation in Philadelphia
- There is no need of describing how
the fractional struggle developed in
Philadelphia. This would be merely
a repetition Of the history of the fac
tional struggle in Cleveland the same
course OF events with insignificant
and unessential differences), the same
methods and forms of the fractional
struggle. the same effort to gain even
a slight majority in order to suppress
the other side, the same impermissible
violation Of party discipline. The fac.
tional struggle in Philadelphia result
ed in fewer suspensions and expul-
sions than in Cleveland, but in the
hnal result the Philadelphia organiza.