The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-27

LOT the pOlltlcal cOmmItJee, Inere
was lengthy discussion among the
delegates. Jay Lovestone, the re-
porter for the committee, then
summarized the discussion as fol-
lows:
Continued from last issue.
The second stage I said not that
the American imperialists support the
Revolutionary Chinese Nationalist
movement in some respects, But |
did say that the American imperial
lists, because they felt, because they
believed and above all, because they
knew that they had the capital and
the technical resources and that it was
in their interest for the development
of a strong bourgeois, reactionary
bourgeois republic, that they would
favor such interests and that this pol
icy has not been completely dropped
by America. Yet insofar as the Chi
nese situation has taken on new
turn, these policies are not the dom
inant characteristics of America to-
day. Here and there America may
resort to them. I said, and / say and
I maintain that the dominant features
of Americas imperialist policy in
! China today are the investment of
every ounce of energy, the expendi-
ture of every dollar stolen from the
workers and poor farmers, for the
crushing of the Chinese revolution,
because today there can be no real
Chinese revolution without the pro-
letariat exercising hegemony over the
peasant masses of China and together
with them, making the Chinese revo-
luton victorious.
Furthermore, I said that the mo-
ment Chang Kai-shek betrayed the
Chinese revolution, that the moment
the American imperialists felt that
the danger of the proletarian leader
ship of the Chinese revolution was at
least lessened, that that very mo-
ment marked the American imperial
lists again being in position where
their antagonisms with British i'm
perialism were sharpened, where
there was trend toward temporary
shift to the second stage of Amer
lean imperialist policy in China.
China and War.
Comrades, the position of the con-
vention, the position of the Party is
that the greatest danger of war to-
day, in reference to China particular
ly, is not in a conflict between Great
Britain and America in China, but in
a union of America with Great Bri-
tain and other imperialist powers
against China. This convention re-
jects the spurious doctrine that would
base the Party's policies merely on
the antagonisms, conflicts, and con-
tradictions between the imperialist
powers Of America and Japan, Japan
and England, America and England
and so on down the line. We as Com
munists, we utilize these differences,
we utilize these antagonisms of the
imperialists, but we don't base our
policies on them.
We base our policies on the funda-
mental forces of the class relations
in China today, despite the betrayal
of Chang Kai-shek, despite the sbe-
trayal of the Wuhan government, de-
spite certain unfavorable turns which
the Chinese developments have taken,
tstin indicate that the revolutionary
wave in China, that the proletarian
and peasant masses will again come
forward andthat the fundamental
characteristic of the Chinese situation
are not conflict between America
and England, but union between
America, England, Japan, France,
Germany, Italy and the whole imper-
ialist clique against revolutionary
China and the Soviet Union.
Let us go a little closer home, to
she needle trades: Let us examine
The facts carefully Comrades, the
convention is over insofar as the cleo
zion Of its delegates is concerned. You
don't have to fight for delegates in
Lilc uIllJS any iIiOIc. ut dClVS dlCo
which the units wanted to give you
have been seated here. You don't
have to let your minds be warped.
Don't allow your perspectives to go
out Of the window. When Commun-
lists lose perspective, they lose their
Communist reason. Errors have been
made in the needle trades. The lead
ing needle trades comrades have made
these errors. Less errors were made
under more difficult conditions by
these comrade in 1927 than in 1925.
What has been the Party policy to-
wards these errors? Has the Party
corrected these errors? Every time
an error in the needle trades showed
itself, the Party issued statement
showing how this error was made,