The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-11

! features OF lmperlallSt development.
The Daily Worker has been treated
frivolously by the LoSestone group
both in the editorial and manage
ment departments 1.-THE appointment
of three separate business managers
in less than two years-all of them
incompetent and all appointed for
factional reasons, and rejection of
proposal to appoint Comrade Wag-
enknecht, the most competent COM
rade for the position.
Building the prestige of the DIV
is a major task which now confronts
our Party. Its editorial staff must
be organized from among the best
politically equipped comrades.
15.-Failure to utilize the mass
campaigns to strengthen the nuclei
and build the Party, New York, etc,
allowing a gradual and growing dis
Indignation of the nuclei in many
centers to take place, are charac-
teristics of the present leadership.
16.-Extravagant financial pro
grams which place unduly heavy
burdens upon the membership and
make it difficult for the lower paid
wcrkers to join and remain in the
patty and fulfill the demands made
upon them.
VII. Opportunist Application of
United Front Policy.
The CT line against the united
front from the top with reactionary
trade union, liberal and Socialist
Party leaders, and for united front
with the workers against them ap-
plies with special emphasis in
America. The new objective factors
making for the discomfort of the
masses and Strengthening their i'm
pulse and will to struggle create
increasingly favorable conditions
for the application of the united
front tactics directly with the work
ers and leading them in the fight
against the reactionary leaders and
the capitalists. The firm adherence
to this basic conception is a prere-
! quisite for the full utilization of the
possibilities to broaden and inten-
sify the fight of the workers and
build the Party. The complete de-
generation of the Socialist Party
and its incorporation into the CAPT
talist A. F. of L. police machine,
puts before the party as one of its
essential tasks the smashing frontal
attack against it and its entire lead
ership all along the line in order to
destroy it's influence over the work
ers.
The Lovestone majority has not
understood the CT policy on the
united front and has applied it in
an opportunistic manner. This is
demonstrated by a whole series of
gross errors, many of which remain
acknowledged and uncorrected.
Examples which illustrate the OPP
! rortunist line in this respect may
he cited as follows:
1.-False estimation of the So :'ai
ist Party and calculation on a cleft
wing" within it which would work
with US for a labor party. This Is
indicated by the motion of Lovestcne
to send a number of comrades into
the socialist party "for the purpose
of working for our labor party pol
icy in the Socialist Party" and the
rejection of the motion of the min
ority declaring such tactics to be
false and calling for policy Of
frontal attack against the Socialist
Party all along the line. (Polcom
minutes, Dec. IA, 1920.
The same policy was executed in
the support in the elections of the
Socialist Judge Panken, an agent
of the black gang in the needle
trades who was likewise supported
by the republican party and the New
York World and the New York
Times. The majority stubbornly de-
Tended this decision in spite of the
most energetic protest of the min
GRITTY; the support of the Socialist
Bearak in Boston; and the proposals
to support Berger, the national
chairman of the Socialist Party in
Milwaukee; (criticized in the letter
of the ECCD.
The policy in the Panken case
was not an incidental error; 1t pro-
ceeded from the false conception of
the Lovestone group. 1t was pro-
posed as a national policy in a pro-
gram submitted to the Poleom by
Comrade Lovestone, which contained
the provision that our party should
run candidates on its own ticket only
in those cases where it can be done
without endangering the election of
candidates running locally on the
tickets of other working class par
ties" point % of Lovestone's pro-
posals on the Labor Party campaign,
Polcom Minutes, Oct. Z, 1920.
| 2.-The Open Letter to the So
cialist Party, an error of the Pol
com as whole, which was pointed
out in the letter of the ECCI.
3.-The united front made by the
Party leaders of the Furriers'
Union, members of the Lovestone
group in the Party, with the So
called middle group in the union,
under conditions which surrender