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

gro masses in industry; campaigns
to mobilize the white workers for
struggle on behalf of the Negroes
against all forms of imperialist OPP
preston and determinations link
ing up race questions with econ
omic questions, systematic work
among the Negro peasant masses of
the south, their organization for the
struggle against white oppression,
struggle against white chauvinism
in the ranks of our Party; the
training of a cadre of Negro Com
munist leaders, the drawing of Ne
gro workers into all organization
campaigns, the intensification of the
struggle inside the existing unions,
the development of the influence of
our Party as the leader of the
struggles of the Negro masses
these are the immediate tasks of
our Party.
The Lovestone majority has sys-
tematically and continuously ne
elected work among the Negro
masses. This error is based on an
underestimation of the revolution
airy role Of this most exploited and
oppressed section of the popula-
ton. This is expressed by Comrade
Lovestone in his speech at the Feb
ruary plenum as published in the
Daily Worker, where he refers to
the Negro farmers in the south as
broad social reserve CT capitalist
reaction" 1t is further shown by
the complete absence of any refer
ence to work among the Negro peas
antry in the south in the program
introduced by Comrade Pepper in
the Polburo April 30; 1928. For
two and a half years the Negro
work of our Party has been bank
rupt. ~ The Negro organ was
liquidated. (2) The organization of
the Pullman Porters into a Negro
union was carried out by social re-
formists without our Party making
any serious effort to establish it's
influence. (3) No struggle against
white chauvinism in the ranks of
the Party has been carried on (such
accidents as Gary, Harlem, Detroit,
Pittsburgh, are proof of this) and
continuous retreating of the Party
leadership before the chauvinism of
the whites. az The last Negro pro
gram of the Party, written by Com
rade Pepper makes no reference to
the necessity for such campaign.
~ The Lovestone majority entire
ly underestimate the necessity for
struggle for the mobilization of
white workers on behalf of the Ne
gro masses. (6) Systematic fac
tional corruption to conceal bank
ruptcy of the Negro work. CD No
systematic attempt to build real
Communist cadre of Negro COM
rsdes. ~ Orientation towards Ne
gro petty-bourgeoisie rather than
towards workers and farmers. (9)
Failure to connect Negro work with
general trade union work of the
Party. (10) Failure to draw Negro
comrades into general Party work.
XIII. Orportunist Errors in Coop
erative Work.
The cooperative work Of the Par
ty in New York, the largest dis
trict, has been and still is charac-
terized by gross opportunism and
virulent factionalism. The coopera-
ton work Omitted workers coopera-
tive) has been based on buildings
and financing cooperatives which in
turn are based on speculation in real
estate, etc. These enterprises are
now in a financial crisis which
threatens to discredit the Party.
The extreme right wing which CO.
operated with non-Party elements
I against the Party, refused to accept
Gee decisions, has been placed in
control of the organization and en-
couraged even by the Polcom mem
bers of the Lovestone group in i'm
permissible violation of Party pro-
cedure.
The worker members of the CO.
operative, both Party and non
Party, are demoralized and discour-
aged.
In spite Of the continual struggle
of the minority against it, the
Lovestone group refuses to abandon
or even criticize this disastrous pol
icy.
The cooperative section of the
Comintern should conduct a thor
ough investigation of this enter
prise and officially inform the Par
ty of its findings and conclusions.
The work of the Party in the CO.
operatives is exceedingly weak. The
Party has no program for coopera-
tive work.
The work of the Party in the con-
sumers cooperatives in the north
west and Massachusetts, is carried on
without any direction from the CEN
ter.
XIV. phc Rejection of Self Criticism.
feminist self-criticism is one of
the greatest necessities of our Par
ty to enable it to learn from its
mistakes and to clarity it's policy.
The whole party has been guilty
of failure to criticize itself, in the
feminist method, and it's theological