The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-28

sibility of struggle against it, con-
stitute the chief source of the Right
danger, yet in essence it retains in
full the right wing analysis and
orientation of the old thesis love
stone, etc., and is developing a
series of propositions of a danger
GUS Right wing character such as
that there is no perspective for the
building up of the new industrial
union movement and the theory of
the rebuilding of the A. F. of L.
The so-called new leadership Pep
perry einstone-Bedacht) is just as
fully attached to the Right oppor-
tunist orientation of the G. E. C.
Majority as was the old leadership
of the Majority .Uovestone, Wolf,
StacheD.
(c) The Party must recognize
that this maneuver of the C. E. C.
Majority is an effort to meet the
pressure of the C. l., Y. C. l., and
the membership without in reality
changing the line or radically chang
ing the leadership.
5. One of the outstanding charac-
teristics of the Plenum was the eff
fort of the C. E. C. Majority to
build up new issue in the conven-
ton discussion, namely, the So
called reservations" of the Minor
ity to the decisions of the Sixth
World Congress. On this we wish
to declare the following:
(a) The Minority never consid-
cred its declaration to the Sixth
Congress as being in any way
reservation to the general line
adopted by the congress for appli-
cation in all sections of the C. l.,
including the United States. The
inority Of the Party delegation to
he congress voted for the main.
thesis and for all other theses and
decisions adopted by the congress.
(b) The c. I. itself never consid-
cred our declaration to the Sixth
Congress as being a reservation to
its main line. The conclusive proof
of this is the fact that neither dur
ing the congress nor since has the
G. /. told US that we had such
reservations. Had the Comintern
been of the opinion that our declara-
ton was equivalent to a reservation
on the main line, the Comintern
would have plainly said so and
would have properly urged the
American Party to draw all neces-
sary conclusions.
(c) The C. I. did not do it. The
ECCI has just sent a letter to our
c. E. c. severely criticizing "the
misleading statements contained in
Che declaration Of the c. E. c." on
the decision of the Comintern on
the American question. In drafting
this letter the ECCI said that it
had before it the Daily Worker of
1 October End containing four docu-
ments, including lengthy state
ment issued in the name of the C.
E. C. headed The Comintern De-
cision on the American Question.
1 One of these four documents was a
brief declaration by the Minority of
the Polcom stating that the Minority
of the Polcom agreed with the
declaration of the Minority of the
Party delegation to the Sixth Con-
gress. The G. I. did not view the
statement of the Minority as being
reservation. We find no refer
ence to this statement in the latest
ECCI letter.
(d) We are unalterably opposed
to the attitude of reservations to the
line of the Comintern. That is why
we fought against the efforts of
Comrades Pepper and Lovestone to
exempt" the American Party from
the general line of struggle against
the Right danger laid down at the
Ninth Plenum of the C. I. That is
why we also fought the C. E. C.
Majority's opposition to the deci-
sions of the RILU and Y. C.. l.
(original draft of Lovestone thesis
to February Plenum, articles in the
Communist by Comrades Pepper and
Lovestone, the May Plenum Resolu-
ton, failure to endorse the Fourth
Congress RILU decisions, suppress
sion of the Y. G. I. letter and the
issuance of the Polcom letter against
it, etc., etc.. This attitude of
Comrades Pepper and Lovestone
was severely criticized at the Sixth
Congress and in the American Com
mission by leading members of the
Comintern, as being an effort to
formulate Monroe Doctrine" for
the American Party. That is, Com
rades Pepper and Lovestone were
criticized for tendencies to exempt
the United States from the applica-
ton of the c. I. general line. The
G. E. G. ignored these criticisms and
persisted in its old tendency toward
a Monroe Doctrine" The ECCI
sent their latest letter to the Gee
saying that the Right danger is
the main danger for the American
Party. The next Party congress
must investigate the objective
sources of the Right danger and the
struggle against it, discussing all
Party problems from the standpoint
OF the struggle against the, Right
danger inside the Party and the So
cial reformists' influence among the
workers."
(e) The c. E. C. Majority still
persists Gin the old tendencies of