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

4LOIt dc5pAIS NUMEROUS ASSOAu nv
tions to that effect passed under
pressure of the minority.
6.-Wrong form of united front
with so-called tolerance group" ard
Schley group in the fnternation...
Ladies Garment Workers Union;
failure to criticize them, failure in
the united front with them to build
our own strength and forces in the
l. L. G. w. U.
limited front with Brennan in
the Miners Union under conditions
which rehabilitated the prestige of
the faker and brought discredit or
the party and weakened its forces
in the anthracite.
8.-Liberal, legislative, constitu-
tional and vulgarly American line
in the Council for the Protection of
the Foreign Born"
9.-Opposition to leading role of
Negro proletariat in united front
Negro movement by Comrade Moore,
Party leader of Negro work, cor
rected by Polcom on the initiative of
the minority.
10.-Persistence in organizing
workers and farmers in one Party
(Farmer-Labor Party contrary to
CT decision.
11.-Wrong orientation IN worn
ems work, basing it on housewives
instead of devoting main attention
to women in industry despite re-
peated letters from the Information
al Women's Secretariat on this point.
Failure to draw women industrial
workers into leading activities; the
entire leading committee for wom-
ems work in New York is composed
of school teachers, with the excep-
ton of Comrade Wortis, leading
right winger in the needle trades.
VIII. Opportunist Mistakes in the
Election Campaign.
In line with the general right wing
tendencies, the Lovestone group
have made several serious opportun-
list errors, in the national election
campaign of which the three follow
ing are the most outstanding:
i'm the national election pro-
gram of our party occurs the fol-
lowing demand: abolition of the
senate, of the supreme court and of
the veto power of the president"
This opportunistic proposal Gre
ates illusions regarding the reform
of the capitalist state. 1t cultivates
the false notion that the workers
can escape the pressure of the capt.
talist government, much Of which is
exerted through the senate, the su-
preme court, and the. presidents
veto power, by liquidating these in
situations within the framework Of
capitalist society.
2.-Illustratiye of the right wing
tendencies of the Lovestone group
is the letter officially sent to the
party units to direct the securing of
signatures to put our party candi-
dates on the election ballot. The
following quotations indicate the
corrupting methods used in this
work.
Remember that you are out to
get signatures and not converts.
This means no argument of any
kind"
"Don't ask for signatures in the
name of Communism"
'If necessary you can explain that
the signature is not an obligation to
vote for this party"
'Never state your mission to any,
one but the person whose signature
you wish to get, because if you give
them time to think you will get too
many questions"
"See how many more tricks you
can work out for yourself and write
your experiences to the National
Office"
This grossly opportunistic letter
was condemned, by the Comintern.
3.-The general use of profess
sional signature gatherers, and the
buying of signatures, and the fail
ure to mobilize the party forces for
these campaigns.
TX. Opportunist Mistakes in Labor
Party Work.
The Party needs fresh and clear
formulation of policy in the labor
party question based upon the
changed conditions and new perspec-
tives. The following is proposed as
a main outline for our perspective
and policy on the labor party ques-
ton.
1.-The developing depression and
coming crisis will create favorable
conditions for mass break-away
movements from the capitalist par
ties which our Party must antici-
pate and utilize to mobilize and to
organize the workers under it's ban
ner against the capitalist offensive
and against the reformist support
ers of capitalism, namely, the
American Federation of Labor and
the Socialist Party of America
(CI letter, April.
2.-1t is not the task of our party
II, tho rrnspnt narind IN carr,- an