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

members, refuses to tell them tht
truth about its mistakes, and de
nounces all criticism of its policy
as factionalism.
The "self-criticism' of the Love
stone majority is a caricature. L
consists of a formal acknowledge.
ment of the most obvious shortcom.
ings of the Party without estab-
fishing their nature, cause and re.
sponsibility for them, and taking
steps to overcome them. The most
serious errors of the leadership are
concealed from the Party or only
formally admitted even in cases
where the Gee has interviewed to
correct them. The great opportunis-
tic errors in the Panken case, the
attitude to the socialist party and
the labor party, which were pointed
out by the ECCI in a special let
ter, have never been explained to
the Party members, whose ideas on
these questions have been derived
from the propaganda of the Geo on
the basis of the false position.
A decisive struggle against diplo-
macy and evasion, and for the inau-
guration of course of Bolshevik
self-criticism in all aspects of Party
work is prerequisite for a correc-
ton of the errors and the setting
of the Party on the right track.
XIV Denial of Right Danger and
Militant Attack Against Left.
In the face of all these facts, the
Lovestone majority not only fails to
take the necessary steps to change
its policy, and to acknowledge and
correct its errors, but it militantly
and persistently denies the existence
of right tendencies and right ele-
ments in the Party. 1t has CONSOLE
dated itself into a closely bound fac
ton with all the prominent former
members of the Lore group, and
with the right wing in the needle
trades, and has given up all strug-
gle against their opportunist errors.
Neither the political report nor the
resolution of the May plenum con-
tanned word regarding the Right
danger in the Party and not sin.
gle word has been published to ex-
plain the right errors pointed out
by the ECCI and similar errors cited
here.
At the same time, the majority
concentrates its whole fire against
the left dangers and errors, as well
as against the comrades who criti-
CHE the opportunist errors and try
to bring the line of the Party into
accord with the policy of the CT.
1t demagogically distorts and mis-
represents the position of the min
ority, falsely attributing to it a fan
tastic overestimation of the radical
ization of the American workers and
an opposition work in the old unions.
In this manner it sets up a false
issue and wages a war against it
as cloak for its opportunist poll
cies and practices. Comrades re-
suonsible for opportunist errors are
shielded from criticism and pro-
tected in the most responsible posi-
tons, while those criticizing are
continuously attacked and discrimin-
ated against in the assignment of
Party duties. (For example, the
appointment of Comrade Poyntz, a
former leader of the Lore group, as
head of women's work, failure to
correct the opportunist errors in
this sphere and many other appoint
ments Of a similar character.) The
denial of the Right danger and the
concentrated fire against the minor
ity are a component part of the OPP
portunist policy of the Lovestone
group.
The many errors which have been
criticized by the ECCI have been er-
rors to the right without exception
The denial of the existence of right
dangers by the Lovestone group is
in effect denial of the position of
the letter of the CT.
XVI. Right Wing Internal fractional
Regime.
The Lovestope group has CONSOLE
dated with the former following OF
Lore into the right wing of the
Party, against the present minority
and conducts a fractional regime in
support of its opportunist policy
The secretary, the organization de-
partment, the agitprop department
the WIR, the Council of Protection
of Foreign Born, all foreign Ian
guage bureaus, all Party press and
all districts except two minor ones
are in the control of the Lovestone
group, which, as matter of policy
sacrifices mass work for internal
fractional expediency.
Fractional composition Of Profin.
tern delegation, trade union delega-
ton, mining campaigns in anthra-
cite, Pittsburgh, Illinois, Ohio, shoe
campaign, Massachusetts,. automobile
campaign, Detroit, New York, LID.
Secretary Jewish Section LID.
Secretary New York Needle Trades
fractional removal of Comrade Swa-
beck, one of the most qualified or
ganizers in the Party, as district or
ganizer in Illinois, which resulted in
greatly weakening the mining CAM
paign and loss of membership in
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