The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03


ority that Cannon was developing
line which leads to the crystal
lization of a Trotskyist faction in
the Party. The comrades, however,
knew that in the absence of con-
elusive evidence Cannon might deny
the charges and retract further into
political hiding as he did threaten to
do before the charges were sub
mitted to the Polcom. Therefore the
above comrades of the minority pro-
ceeded from that point on to secure
all available proof to convince the
Polcom of the correctness of the
charges which they had made.
1t is thus seen that within less
than two weeks after the comrades
of the minority in New York first
got their suspicion about the matur-
ing Trotskyist Opposition of Cannon,
the comrades were successful in es-
tablishing the facts before the Poll
teal Committee with the subsequent
expulsion of Cannon, Abern and
Shachtman from the Party.
The majority of the Central Com
mittee while pretending to discour-
age charges of Trotskyism against
the minority at the same time
launches a bitter attack against the
minority which in substance accuses
them of Trotskyism, citing especi-
| o11tr H0,,aaz Toz4x.a1I
Aronberg, Douglas, Hathaway, Cor
man, Frankfeld and Wagenknecht
for withholding information from
the Polcom about the Trotskyist at
titude of Cannon, for expelling Can.
non from the minority group in
stead of bringing the matter imme-
diately to the Political Committee
for making a joint declaration with
Cannon in the Polcom expressing
reservations to the Comintern de-
cision regarding the American ques-
ton, for selecting Cannon as a mem.
Der of the steering committee to the
membership meeting in New York
on October 3. The statement of the
Central Committee attacks the min
GRITTY delegation to the Sixth World
Congress for failure to inform the
Communist International that Can
non absented himself from voting
on the Trotskyist question in the
Congress.
These accusations are absolutely
false; the facts are as follows: (1)
No information "about the outright
, Trotskyist attitude of Cannon" was
withheld from the Political Com
mittee. The investigation proves
this. The comrades of the minority
did not present to the Polcom' theil
mere individual suspicious but, or
the contrary secured proof confir.
ming these suspicious and ther
: brought the matter to the Political
: Committee.
(2) When these comrades expelled
Cannon from the minority, this was
precisely enc of the means by which
they forced Cannon to come out into
the open and thus enabled the Party
to see the Cannon move and to at
tack it.
(3) When Comrades Aronbere
and Costrell signed together with
Cannon the declaration of the min.
GRITTY to the Polcom on their attitude
TO the Comintern decision on the
American question, they at thai
time had absolutely no inkling about
the Trotskyist designs of Cannon
The same considerations explain the
selection of Cannon as one of the
steering committee of the minority
at the membership meeting of DC.
tober 8.
(4) The delegates of the minority
to the Sixth World Congress haC
not learned of Cannon's absence II
the Congress when the Trotskyist
question was acted on until after
arriving in the United States ano
during the investigation of this mat
ter. The delegates of the minority
to the Congress did know in Moscow
that Cannon was not present in the
Congress hall when the genera
political thesis was voted on. The
minority delega es demanded Of
Cannon an explanation of this actor
on the next day after the vote or
the thesis occurred. Cannon's ex
PLANTATION was that he did not wan
to vote for the declaration of the
minority delegation to the Congress:
on the thesis. Cannon's Trotskyisn
was not known by the minority dele
, gates in Moscow:
1t is therefore, obvious that the
accusations made by the majority
in its statement against the minority
/, are unfounded. Furthermore, as we
will prove later in the document, the
meaning of these accusations ant
attacks is to utilize the Cannon
Trotskyist Opposition in order tt
initiate a new onslaught against the
minority thruout the Party.
: For the Comintern Line Against the
Right Danger and Against
Trotskyism.
! In the present struggle against
, both the Right danger and against
Trotskyism the minority proposes
that the Party shall follow the line
laid down by the Communist Inter
, national. The line adopted by th'
majority of the Central Committee
, of nur Party and embodied in its