The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-16

(11) We demand the publication
OF all the documents of the Russian
opposition without which the Party
members do not and cannot know
the essential issues of the struggle
and cannot form intelligent opinions
in regard to them. The discussion
Of these issues heretofore has been
conducted in an atmosphere of pre-
judice, misrepresentation, terrorism,
cutlawing of all thought and in
curry, the substitution of official
say-so for the study of documents
and facts on disputed questions. All
this has been part of campaign of
unparalleled SANDER against Trot-
sky who, after Lenin, was the out
standing leader of the Russian rev.
olution and the Comintern, and was
accompanied by the classification of
the history of the revolution itself.
(12) We intend, at the coming
Plenum Of the Central Executive
Committee, to propose that our
Party shall take the initiative in de-
handing the return from exile and
the reinstatement into the Commu-
mist Party of the Soviet Union with
full rights, of Trotsky and the other
imprisoned and exiled members of
the Russian opposition. Violence
and persecution against counter
revolutionaries is a revolutionary
duty; violence and persecution
against tried and loyal Bolsheviks
is crime.
(15) The consolidation of the OPP
position in Che American Party,
which logically and inevitably
merges with the part of the oppo-
sition in the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union led by Trotsky,
has developed in the struggle
against the right danger. The pitt
full attempt to characterize this OPP
position as a fright" tendency, re-
lated to non-Communist elements
such as Lore who have been fight
ing the Party from the right, and
Communist elements like Sa-
lutsky, who have gone completely
ever to the side of the labor lieuten-
ants of capitalism, does not in the
least correspond with political real
ity and is designed to cover the pro-
gressive drift of the Party leader
ship to the right. On the contrary,
the attempts to exclude us from re-
sponsible Party work, and even from
the Party itself, alcng with the pro-
1 letarian Communists who support
us, while at the same time the con-
troll of the Party apparatus and the
Party leadership in such unions as
the needle trades consolidates more
firmly in the hands of the oppor-
tinists, who fight their Communist
worker critics with expulsion and
physical violence-all this can only
accelerate the rapprochement be-
tween the right wing leadership of
the Party and right wing and petty
bourgeois elements now outside the
Party.
(14) The Lovestone group lead
ership, by it's opportunist political
outlook, its petty bourgeois origin
it's corrupt factionalism, its career
ism and adventurism in the class
d struggle, is the greatest menace, to
the Party. It's mechanical grip on
the apparatus of the Party grows
steadily tighter and chokes out its
inner life. Capable, experienced
and trustworthy comrades are one
by one removed from responsible
posts and replaced by faction agents
incompetents, upstarts, unknown
and inexperienced in any serious
work in the class struggle. The
Party itself, the mass work and the
mass organizations under the in
fluence and direction of the Party
are thereby undermined.
(15) The action of the Polcom ir
arbitrarily removing us from oul
positions in the LID where we have
worked Loyalty and effectively fol
the building Of this mass organiza
ton, for our political views alone
is most ill-considered and danger
GUS step, fraught with the graves
consequences to the future Of tn
I. L. D. There has never been an.
criticism of our work in the LID b.
the political committee of the Party
the executive committee Of the ILL
or by any of the three national con
ferences Of the lid. All Of thes,
bodies have uniformly endorsed ant
commended our activity in thi
capacity. The disruption of the worl
which will be caused by our unjus
titled removal and the certaint.
that we will be replaced by incom
petent faction agents, in no way in
terested in this work or qualifie,
to perform it, cannot but bring tn
most harmful results, Such action
demonstrate grain the reckless If
responsibility of the present Part,