The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14
Statement Central Committee on Lovestones Splitting Activities

lished in the Party press, the Cen
trail Committee of the CPUSA de-
cides:
l. That after the return of LAY
Lovestone to America in violation
of the decision of the Comintern,
he and his group have consistently
carried on against the unity of the
Party their fractional splitting &C
tivities based on the opportunist
political platform already con-
demned by the Comintern.
2. That they have circulated in
the Party many fractional documents
directed against the line of the Com
munist International ard against the
line and the decisions of the &C of
the American Party, and under
cover of an Appeal to the CT they
have spread an appeal against the
CT, having set up complete faction
headquarters and machinery, have
sent their -Comintern and anti
Party circulars to non-Party as well
as Party members, and have been
persistently at work with the
spreading Of demoralizing propa-
ganda aimed at misleading prole-
tartan Party members trying to
mobilize the American working
class against the Communist Inter
national.
8. That amongst these factional
documents was one directed against
the Communist Party's slogans on
Gastonia, its call to the workers to
fight for the right to organize them
selves in trade unions and to de-
fend themselves and their class or
CARNATIONS against the attacks of
the thugs hired by the bosses and
the forces of the capitalist state,
thus belittling the class Importance
of the Gastonia struggle and taking
the same position as the Trotskyites
of the USA, Lore, Cannon and Co.
Especially reasonable was the de-
featist and counter-revolutionary
sheet, broadcast by Lovestone group
during the preparation of Interna-
tional Red Day, against the Party's
call to strike.
a. That a few followers of
Lovestone in the ranks of the Party
continued within the Party organi-
cations the propaganda against the
CT, as, for example, the members
of the New York DEC-Zam, D.
Benjamin, and Nemser-who pre-
scented and voted for a resolution,
in which, as an answer to the Tenth
Plenum decision condemning Love
stones platform, which decision was
printed that same day, they de-
manded the withdrawal of the Ad-
dress of the CT, solidarized them
selves with Lovestone's Appeal, de-
manded his immediate reinstate-
ment in the Party, and launched
slanderous campaign against the
Party line and decisions.
5. That the outrageous answer
sent by Lovestone's group contain
ing Lovestone's refusal to go to
Moscow, putting conditions to the
Communist International, the effect
of which was to demand that the
Communist International should
change its Bolshevik line, and by
which they set themselves up as a
power separate from the Communist
International and standing over
against it, proves that this group
has already put itself outside of the
Communist international.
For all these reasons the Central
Committee decides to expel from
the Party the official leaders of this
group who signed it's documents,
viz, Benjamin Gitlow, VIM. Miller,
Tom Myerscough, Edward Welsh,
VIM. j. White, and Bertram D.
Wolfe, as well as those who in a
political resolution entirely soli-
darized themselves with this group,
viz, Herbert Fam, D. Benjamin, and
Morris Nemser unless within 48
hours they specifically endorse the
Comintern Address, the thesis and
the decisions of the 10th Plenum,
recognize the political correctness of
the Lovestone expulsion, the latest
reply of the ECCI and the ICC to