The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-23

ne appeal OF Jay LOVeSCone ana
theirs to the Tenth Plenum of the
Executive Committee of the Com
nunist International, although osten-
'ibly cast in the form of an appeal,
S actually written with another end
:. view, namely, under the guise of
N appeal to initiate a widespread
tactional campaign throughout the
Communist Party of the United
States of America against the line
of The Comintern as carried out by
Tie Party. The aim-clearly shown
by its printing in numerous copies
is to demoralize the Party by inject
ing into it fresh doses of factional
poison. The purpose is to develop
ihe platform of factional opposition
10 the Communist international al
ready formulated in the Declaration
of May 14th and now carefully re-
produced at the beginning of this So
rallied appeal. In one sense only the
document is an appeal, not an appeal
to the Communist international but
an appeal to the remnants of de-
based fractional ir-tincts, which in
The struggle of six years had become
ingrained in certain elements of the
Party. Characteristic of the faction
al line is its cowardly evasiveness,
the attempt to hide its political plat
form and to shift away from any
clear statement of basic political is
sues.
In truly fractional fashion the docu-
ment avoids transgression upon the
domain of Lovestone's private pro-
paganda handed out by him in his
caucuses and in his correspondence.
Lovestone does not dare-as veto
put these things into an official
document. Although he has rea-
sons to be confident that the fac
tional blindness of his co-signers
will save him from any embarrassing
questions concerning this discrep-
ancy, he must expect that the loyal
rank-and-file workers in our Party
will demand of him an explanation
IS to why he tries to recruit fol-
lowers for his -Comintern eau
Gus on one issue while he appeals
to the Comintern on another. They
will demand explanations as to why
he propagandizes the Party to the
effect that the C.P.S.U. is changing
the shop nuclei into craft nuclei,
while at the same time he refrains
from appealing to the CT. against
this. He must explain why he pro-
pagandizes the Party members
against the present policy of indus
trialization of the C.P.S.U. while in
his appeal to the Comintern he re-
mains silent about this. Lovestonc
must answer why in his propaganda
he declares that the CT. is moving
toward Trotskyism while in his ap-
peal to the Comintern he does not
concern himself with this alleged
fact. In his factional propaganda
Lovestone maintains that a secret
agreement was reached in the
American Commission in Moscow to
the effect that the minority should
get the party; in his appeal Love-
stone does not Charge" this agree
ment." In his factional propaganda
Lovestone accuses the Communist
Party OF Germany and the CT. of
putschism in connection with the
events of May 1st in Berlin; in his
appeal Lovestone remains silent
about this point. In his factional
propaganda Lovestone condemns the
CT. for its treatment of Ewert, Je-
lick, etc.; but in his appeal he is
silent about this.
Amid a cloud of falsifications, dis
tortions, suppressions of vital facts,
fractional calumnies, etc, etc., of
which the appeal" mainly consists,
there appears the at;~ucture of po-
litical platform, which, though fac
tional and from a Marxist point of
view illiterate, is nevertheless a spe-
officially Lovestoneite opportunist
platform.
The political line of Jay Lovestone,
as revealed in this appeal, should be
clearly analysed and understood.
On question after question of deep
political Importance, especially for
The Communist Party of the United
States of America, the attitude of
Lovestone is revealed to be in basic
contradiction to the line of the
Sixth World Congress. The political
line of Jay Lovestone is revealed
first in an opportunist appreciation
of the present position of American
Imperialism. Consequently it leads
to an opportunist distortion Ct the
revolutionary perspectives before
the American working class and of
the tasks of the Communist Party
of the United States of America.
The Line of the Sixth World Con-
gross, CT Communist International.
What was the characterization of
the present period of world capital
ism as given by the Theses of the
Sixth World Congress of the Com
mnnist International This Third
Period in which the contradiction
between the growth of productive
forces and the shrinkage of markets
becomes particularly accentuated in
evitably gives rise to fresh series
of imperialist wars" International
antagonists are intensified, colonial
movements devotion and inside tbe