The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-05
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WORKERS PARTY
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Jay Lovestone in Open
ing Address

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Party, as Party, by the govern
ment when we were driven under
ground. The comrades will recall
the crisis in our Party as a result
of the death of our leader, Comrade
Ruthenberg. The convention hello
in 1927, the Fifth National Conven.
ton, will be known in our Party
annals as that convention which laic
the basis for the development of 6
Central Committee as an organ Of
the entire Party, acting as a Cen
trail Committee for the entire Party
membership. The primary task O.
this convention, insofar as the innel
situation of the Party is concerned
is to eradicate with surgical meth
DDS, if necessary whatever vestige.
of factionalism still remain in oul
ranks. tremendous applause Thi.
convention must be convention
which will result in the consolida
ton of the Party beyond the shadow
of any doubt. tremendous APP.
plause.)
"In this direction we have already
made substantial Roadway. The sup
port the Central Committee has
won, particularly among the prole-
tartan sections, has won the recog-
milton of even the most skeptical of
our comrades that our Central Com
mittee has the widest basis of sup
port and loyalty, energetic support
and unquestionable loyalty of the
Party, of the overwhelming major
ity of our membership.
''In this convention we will deal
with more basic problems than we
have dealt in any of our previous
conventions. The question of the
estimate of American imperialism,
the question of reformism, the ques-
ton of the fight against the right
danger, the main danger confront
ing every section of the Comintem
without exception, the question of
a struggle against Trotskyism which
has since the last convention and
for the first time in our Party
raised its ugly head in really dam
gerous way.
"Our Party is at turning point.
1t is true we have turned the corner
but we have not yet completed the
turn. The very fact that the con-
vention is held after the Sixth World
Congress, which congress next to the
Second Congress of the Comintern
was the most productive theological
~, was the most important in a de-
cisiye sense towards the develop
ment of Bolshevik sections of the
Comintern. refer you to the adop-
ton of the first Comintern pro
gram, the fight against the Right
danger, the question of strengthen
ing the discipline and unity of our
various sections, the question of
graduating Trotskyism, the fight
against the imperialist war danger
as the primary task, as the primary
objective of our section of the Com
intern as well as of all other sec
lions.
THE entire present world situa-
ton lends certain color to the
of our convention. The
increasing antagonisms between the
Anglo-American imperialisms, an
tagonisms making very rapidly for
a clash of these imperialist powers,
for another world war; the increas-
ing hostility toward the Soviet Re-
public, the increasing conflicts
among the various imperialist pow
ers--all this indicates that our Par
ty convention meets in a period of
extreme international tension. At
the same time, and precisely grow
ing out of these conditions, precise
ly growing out of this world situa
ton, in which the United States is
becoming increasingly involved, in
which the United States is becoming
organically bound up, so that it
reacts more quickly and suffers
more positively from the contradic-
tons of the war-shattered capital
lsms of other countries-all these
give rise to increasing re-
sistarce among the masses of this
country, the basic proletarian
masses in the unorganized indus
tries, which constitute the over
majority of the working
class of this country.
I'm the light of these conditions
we can say that our Party has been
developing a new Party line. 1t is
not my purpose to discuss this at