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Especial to the Daily WorkeT)
GLASGOW, Scotland (By MaiD.
Despite the fact that II workers
we're arrested when Arthur Hender-
son, labor M. p, tried to hold
meeting for the labor party in Shet-
tleston, he suffered an inglorious de-
feat at the hands of the Commu-
nists, when he was jeered out of the
hall.
Among the workers arrested were
Guy Aldred, a well-known Glasgow
Communist; four women and blind
man. They were taken in BLACK
Marias" to the police station, but
were later released after their
names and addresses were con-
| firmed.
"Spy, Murderer"
| Even before the meeting started
large group of workers in the
center of the hall began to sing
Communist songs. As soon as Hen.
derson appeared on the platform, to-
gether with Wheatly, labor M. P
from that constituency, and Davit
kirkwood, official of the local labor
party, there was roar of derisiol
from the body OF the hall.
4 Shouts Of spy" murderer ant
l"lraitor" were hurled at the plak
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SCOT WORKERS HOWL
OUT, GUST HENDERSON

form, referring to Henderson's no
torious career in the coalition war
ministry, his responsibility for a
strict espionage system among the
unions, his part in the murder OF
James Connolly, Irish revolutionary,
and his present sell-out to the CAPT.
talists and campaign against the
Communists.
Kirkwood, enraged at the recep-
ton, took off his spectacles and
rolled up his sleeves and jumped
from the platform, but woman
worker effectively stopped him.
Police Called.
The labor officials then called for
the police and they walked straight
to where Guy Aldred was sitting and
arrested him. Workers came to the
rescue of Aldred and general
scuffle ensued. Seventeen workers
were finally arrested and taker
from the hall.
The workers then began to sing
the "International" and stopped only
when more police, sent for by thu
reformists, appeared. Then the.
hooted and jeered and cries of "Wh'
murdered Jim Connolly" ran,
through the hall. The meeting wa
finally broken up. The same treat
ment has met Henderson in all hi
public meetings in The district.
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posite and more representative ma
iority-a Central Committee which
will have even more support in the
Party than the present one has.
In the light of the brief historical
review of our Party's development
and growth, from the angle of the
Comintern's consistent line towards
the American Party, its problems,
it's tasks, its errors, its shortcom-
ings, and its leadership, one can
clearly see that our Party is today
more prepared than hitherto to car
Nv out successfully two of the main
tasks before us; one, the fight
against the Right danger; two, the
liquidation of factionalism and the
abolition of all factions and groups.
The unification of the Party is
near completion. The Party will
develop with greater speed towards
a mass Communist Party.
Since the 1927 convention, our
Party has acted ever more fire.
quently as the theological leader of
basic sections of the American pro-
letariat and has increased its influ-
ence among the native workers. We
have had real achievements in the
furriers and garment workers'
strike, Passaic, in the miners strug-
gle, the struggle in Colorado, the
textile workers strikes in New Bed
ford, Fall River and Paterson. This
: is only a partial list of the battles
in which our Party has ''for the first
time appeared in the role Of Party
of political action, capable of linking
, up the economic struggles of the
: proletariat and its political aims. "
t We may add that "the struggle
e for the organization of new unions
= which the Party had to carry on I'M
e der circumstances of raging terror
!, on the part of the avaricious bosses
f of the powerful trusts, and the Amer
), lean Federation of Labor, is one OF
e the best pages in the history of the
j work of the Party during the last
+ year"
: But we must emphasize, however
n that "the Party is now making only
e its first steps in the new path. 1
o is now only in the turning poin
n between the old and the new. l
o has not yet passed the turning
e point"
. With united ranks and under tn
: leadership of the Communist Inter
national, in spirit of true Bolshe
+ vik self-criticism, we will speed u
: our progress towards becoming tn
e decisive political force in the coun
: try, the Party of the victorlou
~ American proletariat. .....
H. THE End)
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Era" perspective Of American i'm
perialism. This denies, even more
crassly, the fact that the world hege-
mony of American capitalism means
its ever-increasing subsection to the
shaky, precarious, decaying stabili-
cation of world capitalism in the
present period. 1t again exempts
American capitalism from the gen
eral crisis of world capitalism,
which is bound to become ever
deeper. Consequently the Majority
is unable to see that, because of the
sharpening of the inner and outer
contradictions, American capitalism
is ever less able to ''bribe large sec
tons" of the workers, and that the
labor aristocracy is constantly mar
rowing its basis.
The Majority's main thesis ant
emphasis is, the growing power o:
American imperialism and the broad
ening material base of the labo
aristocracy. Only in passing, from
the corner Of the eye, do they con
descend to notice the increasing
contradictions of capitalism and tn
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The Central Committee, the Party
as a whole, the overwhelming ma
iority of the membership, have taken
the decisions of the Sixth World
Congress of the Communist lnterna-
tional in earnest. The fight against
the Right danger has been trans
formed by the Central Committee
from struggle against Right errors
here and there to a systematic ener-
getic theological and organizational
campaign against the Right danger
as the main danger in our Party
Already the Central Committee has
practically speaking, eradicated the
occurrence of wrong policies, Of op'
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rehabilitation process among the
masses. AS a sort of Concession
to the Minority, they are willing to
admit that:
eat the same time, the growing
contradictions of American capt.
talism are inevitably stirring up
mass discomfort and creating
rehabilitation among the ranks of
the unskilled masses"
In short, the main picture OF
American capitalism shows growth,
increasing strength, and a widening
base of bribed, well-to-do, and salts
fled workers, with here and there
few "spotty" shadows. principally
the "sick" industries, creating local
and partial rehabilitation of unskil-
led workers. From this follows the
perspective of the Majority that the
main base of our trade union worl
continues in the A. F. of L.
Consistent with this conception
and in line with the general orienta
ton of the Majority, its editoria
reply to Comrade Foster fails t.
mention by one single word, the re
volutionary trade union center, tn
key to the whole future development
of class struggle trade unionisn
This exposes once more the purel
formal nature of its acceptance
, the r. I. l.. U. line.
In common with Comrade Foste
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{ the Fifth Plenum of the Com
list International the American
ktion received considerable no
In estimating the differences
veen the present Majority and
present Opposition, the Comm
Plenum Commission on the
erican question declared:
The Minority of the Central
.ecutive Committee (present
tjority) of the Workers Party
$ right in having confidence in
vitality and future of the La
: Party movement. The Workers
rty must now do its utmost to
rther this movement"
md Comrade Kuusinen, chairman
The Commission, declared as fol-
s.:
"In the opinion of the American
pmmission, the Majority (pres-
t Opposition) based its policy
this respect (labor party) too
UGH on superficial, temporary,
enomena. The Minority (pres-
t Majority is absolutely right
its confidence in the vitality OF
e labor party movement"
The Resolution on the American
sstion, adopted by the Fifth Plen'
further made the following dec
alton relative to Lore, who a
1t time was member of the Cen
i Committee, member of the Ma
ity group of the Central Commit
I, (present Opposition):
"Lore represents a non-Commu-
ist tendency of the Workers
arty. Already the decision of the
,CCI of May, 1924, pointed out
nat Lore's theology was the ideo-
ogy of the second and half in
irrational. Lore supported Levi
gainst the Comintern. He
ought against the necessary CEN
ralism Of the Party in the name
Il the autonomy of the German
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tainly does not look like lack of con-
fidence.
And at the Seventh Plenum, at
the close of 1926, the Communist
International estimated the Party's
work under the leadership of the
Central Committee, in the following
way:
"In spite of enormous difficult
ties, the Workers (Communist)
Party has achieved considerable
successes in the sphere of mass
work. It has led number of
strikes, has made serious attempts
to organize the unorganized, has
penetrated into the miners union.
1t must also be placed on record
that the Party has undergone an
internal consolidation as result
of the considerable diminution OF
fractional STRUGGLES. These create
the promise for the further growth
of the influence of the Party
among the masses"
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Our Payty,s Development and Growth

paign against the execution of
Sacco and Vanzetti was also con-
Quoted under the leadership of the
Party, within which is observed
a weakening of the long-standing
fractional struggle. While record
ing successes, however, reference
must be made to a number OF
light mistakes committed in re-
gard to the socialist party, to the
fact that the Party has not with
sufficient energy conducted work
in the organization of the uf,9r-
yanjzed and for the organization
Ct the Negro movement, and that
it does not conduct sufficieHtiy
strong struggle against the preda
tory policy of the United States
in Latin America. These mistakes,
however, cannot be ascribed to the
majority leadership alone.
"On the question of organizing
Labor Party, the Congress re-
solves: That the Party concen-
trates on the work in the trade
unions, on organizing the morgan
lied, etc, and in this way lay the
basis for the practical realization
of the slogan of broad Labor
Party organized from below.
"The most important task thai
confronts the Party is to put al
end to the factional strife which
is not based ON any serious differ
ences on principles and at The
same time to increase the recruit
ing of workers into the Party ant
to lend a decided impetus in TIT
direction of promoting workers t.
leading posts in the Party"
All other decisions of the Conf
tern subsequent to the Sixth Go
gress, have been made on the ba;
of the line of the Sixth World Co
gress towards the American Part
which line is the basic, guiding poi
of the Comintern policy towards
American section.
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class. There it appears in the
garb Of class collaboration, the
higher strategy of labor LaFol-
letism,' petty-bourgeois socialism
and reformism, pacifism, etc. The
labor bureaucracy, the socialist
party f.. are attempting to break
the developing resistance of the
masses to capitalist rationaliza-
ton and war preparations.
"Hence the Party :. must con-
centrate its main attack upon ex-
posing and defeating reformisT
and pacifism amorg TIE working
masses
Referring specifically to these
questions, Comrade Bittelman wrote
on Jan. 6 Tin article No. 8 in the
series entitled lessons of the Party
Discussion"): ITO be printed in the
Daily Worker in a few days.--Ed.l
"Another error, which the Party
may easily slip into, is to assume
that the A. r. of L. is already
going out Of business because Of
its evident transformation into an
instrument of imperialism, mill
tarism and naturalization. The
| A. r. of L. is not going oat Of
business. It is going even deeper
and more openly into the bust
ness Of serving as social-reform-
list and social-imperialist agency
of capital to break the develop
ing rehabilitation Of the masses
and to drive them to war. As the
struggle becomes sharper, the
capitalists are progressively maxi
ing more use Of the A. F. Of l..
for the inperialist and anti
working offensive.
"From this point Of view, such
expressions as the crisis Of the
A. F. of L., the decline of the A.
F. of L., etc, are open to crit
icisn.
"The social-reformist and So
cial-imperialist apparatus Of the
A. F. of l.. is neither in crisis nor
in decline. 1t is adjusting itself
continually to function more eff
fectively as an agent of imperial
ism and militarism among the
working masses. The question OF
whether the A. F. Of L. will grow
o. decline in membership and in
fluence, and how fast the new
unions will grow will be decided
in the very heat of the struggle,
in the head-on collision between
Communism and reformism, be-
tween the r. l. L. U. and Amster-
dam, in the coming period in the
U. S."
Precisely at the moment wht
Comrade Foster sees the A. F.
L. declining as a center Of soci
reformism, there are arising tv
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The elimination of factionalism,
the ending of the faction struggle,
for which there is no serious basis
in principle today, has also made
considerable Roadway since the
World Congress. Notice the over
whelming support the Central Com
mittee has in the membership. Even
if the Opposition should decide, as
there are some signs of some OF its
followers doing, to continue on its
part fractional struggle after the con-
vention, to flaunt the convention de-
cisions, to violate the decision of the
World Congress to the effect that
the Minority must absolutely sub
ordinate itself to the Majority, 1t
will find its factional hands
paralyzed.
The Party, particularly after the
convention, will not brook the
slightest fractional act on the part
of anyone in our ranks. The con-
vention will deal a death-blow to
factionalism. Those of the Oppose
ton comrades, particularly some OF
those enumerated by Comrade
Browder in his article of January
29th, as the nucleus of the Amer
lean Party leadership" had better
now indelibly imprint upon THEN
minds that the National Convention
will speak in decisive terms agains'
factional manipulations, factiona
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES or over
ground. The incoming Central Exc
cutive Committee will be guided b.
the decisions of the convention.
This is the determination of tn
Communist International. We mus
/ put an end to factionalism. We mus
l. liouidate all the groupings in tn
is Party. We must abolish the fac
l. tions. In the closing remarks OF tn
Y, writer at the last Party Plenun
it there was made to the comrades Q
s the Opposition, a genuine, sincer'
offer for unity. This offer has sine
then been repeated by the Politics
Committee several times. This offe
is repeated herein. We do not II
st vite the comrades of the Opposite
lie to Join the Majority. We do invit
he the comrades of the Opposition VIII
is are ready to accept the Cominter
lie decisions without reservations, VIII
in are not waiting for changes in tt
t. line of the Comintern SIX month
from now OF three months from tx
IN day, who are not basing their pol
is cies for the United States on d
st visions within the ranks of the lea'
TT ership of any other section of tt
T. Comintern, or in the Executive Con
e. mittee of the Comintern itself,
Id Join with US, to help create ne
majority in the Party-a more COZ
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By JAY LOVESTONE
(Continued)

Federation. The theological strug-
gle against Lore's tendency is es-
sential for the Party. The ECCl
proposes to the Workers Party to
come to definite decision on the
Lore question at its next Con-
gress. In any case, the Executive
is of the opinion that the Central
Committee of the Party is not the
place for such an opportunist as
Lore"
In this light, it is very important
to note that on December a, 1924,
Fable Burman, executive secretary
of the Finnish Federation at that
time. transmitted a long TRADE to
all Finnish branches against the
then Minority (present Majority
and in behalf Of the then Majority
(present Opposition reading in
,, part:
"The Central Committee Major
ity (present Opposition) is COM
posed of Comrades Foster, Can
non. Abern and the undersigned.
Comrade Lore has been Of slight
ly different opinion but has nearly
without exception voted with the
Majority (present Opposition)."
The comrades might say: what is
the use of going into all this history
of the Party? First of all, it is
time that we did examine the his
tory of the Party little. Secondly
as has already been emphasized, the
Comintern decisions, the Comintern
attitude, the Comintern line and res
olutions on the American question
are no accidents. You cannot separ,
ate the Comintern's decision of one
year from that of the previous year
Nor of the previous year from thu
one preceding it. There is decisive
continuity in the Comintern policies
and attitudes. This continuity il
clearly noticeable in the Cominteri
line towards the American Party.
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And in the decision on the Amer
an Party question and the present
arty leadership, made at the Sixth
lenum of the Comintern, in March,
b26, we find the following:
"The Enlarged Executive calls
'or all members of the Party to
support the Central Executive
Committee, which in the short
lime of its existence, has already
succeeded in achieving substantial
successes in the unification of the
Party. The Central Executive
Committee has centralized, thru
energetic Party reorganization,
the Party, which up to recently,
was divided into eighteen langu-
age sections. The Party press also
shows decided theological improve
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ROM THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH PLENUMS OF The
ECCI.

ment. The Enlarged Executive
finds correct the basic line on the
trade union resolution adopted
unanimously by both. tendencies at
the last Convention of the Work
ers (Communist) Party. The En-
larged Plenum of the Executive
Committee of the Comintern de-
clares that the complete and un-
conditional abandonment of the
fractional struggle is demand OF
the Comintern and that everyone
who violates this demand must
reckon on the most serious con-
sequences for himself"
This estimate by the Cominter
of the present Central Commute
only a few months after it assume
the leadership of the Party, Gel
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The implications of the above
statement shows that Comrade Fos-
ter adopts line which in effect de-
MES: az that the A. F. of L., based
upon the corrupt aristocracy, is the
bulwark of social-reformism and So
cial-imperialism III the U. S.; W
that it's role in the class struggle,
therefore, the same as social-re-
formism throughout the world, is to
serve as the bulwark against the
working class revolution; (3) that
this role is emphasized, and takes on
dominating Importance, with the
sharpening of the class struggle and
the development of revolutionary
crisis: (4) that the question OF the
growth or decline of the A. f. OF
l.. will be decided in the course of
struggle between reformism and
Communism for the majority of the
American working class.
From this wrong line Comrade
Foster proceeds to the following
, basically wrong conclusion as to the
role of the A. F. of L.:
1.-THE main reliance Of the en-
ployers for propagating reform
list illusions among the workers
is not SO much the A. F. of l.. and
the S. p. as their own engineer
economist-company-union aopa-
ratus; in this period, although the
A. F. of L. and the S. P. are in de-
cline. the propagation of reform
list Illusions is on the increase"
This means that our principal
struggle against social-reformism is
not the struggle against the A. +
of L. bureaucracy. This means that
the A. F. of L., having no function
in the class struggle (neither as or.
gan of struggle of the workers, mol
as bulwark of social-reformism) il
doomed to decline and disappear
This means 10 open the way fol-
such slogans as "Liquidate the A
Il. of L. "the A. F. of l.. is dead,
etc.
The above line Of Comrade Foste,
represents a complete break will
the line of the Minority theses
which say on these points:
"In all our trade union work
we must especially expose the
militaristic and imperialistic role
of the treacherous labor agents Of
American capitalism.
"The reactionary trade union
bureaucracy Green, Woll, Lewis,
. etc.) has assumed full charge of
the political leadership of the cor
rupt aristocracy of labor. .
The reactionary trade union bu-
reaucracy and the trade union
machinery controlled by them are
becoming ever more organic parts
of the capitalist industrial and
, politica. machine, that is, organs
, Of capitalist naturalization and
war preparations. =.
/ Through the petty-bourgeois
: and labor agents Of big capital the
/. poisonous bourgeois reformism
find: It's way into the working
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amid an atmosphere o. grow /
ing deep depression developing TO-
wards crisis and more acuSa and
aggressive policy on the part OF
American imperialism at home and
abroad, the Workers Party, which
has already played leading role
in the struggles and was able also
to take prominent part in the min
ers' struggle in Colorado, has now
as it's major task to mobilize and
organize the workers under its
banner against the capitalist Of
fensive and against the reformist
supporters of capitalism, namely,
the American Federation of La
Dor and the socialist party of
America"
Obviously, while our Opposition
has no confidence in the Central
Committee, the Comintern, though
criticizing the errors and shortcom-
ings of the Central Committee and
giving it correct political guidance,
has continually expressed confidence
in the main line of the Party as
formulated and applied by the pres
emit leadership.
And in the Theses on 1.-The In
ternational Situation and the Tasks
Of the Communist International,
presented to the Sixth World Con-
eress on behalf of the Russian Dele
CATION, we find the following char
acterization of the American Party;
"The Workers Communist
Party of American has displayed
more lively activity and has taken
advantage Of symptoms OF crisis
in American industry, the growth
of unemployment (due to the e1-
tremely rapid rise in the organic
composition of capital and in the
technique of production). A num-
Der of stubborn and fierce class
battles primarily the miners
strike) found in the Communist
Party a stalwart leader. The CAM
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"The Presidium recognizes that
despite great objective Difficult
ties the Party has recently made
important progress in many fields
of activities.
"In the trade union field the
Party has achieved quite number
of successes, expressed in the IN
creasing influence of the Left
wing in important unions (nnin-
ers' union and needle trades) and
initiated and led big strikes. The
increasing influence of the Party
has called forth an offensive OF
the corrupt trade union bureau
cracy. as a result of which there
are made far reaching demands on
the tactical adroitness of the lead
ership in the Communist Party"
This resolution was followed by
supplementary decision OF the
Presidium of the Executive Commit
tee of the Communist international
adopted July Z, 1927:
1.-THE Comintern is categorically
against the sharpening of the fac
tional struggle and under no cir
cumstances supports the statement
of the National Committee OF
the Opposition Bloc The COMM
tern recognizes that in many po-
litical questions the Ruthenberg
group followed more correct line