The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-25


factional loyalty upon the pedestal
of revolutionary virtue. The Party
needs an iron discipline; Lovestone
does everything in his power to I'M
dermine Party discipline and to re-
place it with factional discipline
The Party welcomed the CT. Ad-
dress as a formidable weapon
against factionalism; Lovestone de-
nounces the CT. Address because
it destroys his faction.
The Party recognizes how fast
and how far Lovestone has Travelled
toward the camp of the enemy since
our Sixth Party Convention. 1t I'M
hesitatingly expressed this recogni-
ton in the promptness with which it
accepted the expulsio:. of Lovestone
In the most proletaricn sections OF
our Party, like in Detroit, Pitts.
burgh, Cleveland, Chicago, there is
practical unanimity in support of
the expulsion. Boston, Philadelphia,
Minnesota, Kansas, promptly and
intellectually answered the def
ance of the CT. by Lovestone with
a determined support of the expul-
sion of Lovestone by the Central
Committee. The Young Communist
League met Ind fought practically
Unanimous Lovestone's splitting at
tempt in the League itself, and sup
ports Lovestone's expulsion. In
New York, where Lovestone after
his return established a headquar-
tiers for his splitting campaign, he
succeeded up to now to organize only
pitiful handful of followers. The
general direction of Lovestone's po-
litical views is characterized by the
very composition of his group of
followers. Three-fourths of them
are school teachers, pedagogues who
lack a proletarian class approach to
the problems of our Party. They are
understanding toward the working
class-expecting thankfulness on the
part of the workers. for the ser
vice" condescendingly rendered
them. But even with this congre-
cation at his disposal, Lovestone did
not succeed in getting more than
2 per cent of the votes in the meet
ings of the Party in New York, the
headquarters of the opposition.
The Party recognized this as a
necessary condition for its further
existence as revolutionary party,
and therefore accepted and immedi-
ately applied the Address. As a re-
suit the factions have been shat
tered; a collective leadership has
been established; factional groupings
have given way to the Party as the
only organization; the free contribu-
ton of political opinions and pro-
posals of all individual members of
the Party has replaced the two
Party system with its fixed fractional
plans, platforms, and proposals..
Lovestone refuses to accept this
new condition. He feels that he
can lead" only under tie old con-
ditions. His Communist" concep-
ton and Revolutionary loyalty" do
not fit into a Communist Party and
section of the Communist Interna-
htional. They only fit into a fac
ton in which he is not merely a
soldier or officer of the revolution.
airy army, but in which he is the
boss. This role fits his petty-bour.
geois individualism much better
than the role of a disciplined COM
rade. That is why he strives with
| all his might to bring back to the
Party the pre- Comintern Address
days Of factionalism.
In his appeal Lovestone tries tc
play as his trump card the financia,
difficulties Of the Party at the
present moment. In renegade fash.
ion he attempts to spread defeatisn
and to exploit the difficulties of the
Party for his splitting purposes. II
doing this he withholds from the
membership the information that the
financial difficulty is heritage from
his administration" The finances
of the Party were left by him in 6
most chaotic condition.
The suspension of the Daily Work
er for one day, caused by an unex
pected crisis growing out of Love
stones financing policy, is used by
him as an argument against the
Party, against the Party leadership
and against the CT. Address. II
reality it is the CT. Address which
has saved the Party from an other
wise inevitable financial catastrophe
and which has created conditions un
der which it may be possible for tn,
Party to straighten out the indie
scribable financial chaos inherited
from Lovestone. !.
Lovestone complains that "Wha
is demanded of us by the Address
is self-abuse," not self-criticism
! With this he tries to cover up hi,
; refusal to admit openly to the Part!
; the many indefensible actions on hi
, part. He found it perfectly in or
7 der to abuse and deceive the Part,