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Party of Germany was discussed.
I think that very speech represents
the theological foundation of the po-
sition the minority of the Presidium
of the E. C. G. I. took up at that
meeting. think therefore, that the
speech on the question of principles
that Comrade Humbert-Droz deliv-
cred at the meeting of the Politsec-
retariat of the E. C. C. I. must not
be ignored.
l said that Comrades Humbert-
Droz and Sierra have fallen into the
mire of pusillanimous opportunism
What does that mean? 1t means
that in addition to avowed opportun-
ism, there is also tacit opportunism,
which dares not display its real
features. That is precisely the OPP
portunism of Cancellation with the
Right deviation. Cancellation is pusil-
luminous opportunism. l repeat
that, to my regret, l must declare
that both these comrades have fall
len into the mire of pusillanimous
opportunism.
Permit me to demonstrate this by
few facts.
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TO REINSTATE STUDENTS.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 W.P).-
Reinstatement of four of the 10
men suspended from the University
of California at Los Angeles in con-
nection with the publication last
week Of "HelPs Bells" flippant
school publication, will be asked by
the student governing body today.
"Hell's Bells" ridiculed faculty rul-
ings, the athletic administration
an dleading individuals and organ
izations of the campus.
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8. The Problem of the Communist Party of Germany.

own press and which day in and day
cut violates Party discipline. Sec
ondly, there is the conciliatory
group, which, by its vacillations,
strengthens the Right faction.
There is no need for me to prove
here that the Right faction is break
ing with Leninism and is waging
desperate struggle against the Co.
mintern. That has been proved long
ago. Nor is there any need for me
to prove that the conciliatory group
violates the known decision of the
vi. Congress concerning the syste-
matte struggle against the concili-
ators. That has also been proved al
ready.
The situation in the German Party
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s. The Draft of the Open Letter.

Two words concerning the draft
resolutions submitted by the COM
missions of the E. C. C. I. Comrade
Sierra thinks that these draft reso-
lutions are provincial in character
Why? Because, it appears, the
draft of the Open Letter does not
contain an analysis of the political
situation that gave rise to the Right
danger. This is ridiculous, COM
rades. We have such an analysis in
the resolutions of the VI. Congress.
Is it necessary to repeat it? l
think there is no need for repeti-
ton. Properly speaking, we could
limit ourselves to a short resolution
on the Rights who Systematically
violate the decisions of the VI. Con-
gress, and who, therefore, are liable
to expulsion, and on the conciliators
who refrain from combating the
Rights and therefore deserve a SER
ious warning.
The reason we did not limit our
| selves to a short resolution is be-
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Comrades, in view of the fact that
'mrade Molotov has already ex-
aimed the point of view of the
legation of the Communist Party
the Soviet Union, | have only a
W remarks to make. l want to
lch lightly upon three points that
me out in the course of the debate.
lese points are-the problem of
pitalist sterilization; the problem
the proletarian class struggles
at arise in connection with the
ecariousness of sterilization; and
e problem of the Communist Party
Germany.
1t is with regret that l have to
y that on all these three questions
'mrades Humbert- Droz and Sierra
We fallen into the mire of pusil-
limous opportunism. 1t is true
at, so far Comrade Humbert Droz
spoken only on formal questions.
1T l have in mind the speech on
e question of principles he de-
cred at the meeting of the Polit-
Il Secretariat of the E. C. C. I.
which the question of the Rights
d conciliators in the Communist
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Droz and Sierra forget this thesis in
the resolution of the VI. Congress
of the Comintern. 1t is very strange
that all conciliators, those who re-
gard themselves as conciliators as
we'll as those who shun that name,
systematically forget this important
thesis in their reference to the reso-
luton of the VI. Congress of the
Communist international.
What are we to do if, instead of
a general Tightening up of iron dis
cipline in the German Party, we get
crying facts of deliberate violation
of discipline, by the Rights and part
ly also by some of the conciliators ?
Can such situation be tolerated any
longer?
What are we to do if, instead of
absolute subordination Of the minor
organizations, the trade union frac-
lions and the Party press to the
Central Committee, we get in the
Communist Party of Germany cry
ing facts of the gross violation of
this demand of the VI. Congress of
the Comintern by the Rights and
partly also by some of the concili-
ators? Can such a situation be toll
Grated any longer?
You know the conditions of &C
ceptance to the Comintern adopted
at the II. Congress. l have in mind
the 81 conditions. Point L in those
conditions lays it down that:
"the periodical and non-periodical
press and all Party publishing Of
fices must be completely subor-
dinated to the Central Committee
Of the Party, irrespective as to
whether the Party as a whole at
the time is legal or illegal"
You know that the Right faction
has two newspapers. You know
that these papers refuse absolutely
to submit to the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of Germany.
The question is: can such an outrage
be tolerated any longer?
Point II of the 81 conditions stipu-
lates that the Party must be cor
ganized in the most centralized
fashion," that iron discipline bor-
dering on military discipline must
prevail" You know that the Rights
in the German Party refuse to recog-
nize any kind of discipline, iron OF
any other, except their own fractional
discipline. The question is: can such
an outrage be tolerated any longer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-30
GRAIN DEALER TAKES STAND.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 20 W.H.
Walter L. Liggett, wealthy grain
dealer, who is on trial for the muir
der of Turney M. Cunningham last
October, is expected to be the next
to take the witness stand and reveal
details of his alleged Illicit affec-
ton for Cunningham's wife.
Earl Kiger, a private detective
who said he had been hired by Cum
ningham to trail Liggett and Mrs.
Cunningham, occupied the stand to-
day telling of his witnessing the
shooting of his employer by Liggett
in an alley at the rear of the Cum
bingham home.
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Hotskyites Forge Signatures to
Characterization Resolution

With the reputation from Com
rades Axel and Helen Hedlund, who
charge forgery against the Trotsky-
ties, it is expected the other sigma
tories who were not present will
show up at the district office with
the same complaints.
1t is confidently expected that the
DEC will Immediately reinstate the
comrades mentioned.
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JERSEY MAIL ROBBERY.

ELIZABETH, N. j., Jan. 20 W.D.
Assistant Prosecutor John ID.
Walsh in the trial here of the four
men charged with murder in con-
nection with the Elizabeth mail rob-
berry killings asked for and was
granted severance Of indictment as
to Canice Neary and William Fan
ming. and to try Benjamin Haas and
Frank Kiekart later.
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1. The Problem of Capitalist Sterilization.

into the opportunist conception Of
sterilization.
That is how the matter stands in
regard to the formal side of the
question. Let US now examine the
material aspect Of the question. If
present-day sterilization cannot be
described as precarious, decaying or
transient, what kind of a stabiliza-
ton is it then? The only thing that
can be said about it then is that it
is durable, or at all events, that it
is becoming more durable. But if
capitalist sterilization is becoming
more durable, what is the use of
talking about the crisis of world
capitalism becoming more acute and
profound? Obviously, this leaves
no room for the accentuation of the
capitalist crisis. 1t is not clear, that
Comrade Humbert-Dr has got him.
self entangled in his own contradic-
| tons
! To proceed, Lenin said that capt.
talist development under imperialism
is a two-sided process u the
growth of capitalism in some coun-
tries, and p the decay of capital
ism in other countries. Is this thesis
correct? If it is correct, then OBJ
viously capitalist sterilization can
be nothing else, but decaying stabili-
cation.
Finally, / want to say few words
about a number of facts that are
well-known to you all. For example,
the desperate struggle the imperial
list groups are carrying on among
themselves for markets and for
spheres for the export of capital.
There is the frantic growth of arma-
ments in the capitalist countries;
the establishment of new military
alliances and obvious preparations
for new imperialist wars. There is
the sharpening of the contradictions
between two gigantic imperialisms,
the U. S. A. and Great Britain, each
of which is seeking to draw all other
states into it's respective orbit.
! Finally, there is the very exis-
tence of the Soviet Union; its growth
and achievements in the spheres of
construction, economics, in culture
and politics. The very existence of
the Soviet Union, quite apart from
it's growth, skaters and undermines
the foundations of world capitalism.
How can Marxians, Leninists, Com
munists maintain, after this, that
capitalist sterilization is not a pre-
carious and decaying sterilization,
that it is not, year after year and
day after day being shattered by
the very process of development?
Do Comrade Humbert-Droz and
Sierra realize the mess they have got
into? The principal mistakes Com
rades Humbert-Droz and Sierra make
arise from this one mistake.
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Is the Communist Party of Ger
many to be or not to be an organized
and consolidated organization with
iron discipline-that is the question,
comrades? 1t is not merely a ques-
ton of Rights or conciliators that
is at stake, but the very existence
of the Communist Party of Germany.
The Communist Party of Germany
exists. But inside the Communist
Party of Germany there are two
forces which are disintegrating the
Party from within and are endanger-
ing it's very existence. First, there
is the Right faction, which is or
ganizing new anti-Leninist Party
within the Communist Party, with
it's own Central Committee and its
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JIlC llSIOIY VI bIC IbuoOlah LVNO1d-
tionary movement. 1t often hap
pened in Russia that the masses were
more revolutionary than some of
their Communist leaders. Every
Russian Bolshevik knows this per-
fectly well. This is exactly why
Lenin said that it was not only neces-
sary to teach the masses, but also
to learn from them. These facts
must not surprise us. We should
rather be surprised at the fact that
Comrade Humbert-D does not I'M
derstand these simple things that
occur in the sphere of Bolshevik re-
volutionary practice.
The same may be said of Com
rade Sierra. He does not approve of
the German Communists acting out
side the existing unions and of their
having broken down those limits in
the struggle to organize the locked
out metal workers. He regards this
as a violation of the resolution of
the w. Congress of the R. /. L. U.
He maintains that the R. I. L. U.
instructed the Communists to work
only within the unions. This is nom
sense, comrades! The r. l. l.. U.
has not suggested anything of the
sort.
(Lozovsky: Hear, hearty
To say this means to doom the
Communist Party to the role of a
mere passive spectator in the class
struggles of the proletariat. To
maintain this means to bury the
idea of the leading role of the Com
munist Party in the labor move
ment. 1t is the merit of the German
Communists that they refused to be
scared by the twaddle about "trade
union limits, that they broke thru
those limits and organized the strug-
gle of the unorganized against the
will of the trade union bureaucrats.
1t is the merit of the German Com
munists that they sought and found
new forms of struggle and of or
ganizing the unorganized workers.
Perhaps, in doing so they made
some minor mistakes.
But new things are never ac-
complished without mistakes. 1t
does not at all follow that because
we must work in the reformist
unions if they are really mass or
CARNATIONS, therefore we must con.
fine our mass work to work in the
reformist unions, that we must be-
come slaves to the rules and regula-
tons of those unions. If the reform
list leaders are merging with capital
ism (see the resolutions of the VI
Congress of the C. l. and the "
Congress of the r. l. L. w. and the
working class is waging a struggle
against capitalism, how can it be
maintained that the working class
struggle led by the Communist
Party can be carried on without, to
a certain extent, breaking through
the limits of the existing reform
list unions Obviously, it cannot be
maintained without dropping into
opportunism. We can quite easily
conceive of situation in which it
may be necessary to create parallel
mass working class unions against
the will of the trade union bureau
Gratis who have sold themselves to
the capitalists. We have such stu
alton in the United Sites. 1t is
quite possible for a similar situation
to arise in Germany.
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LovestOne to Write
Series of Articles on
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

In few days the Daily Worker
will publish on this page the first
! of a series of articles by Jay
! Lovestone. executive secretary
of the Workers (Conlmunist)
Party. or the issues before
! the Party in the pre-convention
] discussion, entitled, "The Devel-
cpn,ert and Growth of Our Party
and the Problems and Tasks Be-
fore U.s."
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the struggle of the working class,
its spontaneous clashes with the
capitalists, are in the main of de-
fensive character, that the leader
ship of the Communist Party in this
struggle must be exercized merely
within the limits of the existing
reformist unions. Is that conclu-
sion right? No, it is not.
To maintain this means to drag
at the tail of events. Comrade
Humbert-Droz forgets that the
struggle of the working class is
now proceeding on the basis of a
precarious sterilization, that the
working class struggles not infre-
quently are in the nature of coun-
/ ter-attacks; a counter-offensive to
the capitalist offensive and direct
offensive against the capitalists.
Comrade Humbert-D sees nothing
new in the recent struggles of the
working class. He ignores such
facts as the general strike in LODI;
the strikes for an improvement in
conditions of labor in France,
Czechoslovakia and Germany, the
powerful mobilization of the proleta-
rian forces during the metal work
ers' lockout in Germany, etc, etc.
What do these and similar facts
signify? They signify that in CAPT
talist countries, the conditions pre-
cedent to a fresh revival of the la
Dor movement are maturing. This
is the new element that Comrades
Humbert- Droz and Sierra fail to see,
and which, of course, comrades who
are in the habit of looking behind
instead of ahead, can never see.
What does looking behind instead of
ahead mean? 1t means dragging at
the tail of events; it means failing
to see the new elements in events
and being caught unawares. 1t
means that the Communist Parties
must abandon the leadership in the
labor movement.
This is exactly the point on which
the leaders of the German Party
came to grief in the revolutionary
period of 1928. Therefore, those who
do not wish to repeat the mistakes
of 1923, must stimulate the thoughts
of the Communists and call upon
them to advance; they must prepare
the masses for the impending bat
ties, must take all measures to pre-
vent the Communist Parties from
dragging at the tail of events and
the working class from being caught
unawares.
1t is very strange that Comrades
Humbert- Droz and Sierra forget
these things.
During the Ruhr struggles, the
German Communists asserted that
the unorganized workers were more
revolutionary than the organized
Humbert-Droz wakes indignant over
this, and declares that this is i'm
possible. That is queer! Why is it
impossible? There are about 1,000,-
900 workers in the Ruhr. Only
about 100000 of these are organized.
The unions are led by the bureau
cratic reformists who have COM
pletely merged with the capitalist
class.
1t is surprising that the unor-
gained workers proved more revo-
lutionary than the organized? Could
it be otherwise? | could relate to
you more surprising" facts from
8. The Problem of the Coz
Is the Communist Party of Ger
many to be or not to be an organized
and consolidated organization with
iron discipline-that is the question,
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The Comintern proceeds from the
sumption that present day capital
sterilization is a temporary,
ansient, precarious decaying sort
sterilization that will break up
ore and more as the capitalist
isis develops. This does not in
least contradict the generally
Town fact about the growth of
pitalist technique and rationaliza-
IN. Indeed, it is on the basis of
is very growth of capitalist tech
que and naturalization that the
ternal unsoundness and decay of
utilization is developing.
What did Humbert-Droz say in
5 speech at the Politsecretariat of
E. c. c. l.? He flatly denied that
utilization was precarious and
ansient. He bluntly stated in his
eech that 'the VI. World Congress
fact condemned the loose and
neral description of sterilization
:-decaying, shaky, etc., stabiliza-
,n." He bluntly declared that the
esis of the VI. Congress regarding
Third Period does not say a word
,out sterilization being precarious.
IN Comrade Humbert-Dro conten-
IN be regarded as correct? No it
mot; because the vi. Congress
the Comintern said the very OPP
site to what Comrade Humbert-
roz said in his speech. In the para
'aph on the Third Period, the vi.
ongress of the Comintern stated:
"This period ii. e., the third
eriod. J. s. will inevitably lead
through the further develop
lent of the contradictions of cap
talist stabilization-to capitalist
tabilization becoming still more
,recarious and to the severe
ntensification of the general crisis
# capitalism"
Did you hear that ?-"capitalist
utilization becoming more precari-
u.s." What does that mean? 1t
cans that sterilization is already
'ecarious and transient, that it will
come still more precarious as a
suit of the conditions prevailing
the Third Period. And Comrade
umbert-Droz has the effrontery to
ieer at everybody, including the
erman Party, who says that stabili-
ltion is a precarious and decaying
utilization, who says that the pres
1t struggle of the working class
ldermines and disintegrates capital
t sterilization. Who is Comrade
umbert-Droz sneering at? Obvi-
lsly he is sneering at the decisions
the vi. Congress.
1t follows therefore, that Comrade
umbert-Droz, while ostensibly de-
.nding the decisions of the vi. Con-
ress of the Comintern, is actually
wishing them, and is thus sliding
2. The Problem of the P
Comrade Humbert-Droz also goes
rong on the question of the char
,ter and significance of the class
- -
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cause we want to explain to the
workers the nature of the Right ten
dency, to expose to them the real
features of Brandler and Thalheim-
err, what they were in the past and
what they are now, to show to the
workers how long the Comintern
and the C. P. S. U. had spared them
in the hope that they would mend
their ways, to show how long they
have been tolerated in the ranks of
the Communists and why such peo-
pie can no longer be tolerated in
the ranks of the Comintern. That
is why the draft resolution is longer
than might have been at first ex-
pected.
Comrade Molotov has already
stated that the delegation of the
C. P. S. U. is fully and whole
heartedly in favor of these draft
resolutions. l can but repeat COM
rade Molotov's statement. I would
like to make only few minor
amendments.
(Comrade Stain reads the amend
ments and hands them to the Pre-
sidium.)
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talist countries. The conclusion to
be drawn from Comrade Humbert-
Droz' speech delivered at the meet
ing of the Politsecretariat is that
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ChristfH n socialism r. hut the holy
water with which the priest con-
socrates the heartburnings of the
ariStocrnt--lxRrl Marx Communist
Nanifestol
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Speech OF Couyade Stain at Meeting ECCL Pvsidium Dec 10

sheviks, which struggles took the
form of direct civil war against the
Mensheviks which lasted for several
years. Do not forget that in No
vember, 1917, we Bolsheviks over
threw the Mensheviks and S. RS as
the Left wing of the counter-revolu-
tionary imperialist bourgeoisie. That,
by the way, explains the strong ira
ditions of hostility to avowed oppor-
tunism in the C. P. S. u, traditions
that are not found in any other Com
lnunist Party in the world. 1t is
sufficient to recall the fact that the
Party workers in Moscow in a
period of not more than two months,
at one blow, as it were, straight
ened out the line of the Moscow
Committee; it is sufficient to recall
this to be able to understand how
strong the traditions of hostility to-
wards avowed opportunism are in
our Party. Can we say the same
of the German Party?
Probably you will agree with me
that, much as we may regret it,
we cannot say it. More than that,
we cannot deny that the Communist
Party Of Germany has not yet by
long way freed itself from its So
cial democratic traditions which fos-
ter the Right danger in the G P. G.
Or you will say perhaps that the
stipulations of the II. Congress OF
the Cominterh are not binding on
the Rights?
Comrades Humbert-D and Ser
ra cry out against alleged violation
of the decisions of the Communist
International. In the Rights we
have real land not alleged violators
of the fundamental principles OF
the Communist International. Why
do they remain silent? Is it not
because they, while ostensibly de.
Tending the decisions of the Comm.
tern, want to defend the Rights anc
to have these decisions revised?
The statement Comrade Serrs
made is particularly interesting. He
swears by his faith that he is
against the Rights, against the con
ciliators, etc. But what conclusions
does he draw from that? To fight
the Rights and the conciliators? Not
at all. He draws the extremely
strange conclusion that the Polit
bureau of the C. C. of the German
Party must be reorganized! Try
and think this out: the Politbureal
of the C. C. of the C. P. G. is wag,
ing a determined struggle against
the Right danger and the vacilla
tons of the conciliators; Comradt
Sierra is in favor of combating tht
Rights and the conciliators; there
fore, Comrade Sierra proposes thai
the Rights and the conciliators bt
not interfered with, that the strug
gle against the Rights and con.
ciliators be slackened and that the
composition of the Politbureau Of
the C. C. of the C. P. G. be changed
to suit the wishes of the concilia.