The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
Letter from COmrade Zelms
To the Central Committee:

10 IHe central committee.
Ny attention has been called to certain ru-
mors tending to connect me with the renegade
Lovestone and his associates in their anti-Com-
munist activities against the working class.
l denounce all such rumors and brand them
as malicious lies. | have no connections what
ever with these enemies of the Party; have
never attended any of their group meetings
or caucuses and have not rendered any support
to them.
l declare, that no renegade has any right or
reason to question my loyalty to the Party
have accepted Internationally all the c.. l. and
Party decisions, against which the srenegades
build their opposition and develop their own
counter-revolutionary theories. l have taken
my position with the Party not as matter of
Communist discipline only. AT this period
when the class struggle is sharpening on all
fronts, the enemies of the working class are
concentrating their forces more than ever. They
are preparing a new blood bath for the work
ers they attack the Soviet Union; they
strengthen their front by letting loose all the
bloody forces of reaction white terror and fas.
cism. This is being done in order to crush,
first of all the vanguard of the working class
the Communist Party and the growing revolu
tionary movement In this situation, it is clear
to any class-conscious worker, that the Party
Tended more than ever.
And it is also clear to everybody, that in this
situation, no better service to the enemies of
the working class can be done, and no worse
crime against the working class itself can be
committed than by fighting the Party and the
C. 1.-The only revolutionary leader of the
toling masses.
The Lovestone renegades are guilty of that
crime and the working class shall pass judg-
ment upon them. No Communist can take any
other position. but unquestionably line up with
the C. /. and the Party in its fight against the
renegades. l have taken that position.
ROBERT ZELMs.
The Daily Worker gladly publishes Com
rade Zelms' declaration which successfully dis
poses of the malicious efforts of the counter
revolutionary Lovestone group in this case, to
demoralize weaker members of the Party with
insinuation Comrade Zelms has here sharply
and correctly characterized the yellow gang of
renegades.
This is the time in which our Party is at
last developing for the first time the beginning
of genuine Bolshevik self-criticism Comrades
are learning the stern revolutionary duty Of
analyzing and condemning their own mistakes
and failures to live up to their duties to the
Party and to the working class. Such letters
rs that of Comrsde Ahtonov of Detroit (pub-
;zhed a few days ago), which, with merciess
proletarian honesty pointed out the injury done
to the Party by the faction to which he himself
belonged, and that of Comrade f.. Smith OF
New York which criticised his own past errors
and renowned even the most intimate personal
ties when he said that these conflict with his
duty to the Party, are evidence of new growth
of Bolshevik vitality in our Party. Comrade
Zelms could contribute greatly to the develop
ment of this healthy trend by himself analyz-
ing and condemning his earlier course when he
failed to give the unqualified and vigorous sup
port to the fight of the Party against the
opportunist renegades which he now gives in
this letter With such a contribution Comrade
Zelms could aid the efforts of the Party to
show that corciliatory attitude toward the
opportunist renepades constitutes the greatest
danger-EDITOR, DAILY WORKER.