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The Washington times., 1929-03-08
Hoover Quits Local
For National Red Cross

Judge John Barton Payne, chair7
man of the central committee OF
the Red Cross, was yesterday in
formed by President Hoover that
he accepted the presidency OF the
American National Red Cross.
At the same time Mr.. Hoover
sent a. letter of resignation as a
member OF the general committee
to which he had been elected De-
cember 13, 1922, by the board of
incorporators and upon which he
had since served.
The Washington times., 1929-03-08
Engineer Loses Finger
Caught i'm Machinery

Caught in a steam engine he was
working on today. the right index
finger OF Benjamin F. Brown Vas
cut off. The accident occurred at
the Hamilton Hotel, where Brown
is employed as an engineer.
He was taken to EN- Urgency Hos
pital and later returned to his home
in the $500 block Fifth st. N. w,
The Washington times., 1929-03-08
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The Washington times., 1929-03-08

Pianos both and used have been reduced price help
make this CHILDREN'S PIANO CLUB Many fine
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teacher of beginners your child of les
paid by Come and take advantage of this most
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the way in the musical education of your child
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06
LINE OF Gee FOR BoLsHEvIzATIoN.

and not strategy for the Communist
Party.
Let us examine some of the main
steps toward Bolshevization, toward
eradicating the menace of oppor-
tunism taken by the Party under its
present leadership. Merely to emu
merate, these are:
l. The reorganization of the
Party On the basis of shop and
street nuclei. The abolition of the
Federation system--a Party Of nine
teen language declarations, actually
nineteen Parties. The establishment
of centralized Party was an abso-
lutte prerequisite for a successful
fight against opportunism.
2. The theoretical level of our
Farty is still too low, but in the
course of the past three years con-
siderable Roadway has been made
by us in the theological advance Of
cur Party ranks.
3. The Party has been thrown
into mass work. Today more than
half our membership is in the trade
unions. In 1924 only about 80 per
cent was in the trade unions. Every
decision Of the Comintern has recog-
nized the great Roadway made in
mass work since the 1925 conven-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06
D. RIGHT ERRORS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
SINCE THE LAST PARTY CONVENTION.

Since the Fifth National Conven-
ton, the Party, under its present
leadership, has made number OF
serious Right errors. These errors
have been severely criticized by the
Sixth Congress of the Communist
International, which has emphasized
that they cannot be attributed to
the Majority leadership alone. But
being primarily responsible for the
Central Committee, no doubt the
burden of guilt for these Right err
gcrs rests on the shoulders OF the
present leadership.
The Panken mistake was Right
aistake. 1t grew out of a wrong
o11timation of the socialist party and
Is role. A similar mistake was
aade in Milwaukee. In the latter
Instance the error was condemned
and corrected by the Political Com
.aittee.
The open letter to the socialist
party was an example of Grass OPP
portunism. 1t is true, the initiative
in the sending of this open letter
came from Comrade Bittelman, the
theoretical leader of the Opposition.
But the Polbureau as whole must
be blamed for it.
The underestimation Of Negro
work is likewise a deviation to the
Right. White chauvinism has been
fought with energy by the Central
Committee, but there has not been
sufficient systematic theological
campaign against white chauvinism
and for the drawing in the entire
Party into the Negro work.
In our fight against the imperial
list war danger, we have made many
Right errors. The Central Commit
tee is to be condemned roundly for
permitting so full fledged an OPP
portunist, SO hopeless Right wing
err, as Comrade Gomez to be direct
ing this work for so long time
and to make such a great variety
of Right wing errors as typified by
the slogan "Stop the Flow of
Blood in Nicaragua" and the plea
of guilty in the Washington demon
stration of last Spring. The Party
as whole has not fought with
enough vigor against Yankee i'm
perialism in Latin America. The
slow response of the districts to the
Central Committees call for the in
classification of the activities against
the imperialist war danger, shows
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06

has diverted this movement from it!
proper course by turning the unite,
front committees into dues-payiaC
dual unions. This fake policy broll
our connections with other unions
in the industry. Reporting to the
C. E. C. on this united front due
union, Secretary tombstone of tbs
7. U. E. L. says:
:. Within the past two
weeks, two organizers have
been placed in the field to Or
ganize individual members, and
the whole united front program
has been completely forgotten
by our people. But while we
dropped the united front and cut
ourselves off from the unions
by organizing new rival
among the sixteen existing
unions, the conservative off
Gals took, up the united front
idea and are now forming COM
nittee of the United Textile
Workers, the Associated Silk
Workers, the Machinists' Union,
etc, while cur forces are being
frittered away in dual union
"The textile situation shows two
distinct weaknesses of the Ruthen-
berg G. e. c. in trade union work.
The first is its misunderstanding
Of the united front policy and how
to apply it. The second is that it
is not vet free from the ultra
Leftist dual unionism which dom
mated the revolutionary move
ment in the United States for 80
years. In many instances the
present c. E. G. displays this Sec
tartan dual union tendency"
We must register very clearly thu
fact that the painted canaries o.
our Opposition (as Comrade Kal
fides has very we'll said) are nov
singing a different song. We won
der whether it is only a change o
cage. We know it is a change o
paint. 1t is especially significant t.
note that the heaviest attack agains
the present c. E. c. as dual union
lists came at the time of it's frs
effort to organize a new union ant
over an event which later prove'
to be one of the best pages in tn
history of our Party, despite all it
shortcomings and errors-the heroi
organization and struggle of tn
Passaic textile, strikers. What j
more, the errors which were made il
Passaic were primarily of chnrac
ter against the line of the Contra
Committee, as criticized above b.
the Opposition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06

to what extent the Right danger is
a menace in our Party.
The slowness of the Central Com
mittee prior to the February Plen-
UNI, in ORIGINATING the Party to-
wards the organization of the I'M
organized as the central guiding
task in our trade union work, is
also a Right error. This grew out
of the fact that for a time, all Of
US underestimated the capacities
and vitality of our Party in the big
struggles.
These errors have been corrected
in the main, since the World Con-
gress. There are steps now being
taken to improve the Party's posi-
ton also in the anti-imperialist
work in order to complete the cor
rection of the above mentioned mis-
takes.
The Central Committee is cont
mitted unqualifiedly to the line CT
the Sixth World Congress of thc
Comintcrn and declares that the
main danger in the Comintern is
The Right danger. This is espec,a,-
Iy true for the United States where
Imperialism is still on the upgrade
and where, therefore, social reform
ism has a broad objective basis of
support. The role of the A. F. Of
L. and the socialist party in dis
se:ainating the poison of opportun-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06
HAS OUR PARTY GONE RIGHT OR LEFT.

work-to fight in an unprincipled
manner for capture of offices in the
trade unions. No one would today
think of proposing amalgamation as
the cure-all slogan. None of US to-
day confuses the labor aristocrucy
with the whole working class. To-
day the center of gravity in our in
dustrial work is amongst the unor-
ganized, the unskilled and semi
skilled, the decisive section of the
American proletariat. Compared with
our trade union work and policies
of today, our activities and policies
before the 9Th National Convention
were far to the Right.
In the campaign against the war
danger, our Party has moved con-
siderably to the Left. The slogan
of partial disarmament. which was
the red, or shall we say the yellow,
thread of our 1926 election pro-
grams has been very properly dis
carded and thrown on the junk
heap. The Party's anti-war pro-
gram is truly Bolshevist program.
It would be folly even to attempt
comparison between the 1928 cleo
ton campaign and that of 1924. In
1924 our election campaign was out
right opportunist. The election plat
form spoke even of workers con-
troll of production, one of the pillar
slogans of Brandler, Thalheimer &
Company. This was the program
which all of us followed in 1924.
The 1928 election platform is
Communist platform in the best
sense Of the word. In our 1928 cleo
ton campaign we committed num-
Der of errors, some Right and some
Left and some stupid. But in the
main it was Communist campaign.
Finally, regarding the Negro
question. Our policy, with the help
of the C. l., is Communist policy
in Negro work. No one in our Par
ty today would propose even for
consideration the 1924 Negro policy
Of our Party. Here we have gone
considerably to the Left. Here we
now have a correct Communist APP
proach and policy.
To Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06

It was only after the Fourth Ma
onal Convention that the Party be-
IN to follow consciously a line
yainst opportunism. against Lore
m, against Trotsky ism, against the
enace of Right wingism and for a
)licy of Bolshevization. In the
lrsuit of this policy, the present
adership made numerous errors,
me to the Right, some to the Left.
It is instructive to note that in
e various attacks against the pres
1T leadership by the Opposition
nee the Fourth Convention Of the
arty, the main line has been, until
ary recently, that the basis Of the
'eseat Central Executive Commit
e is ultra-Left, is Leftist in char
ter. 1t is only in recent months,
Moscow on the eve of the Sixth
ongress, that the Opposition has
anged its cry. For this there are
lecial reasons, which we will point
1T in the course of these articles.
hatever else one may say we can
, least agree that it is a fashion
lie Opposition, that it knows how
I speculate on a specific conjec-
re in the Communist Interna-
onal. Such tactics border on the
yeotage. This is the strategy of
e Bourse (the stock exchange)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06

In the course of the discussion.
some of the Opposition comrades
have repeatedly said; Eyes, the
Party used to make Left mistakes;
the Party was once to the Left.
Those were the days when Comrade
Ruthenberg was the leader. Ruth
enberg was Leftist. But now that
Ruthenberg is gone, the Party has
gone to the Right"
What are the facts? 1t is true
that the Opposition has always at
tackled Comrade Ruthenberg as a
Leftist. But this attack was not
leveled against Comrade Ruthenberg
as an individual but against his
policies. Comrade Ruthenberg was
the chief formulator and the driv-
ing force in the policies of the Par
ty. The attack of Leftist leveled
against Ruthenberg was an attack
on him not as an individual person,
but an attack on the policies of the
Party. If one were to examine or
merely to recite a fraction of the
attacks on the policies of Comrade
Ruthenberg, on the policies of the
Party in the days before the 1927
convention, he would find that we
were always accused of being the
Left and that the Opposition seemed
to be suffering congenitally from
opportunism, from Right wing in
clinations and tendencies.
Consequently, if one were to an
swer correctly the question, has the
Party gone to the Right or to the
Left since Comrade Ruthenberg's
death, he would have to examine
the policies of the Party since the
last Party convention. To do this
one must examine the policies of
the Party in the principal cam
paigns we have had.
What were the principal cam
paigns Of the Party since the 1927
convention? They were (D in trade
union work, (2) in the fight against
the imperialist war danger, (3) the
election campaign, (4) the Negro
work. Let us now proceed to ex-
anime the policies of the Party in
thece major campaigns and see
whether these policies are to the
Right or to the Left of the policies
which we pursued before the 9Th
National Convention in 1927.
In the trade union work, the Par
ty has moved considerably to the
Left. No one would today dare
propose the previous platform of
the Opposition for trade union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06
CAMPAIGNS AGAINST TROTSKYISM AND OTHER FORMS
OF THE RIGHT WING.

Central Committee has conducted a
vigorous fight against this leader
ship and it's outright opportunist
policies, despite the interference
and opposition of the Minority.
1t is the present leadership of the
Party that has destroyed politically
such notorious Right wingers as AS
keli, Sulkanen, Boman, Alanne,
Saari, Aine and Hyrske, in the face
of systematic resistance by the OPP
position whose leading supporters
amongst the Finnish comrades have
all been expelled as Right wingers
and Trotskyists) which was engaged
in a merciless struggle against the
Left forces in the Finnish fraction,
led by Puro and Heikkinen. There
are still dangerous remnants of
Right wingism in the Finnish Frac-
ton. The Central Committee is
pledged to extirpate these sources
of opportunism and to speed up the
further Bolshevisation of our Fin
nish Fraction.
IS. A real beginning Of Bolshe-
vik self-criticism has been made in
the Party. 1t is no longer a ques-
ton of mere admission of errors.
The Central Committee tries sys-
tematically to avoid the repetition
of errors thru an analysis of the
objective sources of the various
mistakes and thru taking the nee
essary steps to make impossible
their recurrence by means of, first
of all, resorting to the sharpest cri-
ticism of it's own errors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06

work Of The Party. The organiza-
ton of the unorganized is of vital
Importance in influencing the rev.
authorizing Of the organized labor
movement in this country and the
Party must take up this work en-
ergetically 80.
"The Majority (present OPPOSE
tion-J. ~ found it's greatest
strength in the support of the eX-
IRENE Right wing of our Party,
without which it could not have
gained the Majority in the Con-
vention."
"The Majority (present Oppo-
sition) maintains it's present re-
lationship with the Right wing in
the Party, without which it could
not be majority in the Party,
and it's policies are those of strug-
gle against the Left wing repre-
scented by the Minority group
(present Majority, the actions of
the Majority in the Convention
can only lead to a new and more
bitter struggle between it as the
leader Of the Right wing of the
Party and the Minority (present
Majority, the Left wing, which
has shown that it is able to for
mulate and follow a true Commu-
mist policy and lead the fight for
really Bolshevizing our Party. 1t
leaves to the Minority (present
Majority no other course than to
continue the struggle against per-
secution and determination and to
keep the Party on the line Of the
Communist International" (See
Fourth National Convention, pages
Ct to TOY.
This clearly establishes the fact
that the change in the Party leader
ship, which brought about a condi-
ton whereby the 1924-25 Central
Executive Committee is the Opposi-
ton and the 1924-25 Minority is the
Central Committee, grew out of the
struggle in the Party, in which
struggle the platform of the present
Central Committee was against OPP
portunism, against the Right wing
line of the present Opposition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06

7. The Party has within the last
three years, time and again, fought
against opportunism, instead of
tolerating or fostering it as it did
under the leadership of the present
Opposition. It is only the driving
force of the present Central Com
mittee, which yanked Lore and his
henchmen out of our Party, which
threw Salutsky into the gutter Of
the trade union bureaucracy.
The Central Committee has con-
Quoted a vigorous policy against
pessimism. For example, the Cen
trail Committee, despite opposition
from Cannon and members tf the
present Opposition, severely con-
demned Swabeck (once Chicago Dis
trict Organizer, now expelled as a
Trotskyist renegade) when he said
in his August, 1926, report to the
Political Committee:
"a pessimistic attitude has
seized the Party membership
generally a certain lack of faith
within the Party membership in
any leadership is the result
"As to the present time, when
our Party can no longer live and
feed upon the glory of the Rus
sian Revolution, we must recog-
nize more than ever that our main
task is to gain working class con-
tact and actually become part of
the lives and struggles of the
American working class"
1t is clear that already in 1926
there was the basis for Trotskyism
in the conception of Swabeck. To
him already then the proletarian VIC
tory in Russia had lost its revolu-
tionary Iustre and inspiration. To
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06

10. Finally, we must cite most
important decision made by our
Party in the labor party question.
We refer to the emphatic rejection
by the Central Committee of the fol-
lowing opportunist policy toward
the labor party question proposed
by Comrade Browder in his docu-
ment entitled "The New Orientation
of the American Labor Movement
and the Platform of Building
Mass Left Wing" The comrades
will recall that in the December,
1925, Plenum, Comrade Browder de-
veloped q theory" that there was
growing in the ranks of the trade
union bureaucracy a two-and-a-half
international tendency. In this now
historical" document, Comrade
Browder said as follows: 4l xa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06
By JAY LOVESTONE
(Continated)

The Menace of Opportunism in
3 Workers (COmmunist) Party
cause of the might of American
perialism, our Party has been
bject, for a number Of years, to
E menace of social reformism; has
len faced for some time with the
niger of opportunism, Of Right
ng policies. The committing of
ght errors in the Party by one
adership or by another cannot be
parated from these objective con-
lions. Of course, the amount of
litical experience of the comrades,
e extent of their theoretical devel-
iment, the years of connection
It'll the labor aristocracy and bu-
aucracy, these are also factors
nich make Party leadership more
less susceptible to the above
entioned conditions which lay the
jective basis for the development
Id growth of social reformism out
lie of our Party and its influence
| our Party.
The fight against opportunism,
:ainst Right wing policies, first
ystallized into definite shape in
II Party in the fight against the
esent Opposition, when the latter
as the majority. The leader of
is fight was Comrade Ruthenberg.
An examination of some Party
,cuments reveals this to be the I'M
allengable truth. Thus we wrote
the resolution of the Minority
present Majority on the report of
Central Executive Committee
resent Opposition) at the Fourth
ational Convention, August, 1925,
following:
"I'he C. E. c. Majority has ig--
lored the independent unions in
he trade union work. This was
DIRECTED by the decision Of the
orofintern in 1924, but the de-
.ision of the Profintern has not
)een carried out. The failure to
axe actual steps for the organiza-
ion of the unorganized has been
mother neglect Of the trade union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-06

owe must fight the Gompers
non-partisan policy on principle.
But where trade union non-par-
tisan political committees have
real mass support we must pene-
trate them and raise the slogan
For Labor Party If the trade
unions, either Individually or COM
hined together as local labor par
ties, affiliate with such petty
bourgeois organizations as the
progressive party and the various
state former-labor parties, we
should not split with them, but
shall continue our agitation with
in them for the labor party"
Note this cne-sided orientation--
this orientation exclusively on the
labor aristocracy. 1t is out of this
dangerously false orientation that
the Opposition developed the theory