The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-26
Statement of Central Committee on Opposition
Continued from Page Three)

Parity itself shall take the initiative in Organizing the
II was not an accident that Foster and his forward the
taon from the A of L. and towards
precisely because the present leadership pointed out the limitations
of struggle within F. demanded an oentaton
the farmers but the unoganed millions
workers.
It only continuance of Comrade Fosters whole convention
in the past his failure Of the impast
eppch the split within the working his pre-
sent articles that the division unsed
n exact and that 1--WE shall acquece speaks
of overlapping struggle A. of and the TIE
appears at first glance though Comrade very
perry taking exception Btemanesque Opposition
mechanical sygstic reasoning by which Comrade
oen leads to conclusions of sterile closer examine
IGN shows that comrade Fosters words here something
that is another example disastrous errorhe
oporunist error of failing that the
aocracy and its alliance with the bougeose merging
M oghzatons OF social reformism and capitalism much
innate tendencies of imperialism classification impeast
Of L. land the unions of arsoacy A. F.
OF - that do this because policy upon the theory
Communism Of this in the A. F.
OF L. in spite of the fact that the A F. of today
organization OF the labor asoeray
OF winning over the unskied elements who still
A. r. OF L. and especially to destroy the influence
upon the millions of unsed unoganzed by exposing its
tacherous nature through the work of militant wing
struggle to win all sections of the working class including
skilled workers. the skilled labor aristocracy
can become the basis for struggle against capitalism
ontaton of the Party toward the
semskled workers in ndustryhe poeaa Therefore
Is entirely incorrect to conceive of the struggle F.
M L. as the old center and the T. u E. the
though this Overlapping struggle social
between two parallel organizations having contest base
upon the same social stratum Of the working class The
struggle win the of the working is not
q
having the same social basis but it is life and death
struggle between capitalism and the forces for the
capitalism 1t not only struggle masses
but also struggle for against the rule of the working
the bourgeoise
PARALLEL GROWTH OF REFoRMIsM AND COMMUNISM
Comrade Foster prove conception that the
that only direct agencies of the bougeo eliminating
union bureaucracy and the Socialist Party only unonsm
can serve to fool and subdue the working class
But that not enough Comrade Foster step
He still maintains the original theory of the entire Opposition (which
growth regrowth of the of l. would make the growth and
development OF unonsm impossible Comrade Foster
the February issue of the Communist:
with the extension of the unions unions would
have real base"
He writes
"The question of perspective becomes verv
Important because in is involved the question
OR NOT THERE is A REAL BASE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE NEW INDUSTRIAL UNION MOVEMENT. A clar
caon of is especially view of the develop
ment neipient theories notably in the writings speeches
of Comrades Pepper, Lovestone Wensone
egrowth of the old unions Thus the Sixth
MoNY OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM SERVES AS BASIS
FOR THE FURTHER GROWTH AMERICAN REFoRMIsM
and creates the possibilities for the fuher growth of the
can Federation of Labor :. -
In this incomplete quotation comrade gross
statement at the World Congress which
"on the other hand the CONTRADICTIONS ARISING FROM
CREATE POSSIBILITIES FOR THE GROWTH OF THE RADI
CALlzATIoN OF THE MASSES for the of the
mun mass movement want to emphasize it, is two-fod
the other side of it,"
Comrade Foster also fails the COM
rade he cczes but also the May Penum
put forward the analysis that the world hgmony
asm creates the base for the further persistence
that the contradictions of American possibility
for the growth of and
He fails of also mention that the Theses the Sixth
Congress the international situation
about the possibilities of growth refom Europe and America
REFORMISM IN THE EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LABOR
MOVEMENTS REVEALS SYMPTOMS OF yIRILITY AND
POLITICAL TENACITY The general social
of this fact the slow of development of the crisis
talm in the of which of the principal
prising the capitalist system the upgrade while
undergoing process of relatively slow decline"
Comrade Foster fails that process sterilization
economic basis social democracy
hand the contradictions of sterilization basis
of the Communist Party this
capitalism Therefore
parallel the Com
munists and the social reformiss
Tho rotori-s document of the
lehman group 1.-THE Right Danger Party the
platform of Toysm in the United against Party
the Comnten) charged the being Right
parallel growth of social refomism of strength
That unfortunate document of the Opposition
Sixth World Congress- but maintained after the
and there Overlapping struggle the
and the Biteman Opposition (as well Fosr for the
of this platform Now Bitteman the head of the Opposition
while not downng the platform nevertheless tries
divorce himself lin words only Of curse from the
last menonedbut Comrad Beman does not do politically