The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-16
BY p. FRANKFELD.

BY L, ERANht ELL
THE Party in the anthracite is beginning an
L intensive mobilization for the struggle
against counter revolutionary Lovestonelsm
and the Right danger generally. Those prole-
tartan Party members who supported Lovestone
during the fractional fight have done that IN
the belief that Lovestone followed the line OF
the Communist International. Lovestone sue
ceeded to misuse the revolutionary loyalty of
our proetarian membership in the anthracite
for his corrupt factional purposes. The fac
tional regime of Lovestone prevented the de-
velopment of real mass work and the estab-
Hshment of the roots of the Party in the mines
and factories in the anthracite.
The anthracite was simply nurtured along
for fractional reasons, and the real situation
was covered up. No real effort was ever made
to organize functioning mine or mill nuclei. No
real effort was ever made to put out regularly
appearing mine and mill papers Zone mine
paper was issued in New York;. A very small
section of the Party membership was drawn
into the mining campaign. There IS large
non-proletarian bloc. The result of all this
was, the Party did not grow, nor did it move
backwards. 1t simply continued to exist
The Party played little of an independent
role in the various struggles that have taken
place in the anthracite. All kinds of wrong
the U. M. W. A, which hindered the growth
of the left wing movement.
The New Party Line.
The change in line for the Party whole,
and for the anthracite as well, was accom-
nlished by the Address of the Comintern. 1t
is no accident at all, that the Address met with
such sharp resistance on the part of a strong
section of the local leadership, and on the part
of smaller section of the membership. Love-
stones ''motherly' protection of the anthracite
for years had borne its fruit. The anthracite,
relatively speaking, has given stronger support
for Lovestone's splitting line than any other
section of the Party.
In the anthracite, the Lovestone renegades
openly developed their splitting line at a much
faster pace than elsewhere They opened up
their own headquarters in Wilks-Barre.
In the units of the Party, the Lovestoneites
simply sabotaged all Party work. They car
ried on endless attacks on the Party, and the
Lovestonete supporters did not deem it neces-
sary to help the Party in any way. When
Vratarich to appeal" to the membership
of the Wilkes-Barre unit against the decision
of the Central Control Commission Bremen, a
Lovestone supporter charged the Party with
''being stool pigeons "of being composed of
1dheISs VI USlliS dSShto VI eilC uoeSCo' DISH-
men, of course, simply had his addresses mixed.
But the important thing to note is the open
renegacy of these elements. They use the
same arguments and SANDER that the A. F.
of L. takers, the SP'ites, and all the Party's
enemies use.
The Party in the anthracite sub-district held
a plenum on Nov. 10. All sub DEC members,
all functonaries, and the membership of
Wilkes Barre were invited to attend. All told,
there were SO comrades present. Even Bren-
men was permitted to attend. After the report
on the line of the Gee Plenum was given by
Comrade Benjamin, and the report on the sit
uation in the anthracite and the tasks of the
Party by the sub-district organizer; discussion
was opened for all comrades.
Bankruptcy of Lovestone.
The political bankruptcy Of the local Love-
stone group was displayed in full view of all
Party comrades and functionaries. They con-
tributed Interruptions, attempts to disrupt the
Plenum, ISLANDERS against the Comintern Qike
Stain Comintern, disintegration of the CT,
etc., that the Party was being wrecked"