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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-14

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New Britain herald., 1929-01-11

HEROISM SAVES LIVES-Thc unselhsh
bravery of the nuns at ST. Malaehy's paro'
ohial school in Brooklyn, N. Y. saved the
lives Of all the pupils when the building was
destroyed by FIRE caused by an overheated
chimney, International New&reet
New Britain herald., 1929-01-11

THE CENTER OF THE STAGE-Banked with floral tributes
from his many admirers the late George L. Tex Richard lay
under the great roof of Madison Square Garden New
York Thousands passed pay tribute the pomotora genius
of the to whom the big sports monument
0nal Ncwxr
New Britain herald., 1929-01-11

GIANT AIR CRUISER-Ths great 20 passenger plane
few at Newark N J.. in successful Of its ability The
wings spread 70 feet and the fuselage is UNANIMOUSLY
equipped for modern travel international, Nevsrcc,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-01

before the Party has established an
anti-military department. Our work
along this line has been acknowl-
edged on numerous occasions, and
the vicious attacks and prosecutions
of the Party and League in Califor-
MIA in which the War Department
Joined with the state open-shoppers
is conclusive proof of work done on
this field.
Anti-Militarist Issue.
Yes, we have Right wing tenden-
cies and underestimation of the war
danger within District IS. We di-
rect the Gee Majority to the exam
pie of its leading supporters in the
Los Angeles sub-district committee,
Lubartofsky, who is a member OF
the Polcom and political leader of
the Lovestone group, who has strict
ly forbidden his son to carry out
League instructions pertaining to
anti-militarist work in spite of the
boys desire to comply. The SUBJ
district has had to censure Comrade
Lubartofsky and has forbidden him
to interfere with the anti-military
work of the League. In spite of the
action taken until this date the in
structions were not carried out.
q. The singing out of District ID
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-01
Los ANGELES P0lcom OPPOSITION on Party Discussion

ment by Comrade Lubartofsky as
follows: "The Jewish Section is
guided by the Jewish National Blu
reau and is not responsible to the
sub-district."
2. Appealing to the lower unit
the decisions of a higher unit as
seen from the resolution passed by
Nucleus 81 relative to the Jewish
conference.
3. Appealing the S-DEC decision
on matter pertaining to the jew
ish section thru a personal letter
to secretary of the Jewish Bureau,
Comrade Lipshitz. The Gee Ma
jority acted upon this personal
matter instead of instructing Com
rade Lubartofsky to make his ap-
peal thru the District Executive
Committee.
a. The action of the Gee Ma
jority taken, upon a caucus tele-
gram signed by Feinstein, Lubar-
tofsky, Karpiloff and Sussman re-
garding the suspension of Fem
stein. When forced by the SDC to
consider the opinion the SD and
the district on the appeal it did not
wait for receipt of some but sent a
telegram ordering the reinstatement
OF Feinstein. Further proof of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-01

as an example of failure in the
shop nucleus activities is an at
tempt to cover up the general weak
ness of the entire Party in this i'm
portant field. Chicago district, COM
'prising the most important indus
tries of the country, with Max Be-
dacht as district organizer, has an
insignificant number of poorly func-
tioning shop nuclei. District Is is
by no means satisfied with its shop
nuclei record and it is determined
to better it.
Wolfe Telegram.
S. The false accusation of Dis
trict Is in initiating the open let
ter to the California state socialist
party and its membership is a
glazing attempt to cover up gross
Right wing mistakes committed by
.Comrade Wolfe, National Agitprop
director and leading Gee Majority
figure, who has ordered District 10
to send an open letter challenging
the S. P. to debate with him. AS
the following telegram proves:
"AALL 80 SO MI Br Detroit Mich. 6
E. Levin October 6, 1928.
Workers Party
1912 Market Street
San Francisco.
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fornia units condemning the Right
error of Comrade Wolfe for in
structing District Is to issue this
open letter.
These are the true facts of the
matter. Instead, the Geo Majority
chooses to send letter to the units
containing Misrepresentation of the
true facts. The membership, by
this, receives a concrete example of
the strenuous attempts on the part
of the Gee Majority to cover up
the errors of one of its own lead
ing members.
In it's attitude towards District
10 the Gee Majority displays it's
Right wing character by openly en-
couraging and supporting an I'M
principled Minority of this district
which continually persis,; in deal
ing on organizational matters di-
rectly with the Gee over the heads
of the district. Encouraged by the
Majority the Opposition in the Los
Angeles sub-district openly displays
social democratic tendencies, par
ticularly in fraction work. Follow
ing are some examples.
Jewish Question.
l. In the Polcom minutes of
April 6 there is recorded state
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-01

Maurer speaks Frisco October
nineteen. Stop. Try arrange de-
bate between US nineteenth, TWEEN
tieth, afternoon twenty-first. Stop.
Subject WP SP which party for
worker or similar topic. Stop. Try
to arrange western radio hookup
for debate. Stop. Issue open let
ter challenging Maurer inviting
him speak our platform attacking
SP contrasting with WP and dis
tribute widely as printed circular
announcing my meeting also an
nounce challenge capitalist press.
Stop. Wire me care Devine Mime
apolis till October eleventh or care
Sorenson Seattle till October six
teenth what arrangement are made
arrange have stenographer take
Maurer's speech for my answer
later.
WOLFE"
The. issuing Of the open letter is
acknowledged by District 10 to be
a mistake as it is contrary to the
C. /. instructions. But the GEO
Majority conveniently covers up
this Right error of Comrade Wolfe,
who issued specific instructions to
this effect. District 10 demands
that the Geo send letter to Cali
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-01
For the C. E. C.

In the anthracite sub-district, the
coal miners voted unanimously for
the Central Committee. On the Iron
range the metal miners voted lot
to for the Central Committee. On
the Copper range 165 against 0 for
the Central Committee. In the Ohio
coal fields lis to 0 for the Central
Committee. In the soft coal fields
of western Pennsylvania and Illi-
nois, the vote was practically unani-
nous for the Central Committee.
The same holds true for the New
Bedford textile workers in our
Party. The Central Committee
secured a decisive majority amongst
the Party members in the rubber
centers, the packing house nuclei,
the railroad nuclei and the shop
nuclei in. the automobile factories.
~ The Party has taken serious
ly and responded theoretically to
the call of the 9Th World Congress
of the Comintern for proletariani-
cation of its ranks and leadership.
1t is already clear that about 1920
of those elected as delegates to the
National Convention are workers in
the factories, now at the bench, now
in the mill or mine. More than
that, at least 900 of the national
convention delegates are proletarian
in character. The newly elected
district executive committees are
on an equal plane of proletarian
composition. Let no comrade boast.
Let no comrade slow down in his
efforts to help proletarianize our
Party in a true Bolshevik sense. We
still have long way to go, but we
have made a substantial start. The
social composition of the national
convention and the various district
and section conventions, as well as
of the newly elected district COM
mittees, are proof of that. We are
sure that the incoming Central Com
mittee will likewise reflect trem-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-01

Gee Majority's factional treat
ment of this matter to the extent
of breaking organizational proce-
dure is glaringly exposed by the
telegram sent to Feinstein person
ally which reads as follows:
SO z J29 DL 2 EXTRA
lib New York N Y 1908 P.
Dec. 6, 1923.
Louis Feinstein
care Freiheit, 2429 Brooklyn Ave.
Gee made decision Immediately
reinstate you in Party with full
rights. Have wired district and sub
district to this effect. Notify me
Immediately whether decision is
carried out.
Gitlow, Organization Secretary.
Original copy on file of S-DEC.)
All the above enumerated facts
prove that the Majority of the Gee
is responsible for the Right wing
actions of its following in District
IS. The hunt for Right wing dam
ger in California leads the Gee Ma
jority into the camp of it's own
ranks.
We urge all the members (Party)
to fight against the Right wing dam
ger and all its manifestations.
We urge the Party toareject Trot-
skyism and defeat and liquidate the
Trotsky Opposition of Cannon.
We urge the membership to fol-
low and fight for the line of the
Communist International,
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Trotsky Opposition to the COMM
tern, and thus makes the Minority
the main danger in the Party. This
is tantamount to declaring the main
fight is against the Left, instead OF
against the Right as demanded by
the Communist International. By
this line, the Gee Majority lays the
basis for exterminating and expell'
ing the Minority from the Party.
This campaign against the Minority
is against the interests of the Party
and should be stopped.
Gee re California District.
The Right wing tendency Of the
Gee Majority is clearly demonstrat-
ed in it's policy and attitude to-
wards District Is insisting on al
legged Right wing errors of District
10. The Gee seeks to cover up its
own Right wing mistakes and there
by further confusing the fight
against the Right errors in the Par
ty.
The following are typical exam
pies:
/. The unfounded accusation
against the district in its election
campaign work while in reality Dis
trict 10 has conducted really Boil
shevik election campaign which en-
abled the Party candidates to re-
ceive over 5000 votes. The splen-
did manner in which the Los An
geles sub-district has continued it's
election campaign in the face of vi
cious Red-terror initiated by the
California open shop forces. In
spite of the raids upon the Party
headquarters and confiscation of
campaign and Party material and
Imprisonment of Party and League
sub-district organizers and over 10
Of the most active Party comrades
the Los Angeles sub-district has
kept the Party banner aloof. To
term the truly Bolshevik attitude a
retreat is a contemplate slur upon
the membership of L. A. and unbe-
coming a Communist leadership.
2. The manufactured examples
of white chauvinism in District 10.
The Gee Majority must turn else
where for apprehension of this evil.
District 10 at no time was guilty
of white chauvinism. District 10
openly challenges the Gee Majority
to produce facts to support this ac-
cusation.
3. The conscious twisting of
facts to suit fractional purposes in
the military work of the dis
trict. The true facts are that Dis
trict Is of the Party and League
have been in the forefront in this
field. California comrades have been
arrested for anti-military activities
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-01

ity to discharge it's duties towards
its class and the laboring masses.
To recognize a mistake openly, to
find out its causes, to analyze the
situation which occasioned it, to
examine carefully the means of
repairing it--this is the mark Of
serious party, that is what in
the case Of party is called ones
duty, educating the class and so
the masses" left wing Commun-
ism.)
Our Party accepts this yard-stick
of Lenin.
And Comrade Lenin even went
further when he said:
"They 1.-THE opponents of Marx
ism) are overjoyed at the sight of
our discussions: they will attempt
to exploit for their own ends GER
tain passages Of this book devoted
to the mistakes and shortcomings
of our Party. The Russian Marx
lists are already sufficiently steeled
in battle not to let themselves be
troubled by these pin pricks, to
continue their task of self-critic-
ism and of merciless exposure of
their own defects, which will in
evitably disappear as the working
class movement is strengthened"
(Lenin-One Step Forward, 1904.)
Hence let the Trotsky clique do
what it pleases about our open ad-
mission of errors. Our discussion
is primarily constructive. Let the
Volkszeitung, it's German mouth
piece, sneer. Let its ally, the cor
rupt, reactionary Jewish Daily For
ward attempt to capitalize our adj
mission of errors and the apparent,
momentary friction in our ranks.
The coming Party convention will
mark a period Of new strength, of
new activities and the beginning of
greater influence for our Party. The
coming Party convention will be a
milestone in the life of our Party,
which is completing its turning point
from a propaganda organization
binding together chiefly foreign i'm
migrant workers and having prac-
tically no influence among the ma
tive workers, into Party of polit-
ical action guiding all political and
economic actions of decisive sections
of the American proletariat the
great mass of semi-skilled and I'M
skilled workers.
Features of Present Discussion.
There are six main feature
characterizing the present Party dis
cussion. These are: (D The genu-
inc, keen interest of the membership
as a whole. Approximately seven
thousand Party members partici-
pated in voting in the units for con-
vention delegates. This is a high
proportion Of our understanding
membership. 1t is the highest pro-
portion acknowledgements absolutely
as we'll as relatively even than the
proportion of our membership which
participated in the 1924-25 Party
discussion. This is a sign of the
healthy development of our Party.
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(4) All our efforts to secure a
reputation of Trotskyism by the
Rittelman- CannoE-Lor c. E. C. Of
I924-25 were defeated. 1t was not
until the Party's representative to
the Comintern cabled instructions to
the C. E. c. during the Fifth World
Congress to repudiate Trotskyism
that the C. E. c., dominated by the
present Opposition, came out against
Trotskyism.
~ During this period the
Party's trade union work was based
solely OF the organized skilled work.
ers. Amalgamation was the sole
slogan. The viewpoint Of the pres
ent Opposition for labor party was
so limited and narrow in its con-
tents as to lead him to advocate the
organization of a labor party only
as means of securing the undoing
of Gompers. When the comrades
constituting a decisive section of the
present Majority of the c. E. c.
raised the issue of organizing the
unorganized, they were then de-
nounced by the present Opposition
as dual unionists and splitters.
co. Lore, now expelled as
renegade, was the real theological
leader of the present Opposition
when it was the Majority. An an
alysis of the Central Committee vot-
ing records of 1924-25 shows this to
be the case. This was proven to the
Comintern in 1925.
CD The Commission of the Fifth
Congress to handle the American
question instructed the present OPP
position, when it was the Majority,
to break with Lore and to unite with
the followers of Ruthenberg. Yet at
the st. Paul convention, June, 1924,
after this c. I. decision, the present
Opposition and it's followers Joined
hands with Lore for a united front
against the then Ruthenberg Min
GRITTY.
~ This American Commission
further declared that:
"The comrades gathered around
Comrades HATH. way and Cannon
have made a number of declara-
tions which show that in their eff
forts to secure influence on the
petty bourgeoisie, they failed to
maintain the Communist posi-
ton
(9) Then there was the rank OPP
portunist policy on the Negro ques-
ton: Notice the speech of Comrade
Dunno at the Third Profintern Con-
gress giving the official position of
the Party (1924) on the Negro ques-
ton:
"That the black workers are not
organized is not to be explained
by the race antagonsim, but by
the fact that the American work
ers in general are not organized.
In those branches of industry in
which Negroes work, they are ac-
cepted into the trade unions as
members on a basis of equality.
That is the case in the Miners
Union. That is the case in the
building trades. There are unions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-01
Our Payty,s Development and Growth

might be difficult to understand
how it comes about that Mr.. Cannon
and Comrade Wagenknecht, regard
less of what else they disagree over,
are agreed upon one point; namely,
that the present Party leadership
is a Right wing leadership and that
they, Cannon and Wagenknecht,
are Left, pure Communists. Really
for Cannon and those associated
with him in his Trotsky group and
for Wagenknecht and those associ-
ated with him in the Opposition to
call the present leadership a Right
wing leadership is enough to make
a horse laugh.
B. The Period of Right Wing
Orientation--from the 3rd to the
4th Convention. The present OPP
position came into fortunately short
lived leadership of the Party at the
December, 1923, convention through
an alliance with Ludwig Lore, editor
of the New York Volkszeitung, and
with the dominant leadership of the
Finnish Federation, most of whom
are now expelled from the Party
along with Lore as Right wingers
and Trotskyists. This period is
marked by a deep swing to the
Right in the policies of the Party
The Party was reeking with OPP
portunism. We will cite here mere
ly a few of the outstanding ex-
amples of the dangerous Right wing
path that the Party was pursuing
when the present Opposition con-
stituted the leadership.
| "a Endorsement of Labor bank
ing. Today we are unanimous In
denouncing labor banking as one
of the vilest manifestations of class
collaboration, as proof of the cor
ruption of the labor aristocracy
Hard as it might be for comrades
to believe, the Labor Herald, 1.-THE
predecessor of Labor Unity of
ficial organ of the Trade Union
Educational League, edited by
Foster, once editorially endorsed Ia
Dor banking.
(2) The convention which gave
birth to the Bittelman- Cannon-Lore
group as the leadership of the Party
1929 adopted resolution by a
majority vote asking the Comintern
to reconsider its instruction to our
Party to reorganize the Party on
the basis of shop nuclei.
(3) When this 1929 convention
was over Mr.. Lore proudly exclaimed
in the editorial columns of the
Volkszeitung that the victory of the
FOster-majority was a victory for
Trotskyism. All the efforts of the
comrades in the present Majority
then in the Minority on the G. E. c..
to secure reputation, by the then
Majority (present Opposition) and
their associates, of this proud boast
of Lore failed.
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~ The level of discussion was
the highest we have reached. Funda-
mental problems have been raised
and examined with a welcome earn
estness. This is true despite serious
shortcomings in various sections of
the Party, in certain districts.
(3) A strong, broad support for
the Central Committee. At least
80 percent of those participating in
the voting in the units cast their
support for the Central Committee
of the Party. The present Central
Committee has a far greater basis
of support than any of it's predeces-
sors. In fact the present Central
Committee has amongst the broad
est bases of support to be found for
Central Committees in the various
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-01

sections of the Comintern. This is
an index of the growth of the stabil-
ity of our Party. This phenomenon
is fortunately not limited to any
particular district or number of dis
tricts, but is noticeable throughout
the Party lin every district of the
Party.
(4) The backbone of the support
of the Central Committee is the
most proletarian section of our
Party. Here the proportion of the
membership supporting the C. E. c..
is even greater than in the country
as whole. The proletarian heart
of our Party is to be found in the
industrial triangle of Pittsburgh,
Cleveland and Detroit. The unit
votes here indicate the following:
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which include only highly skilled
workers and they do not accept
Negroes. When, however, in these
branches of industry Negroes ap-
pear in large numbers and COM
pete with the members of the
union, then they will be accepted
as members with equal rights.
If we are against dual unions IL
general, we cannot be for due.
Negro unions. Race prejudice
exists, it is true, but the best
means of struggle against it will
be the acceptance of white and
black workers in one organization
and not the mobilization of the
Negroes on one side of the bar
rier and the whites on the other.
We observe that work is already
being done on the inclusion of
the Negroes in the white unions.
And if Comrade Losovsky in spite
of that insists upon the organiza-
ton of separate Negro unions in
America, then we invite him to
come to America and try to &C.
cupy himself with this question
at least for a year. l am con-
WINGED that at the next Congress
he would demand the head of that
comrade who might propose such
a solution of the Negro question"
The policy on the Negro question
adopted by the present G. E. C. is
totally at variance with the above
policy. Nor has any
lost his head over dropping
the above Negro policy, advocated
by the Opposition when it was the
C. E. C. Today we are unanimously
against such opportunist policies.
(10) Perhaps the best political
characterization Of the present OPP
position was made by Comrade
Kussenin, chairman of the Ameri-
can Commission appointed at the
9Th Plenum of the Comintern, when
he said in discussing the dispute
over the Labor Party:
In the opinion of the American
Commission, the majority (today
the Opposition) bases its policy
in this respect (Labor Party) too
much on superficial and tempo
rary phenomena"
Though it is true that the co
rades of the Opposition have me- !
considerable political progress sil
this Characterization was made, Il /
the differences between the present
Opposition and the C. E. G. are to-
day smaller than at any previous
time, yet the above characterization
CT the Opposition given by Comrade
Kuusinen unfortunately still holds
true to a great extent. One can
cite numerous other instances show
ing the basically opportunist line
that our Party followed between
the 3rd and 4th National Convene
ticn. We have given above only
some of the most instructive, typical
and outstanding manifestations of
the Fright wing line followed by
our Party when the present Oppo-
sition was the Majority of the Gem
trail Committee. Oh i
Ito be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-01
Knit Goods Workers in
Mass Meeting Friday

AS part of the intensive organ
ization campaign that the Knit
Goods Local of the National Textile
Workers Union is carrying on in
New York City, a mass meeting of
all the knit goods workers of Har-
lem and the Bronx has been called
for tomorrow evening, Immediately
after work, at Proctor's Building,
liz f. 125th st. (Mt. Vernon Room,
second floor.