The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-02

lea. There was no trade union dis
cussion at all, in spite Of the fact
that we were engaged in the build
ing of new unions in number OF
industries.
The disgraceful performances that
characterized the Party convention
was continued in Moscow, when the
delegation from the convention
came to appeal against the organ
national proposals. The position of
I Lovestone and Gitlow is known to
all members of the Party; their re-
fusal to accept the Address, their
threats to try to mobilize the Party
against the decisions of the Com
intern, their charge that the organ
national measures were not justi-
fled by the political line of the Open
Letter.
But a word must here be said in
regard to the attitude of Comrade
Wolfe who, in his speech before the
American Commission at Moscow,
implied that the Comintern was de-
waiting from the line of Lenin in its
attitude toward the American Party.
This is precisely the language used
by people who are on their way out
of the Comintern and Comrade
Wolfe will do well, to openly and
publicly repudiate his speech that
he, as the representative selected
by the majority of the Central Com
mittee to the Comintern, delivered
during the debates proceeding the
drafting of the Address.
What was the appeal of the dele
cation? 1t resolved itself to the
question of the immediate return of
Lovestone. The comrades who were
sent as delegates had been told that
the organizational proposals were
the result, not of the situation in the
American Party, but of the situation
in the Communist Party of the So
Wet Union. The rank and file dele
gates came to Moscow under the
illusion, carefully instilled by the
majority leadership, that it was not
the mistakes of the leadership in the
! United States, not the fractional line
they had been following, but the
situation in other parties that re-
suited in the organizational propos-
ais. These comrades were plainly
told that those who foster such IL
lusions thereby traduce and SANDER
the Comintern. Yet they insisted
that Lovestone, Gitlow and Wolfe
represented a "steeled" leadership
of the Party that had been tested
in the struggle. They INDUCED in
the anti-Leninist illusion that the
removal of one or more factional
leaders would wreck the Party.
Speaking before the members of the
American Commission, most of them
members of the Executive Commit
tee of the Communist International,
the delegation from America talked
about the tried and tested leadership
of the American Party. They didn't
seem to perceive the irony of the
situation. Certainly the paltry strug-
giles we have had thus far in the
American Party are not such as to
develop "steeled leadership" Such
talk must have sounded exceedingly
empty to the ears of the members
of the American Commission, all of
whom have participated in revolu-
lions and many of whom have led
revolutions.
Here it is necessary to dissipate
the fairy tale which is being assidi-
ously spread by the Opposition in
the American Party that the Sixth
World Congress had referred to
Lovestone- Gitlow- Wolfe as "stalwart
leadership" The thesis of the Sixth
Congress never referred to indivi-
duals. The actual statement made
in the theses was: ga number of
stubborn and fierce class battles
primarily the miners strike) found
in the Communist Party a stalwart
leader"
AS result Of the appeal and the
facts brought out regarding the Par
ty Convention the Comintern Ad-
dress was sent to our Party. 1t is
intended to give the Party such di-
rection as will enable it to overcome
the difficulties we have faced in the
past. 1t indicates the line. of self
criticism that should have been ini-
tiated at the Party Convention. It
is the imperative duty of every Par
ty member, especially the leading
comrades of the Party, to contribute
to this enlightenment campaign, so
that never again will any elements
of our Party be able to make even
pretense of fighting against the
line of the world party of the rev.
dictionary proletariat, the Commu-
mist International.
Only through Bolshevik self-cri-
ticism, only by Analysing every
weakness of our Party and correct
ing it, only by building Party
"hewn of one piece, one monolitic
whole" can we defeat the imperial
list power of the United States. Such
a revolutionary party can be achieved
only under the banner of the Conn
intern.