The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-08

tees representative on the danger
Gus Right line manifested by the
Opposition, firstly in its underesti-
nation of the poisonous influence
of the social reformist and outright
bourgeois theology on the working
class on our Party; and secondly,
in its underestimation of the War
Danger as a result of its analysis
based on the separability of inner
and outer contradictions and the err
roneous conclusion of the primacy
of inner contradictions in the pres
ent world situation.
1t is particularly enlightening to
note that since the membership
meetings the Opposition has
partly seen the error of its ways on
the important issue of TrOtskyism
as evidenced in it's declaration ap-
pearing in the Daily Worker of
January 7th. In the membership
meetings only a few days ago the
Opposition vehemently rejected pre-
cisely this criticism leveled against
it by the Central Committee repre-
sentatives.
Great stress was laid by the Cen
trail Committee spokesman on the
need for the convention giving the
most decisive push to the proletar-
ianization of the Party and its lead
ership from top to bottom, on the
basic Importance of strengthening
the Party organization, and on the
urgent necessity of achieving unity
of all Communist forces on the basis
of the unreserved acceptance of the
decisions Of the Communist Inter-
national-in order to wage a sue
cessful struggle against the Right
Danger and Trotskyism, in order to
mobilize the full forces and ener-
gies of the Party for the fight
against the imperialist war danger,
and for the building of new unions.
An especially important feature
of the membership meeting debates
was the enthusiastic and decisive
support given to the Central Com
mittee's call for the acceptance of
Comintern decisions without reser-
vations. 1t was made clear to the
membership that despite all of its
formal Acknowledgements of accep-
lance of Comintern decisions, the
Bittleman-Foster Opposition still
pursues a policy of entertaining
reservations towards Communist In
ternational decisions on important
phases of policy. For instance, the
hammer and tong blows of the Cen
trail Committee representatives to
move the Opposition towards re-
lection of the following reserva-
tions, amongst others, on the Theses
on the International Situation and
the Tasks of the Comintern, made
| by Comrade tombstone in behalf of
the entire Opposition at the Sixth
World Congress of the Communist
International:
"The section fails to emphasize
sufficiently the growing contradic-
tons confronting American imper-
ialism, the increasing rehabilitation
of the masses and the increasing
prospects for mass struggles, and
the failure of the majority of the
Central Committee to see these new
developments and adopt policies in
accord with them.
"The section does not clearly re-
pudiate the Right wing line of the
majority leadership which has sys-
tematically magnified difficulties
and minimized the possibilities of
struggle. :"
In view of the fact that exactly
the same, the above, criticism which
the Opposition makes against the
Comintern World Congress Theses,
it is making against the Central
Committee, the representatives of
the Opposition took Comrade John
stones declaration of disagreement
with the Communist International
as it's platform in the struggle
against the Central Committee.
Likewise, the plea of the Central
Committee spokesman for the Oppo-
sition to accept without reservation
the Comintern Pol-secretariat's de-
cision of September 7th, which said
that the charge that the Central
Committee is Right wing commit
tee is unfounded, fell on deaf ears
So persistent was the Opposition in
its attitude of reservations towards
Comintern decisions, that not a
single one of its representative at
the membership meetings would I'M
reservedly indorse the Communist
international Pol-secretariat letter Of
November 21st, criticizing in part,
very properly, the Central Commit
tie for the mistakes it made in its
declaration of October End.
Features and Lessons of Membership
Meetings.
To summarize: The lessons and
outstanding features Of the recent
membership meetings are:
1.-The general increase in at.
tendance, the larger number partici.
pating in the debates, and the high.
er theological level.
2.-The overwhelming support TO,
the Central Committee by the mem
bership, particularly marked by a
substantial increase within the last
year. The present Party leadership