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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-13

BY the Associated Press.
For the first time In Is years-save
for an interim of a few months-a
member of the Roosevelt family Is not
Assistant Secretary of the Navy. So
many Roosevelts, or kin Of the Roose-
velts. have held the Office that the post
has come to be termed facetiously in
Navy circles the only hereditary public
office in the United States Govern
ment''
Theodore Roosevelt. ST., was the first
Roosevelt to hold the post, being in
office from April, 1897, until May. 1898,
when he resigned to form his famous
Rough Riders"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-13
NAVY YARD MACHINERY
SPECIFICATIONS DRAWN
Bids Expected to Be Asked
by Officials Within
Week

Rear Admiral Arthur L. Willard
commandant of the Washington Navy
Yard. has forwarded to the Bureau OF
proval, specifications for new machin.
cry required in conjunction with the
manufacture of guns and turrets fo,
the Is new cruisers recently authorizes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-13

by Congress. 1t is expected that bids
for this machinery will be asked by the
end Of the week, after Rear Admiral
William D. Leahy, the bureaus chief
has approved the specifications.
The Washington Navy Yard will
have much work to do. as machinery in
stallation will carry for the next three
years" Admiral Leahy said today, add
ing that "the yard has more work
ahead of it than at any time since the
washington conference on the liinita
ton of naval ornaments"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-13
PUBLIC UTILITIES
HEARING RESUMED
Commission ELECTS Details of
Alleged Scheme to Promote
Private Ownership.
By the Associated Press.

by Ute ASSoCIateu PTeSS.
The details of commercial adver-
Using campaign in California described
as being designed to educate the pub
lie to the value of private versus politi-
cal ownership of public utilities, was
presented as evidence today before the
Federal Trade Commission at the re-
sumption of its investigation into the
publicity activities of the utilities.
The negotiations and plan for the adj
vertising campaign were presented to
the commission by Robert E. Healy,
commission counsel, during the exami>
nation of Victor M. Hartley of San
Francisco, executive secretary of the
California Electrical Bureau. formerly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-13
ACADEMY GIRLS CHORUS
WILL PRESENT PROGRAM
Eighty Voices to Be Heard at First
Congregational Church To-
morrow Afternoon.

One of the most noted women's or
CARNATIONS In the country, the Acad-
envy Girls Chorus of 80 voices, from
Erie. Pa, will present a program at
the First Congregational Church to-
morrow afternoon at 4:45 O'Clock. The
chorus is trained and directed by Prof,
Morton j. Luvaas. former assistant di-
rector of st. Olafs Choir of Minnesota
The ensemble singing of the chorus
is said to be notable for shading of
tone, good phrasing and feeling In the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-13

color of the readings. The chorus ap-
pears in blue and gold uniforms. The
soloist is Carolina Tavani.
The chorus is en- route to Philadel-
phia for a concert engagement and
while in Washington will be under SUI
pervision of DR.. Hugh T. Stevenson.
No admission is to be charged at the
concert tomorrow. but a free-will Of
fering will be taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-13
Commissioned as Lieutenants.

Edwin NJ. Day. 1911 Emerson street,
and James H. Wallace, 1922 Monroe
street. have been commissioned by the
War Department as second lieutenants
In the Air Corps Reserves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-13

At African M. E. Episcopal Zion
Church convention in Louisville bishops
announced that 1925 900 had been con-
tributed in six months Seven mission
aries will be sent to Africa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-11
GAS Soon AS Conditions Permit

LII LABOR in New Orleans has been itching days to
go into action in support of the striking street carmen,
who today wagng the most heroic struggle against trac
ton barons who reality the great banks that city
in the nation has yet seen.
By sheer mass persistence the So OO0 workers in the
building trades affiliated like the Garments Union with the
American Federation of Labor forced decision of
sympathetic strike support the The best that
the traitor offcadom could do to inject joker into
the resolution setting forth that the cywide strike will be
called only cas- conditions permit, evidently feeling
that they will have the decision to when that
will arrive There is every indication however, that the
stubborn class resistance that fought attempted beray
ais by the A F. of L. reaction in the textile strike at Eliza
bethon Tenn lives again in the New Orleans strike,
and will smash the opposition of their mseaders with the
aggressive action with which the of scabs to break
the strike defeated and the fight that is to be
waged against the strikebreakng injunction that has just
been issued by servile federal court.
New Orleans strike like the struggles in the textile
areas Tennessee and the Caronas developments the
South of the general rehabilitation that taking place in the
ranks of the American working class whole witnesses
the A. F. of L. appearing and openly strike
breaking force of the employers allies of the police, the
courts and the federal troops that may yet be drawn
into the situation to attempt with bayonets machine
poison gas carry out the injunction order of Judge
Borah,
1t should be very clear to the organized workers of New
Orleans that they must effectively smash the berayas of
their officiadom the hand and the other they
must be instrument for the organization of the morgan
lied of white and Negro workers only in New
Orleans and Louisiana but throughout the South linking
up their struggle with the national crysazng
in the Trade Union Unity Conference to be held Cleveland
Ohio August 81 1t would be historic moment for Amer
lean labor with the delegates of the textile and strikers
with Representatives also of their allies in other industries
of the South COAL STEEL transportation walking in
into the Cleveland Convention Hail. This would develop the
rehabilitation of Southern Labor into definite action Actual
conditions in the period not only permit bu demand
this action
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shows the seriousness of the right
danger in our Party. Both groups
were guilty of unprincipled faction
alism, (which is also an expression
of opportunism." fractional corrup-
ton has penetrated deep into our
Party, which was threatened with
degeneration. The Open Letter to
the Convention which was designed
to destroy factionalism and unite
the Party on the line of the Com
munist international was faction
ally distorted by interpreting the
organizational proposals has "hand
ing over the leadership Of the Party
to the minority" The former min
GRITTY, on the other hand, tried to
utilize the Open Letter and organ
national proposals "as an instru-
nent for getting the leadership of
the Party into its own hands," in
spite of the fact that it was clear
that the minority group were not
the Chosen people" of the Commu-
mist International. I want to point
out, however, that it would be in
correct that in order to "prove" that
the Party leadership is not being
"handed over" to the former min
Gritty, not to assign comrades of the
former minority group who are car
rying out the line of the Commu-
nist International to responsible
work.
Some comrades hold the opinion
that while unprincipled factionalism
is not permissible, "principled' fac
tionalism is not bad and they snug
gle in the names of Marx and Lenin
to "prove" their argument. These
comrades claim that Marx and Lenin
were leaders Of factions in fighting
their political enemies. This is not
anrxAAt Marx fnunht AGAINST
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Gus right opportunist error, based
on the theory of "exceptionalism."
While the thesis correctly pointed
out the primacy of the internal con-
tradiction, it failed to connect it up
with the external contradiction and
with the general crisis of world
capitalism. The failure to connect
up the inner and outer contradic-
tions is a non-dialectical and there
fore non-Marxian approach to the
question. The inner contradiction
lie. the disproportion between the
growth of the productive forces and
the tagging behind of markets, the
tremendous accumulation of capital
resulting from monopolist control
with a limited field of investment at
home leads to the outer contradic-
Itions-the struggle between the rival
imperialist powers for markets and
for spheres of export of capital,
which results in increased ornaments
and war On the other hand, the
outer contradiction still more in
tensify the inner contradictions, by
the bourgeois trying to meet the
competitions of the other powers
through further naturalization,
which means the increased exploita-
ton of the working class resulting in
the leftward swing of the masses.
The minority, therefore, by not I'M
derstanding the relationship between
the inner and outer contradictions
not only underestimate the war
danger, but also the leftward swing
of the masses. And to consider the
crisis of American capitalism separ-
ate and apart from the general
crisis of world capitalism is a gross
underestimation of the revolutionary
perspectives for Europe and Ameri-
ca.
With Lovestone and Pepper openly
championing the theory of "excep-
tionalism" it was therefore no acct
dent that the majority theses over
estimated American imperialism,
stressed the primacy of external con-
tradictions instead of the internal
contradictions and underestimated
the leftward swing of the masses.
The insistence on the primacy of the
external contradictions, shows lack
of understanding of the development
of imperialism and it's laws. If one
denies that the struggle for markets
and spheres for the export of CAPT.
tai external CONTRADICTIONS is the
outgrowth of the inherent contradic-
tions of Imperialism, lie. monopolist
control of production and tremend-
Gus accumulation of capital with it's
limited home market, then one falls
into the mire of opportunism of the
brand of Karl Kautsky, the theoroti-
clan of the Second International who
states that, Imperialism is moi
modern capitalism. 1t is only one
of the forms of its policy. EN-
phasis mine-DG) This policy we
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sections of the Communist Interna-
tional to be able to meet the tasks,
that confront them in the present
period the Comintern took the neces-
sary steps to secure the maximum
guarantee that the new line will be
applied in all countries. The Com
intern found it necessary to send to
our Party series of political letters
trying to induce the Party to apply
correctly the line of the Communist
International. The Address of the
Communist International to the
membership marks turning point
in the history of our Party. The
effect of the Address will be the
freeing of the Party from the
straight jacket of factionalism which
paralyzed the Party for many years.
Our Party is beginning to under
stand more and more the correctness
of the decisions of the Sixth World
Congress, the Open Letter to the
Convention and the Address to the
membership. The correctness of the
Comintern line is fully confirmed by
such events as the gigantic strike in
LODI, the lockout in the Ruhr, strikes
in France and Czecho- Slovakia. the
tremendous mass struggles in India
! Bombay, ETC., which is taking on a
revolutionary character. The huge
May 1st street demonstrations in
Berlin accompanied by barricade
fighting, the May 1st clashes in
Poland, the recent lockout of fifty
thousand textile workers in Silesia
the threatening lockout of 100000
textile workers in Great Britain, the
textile strikers in Gastonia, Eliza
bethton, the strikes in New York, the
big response for a revolutionary
trade union center in the United
States, etc.
In order to fully prepare our Party
to carry out the tasks that confront
it in order to fully understand and
apply the new line it is necessary
to liquidate our past errors by severe
self criticism and to analyze the
mistakes of both former groups.
There might be tendency in the
present discussion to limit criticism
to the mistakes of the former APP
posing group and the CLOSING over
ones own errors. This would be a
travesty of self criticism. We must
effectively and critically analyze the
past errors of both former factions.
The most important mistakes of
both former groups were based on
the theory of "exceptionalism." The
former minority while it correctly
condemned the theory of "excep-
tionalism" which was first advanced
by Lovestone and Pepper right after
the 9th Plenum of the ECCI by stat
ing that the new line of the 9th
Plenum was not applicable to Ameri-
ca, nevertheless, in their thesis in
dealing with the crisis of American
capitalism, the minority made seri-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-11
BY DAVE GORMAN.

The changing world situation in
the present third postwar period,
finds its expression in capitalist
economy exceeding the pre-war level,
which is based on the growth of capt.
talist technique and naturalization,
resulting in "the accentuation Of the
contradiction between the growth of
The productive forces and the contra
diction of markets" "This gives rise
to a new series of imperialist wars;
among the imperialist states them
selves; war of the imperialist states
against the Soviet Union; wars of
national liberation; imperialist in
tervention and to sharpened class
battles, (the leftward drift of the
masses). This leads to the further
development of the contradiction of
capitalist stabilization-to capitalist
sterilization becoming still more pre-
carious and the intensification of
the general crisis of capitalism" At
the same time the economy of the
U. S. S. R. is exceeding the pre-war
level with its increasing growth of
socialist forms on the basis of new
technique (the five year plan of in
dustrialization). In this period the
social-democracy is moving further
to the right, which is taking on the
form of social-fascism.
In short the present situation can
be characterized as period when
''the development of the contradic-
lions of capitalist STERILIZATION in
evitably leads, in the final analysis,
to the present sterilization period
growing into period of gigantic
cataclysms. To conform with the
changed world situation the Com
munist International made sharp
tactical turn at the 9th Plenum OF
the E. C. C. l. held in February
1928. The new line was further
elaborated and concretized by the
9th World Congress.
In this period of sharpening con-
tradictions the Right danger be-
comes the chief danger. The Right
wing in the various sections OF the
Comintern can only see capitalist
economy exceeding the pre-war level
and therefore conclude that capitalist
sterilization is becoming more con-
solidated. They refuse to under
stand that the very growth of CAPT
talist economy which is based on the
growth of technique and rationaliza-
ton leads not only to a desperate
struggle between the imperialist
groups for markets and spheres for
the export of capital, resulting in
the increase of ornaments and
preparations for new imperialist
wars, but also to an accute intensifi-
cation of the class struggle arising
out of naturalization which means
the growth of the permanent army
of unemployed and the lowering OF
the standard of living of the bulk
of the workers. This leads to CAPT
talist sterilization becoming more
precarious and not to consolidation.
In the American Party the chief
source of the Right danger was the
theory Of "exceptionalism" that is
that America was exempt from the
general crisis of world capitalism
and all that flows from it.
In order to prepare the different
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Proudhon, Bakunin and others "a
the leader of scientific socialism.
against Utopian socialism and petty
bourgeoisie anarchism. Lenin. az the
leader of Bolshevism, fought against
manshevism and all forms of op-
rortunism in the Russian Socialist
Democratic Labor Party and in the
Second International. The Bolshe-
vik and manshevik groups in the
r. S. D. L. P. were in reality two
parties, but in a Communist PARTY
the two-party system (and two or
ganized factions in that very thinp)
is impermissible, and Lenin never or
ganized faction into the Bolsheyik
Party. When differences of opin-
ion based on principle arise a real
objective discussion is impossible in
fractional situation.
The Party is now confronted with
right wing opposition, led by
Comrades Gitlow and Wolfe. who
are connected with Gay Lovestone
outside the Party on the one hand.
and, on the other hand, with the In
ternational right wing inside the
Comintern. This right wing oppo-
sition is opposed to decisions of the
Sixth World Congress, the Open
Letter and the Address" to the
membership and are attempting to
split the Party. The Party must
act decisively and unhesitatinply.
In this it will receive the unreserved
support of the membership of our
Party. The concealed opposition,
which is more dangerous than the
open opposition, must be ruthlessly
exposed and isolated.
At the same time we must mob
ilize our Party for greater activity
end application Of the new line to
thA hnas task confronting VI. -
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can and should fight against, we can
and should fight against imperialism,
annexation, etc, to which Lenin RE-
plies, "The result is slurring-over
and concealment of the most pro-
found contradictions of the latest
stage of capitalism, instead of an
exposure of their depth The result
IS bourgeois reformism instead of
Marxism,' ("imperialism'O. Further
on Lenin continues: Instead of the
analysis of imperialism and the
demonstration of it's deeply-rooted
internal contradictions, we have
nothing but the innocent desire of
the reformists not to see these con-
tradictions, and not to mention them
to ALL" C'imperialism"). The Ad-
dress correctly concludes that "put-
ting the question of inner and outer
contradictions in a wrong way
led to the obscuring of the inner
contradictions of American CAPT.
tallsm," The obscuring of the inner
contradictions of American CAPT.
tallsm in the very heart of the theory
OF "eXceptionalism," the chief source
of the right errors of the former
majority.
On the question Of the Trotskv-
ISM the former minority made seri-
Gus political errors. On Oct. 2
when Cannon indicated his intention
to fight the Comintern on the Trot-
skylst platform, we elected him to
be our Steering committee" at the
Party membership meeting in New
York. At the membership meeting
Cannon, Schachtman and Abern
gave additional proof that they
were Trotskyists and instead of i'm
inediately taking the matter to the
Polcom we engaged in a long theo-
retical discussion with them about
Trotskyism as if they were honest
proletarians trying to be "clear-up."
Finally, after we expelled them
from our faction, we had MANY
meetings which were marked by hes
itation and wavering on the oues-
ton of bringing the matter to the
Party, putting the interests of the
faction above the interests of the
Party. All Of the above showed DO
litical weakness, confusion and un-
derestimation of the Trotskyist
danger by the former minority.
fully agree with Comrade Brow.
der that the declaration of reserva-
tions of the minority in the Sixth
World Congress was major polit-
ical error. It showed that the
former minority did not understand
the decisions of the Congress. At
the same time the minority error of
reservations became a fractional
handy instrument in the hands of
Lovestone, Pepper and others. While
campaigning under the banner of
loyalty" to the Communist Inter-
national and against the reserva
tons CT the minority it enabled
them to conceal before the member
ship their opposition to the line of
the Sixth Congress.
On the question Of fighting the
right danger the former minority
made the error Of considering all ma
jority supporters as right wingers
On the other hand, the minority
did not fight the right elements in
it's own camp. Both groups har-
bored right elements and both
groups NADIA riRht arnnrA whinl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-11
Correction in Weinstone's Article

In the article of Comade Wenstone Te
Right Opposition to the Comntern published the Daily Worker
July 9th, the following typographical occumed
The sentence the last reading "A
opposition to- and of hessy uproong pportuns theology
Party through typographical reads "A
opposition of ruey supporting opportun theology the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-11
Enlightenment Campaign the Conen Address the Communist Party

THE POlbureau is DESTROYS of securing the broadcast pos
sible Enlightenment Campaign the COmintern Adj
Party members and particularly the comrades active in the
workshops the basic industries invited to write their
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opinions for the Party Press Resolutions of Factory Nuclei
also will be printed in this section Send all material deal.
ing with this campaign to Comrade Jack Stache Ma
tonal office, Communist Party 43 E. 125th St. New York
City.