The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05


bally recognizes the Comintern leadership, but
it fights and daily rejects the Comintern in
action. In their appeal against the expulsion
of the leaders of the Lovestone group, they
even demand from the Comntern to withdraw
its Open Letter to the Communist Party of
America and to trace back it's organizational
steps, stating that only then will they submit
to the Comintern. In other words, they rise
against the leadership of the entire Comintern.
They take quite an open stand against the
correct decisions of the Tenth Plenum and de-
clare that the line of the Plenum is revision
of the Sixth World Congress, they set the
Sixth World Congress against the Tenth
Plenum, the International Congress against
the Executive Committee of the Communist
International in order to undermine the auth
GRITTY of the Executive Committee which was
unanimously elected by the Sixth Congress.
At first they ASSOCIATED themselves from
the Brandler group but now they say that:
"The Brandler group is quite correct in rails
ing a sharp struggle against the anti-Leninist
revisionist course of the present ECCI."
In it's political activity the Lovestone group
resorts to incorrect methods and acts of in
creasing hostility to the Party. The campaign
Of the Communist Party in connection with
International Red Day was combatted by it;
it sought to make the strike slogan of the
Party appear ridiculous. In the heroic struggle
in Gastonia, it accused the Party of "putsch-
ism" for having correctly issued the battle
cry of "self-defense" for the workers attacked
by the police. In connection with the National
Trade Union Unity League Conference, the
Lovestone group failed to see the revolutionary
significance of setting up a revolutionary
trade union center, and worked against the
campaign of the Party. In the new revolu-
tionary unions of the miners, textile workers
and of the clothing industry well as in the
other mass organizations, the Lovestone group
tried to bring about split and fought against
the Communist leadership. The basis for
their opposition to the correct line of the
Party rests in their failure to recognize the
process of rehabilitation and leftward develop
ment of the masses which follows from their
Grass overestimation of the strength of Amer
lean imperialism and from the general excep-
tionalist theory in regard to America-oppor-
tunist errors for which, among others, l was
chiefly responsible. The sharp struggles in
Gastonia, the New Orleans and Marion strikes,
the partial struggles in number of industries
in the North, the representation of the TU.U.
l.. conference, the demonstrations strikes and
sharp conflicts with the police on International
Red Day, prove that the masses are becoming
radicalized.
not differ fundamentally from the line of
Cannon, who only covers his opportunism with
liberal use of left phrases, and from that of
the Music group
The breaking away from the Comintern on
the part of the Lovestone group leads to it's
breaking away also from Marxism. The pre-
sent economic crisis in the United States,
which, if all signs do not fail, leads to a gen.
eral world crisis, is treated in the magazine
of the Lovestone group ordinary stock
exchange crash, in the same manner as it is
explained by the bourgeois economists and
Hoover. They absurdly speak of the strength
of American capitalist economy" at moment
when the crisis in America reveals all weak
points and all organic diseases of capitalism.
They see one-sdedly only the "outer contra
dictions of world capitalism" at a moment
when all inherent inner contradictions of
American capitalism, all disproportions of the
various branches of industry, the immense
increase of production and limited buying of
the masses, are inexorably clashing. The
MARKHAM" analysis of the Lovestone group
sees merely "credit crisis" and fails to see
the over-production which is of basic impor-
lance, and this in the middle of November,
that is, at moment when many of the Amer
lean bourgeois papers already speak of over
production. The prognosis of the Lovestone
group sees only "convulsive up and down
movements on the stock exchange" at mo-
ment when the tocsin rings the alarm of a
general economic crisis in America.
The disruptive anti-Party and anti-Marxian
views of the Lovestone group must bring the
later not only in conflict with the Comintern,
but also with the daily economic struggles of
the American proletariat. The economic crisis
creates working possibilities for the Commun-
list Party such as never existed ever since the
Party has been founded in America. The crisis
brings in its wake mass unemployment, the
lengthening of working hours, wage cuts and
general insecurity with regard to the living
conditions of the American working class
Hoover who was elected as the president OF
prosperity" has in the course of less than
one year become the president of crisis. Hoo
yer, who, in his election campaign promised
the final roofing out of poverty, helps now to
heap indescribable poverty and increasing ex.
ploitation on the working masses. Events have
proven the correctness of the Address of the
Communist International. The last Plenum OF
the Central Committee demonstrated that the
fractional walls which had blocked the develop.
ment of the Party has in large measure
been shattered. Lovestone and his group OF
splitters, while raising the banner of unity
only wish to re-establish the old factiona
grouping and revive the old fractional war.
The forecast of the Tenth Plenum of the
Executive Committee of the Communist Inter.
national has been fully confirmed also in
America. The deep economic crisis, the grow.
ing strike wave, the increased persecution OF
Communists, the agreement of Green and Woo
to act as a voluntary strike breaking guard