The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-02

these co-operatives have been thriving and their
real mot formaI relations with the Communist
movement growing closer and closer"
Year and a Half Ago.
This is what Renegade Lovestone's official
mouthpiece now states. About year and
half ago, when in the leadership of the Party
the same Lovestone officially instructed the
Finnish Bureau to open struggle against
these favourable" opportunists drifting away
from the Communist line" Officially these
instructions are recorded in the Polcom min
utes from January 1929.
This in itself proves that Renegade Love
stone has become a political bedfelow of
George Halonen and that he thereby gives his
official Endorsement to Halonen's anti-Com-
munist united front built officially by the fas-
cst bureaucracy of the A. F. of L., social fas-
cst S. P. elements, Trotskyite Sulkanen (whom
Lovestone with great beating of trumpets ex-
PEELED from the Party, with Calumet and
Hecla controlled Finnish white elements, with
elements directly under the control of Finnish
white consulates, with petty bourgeois anar-
cho-syndicalists, ETC., etc. All of these elements
who hitherto bitterly fought the Communist
line in the co-operatives, are now united with
Renegade Halonen against the Communist
Party and the line of the Comintern and state
Revolutionary Age" prints in its columns
Lovestone and Halonen.
In the light of all this it is no accident that
despite the fact that Lovestone some IS months
ago issued instructions to fight Halonen's
social democratic line in the co-operatives, he
at the same time refused to raise his finger
to remove Halonen from the position of the
c. c. cooperative fraction bureau secretary
ship and that he refused to take any steps
against Halonen, when the latter in the last
pre-convention period came over to the ex-
majority! The tragedy of this new alliance
is, however, the fact; that the same Halonen
opened a struggle against the Party last
spring by pretending to fight the Lovestone-
ties and by pretending to defend the line of
the Comintern Address in doing this! All this,
however, does not prevent Lovestone from
printing in his counter-revolutionary sheet the
following about the origin of this struggle:
SIT is clear that at the bottom of the
crisis in the co-operatives is the same third
period idiocy that characterizes the line of
the Party and the Comintern everywhere!
And furthermore:
According to the new ultra-left theories,
the mass organizations have no right to be
non-Party organizations :. with the result
that these organizations are being wrecked
-. this is what was attempted against the
Finnish co-operatives - but fortunately it
has failed. This is what the Secretariat
informed by Comrade Halonen {our ital-
ics) :. but this of course meant nothing to
the Party" etc., etc.
Is it true, as the Lovestone sheet claims
that the co-operatives shave constituted an
important support to the revolutionary strug-
gle in this country"-under the leadership of
Renegade Halonen? No! This is a wanton
distortion of facts. Quite the contrary. The
facts are that at first the opportunists in the
cooperative movement raised the importance
of the basically reformist cooperative trading
on the same level with the trade union work
and the revolutionary party of the proletariat.
In practice this meant that all the activities
of organizing the unorganized and of building
the Party were dropped, even the building of
the Party fractions in the co-operatives were
branded as "unprincipled Vaccinations" all
Party forces were drowned IN building big
business turnover for the co-operatives, per-
sistent efforts were being made for gagging
the Party press from saying word about the
issues of class struggle in connection with CO.
operatives-whatever forces the Party had
were to be at the disposal of the business ef-
forts Of the co-operatives, but the Party was
not to be in position to ask anvthine from
the co-operatives. following the line of Rem
egade Lovestone's "Comrade Halonen"
Neutrality"
Exactly against this petty bourgeois line the
Party finally took up a decisive struggle.
During this struggle the opportunsts built
the above mentioned united front against the