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

PEPPER ON LOVESTONE

John Pepper 1OGS expelled from the ranks
of the Communist Party last summer. For
q long time Pepper had advocated and fol-
lo1Ued perSistentIy an opportunast policy IN
the Party. Pepper made himself the con-
sciouS agent of the right-grouping in the
International. Pepper fed the factiomaL strife
in the American Party and attempted to
make has faction part of an international
faction against the leadership and policy Of
the Communist Intentional Aside from this,
Pepper deceiUed the E1ecutiUe COMMITTEE
of the Communist International and Uioluted
Party and c. /. discipline in the most out
rGgeouS manner.
In all these actions Pepper had 1Oilling
and conscious accomplish IN Jag LuUeStone.
John Pepper has recently submitted to
the E.C.CI. some statements aOitb q request
for readmisSion. The last of the statements
is herewith published. This statement cannot
effect a change IN the relationship of John
Pepper aVith the Communist movement. 1t
does not touch the reasons of his expulsion.
1t freely airs the sins and crimes of jay
LoUestone; 1t says not 1Uord about the SINS
and crimes of John Pepper.
1t is purely and simply an attempt of
Pepper to sneak out from, under the reSpon-
sibiity aUhicb the member John Pepper had
to the Communist International for his o1Vn
actions.
The statement of Pepper, however, is proof
of the rapid disintegrntion of the right group
and as such is of interest to the Party.
Peppers statement is as follotcs:
IN my statement of December 3, condemned
the politically mistaken views of the Right
opposition in the C.P.SU. and in the other
Sections of the Comintern; acknowledged the
correctness of the denuncations by the Com
intern and C.P.S.U. of the views of the Right
opportunist group of Bukharin, Rykov and
Tomsky and the Right groups in the various
sections Germany, America, Czecho-Slovakia,
Sweden, France, Great Britain); declared the
absolute correctness of the line of the x Plen-
UNI of the Comintern and of the Central Com
mittee of the C.P.S.U. and the open letter of
the E.C.C.I. to the Communist Party of the
U.S.A., and recognized without any reserva-
tons the correctness of the condemnation of
my political mistakes and fractional brooches
of discipline by the E.C.C.I. and the IC.C.
In general ASSOCIATED myself in that state
ment from the splits and the attempted splits
engineered by the right wingers in the various
countries. l consider it here my duty to dis
socate myself with particular emphasis
from the right wing Lovestone group which
has seeded from the Communist Party of
America.
The trend of events has clearly revealed that
the theology and organizational practice of the
Lovestone group develop more and more along
an anti-Party direction.
Having seeded from the Comintern the
Lovestone group has organized itself in a
separate party. 1t goes by the name of "Com-
munist Party of the United States of America
the Majority Group" 1t organizes local
groups everywhere it held a national confer
ence, and has elected national committee
1t issues its magazine "The Revolutionary
Age" as "The Organ of Marxsm-L eninism in
the United States" The Lovestone group was
born as a result of the grossest breach of dis.
cipline against the Comintern, and it can con-
tinue its existence only on the basis of still
coarser breaches of discipline. The former
complaints of the Lovestone group about the
running sore" in the apparatus of the ECCI
have turned into charges and examinations
against the ECCI as such, and more and more
even against the entire Comintern. The Love
stone group accuses the Comintern of having
taken power" out of the Glands" of the
majority" in the American Party and given
1t over to the minority" The Lovestone group
still claims to have the majority in the Amer
lean Party and does not realize that the mass
OF proletarian members of the Party, as soon
as they had to choose between the Comintern
and the group, Internationally went over to
the Comintern. The Lovestone group demands
for itself the leadership in the American PARTY
IN the name of the majority" which it nc
longer has and and which it possessed onlv in
view of the claims that it followed the line
OF the Communist International, and it does
not want to see that the overwhelming major.
lty OF revolutionary workers in the American
Party are, as in all countries, actually on the
side OF the Comintern. The Lovestone grour
lnterprets the decisions of the Si,tL NIL