The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-28

MOOCOW, teD. ~, 1851.
To the Central Committee Communist Party,
U. s. A.
the Party.
The Political Secretariat of the Communist
International has unanimously approved an
extensive letter to the Finnish members of the
Communist Party of the U.S.A. 1t contains
a thorough account both of Halonens bour-
geois opportunism as well as of the correct
Communist class line and of the tasks before
us, which signify real turn towards better
ment of our entire activity. The letter shows
that the disassociation from Halonen, from
the one who had hoplessly become bourgeois,
had become imperative Not too soon, but, too
late, decisive struggle was taken up by the
Party against the right danger of Halonen
Only in time the explaining of the matter in
principle to the membership of the Party and
to the members of the mass organizations
should not have been neglected, neither should
tactical unthoughtfulness have happened in
practical measures. On the other hand, again
it was an error that Comrade Matti Tenhunen
and many other comrades did not in time, on
account of incidental matters, understand the
main thing, that in the struggle between Halo
men and the Party they could not remain in
any unclear middle position, which could be
looked upon as conciliatory attitude, but that
it was necessary with full energy to fight for
the Party. The cases of those isolated COM
rades, expelled from the Party, who sincerely
want to follow the line of the Comitern and
of the Party, will be taken up together with
the Central Control Commission for new and
completely unbiased review. The attitude of
the Party towards the cooperatves and to-
wards other mass organizations of the workers,
is placed in its right place in the letter of the
Political Secretariat. These organizations are
not in that respect auxiliaries of the Party,
that the Party would directly give instructions
to them as to what they should and what they
should not do. For this reason it is entirely
wrong to argue any thing such, that it would
be the intention of the Party to start to de-
stroy them, if it cannot get the control over
them. The members of the Party, who are as
a fraction in their ranks, should only by ex-
planning and by convincing try to effect the
adoption of correct decisions. The neutrality
pushed by Halonen towards the so-called "dif-
ferent tendencies in the labor movement
means in the cooperative movement hobnob-
bling with the worst tools of the bourgeosie,
as with the bosses of Raivaaja, I.W.W. and
the takers of Gompers, instead of exposing
THESE, as the case Sn0ulQ be, as Lne traitors OF
the cause of the workers. Such neutrality
means today going over in the camp of the
class enemies of the workers, and to this<i
is best for the organized workers of the Cen
trail States to answer by driving Halonen away
from the Cooperative Central Exchange.
These Finnish workers have certainly to pro-
tect their Paper, the Tyomies, from ever go
ing into the hands of the opportunsts. Only
as Communist paper is it possible for it to
fulfil its important function in the class strug
gle of the workers. By no means does the
Party in the matters Of the Tyomies strive to
brush acide the voice of even the non-Party
workers. owning shares in the Tyomies, nor
the free power to act in accordance with the
constitution and bylaws of the Tyomes Pub
fishing Society. The right wingers are trying
to drive wedge between as well the men,
bership of the Party and the Party leadership
as between the non-Party mass organizations
and the Party, thus to destroy the Communist
Party. All such efforts of Halonen and his
ilk must be repealed by united forces. Coun-
Citation, or even vacillation and hesitation in
the struggle against them--says the Commin-
tern letter--is not any more only an error,
but directly crime. The leadership of the
American Communist Party and the Finnish
Bureau, who have correctly and with determna-
ton fought against the Lovestonite renegades,