The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-15
By NAT ROSS.

THE correctness of the expulsion of the right
wing Lovestone group from the Commu-
mist Party was more than confirmed in the
speediest and most sweeping way by the
movement of American economy from econ
omic depression to economic crisis, beginning
in the early fall of last year. The present
economic crisis is ever-deepening and spread
ing to every corner of the imperiast world
This economic crisis coming as an integral
part of the general crisis of capitalism IN
the third period of its decaying existence, has
immediate world historical revolutionary inn
plications.
And just as life has sent Lovestone and
Co. into the camp of Wall Street so has it at
the same time confirmed the correctness of
the line of the Communist International and
the Central Committee of our Party. March
9th in the United States the dramatic ex-
preston of the revolutionary correctness and
clarity of perspective of the line of our Party.
"Dizzy With Success"
Our brilliant victory on March 9Th must
not, however, intoxicate comrades. This VIC
tory is only the beginning of our becoming
the mass party of the American working class.
Yet this victory has already had the effect
of getting some comrades dizzy with success,
and coupled with this the fact that the Party
had correctly expelled the right wing Love-
stone group, has led to tendency already no.
ticeable that the Party is 100 per cent cor
rect in everything, and there is no right wing
danger. Such conception is ant-Lennst and
has the most dangerous implications for the
work of building mass Communist Party in
the present period of sharpening class strug-
gles
To overlook the Right danger in the Party
is to entertain it in its crassest form. The
Rirbf oyictc in porfu and ic
ticularly sharply expressed by comrades in the
Illinois coal fields. 1t expressed itself in the
failure of the Illinois National Miners Union
fraction to recognize the tempo of develop
ment of the struggle in the coal fields, and
the growth of social fascism in an organized
form as exemplified by the birth of the Howat
group at the Peabody Coal Co. Springfield
Convention The Right danger expressed it.
self in the failure to build rank and file strike
committees in the Dec. 9th strike of the Ma
tional Miners Union in Illinois and in the gen.
eral pessimism and underestimation of the
rehabilitation of the miners and their deter
mination to fight, well as the failure at
the present time to energetically put forward
the building of rank and file committees of
action (pit or mine committees) as the main
instrument of struggle.
Right Danger March 9Th.
Again the Right danger showed its ugly op-
portunist head around the March 9Th demon
stration. 1t expressed itself against open
demonstrations, in fear of the masses, espe-
cially in fear of the native American miners,
and holding back the face of the Party, in
failure to work among the Negroes, in pess-
mism and capitulation before difficulties, in
excess legalism, in failure to work in and
around the mines, in underestimation of the
social-fascist role of the socialist party, the
Musteites and the Trotskyites in the coal
fields, and generally in the most shameful I'M
derestimation of the rehabilitation of the
miners, and the depth and meaning of the
economic crisis in the United States and the
world crisis of capitalism, as we'll as under
estimation of the present danger of war, espe-
cially against the Soviet Union.
On March 9th had only one successful
mass demonstration in &c. Illinois, In Spring
field we modified about 5000 miners and
other workers. Our other demonstrations
were not successful owing mainly to the pre-
valence of the Right danger, shortage of Par
ty forces and local leadership, sighting of
petty" Details etc.
800 Miners Demonstrate
The Party has continued the sharpest
theological struggle against the Right danger.
Fruitful results have already been shown by
the fact that in Eldorado Ga town of almost
entirely American miners) whereas we mob
lized only about rs miners on March 6th on
April LIST over 600 miners demonstrated mill
family against unemployment before the city
hail.
The successful demonstration of April LIST
proves that if we carry out real struggle
against the Right danger we can mobilize the
masses of miners for May LIST. The objective
situation in the coal fields is tremendously
favorable for building mass Party The per-
manent crisis in the coal industry deepened
by the general economic crisis, manifests it.
self in mass unemployment (about 80 per cent
of the $4,000 Illinois miners are either out of
work entirely, or work only day or two
week., in speed-up, wage cuts, and general
worsening of the miners conditions. The rad-
calization of the miners is indicated by the
growth of social-fascism, Howat & Co., which