The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-24
ovestone Seeks to Give Waldman
Weapons Against the United Front

And now he finds that he has not
in his pocket, as he so well adver-
tised, the outstanding figures of
the R.P.C., inclusive Of the national
secretary of the R.PC." AS for the
conception of unity of labor" of
Lovestone, it is really no different
from that of the S. P. leaders of
both the types of Thomas and
Waldman. They are afraid that by
united front with the Communists
they will jeopardize their united
front with Green, Vol and Com
pany And Lovestone- Zimmerman
are afraid in every step that they
take that they may jeopardize their
unity" with Dubinsky and German.
Lovestone Conception of Unity
We shall return again here to
the Lovestone conception of the
unity of labor" in discussing the
arguments Lovestone brings forward
against the program Of action
reached by the outstanding fig
ures of the R.P.C. in the South, in
elusive of the R.P.C. national secre-
tary" and the representative of the
Communist Party in the South. Let
us now consider the underhand
method used by Lovestone to bring
pressure on the R.P.C. members.
According to Loyestone, because
the R.P.C. comrades took steps to
develop the united front with the
c. P, Waldman is now going to ex-
pei them. What then does Love-
stone propose, that there be no eff
forts towards united front because
of the danger of expulsion at the
hands of the Waldmans? This is
an argument much in style now in
this country, although it is not
new one for the international labor
movement. Even Hearst says there
is no danger of fascism, so long as
there is no danger of Communism,
and calls for the annihilation of
Communism. Some time ago Nor
man Thomas stated that the meth
DDS used by the Communists in the
South result in lynching. In other
words, if there was no fight made
against jim Crowism and for equal
rights there would be no lynching.
If the Negro people would agree to
accept everything handed down to
them by the ruling class then the
master class would perhaps forego
the sport of lynching. The same
argument no doubt holds good with
regard to the A F. of L. expulsion
policy. If the Communists would
stop exposing the treacherous. class
collaborationist policy of Green and
instead accept the policies and die
tatorship Of Green, Woll and Co.,
then the Communists would not be
expelled from the A. F. of L. unions.
This is, in fact, the reasoning of
Lovestone. And with Lovestone this
is not just abstract reasoning. 1t
flows directly from the policies
Lovestone is pursuing in the unions
where he has any followers. Surely
Zimmerman and Co. are not being
expelled from the IL.GW.U. By Du-
binsky. Why? Because they have
become part and parcel of the Du-
binsky machine. Zimmerman has,
in fact, been rewarded for this with
vice presidency, and he now, too,
is carrying through explosions and
suspensions of Communists. AS for
the Communist Party we know Of
only one way to stop the Green OK
pulsion policy. We organize the
masses in struggle against the en-
ployers and against the A. T. of L.
reactionary bureaucracy. And to the
extent that we win the masses to
our program of immediate struggle
to that extent are we able to defeat
the expulsion policy.
The R.P.C. Leaders
And the same is true regarding
the R.P.C. leaders. Only by taking
the initiative and fighting the poll
cies Of the Waldman old guard and
Thomas "militants" who approve
the fight against the R.P.C. can
they mobilize the honest and prole-
tartan elements in the S.P. against
the Waldmans and Oneals. The
policy of Lovestone for the R.P.C.
leaders to do nothing that may
bring down upon them the wrath of
the Waldmans is the sure way to
their defeat in the S.P. The vigor
with which the RP.C. leaders take