The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31

is not by external action in coptravenon Of party
decisions but through inner party channels Fur
thermore, if are defeated in our attempts then
it is our duty as loyal party members to present
united front to the outside, yes, even to defend
decision which has gone against us, and than at
the same time to fight with all our power against
such ideas or decisions within the partyl"
There are two fundamental issues badly confused
herel
One is the question of discipline the other is the
question of working class policy in the interests of
the working class. The Communist Party is not
opposed to discipline But what is the fundamental
test for all discipline? 1t is whether not this dis
cipline is in the interests of the working class!
In this bulletin the RPC. defends. on the
ground Of some abstract discipline policy and
group within the S. P which it itself denounces as
pursuing anti-working class policies! Does not this
abstract conception of discipline then turn into its
opposite from pro-working class idea into an idea
against the interests of the working class7
EVEN if its efforts for united action are defeated
the R. P. c. pledges in advance that it will pre-
sent "a unified front to the outside and defend
these decisions"
Now what does this mean? This means that
the RP.C. is prepared to give, the ground of abb
stract discipline" pledges of acquiescence to the
give to the R.PC.!
What kind of discipline" is it that always per-
mits the "Old Guard" to trampe as it wishes on
every decision of the majority of the S. P. member
ship when these decisions are not to their liking?
The open and ruthless trampling on all party
discipline by the odd Guard and its supporters
is very well stated by the R.P.C bulletin itself
when it states:
Sad to relate, ever since the Detroit conven-
ton, the NEG. cannot be distinguished in It's
acts from what went before"
What kind of discipline" is it that permits the
newy-elected National Executive Committee to dis
regard the clear mandate of the party membership
expressed in the Declaration of PrnciplesP Is
this discipline" in the interests Of the working
class?
The odd Guard" both in New York. and at the
recent National Executive Committee meeting made
their intention of routng the national party refer
endum the Declaration of Principles quite
clear.
The R.P.C, bulletin itself in this issue reveals
that "the NEG will search out so-called factions
that endorse out and out revolutionary positions
and permit other factions witness the factionalism
Of the Daily Forward and the New LEADER to 20
their merry way Precisely!
PRECISELY Yes indeed This is just what we
mean!
Can any honest revolutionary subscribe TO this
kind Of discipline" which always acts in direc-
ton away from the united front for working class
strugge7
| EFT every honest revolutionary worker consider
seriously the kind of discipline that permits the
"Od Guard" to sabotage the united front, violating
all party mandates while the R.P.C is prepared to
defend these decisions" of the "Old Guard" in
order to present unified front to the outsider"
What is primary the interests of the working
class, which the RP.C. recognizes hndered by the
"Old Guard" "a unified front to the outside"
with the "Old Guard?"
What kind of discipline is this which always
acts in the direction of permitting united fronts
with William Green, with White Guards in New
York protesting terrorism in the Soviet Union"
while united front to the left with the Communist
Party, suddenly becomes violation of discipline"
The united front of the working class comrades
of the RPC, is the concern not only of group, or
a party, but of the whole working class. It is
with this profound seriousness that the c. strives
to accomplish it. We urge that the line as laid down
in the RPC. bulletin be examined by its members
in light Of the practical results to which 1t will
lead