TWO TE OOMMUNIST THE COMMUNIST munist on same vote tendencics than their ata major party in any other sense than their Centrist their the false claim of membership titude on defense as expressed in Omcial Organ of The acceptance of Comrade Androw on the official organ, As for organization probleme. they THE CONMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA proves this conclusively. Unfortunately for have shown themselves to be a set of bureau published the the but fortunately for the Comcrats with a purely nechanical conception CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE movement are not a major party in any sense of of centralization and discipline. The test of Vol. II. November 15th, 1920 14th Communists nor in their membership figs in this country at the present time is the federation problem. The leader.
Lires. The position on trade unions ship have taken a position which proves International Delegates as contained in their program was bitterly them to be incapable and unfit of leading Report and Unity Point (3) specifically provides that the the has been a series of gradual mity must be based upon the decisions disentegration and dissolution on this very On another page will be found a full of the Congress. All other questions, such question alone. They liave driven away report of our international delegates as federations, etc. must be left to he con more than half of their foreign memberunity and the Fraina case. Also a digest of vention itself to decide. No negotiations or ship because they fail to realize their needs, all the steps taken, since the publication of agreements can be made on any question both as to carrying on their Communist the last issue, regard to consummating beforehand. The demand for the propaganda and agitation in their respective the unity negotiations with the abolition of federations as one of the conlanguages and winning new membership We shall deal briefly here with the six ditions of unity negotiations is altogether from the large foreign speaking working points adopted by the Executive Committee beside the mark and merely proves their masses into the Communist movement.
of the Communist International relative to insincerity. Even Comrade Flynn, their deBut the Centrist leaders are inity upon the appeal of our delegates legate informed us, that the federation quesso blind and stupid as even to ignore the Comrades Andrew and Fraina.
tion would have to be determined by the recommendation of the Communist InterThe six points are as follows: memberslip in this country according to 1) To extend the date by which com the view of the Congress and the Executive national on this question. In the appeal for unity between the and the Committee.
plete unity is to be achieved from October which arrived in this country several 10 to January 1, 1921. 4) Most probably refers to the pledge months late, the Communist International 2) That pending this complete unity given by the delegates of both parties in of our movement and the election by the Moscow: If so Comrade Rced, the expressly states that the traditional form de party of an American representative to the representative must have given this pledge, Stroyed at one blow. Plainly they implied Executive Committee, cach shall have a as well as our own delegates. Will the that their abolition is a gradual process correpresentative on the Executive with the dare violate this pledge. 5) Again clearly and unequivocally this country. This is exactly the position of responding to the needs and conditions in 3) That unity must (and this is man states that both parties have cqual rights. the Communist Party. The federation quesdatory) be achicred on the basic of all the Therefore the claim for an arbittion will settle itself with time. Any arbitdecisions of the Second Congress of the rary apportionment of delegates on the basis rary attempt to abolish or destroy them will International of six four is sheer camouflage intended mean, at present or in the near future, the 4) The representatives of both parties to cover up their lies and misrepresenta disintegration of the Communist movement.
must give a pledge to abide by the decision tions as made by their delegation the The federations are the promulgators and Congress.
for unity.
the carriers of Communism in America.
Point (6) is the most important deci And so long as 5) The two parties have equal rights English speaking work sion and fully vindicates the position of the ing masses are not yet attracted to the the unification to be by means of a ConCommunist Party both in the present ne Communist movement the need of federa.
gress and party for party.
gotiations and in the previous negotiations tions is self evident to any ičal intelligent 6) Representation in the Unity Conwith the There is no need to go Communist gress is to be decided upon the basis of into lengthy explanations to prove that this dues actually paid for during the months basis is the only possible basis for going Ic it not apparent that the element July. August September and October.
into a joint convention which is to decide led by the present leadership of the A word of explanation is necessary be the future of the Communist movement in would have split away in any unity confore taking up these six points. Our dele America. The proposition is so seli evident vention which took a different position on gates report and the corfirin, that that one can only suspect the motives of these questions than theirs. Even in the the delegate Flynn, who arrived those who refuse to accept this basis.
coming unity convention (assuming that almost at the end of the Congress, came From the foregoing it will be seen that the change their arrogant attitude with instructions to protest the scating of the Communist Party has accepted not only and accept the mandatory decision of the any delegates of the Communist Party on the word but the spirit of the decision of Communist International) we expect some the ground that unification had been ac the Communist International.
elements to split away and leave the Comcomplished and that the United Communist We understand and agree fully with submit to decisions which they do not agree munist movement altogether rather Party was the result of the merging of the the Communist International in its plan to and the vast majority of the with. That was what was meant when we create only one Communist Party in each The delegation then demanded said last week country. But we also fully realized the futilthat there was no good the full ten votes alloted to America for ity of accomplishing real organic unity in reason for the existence of two parties exitself. This the Congress overruled on the this country without a mandatory decision cept the inability of the minority to accept ground that as Comrade Radick said. only of this effect from the Communist Interna ity, had they really accepted Conmunist the decisions of the majority. This minor one side of the case hade been heard Comrade Fraina also protested but tional itself. joint convention between the hc and the would not have led principles in deeds as well as words, would states and truthfully, that he had no infor never have created a second party.
to unity. It would have led to a split at the mation of his own. Comrade Fraina was arrested last May somewhere in Europe would ever have agreed to proportional reconvention, assuming that the But all this is changed. The Communist International has issued its imperative and we lost our connections with him. presentation However, the Congress, which had without compulsion by the mandate. This mandate calls for unity and pre Communist International.
viously alotted five votes apiece to each proportional representation. The Communparty now gave six votes to the The differences between the two organist Party has signified its willingness to and four votes the because a izations from the very beginning, exist to abide by this Jecision. Is the of the large part of the had gonc over to day. The leadership of the like ready to accept this decision or the this being the lie which Flynn the leadership of the are Centrists.
is it still living in a fool paradise? If the brought to them.
They accept the principles of Communism latter then they can only be awakened by a We may assume therefore that in words but not in deeds. In every conblow from the long arm of the Communist the unity resolution passed by the Congress and troversy we have made this clear. This International.
by the Executive Committee on August 7th tion of armed insurrection or its propoga.
same leadership was opposed to any men for complete unity by October 10th was Now that the clections are over the So tion to the masses in their last convention.
based upon the lies and misrepresentations Only the deterinincd attitude of a minorcialist Party comes out with the truth that of the their national organization is almost complete ity of five or ten out of more than fifty ly smashed. Ninteen states have paper organ.
Point (1) therefore clearly shows that delegates compelled its insertion on whei. Conrade Andrew presented our side threat of a split. We have not yet scen any the izations. Seven states have no organizations the case. t, tre expona. jon of the tendency on the part of this leadership to that this is not the whole truth as yet.
worth mentioning. We are inclined to believe facts which led to the split instead of to accept this fundamental tactic. In their comthe achicvement of unity with the promise offer to the they showed which was pending at that time, that the plainly that on the question of arnied in Executive Committee realized that there surrection they were more were some fundamental differences between in agreement The Swiss Government has cautioned the two organizations which could only be with Sandgren, yellowest of yellow syn the stray remnants of the Second Internu dicalists, than with the Conimunist position. tional not to resort to revolutionary propa; unity convention. Therefore the time was extended to permit of hold is a major question, their program and that country. where they are assembledon Point (2) proves that the vote of six prosite position to that of the Second Conjoking and wc trust that Vandervelde, Branco th four in the Second Congress was not made because thic was considered gress.
ing, Scheidemann Co will not take it too Perhaps nothing can better illustrate seriously.
than settled luy a