At the same Congress, Lovestone had impressed the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as a strong supporter of Nikolai Bukharin, the general secretary of the Comintern.

Stalin informed Lovestone that he " had a majority because the American Communist Party until now regarded you as the determined supporter of the Communist International.

Lovestone had initially called his faction the " Communist Party ( Majority Group )" in the expectation that the majority of the CPUSA's members would join him, but only a few hundred people joined his new organization.

On February 7, 1919 he had his name legally changed to Jay Lovestone.

Lovestone insisted that he had the support of the vast majority of the Communist Party and should not have to step aside.

Lovestone and his friends had thought that they commanded the following of the mass of party members and, once expelled, optimistically named their new party the Communist Party ( Majority Group ).

Lovestone had, while within the Communist Party, played an active role in the Party's labor activities, primarily within the United Mine Workers, where the party supported the revolt led by John Brophy against John L. Lewis's leadership.

After his expulsion, Lovestone formed a base within ILGWU Dressmakers Local 22, to which Zimmerman had returned after his expulsion from the CPUSA.

Lovestone and Zimmerman worked their way into the good graces of ILGWU President David Dubinsky, who had been their fiercest enemy before their expulsion.

Dubinsky had concerns that Lovestone's past role in the Communist Party would taint him and suggested that Lovestone change his name ; Lovestone declined to do so.

Dubinsky was opposed to any form of collaboration with communists and had offered financial support to Homer Martin, the controversial president of the United Auto Workers, who was being advised by Jay Lovestone, a former leader of the Communist Party turned anti-communist.

Foster profited in a way from this debacle: he was able to persuade the Comintern to recall Pepper, with whom he had fought over questions of tactics, and the dissolution of the FF-LP was a setback for the Charles Ruthenberg-Jay Lovestone faction, which was largely made up of foreign-born workers and represented the vast majority of the party membership.

Placing Browder — the man responsible for bringing Foster into the Communist movement — in authority was seen as a means for shifting power decisively away from the former Lovestone group without opening a new round of factional warfare which would have inevitably resulted had the mantle been given directly to Foster.

Max Bedacht, formerly a top figure in the hierarchy of the Lovestone faction who had only recanted his views at the 11th hour in front of the American Commission of ECCI in Moscow was removed as Secretary and moved to a less sensitive leadership role as head of the International Workers Order.

Upon returning to the United States, he and Lovestone, who had also been expelled from the party, formed the Communist Party ( Opposition ) to further their views.

Wolfe and Lovestone were sympathisers of Nikolai Bukharin and helped found the International Communist Opposition ( also known as the International Right Opposition ) which for a time had some influence before petering out.

Although local leaders worked to modify this hard line in practice, factional infighting and changes dictated from abroad often undid what progress had been made, both in practical work and in relations with other groups ; as an example, the party repudiated much of the work it had done in Harlem in opposing evictions because the party leader most associated with that work had been expelled, along with Jay Lovestone, who had briefly sided with Bukharin in his conflict with Joseph Stalin.

Dubinsky was opposed to any form of collaboration with communists and had offered financial support to Homer Martin, the controversial president of the United Auto Workers, who was being advised by Jay Lovestone, a former leader of the Communist Party turned anti-communist, in his campaign to drive his opponents out of the union.

In 1973, AFL-CIO president George Meany discovered that Lovestone was still in contact with James Angleton of the CIA, who was conducting illegal domestic spying activities, despite being told seven years earlier to terminate this relationship.

For some prominent communists such as Bertram Wolfe, Jay Lovestone, Arthur Koestler, and Heinrich Brandler, the Bukharin trial marked their final break with communism and even turned the first three into fervent anti-Communists eventually.

For some prominent former communists, such as Bertram Wolfe, Jay Lovestone, Arthur Koestler, and Heinrich Brandler, the Bukharin trial marked their final break with communism and turned the first three into fervent anti-communists.

For some prominent communists such as Bertram Wolfe, Jay Lovestone, Arthur Koestler, and Heinrich Brandler, the Bukharin trial marked their final break with communism, and even turned the first three into fervent anti-Communists eventually.

When the reconstituted Executive Board ordered Martin to sever his ties with Lovestone and to submit all his public announcements to it for its approval, he attempted to suspend the majority of the Board, including both his opponents associated with the CP, such as Mortimer, their allies, such as Richard Frankensteen, and the UAW leaders associated with the Socialist Party, such as Walter Reuther.

Lovestone left with him.

Cannon attended the Sixth Congress of the Comintern in 1928, hoping to use his connections with leading circles within it to regain the advantage against the Lovestone faction.

This was to have unfortunate consequences for Lovestone when, in 1929, Bukharin was on the losing end of a struggle with Stalin and was purged from his position on the Politburo and removed as head of the Comintern.

Lovestone arrived with his mother, Emma, and his siblings, Morris, Esther and Sarah at Ellis island on September 15, 1907.

Lovestone was on the original organizing committee, the Committee of 15, with Wolfe, John Reed and Benjamin Gitlow.

Lovestone was a close adherent of the Pepper-Ruthenberg tendency, which was to be centered in New York City and to favor united-front political action in a " class Labor Party ", as opposed to the Foster-Cannon group, which tended to be centered in Chicago and were most concerned with building a radicalized American Federation of Labor through a boring-from-within policy.

Jay Lovestone with David Dubinsky speaking at a union rally in the 1930s

With Dubinsky's support, Lovestone went to work for Homer Martin, the embattled President of the United Auto Workers, who was attempting to drive his political rivals out of the union by charging them with being communists.

Dubinsky also helped Lovestone find work in 1941 with an organization favoring the United States ' entry into World War II.

Meany chose to force Lovestone out by issuing an instruction with which he knew Lovestone would not comply.

Ruthenberg exited the Communist Party of America and along with his factional supporters ( such as Jay Lovestone and Isaac Edward Ferguson ) constituted themselves as the " real " CPA with a view to merger with the CLP.

In 1944, Dubinsky arranged to place Lovestone in the AFL's Free Trade Union Committee, where he worked out of the ILGWU's headquarters.

During the war, he established close ties to prominent anti-communists in the U. S. labor movement, including David Dubinsky, Jay Lovestone and Matthew Woll.

Martin brought in Jay Lovestone, former executive secretary of the CP before his expulsion in 1929, as his advisor and installed Lovestone supporters in key positions throughout the union.

Ruthenberg, which was largely organized by his supporter Jay Lovestone ; and the Foster-Cannon faction, headed by William Z.

* Communist and Workers ' Parties ' manifesto adopted November-December, 1960 ; Testimony of Jay Lovestone, January 26, February 2, 1961 Washington, D. C. United States Government Printing Office, 1961

Lovestone headed a 10 member delegation to Moscow to appeal his case to the American Commission of ECCI ; things did not go well for him and in the squabble over autonomy Lovestone attempted a factional coup involving the seizure of party assets.

He was replaced on a provisional basis by a five person secretariat which included former Lovestone associate Max Bedacht as " Acting Secretary " and well as opposition factional leader and trade union chief Bill Foster ; two relatively independent figures in the persons of cartoonist-turned-functionary Robert Minor and former Executive Secretary of the underground party Will Weinstone ; and Comintern Representative Boris Mikhailov ( pseudonym " G. Williams ") as the unpublicized power behind the throne.