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to impose a defeatist program of retreat upon the Party. In doing this the Fourth
Plenum played an extremely important part in the further Bolshevization of the
Party. 3
Mif s label of "Right opportunists" here was directed against the
"Ho Meng-hsiung-Lo Chang-lung group," which was in fact the
"Real Power Clique," or "Labor-Union Faction," and was against the
Li Li-san line. But this group was criticized by the 28 Bolsheviks for
opposing the "Left" by way of the "Right," and by Mif for imposing
"a defeatist program of retreat upon the Party." Therefore, although
this group triumphed over the Li Li-san line, it did not enjoy the
fruits of its victory. None of the members of the group secured membership
on the CC. Infuriated, they hoisted their own banner and on
January 17, 1931, established their own Kiangsu Provincial Committee
in opposition to the CCP Provincial Committee. Wang K'e-ch'uan, a
member of the Ho Meng-hsiung group, assumed the secretariatship
of this splinter Kiangsu Provincial Committee. But quite unexpectedly,
on the second day of the establishment of their provincial committee,
Ho Meng-hsiung was arrested in Shanghai. Some thirty important
members of the Ho Meng-hsiung group were also arrested on the
same day. 4 They were executed by KMT authorities on February 7,
1931. Although Wang K'e-ch'uan escaped safely, he later repented to
the CC of the CCP by withdrawing from the Ho Meng-hsiung faction.
The splinter Kiangsu Provincial Committee naturally collapsed. After
the death of Ho Meng-hsiung, Lo Chang-lung assumed the leadership
of the "Right" faction within the CCP in Shanghai. Under Lo's direction,
a "Central Extraordinary Committee" was organized on January
31, 1931. Sun Cheng-i, a blockheaded workman, served as its secretary
general. The Department of Propaganda was headed by Lo Changlung
himself. Hsu Wei-san was appointed head of the Central Organization
Department; Liu Tzu-ts'ai, chief of the Administration of the
CC; and Li Ta-han, secretary of the Kiangsu Provincial Committee.
During the early period after the establishment of this Central Extraordinary
Committee, the faction had agencies in Chekiang, Kiangsu,
Hupeh, Hopeh, and Manchuria, and it created the sharpest and most
conspicuous intra-Party struggle since the establishment of the CCP.
But this committee, like its predecessor, Ho Meng-hsiung's Kiangsu
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