The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1934 Daily TENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY 15.4. (SECTION OF Comm “America’s Only Working Class Dally Newspaper" | FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7954 New York, om 954 n, D. ©. Subscription Rates: x Y Nation Cable Address Da EXCEPT SUNDAY, COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC, 50 East 13th} Arouse your fellow-workers in the trade unions, the mass organizations, in the schools and colleges. Stir man and woman of good-will to throw | ST INTERMATIONAS| | ee m himself © the protest fight. Bombard the German | embassy in Washington, every German consulate, with telegrams and letters of protest. Crowd their doors | with committees and delegations. Keep the Atlantic cables hot with reminders to President Hindenburg that the world will not calmly watch the butchery | go on. Prepare mass meetings in the shops, in the halls of organizations. Prepare mass demonstrations in the neighborhoods, in the public squares. BY THE Press Belling, and Bronx?, % year, 96.00 Demand freedom for Thaelmann, Dimitroff, Torgler, 1 month, 0.75 cents. | and all class-war prisoners of the Nazi butchers! Canada: 1 year, 90.00, | cents, | A Harvest for Currency Stay the Maniac IEORGE DIMITROFF has butcher of the Nazi gang. Along with Vassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff, his Bulgarian comrades acquitted in the Reichstag fire trial, he has been given over to the Nazi secret police, who have had Ernst Torgler, the Communist defendant, Goering heads this secret police, slobbering lips of the raving Goering, Tage by Dimitroff’s masterful thrusts, when he took that the whole world heard the stand at the trial, the threat: “Just wait till I catch you after you get out of here, You scoundrel!” It is this maniac murderer who has Dimitroff and his comrades in his hands today! T THE same moment, been delivered officially into the maniac clutches of Hermann Goering, arch- for some weeks. the cold-blooded murder by Speculators | ALBEADY Roosevelt's 69 cent dollar is delivering blows against the impertalist powers of Europe. Under the ruthless, aggressive inflationary drive of Wall Street imperialism, France is staggering toward the abandonment of the gold standard, an action that will put the final touches to the international instabil- ity and disorganization of the capitalist world. It is only a matter of weeks, or even days, that France will leave the gold standard. So bitterly are the imperialist powers now chisel- ing against one another’s currency and gold supplies, that British imperialism, which for some time has been maitaining a fixed tie between the pound and the franc, has now set itself loose from the franc and left it to drift in order to protect itself against the drive of Wall Street imperialism. So far, British imperialism has come out on top Hand! fourth acquitted It was from the driven to palsied Nazi police of four Communists near Berlin, one of them John Scheer, a leading member of the Poli- tical Bureau of the Communist Party of Germany, last Friday, marks a step in the preparations for the “trial” and judicial murder of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German party, most beloved of all leaders of the German working class. Scheer and his three comrades were in Goering’s eustody. A volley of shots—and they were added to the huge, mounting roll of martyred heroes of the German working class. INE thing, and one thing only stands between Thael- mann, Dimitroff, Torgler and their comrades, and the fate of Comrade Scheer. ‘That is the relentless vigilance, the unending volume of mass protest actions of the international working class. ‘The Nazi butchers cannot ignore this world- wide cry of rage. This forced a public trial for the four Reichstag tire trial defendants, This is forcing a public trial for Thaelmann, whom the Nazis have not dared do away with out of hand as they have thousands of others. But let this vigilance relax one moment—let its volume cease to mount—let the Nazis imagine for a moment that the international defenders have wearied and death will come swiftly, coldly, brutally, to these heroie champions of the working class. ‘OMRADES! The world-wide protest, the world-wide fight for the liberation of Thaelmann, Dimitroff, ‘Torgler, and their comrades must grow and grow, never relaxing. Activize and build the snti-Fascist committees. in the fierce international currency fight for foreign trade. The Roosevelt government has not succeeded in driving the dollar down to the 59.06 cents point on the international money exchanges, while the Brit- | ish pound has depreciated in relation to the dollar and the franc. This is a guarantee that the Rooseviet government will have. to resort to further devaluation. Meanwhile, the international and Wall Street cap= italist speculators are cashing in handsomely on Roosevelt's official $35 an ounce bid for gold. Not since the roaring days of 1929 have the Wall Street bank- ers and speculative vultures been gorging themselves with quick easy millions in profits. From all parts of the world, the capitalist investors and bankers are rushing gold to the United States for easy profits. All this is leading inexorably te # huge credit, and then to a currency inflation that not only will mean big profits for the capitalists but which will drive @ cruel wedge between the buying power of the wages in every worker’s pay envelope and the rising infla= tionary price level. All this dollar devaluation is head- ing toward a deep cut in the real wages of the Ameri- can toiling masses. The Roosevelt 59 cent devaluation will not be enough to raise prices and assist Wall Street monopoly capital exports for any length of time. More, and still more inflationary devaluation will be required. This will intensify the crisis, reduce the workers’ standards of living to degraded levels, and will aggravate all the Anglo-American antagonisms, leading to another world war, Growing M ight of Contintore thenned By 17th Congress of (Continued from Page 1) | division becomes still sharper on the | order of the day than in 1914. the C. P. S. U. The Communist Pariy of Ger- | Communist Party of Germany, and | was expressed in the = other brother parties. rh asevcnit | tions which for a long period shook | the gigantic hall, A new imperialist war is knocking at the gate. War preparations against the Soviet Union are being executed in feverish haste. Comrade Manuilsky then spoke in @etail on the reactionary role of th: German fascists, the Japanese mili- tarists, dreaming of a crusade against world bolshevism. Experiences under Czarism ‘The military attack on the U.S.SR., Comrade Manuilsky emphasized, r Teases the forces of the world prole- tarian. revolution, and accelerates| the unavertable end of the capitalist Manuilsky then reminded the del-| many now counts among its mem- {| bers a hundred thousand of the best German proletarians remaining steadfast under the whole brunt of | the fascist regime. (Stormy ap- | plause.) Members joining the Com- | munist. Party of Germany in the | past year, he said, are real heroes, the most valuable to the German working-class » This is pure proletarian gold! (stormy ap- plause). The heroic Communist Party of} Germany, working under the gravest | underground conditions, when ‘its best representatives with Ernest Thaelmann at their head—(here his | Communist Parties egates that Russian Czarism also be-|SPeech was interrupted with stormy lieved it had succeeded in handling|8"d_ prolonged applause, with the the working-class and its Bolshevist|Whole audience rising)—languishing party through bloody repressions, | 12 fascist dungeons. Under these| ‘Anyhow, said Manuilsky, amid roar-| Conditions the German Communist! ing applause, the proletarian revolu-| Party forges new cadres, splendidly tion has transfromed the most back-|steeled in struggle against fascism. ward country in the world from the| policeman of the capitalist regime into the great forepost of the social- ist_order. Comrade Manuilsky analyzed the methods of unparalleled treachery of the German social-democracy and the entire Second International whose whole policy prepared the ground | for the bloody fascist dictatorship. | ‘The Second International continues. | Manuilsky said, as the main social! support. of world reaction, In the| fraud the bourgeoisie commits against | the masses of people, the Second In- ternational now plays the saem role the church formerly played. | Amid resounding laughter through- | out the entire hall, Manuilsky cited the latest effusions of the Social- Democratic theoreticians showing the greatest ideological confusion. By | new “formulations,” he said, the heroes of the Second International Waitt to mask the direct betrayal of the interests of the proletariat by ying: “We are for Socialism, but without the proletariat revolution,” oy “We are for the proletarian rev- olution, without the proletarian dic- tatorship.” Records Successes Proceeding to estimate the work of the Communist International for the past years, he particularly stressed the successes recordeed in a num- ber of sections, which are explain-| abie only because the Comintern} pursues a path where Lenin led and where our wise leader, the leader of | the working class of the whole world—Staiin—leads it. (Tremendous applause). In these years, continued Com- rade Manuilsky, the Communist Parties themselves grew very sub- stantially. The Communist Party of China achieved the greatest successes in this field. In 1933 alone it increased its ranks 120,000, ky was repeatedly inter- by stormy applause as he the heroic struggle of the | Czechoslovakia, ete. Ovations to C. P. of Germany | Honor and glory to the fighters | of the German Communist Party! | Honor and glory to its Central | Committee! Honor and glory to its leader, Comrade Thaelmann! (Long | and stormy applause, abating for a moment, only to break out again.) The whole world has been inspired by Dimitroff’s action action at the| Leipzig trial. (All the delegates rise and enthusiastically cheer Dimi- troff.) Dimitroff, before the work- ing class of the whole world un- masked the filthy, bloody face of German fascism, The past years, said Molotov, also record the growth in the Communist Tanks in other sections of the Com- intern, such as France, Poland, Comrade Manuilsky then charac- terized in detail the heroic activity of the Communist Party of Japan, Waging a courageous struggle against intervention in China: The Party in Japan is a model of correct organ- ization and is a vast impetus to the Bolshevist struggle against imperial- ist war against their own bourgeoisie. The Parties of the Third Interna- tional learned their uncompromising attitude towards deviations from the reat teachers, Lenin and Stalin. Unshatterable Unity In the struggle on two fronts, the Comintern attained such consolida- tion in its ranks which no power on earth can shatter now. (Prolonged applause.) Comrade Manuilsky then pointed out that there still exist weaknesses and defects in the work of various sections of the Communist Interna- tional, particularly defects in organ- ization work and in the application of the united front, The Commu- nists in all countries can learn how Communist Party of China, the The evening session, under Com- rade Postishev’s «chairmanship, , was transformed into an impressive and flaming manifestation of interna- tional, proletarian solidarity. The representatives of brother came to the tribune one after another: Comrade Wan Min of China, Comrade Okano of Japan, Comrade Heckert of Ger- many, Comrade Dolores of Spain, | Comrade Belefsky of Poland and Comrade Rust of England. They all remarked the tremendous role played in the world Communist movement by the “shock brigade of world Bolshevism,” the leading party in the Comintern—the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with Stalin the leader of the world prole- tariat. In the discussion on Comrade Manuilsky’s report, Comrades Bela Kun, Knorin and Losovsky were among the speakers, On behalf of the Moscow, Lenin- grad and Ukrainian delegations, Blows Up While) Protests Grow Reactionaries Demand a| Dictatorship While | Mass Anger Mounts | PARIS, Feb. 4—Facing a still-/ growing wave of popular indigna- tion and distrust, the cabinet of Edouard Daladier blew up again yesterday after having been in office only two days. Jean Fabry, Minister of War, and Francois Pietri, Minister of Fi- nance, resigned in protest against the dismissal of Jean Chiappe, Pre- fect of Paris Police, one of the Many high officials involved in the Stavisky scandal. Daladier made a series of further shuffles, transferring other govern- ment officials connected with the Stavisky scandal, in a desperate ef- fort to consolidate his regime. In so doing, he has made his cabinet into Nearly a political duplicate of the one with which he fell recently while trying to meet* the French’ war budget by raising taxes and slashing civil service wages. Daladier’s Position Shaky ‘The general belief here is that he has not suoceeded either in calm- ing the mass anger which has deeply shaken all popular confi- dence in government officials, nor in assuring himself . support in the Chamber of Deputies which he must face with his revamped cabi- net on Tuesday. ‘ Everyone of the high-placed offi- cials who has been identified with the Stavisky scandal has a powerful group of supporters ready to make trouble in his defense, adding to Daladier’s problems, While the workers, leq by the Communist Party and the Commu- nist daily, “L’Humanite,” are car- Tying on an ever more powerful mass campaign of protest, and the Paris taxicab drivers have added their weight with a general strike against a high tax, the reactionary press is redoubling its demands for @ “strong man” to’ “head a@ semi- fascist dictatorship. Kashmir Workers Defy British Troops Sol“iers Fire Into Crowd of 8,000 SIALKOT, Punjab, India, Feb. 4— Over 15,000 persons overpowered the British police in Srinagar, capital of the mountain kingdom of Kashmir, and held a militant demonstration yesterday against the British puppet Maharajah, Sir Hari Singh. Several British officers were stoned and se- riously injured and & number were missing. At Abantipur, soldiers fired point- blank into a demonstration of 8,000 persons, attempting to storm the Treasury building, The British have prohibited reports on the number of casualties. . Although the demonstration was clearly an anti-British action, the British propagandists. are busy ex- plaining it as @ renewal of secular strife between Mohammedans and Hindus, periodically incited by the British to keep the exploited popula- tion divided on religious lines. Kashmir has been the scene of many insurrectionary actions of the toiling masses in recent years as a result of the deepening crisis, grow- ing unemployment and mass misery and ruination of the small peasants. Worker circulation campaign. Talk about the “Daily” to your neigh- bors, fellow-workers and members of your union, mass ofganization, unit. Get them to subseribe. [French Cabinet! WHEN THE BAND BEGINS TO PLAY! —By Burek| J, S. Attacks ‘Cuba Electric ‘Workers Strike General Strike Gains as Workers Fight Return to U. S. Company HAVANA, Feb. 4—The strike wave in Cuba is nearing the proportions { a general political strike as trade unions throughout the island are dis- cussing strike in sympathy with the electric and gas workers, who walked out yesterday. The U. S. government took an ace | tive strikebreaking hand by declar- jing that negotiations for food credits for Cuba would remain in suspension | because of the strike. Mendieta, who has been working in closest collab~ | oration with the Wall Street agents, | made the threat of U. S. armed in- |tervention in demanding that the | strike be broken. | Light, Power, Gas Cut Off | Light, power and gas were cut off | throughout most of the island as the | workers struck in protest against the | order of “President Carlos Mendieta | returning the Cuban Electric Co., | Subsidiary of the Americ-n-owned Electric Bond and Share Co., to the American company. Under pressure | of a strike of employes, Grau San Martin had taken over the $200,000,- | 000 properties and allowed workers | committees a hand in operating them, | Mendieta made a ceremonial trans- , fer of the properties in the presence ,of U. S. officials Friday. Immedi- ately the workers at a mass meeting MATTHEW wou Red Square Packed As Balloon Heroes Are Buried in Kremlin (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (By Radio).— The urns containing the ashes of Pavel Fedoseenko, Andrey Vossenko, and Ilya Ussyskin, who died Wed- nesday in the crash of the record- breaking stratosphere balloon, were deposited in the wall of the Kremlin at.4:15 yesterday afternoon. Worker delegations from the fac- tories, and from Osoaviakhim, the air and chemical defense society of the Soviet Union, which sponsored the flight, filled the whole of Red Square. Guards of honor from the army, the navy, government organizations, and the delegates to the Seventeenth Communist Party Congress occupied the stands, * Soviet Leaders Carry Urns To the strains of a revolutionary funeral march, Klementi Voroshilov, People’s Commissar for War, L. Kaga- nivich, organization secretary of the Party, V. Molotov; chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, and L, Ordzhonikidze, commissar of heavy industry, carried the urns, while Joseph Stalin ard the whole political bureau and congress presidium paced behind. Three volleys were fired from the Kremlin at the moment the urns were placed in the wall, and the funeral march gave place to the strains of the International. The burial followed an impressive ceremony in the open air. Masses banners draped with black lined two sides of a hollow square, and the silent throngs listened to ceremonies which lasted half an hour. Others Ready To Take Up Work Pozern of Osoaviakhim, Eidemann of the Supreme Military Council, Kaminsky, chairman of the Executive Committee of Moscow District, Pro- fessor Molchanov who headed the in- vestigating committee, and Prokofief, commander of the first stratostat, spoke. In ail their remarks was a tone of sorrow, but not of despair. All emphasized that the heroes had died after achieving a great victory for proletarian science, after blazing @ path along which many will follow. Eidemann declared that the mil- lions of Osoaviakhim members, now in sorrow, were ready with new heroes to take the place of the dead. Pro- fessor Molchanov declared that the Scientific notes made the heroes would be of great value for future flights. Awarded Order of Lenin In a moving final scene, Prokofief addressed each of the three by name, bade them farewell, and swore to carry on their work, declaring that the Communist Party is surety for this pledge. By order of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet government, the Order of Lenin has been awarded posthumously to each of the three. By decision of the Council of Peoples Commissars, the families of the three dead heroes have each been granted @ pension of 500 rubles a month. ITALIAN WORKERS WIN STRIKE MILAN, Italy, (By Mail) —Work- ers in a quarry in central Italy, unpaid for two months, occupied the plant, and confiscated the owner's two motor cars. Police called by the owner didenot dare interfere, and in a short time the workers were paid one month's back wages, and promised the other in weekly instalments. Foreign News Briefs French Unemployment at Record High PARIS, Feb. 4.—Official figures on unemployment in France reached an all-time high for the week ending Jan, 27. \ These figures, which cover only the few receiving government relief, show 332,266 in that week. Germany Inauzurates Air Mail to Brazil 4.—Germany in- day a direct air- mail service to Brazil, by which mail will be delivered in five days, instead of nearly four weeks. Besides representing an important bid for trade with Brazil, this pro- gram gives German aviation the op- portunity to gather valuable data and experience in aviation which will be valuable in war. New Zealand Orders Bombers WELLI-GTON, New Zealand, Feb. 4—The New Zealand government has ordered eight British bombing planes, to be delivered before sum- mer, REREPSN Rete fe ewe Hindenburg Surrenders Rights to Hitier BERLIN, Feb. 4.—President Hin- denburg surrendered to Adolf Hitler his right of pardon and his right to hire and fire government employees, in a special decree signed yesterday. This is described as an item in the Nazi “coordination” program, AMSTERDAM. — Wholesale smug- gling of arms from Germany into Holland has been traced to the bor- der town of Enschedé. The smuggl- voted to strike in protest. Mendieta Wars On Unions The strike was instantly followed | by a declaratoin of war on the work- ers by Mendieta, who issued a mani- festo declaring he would use all force to smash the strike. A roundup to arrest all workers’ leaders was or- | dered, and Colonel Fulgienco Batista, chief of staff, sent troops out to all the power stations, In addition to the thousands of electrical workers. 30,000 tobacco | workers are still solidly on strike, | Philadelphia Workers Plan Anti-Fascist Meet PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2. — An anti-fascist mass meeting to pro~ test against the fasvist tactics used by the city administration under J, Hampton Moore, notorious Vare pol- itician, will be held Tuesday, Feb. 6, ‘at Girard Manor Hall, 911 W. Girard Ave., under the auspices of the International Labor Defense, Before that date local meetings will be -held- throughout the city by united front organizations like the Committee for Anti-Fascist Action, League Against War and Fascism, and others. ing is done by Nazis, the arms handed to the Dutch Fascist organization, “National Socialist Movement,” led by Mussert, who recently declared in a@ public meeting that his followers “would use all available means against the Communist criminals.” THREE KILLED IN BATTLE IN INDIA PESHAWAR, India, Feb. 2—Three native soldiers of the British army were killed and five wounded in an engagement with insurgent tribes in North Waziristan, it was learned | yesterday. British reinforcements are being rushed to the region. DIMITROFF SPEECH CONFISCATED SOFIA, Bulgaria. — A pamphlet containing the speech of George Dimitroff at the Reichstag fire trial was confiscated by police on Jan- uary 15, while it was still in the printing office. Bulgarian suthori- ties fear the effect of the speech of Dimitroff, who is dlready a hero to the whole working class of the coun- try. “Workers’ Well-Being Path to Socialism,” USSR Congress Says Comrade Popov moyed a resolution fully approving the political line and practical work of the delegation of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the E. C, Cc. I, The resolution was unanimously adopted amid stormy applause throughout the whole hall. War Dep't Plans 68 Transient Camps in New York, N. Jersey NEWARK, N. J.—New Jersey and New York states are to have 68 new concentration camps officially desi; nated as “reforestation camps.” The commanding officer of the 2nd Corps Areat, U.S. Army, has taken bids on yuilding material for the construc- tion of barracks and other buildings at the following locations: in New Jersey: two camps each in Berlin, Englewood, Haddonfield, High Bridge, Sussex, and Orange, and one each in Branchville, Butler, Chats- worth, Elmer, Elmwood, Mana- hawken, Morristown, New Lisbon, Springfield and Tuckerton, In New York ten camps will be built at Pallisades Park, two each at Cornwall, Quaker Bridge, Red House, and Sloatsburg, and one each at Boston Corners, Cayuga, Che: Plaine, Haverstraw, Ithaca, Iona gid land, Katonah, Lake George, Lake Clear Junction, Lake Placid, Mt. Morris, Mexico, Norwich, Oneonto, Oxford, Peekskill, P , Phoenicia, i tan ta jtandards not only for himself, Better Daily si dard of iat. the mine ae of workers. Living Is the Fruit of speakers, emphasized that this in- crease in the well-being of the masses, the increase in the general prosperity “Bosses Tell the Workers To Eat Less; We Use and living standards of all the work- ers, is the actual material basis o: socialism, and the basis of progress Stalin particularly, and the other Party Victories — Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Feb, 4th—(By Radio)— The key-note of the latest discussions of the Seventeenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is taken from Stalin's report delivered to the Congress several days ago, In which Stalin emphasized again and again that the path to Socialism and a Communist classless society is the path of ever-growing physical comfort and well-being of the masses. ‘The discussion of the delegates on the slogan “Make the collective farmers well-to-do,” makes it unmistakeably clear that the Party means ‘this (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (By Radio).— The cleansing of the Party for the uninterrupted Socialist advance and the carrying out of the line of the Central Committee and the Party Congress, were the main points in the speech of the chairman of the Cen- tral Control Commission, of the c. sn amp ol ona ES aaa -dierarecretaa G the class enemy and ideological rep- ‘The delegates emphasized the dif-|resentatives. The brilliant analysis ference between the ‘“well-to-do”|and prédictions of Marx about the slogan, and the “enrich yourselves” inevitable downfall of capitalism, slogan. The latter slogen, urging in-| the historical role of the proletariat dividual persons or groups to get rich,| in the development of society, Lenin’s would mean the revival of exploiters | teachings applying Marxism under and exploitation at the expense of the| conditions of imperialism, proving the workers. Such @ program is wholly| possibility of building socialism in one foreign to the whole spirit of Soviet | country, all these have been brilliantly life, developed in Stalin's report, Like High Wages Lenin, Stalin was able to preserve ‘The delegates from all parts of the| the purity of the banner of Marxism] and Soviet Union emphasized in their} against the besmirchings of all op- speeches the remarkable rise in cul-j positionists, of all brands.” ture that the workers of their regions High Political Level with full equality and oportunity for, Continuing, Rudizutak discussed all to share in the benefits of the vic-| the recent Party cleansing, dec!aring tories of the first Five Year Plan, op-|that this cleansing has reised the Portunties limited only by the will-| ideological-political level of all the of the individual worker to} Party organizations and has strength- work honestly and to improve his) ened the contact of the Party with capacities by study. While it is fully} the masses. Up to the first of Jan., Possible for one worker to receive|i934, the Party examined 1,149,850 several times as much income as an-| members and candidates. Seventeen other, who is only beginning to learn, per cent were expelled, six per cent or who does not want to learn, or who| transferred from the category of is still undeveloped, the Party candidates to the category of worker can, if he wishes, devote his) sympathizers. The majority of those efforts to achieving the same high) expelied, joined the Party during the results as his higher-paid fellow-| tact thitee or four years. from Stalin. The demonstration of | Port Byron, Po: Har- Rudtzutak indicates the necessity unshatterable unity and power of the |bor, Tupper Lake ie ee ‘The higher-paid worker gets more|for reorganizing the Central Control International Communist movement |Glen, and West Haverstraw, because he produces more, raises the| Commission Workers and Peasants oi ct tn am ell er “Cleansing” Raises Party Level, Defeats Alien Class Influences More,” Delegates Say towards a Communist, classless so ciety. Stalin's declaration at the Congress that Marxian Socialism does not mean curtailment of consumption by private |individuais, but “The utmost increase | capsaaie into commissions for Party control of the Soviets. New conditions require changed methods of work, and accordingly the Party must reconstruct the Party-Sovict control organizations. The next speaker was Lenin’s sister, Ulyanova, who received prolonged applause as she took the speakers’ stand. “Our achievements,” she said, “Are due primarily to the ten years leadership of Lenin's successor and best disciple, Stalin.” Yaroslavski, applauded by all at the Congress, then declared, “We feel particularly strong the closeness and the final victory of Communism. Looking back over 30 years of Party history, we all feel deep joy and we realize that our victories have been achieved because we have unswerv- ingly followed the path of Lenin, be- cause our Party preserved its unity smashed all opportunists in ir- reconcilable struggle. This Congress gives us a program of great work, a program which flows from Lenin of building socialist society, a plan con- sistently and wisely materialized by Stalin.” Yaroslavski then proceeded to deal with the organization of the Party-Soviet control organs and the results of the Party cleansing, point- ing out the greater percentage of workers in the Party, as a result of the greater achievements of the cleansing. The Congress then adopted a resolution fully approving Rudt- zutek’s report and the activity of the Central Control Commission, New Forces ‘The Credentials Committee of the Congréss then reported, indicating that every fifteen hundred members | of the Party were represented by one! Plar in prosperity,” and “the all-round, full satisfaction of all the needs of civilized working people,” should be compared with the “thrift weeks” and ‘depression menues,” which are now being publicized by social agencies and capitalist —press in the United States, The key-note of rising living standards, emphasized by the Party Congress and its leaders, makes a re- markable comparison with the idea now being taught to the American masses, to reduce production, limit consumption, teaching the workers how to get along on less, and how to live on lower wages for the benefit of the capitalists. Now that the country under the leadéiship of the Communist Party has succeeded in building itself a firm basé in heavy industry, the Congress's theses on production show relatively greater investments for the produc- tion of consumer’s goods, articles of general use. This includes a new, immense program for the creation of whole cities of new workers’ homes, increasing the Wage fund by 400 per cent, with unemployment completely ebolished, the installation of street car lines, motor cars, and trolley buss scvvices, modern sewage systems in all c:ties, and a universal application of electricity, telephone and radio in all homes. In addition, universal health services will be established in the closest connection with all fac~ tories, while nursery accommodations for children of the workers will be increased six-fold in the cities and 92-fold in the villages. Furniture, food-stuifs, clothes, cotton goods, candies and all varieties of articles of everyday use will show enormous increases according to the program outlined at the Party Congress, member with a decisive vote, and every three thousand candidates by one delegate with a consulting vote. The total number of approved dele- gates is 1,200, with decisive votes and 736 with consulting votes, totalling | 1,961 delegates representing 1,872,488 | members, 935,258 candidates. i Of the delegates with decisive votes, 598, or 43.5 per cent of the total num- ber are attending a Party Congress for the first time, revealing the col- ossal number of fresh Party forces in leading positions. Particularly cheracteristic is the rise of new forces in the organiza- tions of Moscow and Leningrad. whose percentage of first timers at the Congress is the highest, the Mos- cow delegation numbering 51 per cent, while the Leningrad, 49 per cent. Eighty per cent of the delegates with decisive votes joined the Party during the underground and civil war years, that is, before 1920, 75 per cent of the delegates with decisive vote: participated in the civil war. Over 60 per cent of the dolegates with de- cisive votes are workers, and 8 per cont are peasants, the mest compact workers group being metal workers, while the remaining groups are min- ers, textile workers, printers, railroad and other workers. 3 The number of delegates working in agriculture, has greatly increased. It is characteristic that 265, or 21.6 per cent of the delegates with deci- sive votes, have finished Party poli- tical schools, and 37 delegates have finished a full course at the Red Pro- fessors Institute. Forty per cent of the delegates finished their school courses during the First Five Year \\ | y . ’ ¥ f ‘