The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-19


tude occurred between the conference
and the congress. The Lenin Enroll
ment took place. The party appealed
after Lenin's death, and over. two hun
dred thousand workers from the shop
by becoming members Of
the party. Never in its history had the
party seen the like of such mass
rush into Communist ranks. In two or
three months the membership in
creased from over 100000 to nearly
three quarters of million. The newly
enrolled were only shop workers, pro-
letarians of manuel labor. This broad
ened the proletarian basis of the par
ty, made 1t throb more theoretically
with actual proletarian life, brought it
into most intimate contact with the
to draw new working class elements
into the work of administration. The
Lenin Enrolment was, undoubtedly,
stimulated by the death of the great
revolutionary leader; it was carried
out in the heat Of sentiment released
by the loss. But the very fact that the
masses manifested their love for
Lenin by enrolling into the party Of
Leninism showed their great interest
for the party. The very circumstances
The new members (the Lenin Draft)
were actually elected by their non
party shop brothers to serve on the
party. General meetings of the work
ers were held in the shops and fac
tories, and after a rigid examination
of the candidates and thorough dis
-cussion, the mass of workers voted
who should and who should not be-
come a member of the party. The
workers of the country thus plainly
said that even if they are not all party
members they look upon the party as
their own and are interested in it's
progress (which would have been i'm
possible had the accusations Of the OPP
position been true to any appreciabIe
degree.
Congress Unanimous for C. (. C. Policy
The Lenin Enrolment made the
position OF the c. z. G. easy. The En-
rollment had changed the entire as
pect Of the party, had made criticism
almost impossible. By. the time the
Thirteenth Congress convened, the
Central Executive Committee had
taken from the opposition those ele-
ments of constructive criticism which
could be realized in practice and had
thus improved the tone of party life
pacifying many a nopponent. The
Thirteenth Congress had only to sum
up the situation. The delegates were
unanimously for the c. e. c. with no
dissenting vote and nobody refraining
from voting. Trotzky's speech at the
! Congress was a defense of his former
stand and an effort to prove that it
could not be called an opportunistic
alteration as it was characterized by
the January conference and by many
a speaker at the congress. Trotzky,
however, said expressly that he is not
only against definite factions within
the party, but also against indefinite
groupings according to tendencies and
trends Of opinion. 1t is known that he
has decided to work In harmony with
the new Central Executive Committee.
The Congress has thus closed a
great chapter IN the history of the
party. The party Of the Proletarian
Dictatorship stands today solid as a
rock. It's leadership Is the Lenin
guard its army is the working class
of the factories and shops. The party
theology has been tested in the heat
of numerous battles. The outlook of
the party. is bright. There is certain
exhilaration thruout the membership.
Everybody has hopeful feeling. The
party is without assure. without a
crack. I'VE are not patch party"
, said Zinoviev at meeting of party
functionaries at Leningrad, and the
echo OF this proud declaration rever.