The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-23
COMMUNISTS
convene In
RED MOSCOW
Russian Party Congress
Begins Today
Especial to The Daily Worker


MOSCOW, Russia, May 22.-The
opening session Of the Enlarged
Executive Committee Of the Com
n1unist international has been post
poned until the 10th of June. The
Executive Committee of the Com
munist international also postponed
the opening of the fifth World Con-
gress Of the Communist bnterna-
tionaI until June IS.
MOSCOW, Russia, May 22.-
The congress of the Russian
Communist Party opens here
today to consider the national
policy and elect the party COM
nittees which supervise the ad-
ministration of the government.
The problems of commerce
and industry will occupy the
center of attention at this years
congress.
The party is expected to vote fur
Their encouragement to the present
campaign against the bourgeoisie and
private enterprise. Undoubtedly more
drastic action against the retail trad
ers will be planned by the Communist
congress in its sessions.
Attack Petty Bourgeois.
The program at present calls for
attack on the petty business men by
special assistance given to the CO.
operatives. The government now al
lows co-operatives to choose their own
locations for business. reduces taxes
and rents for them, and in other ways
gives direct support. The co-opera-
tives are permitted to offer workers
credit terms on purchases of clothes
and other necessities.
Private traders are not given the
right to offer credit, are taxed to the
limit, are charged high rents on their
stores and homes, and must pay high
rates for the education of their chill
dren.
Boost Manufacturing.
The question of stimulating the
AudAuldCJuAAn6 AuuuCLAJ VI 1AuCDld Will
be the cause of much lively debate, it
is anticipated. The authorities have
been continuing their support of the
manufacturing work even at consider
able loss, because of the militancy of
the city workers. They have attempt
ed to pay for the losses here by gains
in agriculture and raw material pro-
duction.
F. G. Dzerzshinskys work as head
of the supreme council of national
economy will be scrutinized carefully
by the Communist congress. Deer
zhinsky has attempted to put thru
program of strict business methods
since his coming to Office at the first
Of the year. He has met a good deal
Of opposition. He closed non-paying
factories and tried to reduce the over
head expenses of large official STATS.
Who Shall Lead?
The leadership of the party will be
of great moment to the congress.
Leon Trotzky, Commissar of War and
the Red Army, and G. e. Zinoviev,
president of the Leningrad Soviet and
chairman of the Communist Interna-
tional, are the two most outstanding
figures of the party in Russia. Elmo
view has had the longer association
with the dead leader, Lenin, which
many of the Communists consider a
great advantage to him in the bid for
leadership.
Another matter that will receive i'm
portant consideration by the Com
munist congress is the "spring house
cleaning" of the party. All doubt
full elements will be subject to investi-
cation and thoro purging process
will be used to rid the Communist
Party of Russia OF unsafe elements.
The Communist International and
the Red International Labor Union
meetings will follow the Russian
Communist Party congress here.