The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-07


Today we publish tie resolution
submitted by Comrade .ssinsky, of
the Russian Communist Party, to a
meeting of the PARTY nuclei bureaus
and of the active party workers of
the Moscow organization. Comrade
Ossinsky spoke on the Immediate
Tasks of the Economic Policy" He
was in opposition to the majority
of the Russian Communist Party led
by Zinoviev, Stain, Bucharin and
others. Following Comrade Ossin-
sky's speech we will publish the
resolution of the Thirteenth Party
Conference on the entire discussion.
OSSINSKY SAYS:
TN VIEW of the fact that the Teso-
L luton Of the Political Bureau of
the Central Comittee on the "Im-
mediate Tasks of the Economic
Policy" represents mainly an expo
sition of the resolutions adopted by
the Twelfth Congress Of the Russian
Communist Party with the addition,
however, of some new proposals Of
doubtful worth and the omission of
some questions which nave become
ripe, the meeting considers it nee
essary to ameld the resolution of
the Political Bureau in the following
fundamental respects:
The Amendments.
1. It is necessary, not only to
bring forward the questions regard
ing the fundamental and decisive
significance of knitting together the
nationalized industries ana the peas
ant economy, but also to explain the
reasons for which this knitting to-
gether has not been realized during
the past period and the reasons why
the connecting of the villages with
private home industry and with pri-
vate commercial capital have devel-
oped more successfully. The funda-
mental reasons for ell this are: The
lack of a plan uniting the work of
all the branches Of state economy,
the casualness and the unsystem-
atized work of the leading organs,
and in connection with this, the dis
harmony and crudeness prevalent in
the work of The whole economic
peripheries.
Tho reproaching "a number Of
economic organs" for having incor-
rectly applied the directives of the
Twelfth Congress; and for having
raised the prices higher than was
| justified, the resolution loses sight
of the fact that such a reproach
implies also the lack of leading on
the part of the highest organs in
the commercial activity of the eco
nomic organs. The reproach in the
first place must, therefore, be di-
rected against the highest organs.
2. Setting aside the question rs to
whether, under the conditions of the
new economic policy, crises are I'M
avoidable, or whether it is only So
called "depressions" which are I'M
avoidable, it is necessary to state
that the present crisis has nothing
to do with such unavoidable eco
nomic disturbances. 1t is not the
result either of a sudden reduction
in the demand from the peasants,
resulting from a bad harvest (which
might be a possible cause of
depression and could not be over
Gomez, or of a change IN the move
ment of world prices. 1t is also
impossible to explain it by point
ing out the disparity between
industrial and agricultural produc-
ton, disparity which, it is alleged,
results from objective factors. If
the development of the state indus
try is proceeding in an elementary
way, and is not balanced by the de-
velopment of agriculture, this is
due to the lack of plan of man.
agement.
Improper Credit.
The principal causes Of the pres
ent crisis are (a) the chaotic nature
of our industrial construction; (b)
the casual and improper credit
policy; owing to the latter, in the
period of spring and summer 1923,
the financial means of the state
bank were totally engaged in opera
tons of industry and wholesale
trade on unsound bases and with
out retaining a reserve for the au-
tumn period of gram crop.
The resolution must be modified,
in order to state the real causes Of
the crisis and in order to make clear
the concrete faults committed; to
screen these faults means to prevent
their being corrected.
8. In the resolution Of the Politi-
cal Bureau, there is no mention Of
the question Of the administration
of industry, which has a tremendous
Importance among the actual tasks
of economic policy. 1t is necessary
to put forward and work out con-
cretely the question of establishing
a close connection between the
trusts, which at present in fact are
autonomous, on the one hand, and
the Supreme National Economic
Council on the other, as we'll as the
task Of creating a firm and we'll
connected system Of state economy
on the basis Of an economic plan
and of a correct leadership of the