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

mun1SC Party mas NOT JuSIilSu SAPSS-
tations." This is how a bourgeois
sRussian paper, Rul, Berlin organ OF
the right wing constitutional demo
Gratis, characterizes the great gather
ing of the ruling party of Russia In
deed, the congress was not to the llk-
ing Of all yellows pinks, whites and
blacks The counter-revolutionary
crew had expected row, scandal,
a rift, an explosion. The men with
out a country" had disseminated thrq-
out the western world news of an i'm
pending split in the ranks of the So
Wet proletarian dictatorship. There
had been already Learned" treatises
published in the menshevist press on
the social causes Of the inevitable dis
solution of Communist rule. Political
fakirs had lived by the feeble light
of newly kindled hopes. Russia her
self was looking with eagerness to-
ward the coming of the highest gov
erning body of the republic. For had
there not been great political storm
raging only a short while before?
Had there not been two groups,
two ordinations, denouncing each
other thruout the entire party, from
the Central Executive Committee
down to the last nucleus in the last
shop of the remotest province Of the
union?
Ironelad Unity.
Well, the Congress has come, and
the Congress has gone, and such a
manifestation of roncIad indestructi-
bic unity of the entire party from top
to bottom the world has never seen.
If the Russian revolution is the great
est event in the history of the working
class; if the fate of the Russian Com
munist Party is of the most vital i'm
portance to the working class of the
world, then this Congress, just fin
ished in absolute harmony and with
colors flying high, must be source
of happiness and pride to every class
conscious worker in every country Of
the globe.
BY their actions should one judge
political bodies. By its results should
a line of policy be tested. The policy
of the Russian Communist Party, as
expressed by its Central Executive
Committee, has stood the severist his
torical tests-a front of hostility from
without, a grave and evil-boding eco
nomic crisis within, state of civil
warfare within the party itself-and
has proven successful, overcoming
difficulties, removing obstacles, lead
ing the republic toward peace, pros
perity and socialism. Under this sign
the r. c. P. Congress convened. Un-
der this sign it conducted its deliber-
atoms. And tho heated skirmishes
were not lacking, the most outspoken
opposition Tor, rather, the members Of
the former opposition) had to ac-
knowledge the substantial achieve
ments of the last several months and,
with them, the correctness of the G. e.
C.'s line of action.
Political and Economic Achievements.
It will require a special article to
enumerate the political and economic
gains since last October, when the
fame of discussion was kindled. We
shall here confine ourselves to brief
mention of the most outstanding fea-
lures. In international relations, Sc
ries of recognitons de iure, notably by
Italy, England and the Scandinavian
countries-recogniton due, to use
Zinoviev's expression, not only to the
Itch" of Tchitcherin, but mainly to
the Itch" Of the Tchervonetz, the sta
.bilized Russian currency. In foreign
trade, a growing import of raw mate
rails to keep Russian industries busy
an export of grains, furs and other ma
tive products in increased numbers
a favorable trade balance which aided
materially to the sterilization of the
rouble. In the field of production, ag
riculture reaching about rs per cent o
the pre-war output, industry approach