The daily worker., 1924-06-25
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IdIIleS VI OeInduy anu rIduCS.
Comrade Rykov spoke some words
to the memory of our late comrades
Nogin and Lutovinov
Comrade Kolaroff welcomed the Con-
gress in the name Of the ECCI.; in
addition, greetings were delivered to
the Congress by representatives of the
Communist Parties of Germany, France
England and Japan while Comrade
Clara zetkin greeted the Congress in
the name Of the International Com
munist Women's Secretariat.
Second Day Of Congress
Speech of Comrade Zinoviev on the
Political report Of the &C.:
In the political report of the &C.,
comrade Zinoviev pointed out that the
Party had reason for judging the in
ternational and inner situation of the
Soviet Union in an optimistic sense.
The period covered by the report,
which had begun with Lord Curzon's
ultimatum had ended with the de jure
recognition of the Soviet Union by
England. AS regards the London ne
gotiations, their result will depend
upon Macdonald. On the side of the
Soviet Union there prevails the most
determined desire to arrive at an
| agreement. The foreign policy Of
number Of European states, particularly
Of England, is closely interviewer with
the policy of the End International.
The profound fundamental disagree
ments between the End and the 3rd
Internationals can have nothing to do
with the business negotiations between
the Soviet Union and England.
AS regards the conflict with Germany
| it must be said that the raid upon
the Russian Trade Mission in Berlin
was an attempt on the part of German
Social Democracy to get. into the good
graces Of France at the price Of
worsenEAg OF the relations with the
Soviet Union. In the sphere of the
policy of concessions, the caution and
restraint exercised up to now remain
necessary.
The inner situation of the Soviet
Union is characterised by the success
full solution of the national question,
by the considerable economic successes,
by the strengthening of the alliance
between the proletariat and the pea
santry and by the enrolment of more
than two hundred thousand workers
in the Communist Party. At present
agriculture has reached 78 per cent,
industry 4S per cent, foreign trade 20
per cent and wages 62 per cent of their
respective pre-war levels. The market
crisis has been overcome.
Our chief tasks consist at present in
the raising of heavy industry and in
the solution Of the questions of trade.
36 per cent of the home trade is in the
hands of the state and GA per cent is
in the hands of private enterprise. The
New Economic Policy does not by any
means mean the restoration of capital
ism. Nobody wants to abolish the
NEP. The freedom of interior trade
will be maintained. A new cooper
ative policy and a new commercial
policy will, however, be introduced.
Still more attention will be devoted
to the villages.
The Central Committee, with the
support of the Party, will realise the
heritage bequeathed by comrade Lenin
and lead the Russia of the New Eco
nomic Policy to the Socialist Russia.
Speech of Comrade Stain on the
Organizatory report Of the Central
Committee:
Comrade Stain described in detail
the growing influence of the Russian
CP. on the trade unions, ON the state
apparatus, on the economic organs and
on the co-operatives.
At the time of the 18th Party Con-
gress the Party had 4s5.O00 members,
which up to the present had increased
to 100000 members. The proportion of
members of the Russian CP. who are
employed as workers in the workshops
has increased during this period from
IL to 35 per cent.
The inner life of the Party has
definitely improved. The transference
of the center of gravity from the sit
tings Of the Political and of the Or
ganizatory Bureaus to the Plenary sit
tings of the &C. constitutes an import
ant innovation. The sittings of the
Plenum of the &C. and the Plenary
sittings of the government committees
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