The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-20
For the Unity Of the All-Union Communist Party


| seryation of unity in the ranks of
the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, undertaking in its fight against
the party to create an illegal faction
al organization, which was directed
against the party and the latter's
unity
Recently the party faced number
of such factional measures on the
part of the New Opposition, manifest
ed in the staging of illegal conspira-
tive meetings, in the printing and dis
tribution in Moscow as well as in
other cities of one-sidedly selected Sc
cret party documents with the inten-
ton of discrediting the policy of the
party (the secret documents of the
Politbureau were distributed amongst
the party members and were receiv-
ed by the organizations in Briansk,
Saratov, VladivOstok, Piatigorsk
Omsk, Homel, Odessa, etc.,, in the
sending of special emissaries to other
party organizations for the purpose of
establishing illegal factional groups
"trip of Comrade G. Byelenki to Odes-
sa to organize an illegal faction with
the arranging of special codes, rem
devious, etc.
1t must be pointed out that all the
threads of this factional procedure of
the opposition lead to the apparatus
of the executive committee of the
Communist International, at the head
Of which Comrade Zinoviev, member
of the Politbureau, stands.
Attention must be especially drawn
to an illegal factional meeting in
forest near Moscow, which was ar
ranged by the E. c. c. l. functionary,
Comrade G. Byelenki, and which rep
resents a step without precedent in
the history of our party. This meet
ing arranged in accordance with all
the rules Of conspiracy (patrols, strict
factional selection of those invited,
etc. was not only conducted by a
collaboration of the E. c. C. l., who
was chairman, but, what also is with
out precedent in the history of our
party, candidate for the central com
mittee of the G. p S. u, Comrade
Lashevitch, made a speech and called
upon those present to organize for
the fight against the party, against
the central committee elected by it.
All these disorganizing steps of the
opposition prove that the opposition
had decided to go over from the legal
defense of it's views to the creation
of am illegal organization in the en-
tire Soviet Union which opposes the
Party and in this manner prepares
for split in the latter's ranks.
. This activity of the New Oppo-
= sition caused a reactivation of
the groupings condemned by the party
and drove these miserable remnants
of anti-party and deliberately split
ting groups to recommence their work
against the party and its unity, on
the basis of the New Opposition.
Thus it was established that Comrade
Mikailoff, director of a Moscow fac
tory, who had formerly belonged to
the so-called Miasnikoff workers
group" which had been condemned
by the party as a counter-revolution
airy group as long as three years .ago)
had duplicated secret party docu-
ments with the aid of non-party typ
lists for distribution in wide circles
and had also organized illegal meet
ings.
1t has been established that Com
rade Shugayeff, who formerly was a
member of the workers opposition, -
which was condemned by the 14th
party convention at the instance of
Comrade Lenin, went so far as to
carry on anti-Soviet agitation amongst
the specialists, advocating in CONVEX
sations with them a direct struggle
against the Soviet power thru ex-
ploitation of the expected disinte-
grafton of our party as a result of the
activity of the New Opposition. Final
ly Comrade Jatzek, who was once
expelled for connection with a Men