The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-22

followed by the flood of news on
the British general strike, the pub
LEGATION Of the closing speech of
Gregory Zinoviev at the Enlarged
Executive Committee meeting of
the Communist International was
delayed until today.e The report of
zinoviev's speech, as furnished by
the International Press Correspond
ence, is as follows:
IMOSCoW, U. S. S. R,-(By MaiD-
A'A Gregory zinoviev, chairman of
the Communist International was
greeted with great applause then
commenced his closing speech. We
can say with good conscience that
the enlarged r. G. G. l. has done
everything in its power to study all
corners of the European working
class movement and the revolutions
airy movement of the whole world, to
explain the past mistakes and to find
the correct line for the whole of the
world proletariat. Our work was not
done smoothly and without him
ORANGES, but despite the difficulties
! we have succeeded in solving the
most important problems of the time
satisfactorily.
THE session Of the enlarged E. C.
c. l. were held in period when the
sterilization of capitalism is begin
ming to shake. 1t was however, not
a period of shaking for the bolshe-
vization of the parties but of consoli-
dation. Our most important problem
is the problem of building bridges be-
tween the masses of the proletariat
and its advance guard For this rea-
son the tactic of the united front and
in particular the trade union ques-
ton played very important role in
our sessions. Last year still very
great doubt existed in the ranks of
the French and the German parties
in connection with the formation of
the Anglo-Russian unity committee
Today it has already been proved that
the Anglo-Russian committee is one
of the most important bridges to the
masses.
The Amsterdam rights are working
feverishly against us. especially in
England itself. Many signs point to
the possibility of vaccilation in this
respect. Naturally however. this dan.
ger must not be overestimated for
our friends in England are also at
work. Petty diplomacy will not at.
tain much in this respect. The course
of the class struggle and the will OF
our comrades is decisive here. The
course of the class struggle, particu
!. iarly in Great Britain however, is ia
vorable for us and it will bring all
descriptive plans to nothing. We must
however be on our guard and when
we are beaten back here and there we
must redouble our work for the inter
national unity of the trade union
movement. The slogan of interna
tional unity will be for months to
come, perhaps for years, the most i'm
portant slogan of the Comintern. The
organizational form of the work in
this connection is not of decisive i'm
portance. If one bridge is endangered
we shall defend it and build three
others.
OUR enemies will interpret our dis
cussion as a great crisis inside the
Comintern. 1 must emphasize what
Bucharin said however, that there is
no great crisis here, actually no crisis
at all. Naturally however, the symp
tomato significance of our discussions
must not be underestimate.
} 1t is absolutely not to be under
stood how one can possible vote fol-
the Zinoviev theses which were unani
mously accepted by the Russian dele
cation, and in the same breath say
} that the epen letter and the resolution
OF the German commission are incor
rect The line of my theses, and that
of the open letter and the German
resolution is the same.
THE attitude Of the Comintern
= against the right and against the
ultra-left is nothing new, nothing &C.
, cidental, not a changing affair, but the
! fundamental OF Leninism, the funda.
mental Of the Comintern. Even Marx
was compelled to fight these two devi.
ations even If they went then under
} other names. For this reason we dc
, not need any new attitude, all we need
to do is to retain the old principles OF
the Comintern with the necessary
firmness. And we have done this very
; well. We have undertaken no revis
ion OF the Fifth Congress and we
have dealt out strong blows both to
right and ultra-right in accordance
with the situation in the parties and
countries in question. Neither the
ultra-lefts nor the rights are today
what they were a few years ago, lin
1920 and 1921 the ultra-left consisted
Of comrades who came from the fight
with the Illusion that victory de
pended on us alone. At that time