The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-20

The resolution Of the pIenary ses-
sion of the central committee and the
central control commission OF the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
on the unity Of the party was as fol-
lows:
INPREcoR TELEGRAPH AGENCY
1 The preservation of the unity of
L our party has always been the OBJ
ject of attention of the entire party
and of its central organs, the central
committee and the central control
commission. Under the leadership
of Comrade Lenin the party has sue
cessfully defeated every manifestation
of factional strife, every endeavor to
/ fight against the party on the part
of factions and groups with special
platforms and the endeavor to coal
esce to a certain degree and to estab-
lish a special group discipline" (from
the resolution Of the 10th party con-
vention). The 10th party convention,
which took place just in the period
of the change in the life of the coun-
try and of the party, adopted a reso-
luton drawn up and moved by Lenin
on the unity of the party. In this
resolution:
THE convention calls the atten-
tion of all party members to the
fact that at the present moment
the unity and firmness of it's ranks,
the assurance Of complete conf
dence amongst the members of the
party and the assurance of a really
close, comradely collaboration,
which really embodies the will of
the vanguard of the proletariat, is
especially necessary, as a number
Of factors are reinforcing the vaseil-
lations within the petty-bourgeois
population of the country"
A ND the party convention further
"A pointed out that sit is necessary
for all class-conscious workers to re-
cognize the injuriousness and mad
instability Of any kind of fractional
strife, which in practice inevitably
leads to the weakening of close col
Liberation and removing Of the at
tempts of the enemies of the party
hanging on to the governing party
to deepen the crevice and to exploit
it for the aims OF the counter-revolu-
ton"
THE motion submitted by Lenin and
L adopted by the 10th party con-
vention on the unity of the party was
the guide for the party and for all
its organs in the conservation of the
stability of its ranks. Guided by this
desire of the 10th party convention,
the party settled all the manifesto
tons of fractional activity until the
14th party convention At the time
of the 18th party convention the party
again faced the factional activity of
the so-called New Opposition"
The 14th party convention rejected
the political and organizational views
of the opposition, which distorted the
standpoint of Leninism. Nevertheless
the party convention and the newly
elected central committee of the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union con-
sidered it practicable and necessary
to take adherents of the opposition
into all the leading institutions of the
party, even into the central committee
and the latter's politbureau. The
party hoped that the opposition would
recognize and rectify its errors in
the course of unprejudiced work. The
opposition was thus given the fullest
opportunity to defend its viewpoint
in the cases in which differences of
opinion arose upon one point or an
other in the normal party manner.
Altho the opposition persisted in its
errors condemned by the 14th party
convention and bore elements of open
factional irreconciabity into the work
of the Politbureau of the central COM
mittee, this defense of its opinions
by the opposition within the party
gave rise neither in the central com
mittee nor in the central control COM
mission to serious fears for the unity
of the party.
. But unfortunately the opposition
A'did not confine its fight to the lin
its defined by the legal defense of its
viewpoint within the party statutes
and of late began direct breaches of
the decisions of the 10th and 14th
party conventions regarding the con-