The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-02
Union Membership Is
Growing Says TOmsky


MOSCOW, Oct 31.-This mornings
session of the fifteenth conference of
the AIl-Union Communist Party ended
with the debate on Alexis RykoVs re-
port in which forty-elght delegates
took part. After the concluding
speech the conference unanimously APP
proved the theses presented by Rykotf.
The conference then heard a report by
Tomsky on the activity in the labor
unions and the immediate tasks In
that field and then proceeded to dis
cussion. During the evening sessions
the debates continued.
In the morning session on October
% Rykoff's concluding speech pointed
out that the practical proposals made
by many speakers deserve considera-
ton. Rykov declared that a compari-
son between the accumulation and ex-
tension of the fundamental industrial
capital of the Soviet Union and Of the
foreign capitalist states leads to the
conclusion that our development is
twice as rapid as abroad, except
America.
A rational direction is necessary to
ensure the continuance, Of such devel-
opment The greatest attention must
be paid to the characterization of
each separate region of the U. S. S. R.
The characteristic feature of the de-
bates was the absence of parallel
separate platforms on economic ques-
tons.
After their recent activities the OPP
position should have given here from
the tribune the reasons for their
separating themselves from the party.
This was all the more necessary be-
cause the platform of the opposition
is not only erroneous and inadmissible
on principle but also denagogic and
therefore dangerous for the party. The
acceptance of the opportunist platform
of the opposition would mean the rup-
ture of the alliance between the work
ers and the peasants. The opposition
ought to have declared at the confer
ence if it intends to uphold or to
drop that platform. The conference
adopted in principle Rykoff's theses
and named committee for final edi-
ting.
Union Membership Grows.
Reporting on work in the trade
unions Tomsky. with figures at hand,
refuted the assertions of the opposi- /
ton about the decline in the number
Of organized workers in the Soviet
Union and the immense increase of
non-proletarian elements in the Soviet
apparatus. The total of organized
workers was s,76S, 200 as against $780,
400 last year The number of shop
committees increased during the year
from thirty to f1fty-six thousand. The
figures show in the elearest possible
way the leading role of the proletariat
in the trade unions and in the Soviet |
national economy and belle the as
sertions of the opposition about the
character of the state apparatus of |
the U. S. S. R. 51
More Active.
In general, the workers have Ger.
tainly been more active of late in the |
unions. The unions are stronger organ
nationally and financially. In the |
future the trade unions must pay more
attention to the everyday matters in
the workers life. Referring to the
Committee, Tomsky
emphasized that the views Of the OPP
position demanding the rupture Of the
committee were entirely wrong, point
ing out that this would lead to masses
Of the revolutionary workers leaving
the trade unions. The active support
OF foreign workers who are struggling
against capitalism remains as ever one
Of the main tasks Of the Soviet trade
unions.