The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09

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party congress condemns just as de
cisively the attempts to conceal the
basic question of Communist policy in
the village, the question of the strug
gle for the middle peasant as the CEN
trail figure Of agriculture, and the
question of cooperation as the basic
organizational form of the movement
of the village towards socialism.
THE party congress stresses in par
4 ticular the necessity of the strug-
gle against this last depression. Hav-
ing regard to the relatively greater
preparation of the party for the i'm
mediate struggle against the village
asurer and with the possibility of
overcoming the first depression, the
overcoming of the second depression
represents a much more difficult task,
for this demands complicated meth
DDS of struggle and a unification of
The methods for the political isola-
ton of the Kulaks with the methods
for the drawing of the peasant mass
es into the work of socialist recon
struction All the more because in
he present circumstances this Sec
ond depression threatens return to
the policy of struggle against the Ku-
laks with the methods of war Com
munism, and with an abandonment of
he present party policy in the village
which has already produced serious
| political successes and with the aboli-
.on of the alliance between the prole-
ariat and the peasantry, that is with
he end Of our whole work of recon
truction.
THE party congress ratifies com
i pletely the decisions of the four
| zenith party conference in the peasant
| question Cncluding the extension of
ease rights, the right to employ labor
lower, the assistance for industry and
The transition from the system of adj
| ministrative pressure to the system of
economic competition and economic
truggle and the enlivenment of the
Soyiets, etc) which were directed to
he further betterment o. the policy
Of the party towards consolidating the
llliance between the working class
/ and the peasantry. The party congress
declared that this turning of the party
policy alone which comes from the
altered class relations, has radically
improved the situation in the village,
mas raised the authority of the prole-
tariat and it's party amongst the peas
lntry and has created "a firm basis
Tor a wide organizational work for
the purpose of drawing the peasant
~ into the work of building up. social
ism. u g.
At the same time the party congress
completely ratifies the2r decisions Of
he October plenum of the central
committee upon the work. amongst the
-iliage poor. Only In so far as the
Progress of the productive forces in
he village, under the present circum-
stances of increased activity of all
class groupings, is accompanied by
the organization of the poor peasants
and the land workers, can the neces-
sary reciprocal relations of class fore
es and the leadership of the industrial
proletariat be guaranteed. Whilst
ratifying the decisions of the central
committee upon the material aid for
the village poor and upon the organ
ization of groups amongst these latter
the party congress stresses that there
can be no question here either of re-
turn to the committees of the village
poor nor a return to the system of
pressure from the times of war Com
munism and to the practice of sup
pressing the Kulaks, etc. II is ques-
ton of organizing the village poor.
With the assistance of the party and
the state power they must overcome
the remains Of their pauper phsycho-
.ogy in the struggle on the economic
and political front, collective econo-
mics, artells, co-operatives, peasant
committees, Soviets) and they must
go the way of organized class resist
! ance against the village usurers and
become the firm support of the pro-
letarian policy and its struggle for the
ratification Of the middle peasantry
md the proletariat.
| NHE party congress declares that
4 agricultural cooperation, in rela-
4
tandpoint OF the mobilization Of the
masses and its correct socialist lead
ership, is still very far from the com
pletion of its great role. The party
congress makes 1t the duty Of ali
party members to pay the greatest
attention to the development of agri
cultural cooperation and to take all
measures to guarantee its correc,
, growth. Sassy
/ The increased activity OF the mass
: es together with the growing activity
: Of all class groupings upon the basis
} Of the economic progress is a factor
} of the highest political Importance.
The proletariat and its party as the
} basic and leading social force must
utilize this growth for the purpose
OF still further drawing the masses
into the process of socialist recon
5tructiOn uDon all fronts and into the