The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-28

MOSCOW, June IT, Charging the
Opposition, headed by Trotsky and
Zinoviev, with violating Communist
Party discipline. The Praesidium of the
Central Control Commission Of the
All Union Communist Party has
adopted a resolution recommending
that the joint session Of the Central
Committee and the Central Control
Commission consider the expulsion of
Comrades TrotsIy and Zinoviev from
the Central Executive Committee Of
the Party.
The resolution adopted by the
Praesidium Of the Central Control
Commission follows:
Beginning with 1923, the Opposi-
ton first headed by Trotsky and from
1926 by both Trotsky and Zinoviev,
has taken advantage Of every diff
Guilty which the Party has faced in its
effort to build Socialism to deal a
blow at the unity Of our Party and its
leadership
Violated Party Discipline.
at has not hesitated to violate Par
ty discipline. In 1923, at the moment
when the Party was struggling
against the difficulty caused by the
discrepancy Of the scissors" Trotsky
and the group of forty-six attempted
to utilize the difficulties for the pur-
pose Of factionalism, making the
statement that the country had been
brought to the verge Of ruin by the
Party's policy.
"The Fourteenth Congress of the
Communist Party gave a unanimous
estimate of the new Opposition's
I (Zinoviev and others) deviation from
feminist positions: namely, denying
the socialistic character of our indus
try, Understanding the middle peas
antry and disregarding the demand
for the freedom from fractional group
ings.
I'm the spring and the summer Of
1926 the new Opposition bloc aligned
itself with Comrade Trotsky, the new
Opposition headed by Zinoviev, com
pletely accepting the theological posi-
ton of Comrade Trotsky.
Organized fractional Meetings.
"In the summer Of 1926, in its in
cessant attacks on the Party, the OPP
position went so far as to formally
shape its factional organization as an
illegal organization and even organ
lied mass meetings in the woods LA
shevitch case).
Having suffered all-around defeat,
thru the political experience of Social
ist construction, the Opposition by its
actions in "aviopribor" and "Red Putt
lovetz" works entered the path of fac
tional sectarianism.
: Having met a unanimous repulse
from the whole party and having been
most resolutely rejected by the labor
! nuclei the Opposition was compelled
to undertake the obligation of stop
ping factional strife. Declaration of
10th of October, 1920
Promised Obedience.
Following this declaration the Or
: position recognized 'its duty to carry
thru the Party's decision regarding
the Misunderstanding of factions" In
this declaration the Opposition recog-
nized as especially inadmissible the
support in any way of the activities
of persons already excluded from the
Party and from the Communist Inter-
national such as Ruth Fischer and
; Maslov.
: I'm this declaration the Opposition
also stated that eve consider abso-
lutely binding for us the decisions Of
the Fourteenth Congress, the Central
Committee and the Central Control
Committee Of the Party and we shall
Internationally submit to them"
"All of the subsequent activities of
the Opposition, since the latter's Oc-
tober declaration, demonstrated that
the Opposition, since the sixteenth of
October, had looked upon its obliga-