The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-17
COMMUNISTS OF
GERMANY HOLD
1tTR CONGRESS-
Discuss Years Work;
Plan Future Action

ESSEN, Germany (By Mall. -
The second session of the XI Con-
gress Of the German Communist
Party was opened on the morning of
the End Of March with the election
of the congress chairman. The fol-
lowing comrades we're elected Ges-
chke, PECK and Becker ESSEN. The
following comrades were elected as
honorary members Of the presidiun
of the congress-. Stain, Bucharin,
Ryiov, Tomski and Tchen Ono Sio
Chairman Of the Communist Party
Of China).
The Party Congress. honored the
memory of Comrade McManus by the
delegates rising in their seats and
standing a moment or so in silence.
After the acceptance of the agenda
which grants the most important OPP
positional group heightened speak
ing time, kilograms Of greetings were
read amidst great applause from the
EKKI and the Communist Parties Of
the Soviet Union, Norway and Aus
tralia.
Comrade PECK then honored in a
few brief words the memory of the
proletarian victims in the mine catas-
trophies in Great Britain and in the
Ruhr district, who were, he said, the
latest victims of capitalist rationaliza-
ton.
A unanimous decision of the con-
gress sent its revolutionary greet
ings to all proletarian class-war pris-
oners in the jails Of capitalism.
Representative of the Red Front
Fighters League and of the Red Wo-
men and Girls League then addressed
the congress.
Comrade Dengel then delivered the
report upon Ahe work of the party
since the X party congress: The
party he said had altered the wrong
non-bolshevist relation between the
German c. P. and the Comintern
established by Ruth Fischer and Mas
Low and established really fraternal
relations with the brother parties.
The opposition talked very much in
great meetings about internal party
democracy, but the party had estab-
lished democracy in all the nuclei
where 80 to 400 of the membership
were eetive in solving the political
problems facing the party.
The recruiting work of the party
was not sufficiently systematic, the
cause of this was to be found in the
weakness of the work of the nuclei.
Where the work of the nuclei was
good, the membership has been great
ly increased.
The greatest energy would have to
be directed in the future to the large
factories where the party was still
very weak.
The party would Systematically
remedy its weaknesses. The main
cause of the existing weakness and
defects was that the party leader
ship was compelled to concentrate
the greatest part of its energy on
countering the work of those disrup-
tors within the party. This party
congress would create the guarantees
for real unity in the party and thus
make it possible to overcome the
weaknesses and errors.
The third session was taken up
with a speech of Comrade Thaelmann
upon the political situation and the
tasks of the party, which lasted three
hours:
The fascist coup d'etat in Lithuan-
ia, the Chinese revolution, the attack
Of the United States of America
against Nicaragua and Mexico, the
formation of a bourgeois block gov
eminent in Germany and the note Of
Chamberlain to the Soviet Union are
all signs of serious intensification
of the national and social contradic-
tions and constitute a threat to the
whole capitalist sterilization which
is relative and only temporary
episode in the epoch Of the world
revolution.
The Chinese revolution is advane-
ing from victory to victory. 1t is the
opening of the coming revolution of
the oppressed Eastern peoples against
AHlpSiid3iSiHs ~ ID Biedb ouPpOiV
for the class struggle Of the Euro
pean proletariat and a part Of the
world revolution. The greatest
counter-factor to the sterilization Of
the capitalist world is the Soviet
Union with its advancing socialist
constructive work. The capitalist
sterilization is also internally threat
ened by the intensifieation of the
class struggle of the European prole-
tariat.