The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
COMMUNISTS OF
GERMANY meet IN
SIX-DAY SESSION
Dawes Plan Resulted in
Longer Work Day
BY MANUEL GOMEZ

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MaiD With huge open-air dem
onstration. in which 10000 of the
half-a-million inhabitants of Essen
braved the pouring rain to hear the
speeches of Thaelman, Ewert, PECK
and Eberlein, the eleventh national
convention of the German Commun-
list party closed here yesterday. The
convention lasted six days 1t con-
sidered as its main political task the
struggle against Dawes-Plan "ration-
alization," which has heightened the
working day, lowered wages and in
creased unemployment turnout Ger
many.
The convention was an emphatic
endorsement of the policies Of the
central committee, whose resolutions
on every point on the order Of bust
ness was carried almost unanimously.
Workers Delegations
A feature of the convention was the
great number of communications and
delegations received from shop, mill
and mine committees in different
parts of the country Many Of these
were from workers having no con-
nection with the Communist party. A
delegation of Social Democratic work
ers appeared at the convention to ask
the Communists to take mp strug-
gle against the right-wing leadership
in the trade unions. All members of
the delegation were expelled from the
Social Democratic party the day fol
lowing.
Special interest attaches to the
Essen convention because it was the
first one for the German Communist
party since receipt of the now famous
open letter from the executive COM
mittee of the Communist Information
al. That letter declared the chief in
ternal enemy of party progress in
Germany to be -leftism. which
under the Ruth Fischer-M aslow re-
gime resulted in a suicidal policy to-
wards the trade unions and towards
the united front in general
Ultra-I.eft Weak
OF the 1872 delegates at Essen, rep
resenting the 10000 members Of the
German Communist party, the ultra
left was at no time able to muster
more than 70 in support Of its pro-
posals. These twelve votes by no
means represent a single homogene-
Gus group. The ultra-left opposition
was divided into the Weddingers, the
Leipsig- opposition and the
Urbahns group. The three delegates
of the latter group (Bartels, Slecht
and Grillowitz) openly declared their
solidarity with Ruth Fischer, Maslow,
Urbahns and all other expelled COM
rades who stand upon the common
political platform" The convention
thereupon removed them from all po-
sitions Of party responsibility for a
period of one year and ordered them
10 Immediately give up their seats in
Peichstag and I,andtag.
Message To Workers Party
The new central committee, elected
practically as proposed by Comrade
Thaelman in the name of the retiring
committee, represents a step toward
consolidation of the party leadership
on broader basis than heretofore.
Elements formerly in the opposition
were included with view to win
ming them for the party line of policy.
On the third day of the convention
cablegram was read announcing the
death of Comrade Ruthenberg. The
entire convention rose in respect as
Comrade Remmele described Ruthen-
berg's contributions TO the movement.
Following a short address by the fra
ternal delegate of the Workers Com
munist) part Of America, it was de-
cided to send a special message to
the American party.