The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-04
KRUPSKAYA SAYS
OPPOSITION IS
BLIND TO FACTS
Old BOlsheviks Appeal
for Unity

MOSCOW, August 3.-Krupskaya,
the widow of Lenin, in speech to
the United Plenum of the Central
Committee and Central Control Com
mission of the All-Union Communist
Party now in session declared that
the menace of war is lowering over
the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-
lies and that at this moment it is i'm
peratlve that the maximum unity Of
the Party and the wide masses
around the Party be achieved.
Opposition Condemned.
The disputes taking place at the
plenum testify to the fact that the
opposition does not realize the gray
ity of the war danger. In face of
the impending war it's accusations
directed against erganizational unity
of the Party and the masses must
cease. The opposition is devoid of
realistic foundation and it wrongly
generalizes about separate, negative
facts. 1t is purposely wearing
blinkers not. to perceive all the con-
struction, the industrial achieve
ments, taking place in the U. S. S. r.
Masses Are Revolutionary.
Illustrating the growth of the
conscious desire for organization on
the part of the masses and their IN
questioned revolutionary citation by
numerous recent instances, Comrade
Krupskaya emphasizes the fact that
the opposition does not see real life,
it has no roots in the ranks Of the
masses and the masses will not fol-
low it.
Discusses Defense.
Referring to the question of the
defense Of the country against i'm
perialist aggression Krupskaya en-
phasizes the fact that it is utterly
impossible to discuss this question in
an anarchistic way. The Party is not
a discussion club; there are, moments
when it is necessary to act-not de-
liberate.
Indulging in biting irony against
Trotzky, Krupskaya declared that he
more than anyone else knows what
would have happened to the Red
Army if, at the moment of attack,
each soldier would deliberate as to
whether he vas going in the right
direction and would himself decide
where to go. The same maximum
unity is required in the present stu
alton.
Defends Chinese Policy.
Passing over to the question of
the Chinese events, Krupskaya en-
pnasizes the correctness of the funda-
neItal line as outlined by Bukharin's
theses proposed at the plenum,
Referring to her own position,
hrupskaya declared that in 1925 she
considered the position of the
opposition correct, but that now
in the moment of struggle, the max
imum unity of the party on the basis
of support of the Central Committee
is imperative.
Opposition Losing Adherents.
In an editorial on the situation in
the All-Union Communist Party
Pravda emphasizes the fact that the
menshevist hopes for the legalization
of the opposition cannot be realized.
The opposition is in bad way and is
losing its adherents one by one.
Sokolnikov has broken with the OPP
position recently. A collective dec.
laration was filed by number of
comrades who recently signed oppo-
sition documents, requesting that
their signatures be cancelled from the
documents.
These events and many other de-
fections from the opposition indicate
the rapidity with which they are los
ing ground. The resolution of the
opposition to continue and to aggra-
vate the struggle in spite of all in
face Of the present acute inter
national position will compel others
to follow those who returned to the
ranks of the Party, having honestly
acknowledged their faults and broken
with the opposition leaders.
Old Bolshevil1s' Appeal.
The bureau of the Society of Old
Bolsheviks issued an appeal to all
members of the Communist Party
protesting against the outrageous
declarations and actions of members
of the opposition in their references
to the great number of old Bolheviks
among them, who built the party
The old Bolshevik builders of the
Party will show all members Of the
Communist Party that the opposition