The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-15
LENINCRAD AND
SUPPORT
Line OF PLENUM
Oppo sition Totally
Bankrupt in Every Way

MOSCOW, Aug. 14.-The meetings
Of the active members of the Moscow
Party organization on the report of
Comrade Rykov and the Leningrad
organization on the report of Com
rade Bukharin approved unanimously
all the decisions of the united plenum
of the Central Committee and the
Central Control Commission of the
All-Union Communist Party. At the
meeting Of the Moscow Party activ-
lists the resolution was unanimously
adopted with the exception of one
contrary vote and one abstinant, out
Of total of three thousand present.
Approves Stern Warning.
The Moscow meeting declared that
it adhered entirely to the plenum's
decisions expressing correctly the
line Of Lehinism on the basic ques-
tons of the international and home
policies. The resolution especially
emphasizes the fact that the utter
ances Of the leaders of the opposition
before the plenum on questions of the
defense Of the country and the eco
nomic reconstruction of the U. S. S.
R. showed the absolute theological
bankruptcy of Trotzkyism. 1t wholly
approved the decisions to administer
a strong rebuke and give warning to
Zinoviev and Trotsky.
VIII Be Last Warming.
The resolution considers this deci-
sion as the last attempt at the least
painful solution of the internal Party
struggle by dictated desire to es-
tablish Party unity. The resolution
warns that all efforts to break this
truly last attempt to make possible
an honorable retreat and approach to
the Party for the opposition cannot
be explained otherwise than deliber-
ate Separation and desire to break
with the Party.
Only one member of the opposition,
Ivan Smirnoff, took part in the de-
bates on Rykov's report. His efforts
were so ridiculous that they provoked
only laughter and indignation.
The meeting was a brilliant dem
onstration of the final and absolute
isolation of the opposition.
Leningrad Approves.
The meeting of the active members
of Leningrad, after hearing Bukhar-
ms report, refused to open debates on
the report and all voices against six
passed the resolution approving the
decisions of the plenum of the Cen
trial Committee and Central Control
Commission which was unanimously
passed the day before after lively de-
bates by the Provincial Plenum and
Control Commission.
One Of the six oppositionists par
ticipating in the meeting of the active
members advanced another draft of a
resolution, containing affirmations
regarding the false line of the Cen
trail Committee and even alleged
'thermidorianist degeneration" of the
Party leaders. The meeting respond
ed to this utterance by stormy indig-
nation and in spite of the presidium's
motion refused to hear the whole text
of the resolution, as they considered
the warning given to the opposition
as the last, and resented the resolu-
ton as a new attempt to continue
fractional disruption.
Appeals to Opposition.
The Leningrad organization ap-
pealed to all comrades adhering to
the opposition to break with their
past and pass over into the feminist
ranks of the Party The meeting
promised absolute support to the Gen.
trail Committee for the defense of
Party unity from separatist activity
of the opposition bloc and considers
it necessary to carry on determined
struggle against all fractionalism and
all heterogeneous of the agreement
to submit to the Party decisions.