The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
WILL
NOT READMIT THE
MASLOFF faction
Points to Double Deals
of Discredited Group
Especial Cable to The DAILY
WORK ER)

MOSCOW, Sept. 21.-The presi-
dunn Of the Executive Committee Of
the Communist International has re-
fused an application received from
the group Of Masloff, Ruth Fisher
and others, signed by seventeen ex-
members Of the Party including Mas
loft himself, Scholem, and Urbans.
Their petition requested that they be
accepted again into the Communist
international.
The presidium declares that the
executive committee of the Comintern
resolutely rejects such propositions
as are emanating from renegades to
the Communist movement.
In its decision the executive points
out that while the petitioners state
they defend the first country of the
proletarian dictatorship, the Union
Of Socialist Soviet Republics" the
Masloff group is practically doing
everything in their power to discredit
the U.S.S.R. and the Comintern.
Irreconciliable.
The 23rd issue Of the groups or
gan, "The Banner Of Communism, !"
says that the Zines of the group and
of the Communist international can
not join, and are irreconciliable."
The presidium of the executive
committee of the Communist Inter-
national in its decision calls attention
to this latter statement and declares
it to be true, for there can be nothing
in common between the struggle of
the proletarian dictatorship and at
tacks on that dictatorship, between
the Comintern and those who disor-
ganize the Comintern, between the
policy of resistance to the interna-
tional bourgeoisie which is attacking
the U. S. S, R. and the opposing pol
icy Of the western orientation" of
the German bourgeoisie.
. Still Two-Faced
The double faced policy of the
Masloff group, which has already
been branded in due time by the exec
utive Of the Comintern actually still
is being pursued by the Masloff
group. MasIoff's political past has
always been struggle 1or anti
Leninism. Now he declares himself
an orthodox feminist. The whole
work Of his group is sectarian. Now
this group is flying the flag of unity
in the columns of its organ; the
group Of Masloff, who has himself
not yet justified in the eyes of the
proletariat his miserable conduct dur
ing his trial when he openly betrayed
to the police the illegal workers of
the Communist International
Now the Masloff group is swearing
unity to the Comintern, and at the
same time declares it's political line
absolutely irreconciliable.
These activities of the group now
asking readmittance proves estimates
of them by the Communist Interna-
tional while it was still under Zinc
views direction to have been entirely
confirmed.
If the Russian opposition now as
sumes the defence of the Masloff
group this is but proof of the ideo-
logical degeneration of the opposition
in the All Union Communist Party and
certainly not an argument for ac-
cepting again the moral and po-
litical bankrupts the people who have
illuminated the U.S.S.R. and the All
Union Communist Party and the
Communist International and whom
the Seventh Plenary Session of the
Executive Committee Of the Commu-
mist International characterized as
agents Of the enemy class calling
for struggle against them just as re-
lentlessly as against all other social
traitors"