The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-28
WORLD CONGRESS-
DENOUNCES ACTS
J OF OPPOSITION
Elect Commission to
Frame Resolution

The declaration pointed out the
great successes achieved by the
communist Party despite the diff.
cult conditions created by foreign
lmperialists. These difficulties he
proceeded to sum up.
The complete bankruptcy of the
Irotskyist and Menshevist opposi.
tlon was pointed out in the declara-
ton. The propagation of Trotsky-
lst ideas was declared incompatible
with membership in the Communist
International.
War Danger.
The war danger is acute. the dec
laratlon further declared. When war
comes the Communist International
VIII lead the masses in a struggle to
turn the imperialist war. into a civil
war for the overthrow of the bour-
geoisie and the establishment of the
dictatorship of the proletariat.
The chief task of the Communist
is the exertion of all forces in order
to mobilize the world proletariat and
all enslaved peoples for the defense
OF the Soviet Union, the Socialist
Fatherland of all the exploited as
the beginning of the world revolu-
ton.
SSemard, of France, then made a
declaration in the same spirit on be-
half of the French, Italian, BELGIAN
Spanish, Swiss and Dutch delega.
lions. Bell did likewise on behalf of
the British, American, Canadian
Latin American and New Zealand
delegations. Rogitch spoke for the
Jugo-Slav, Bulgarian, Rumanian and
Greek delegates; Strachov for
China, Japan, Indonesia, ETC.; Fachri
for Turkey, Persia, Syria, Pales-
tine, Egypt and Arabia.
Opposition Treason.
SemardN then declared that the
Trotzkyists had become among the
greatest enemies of Communism BY
denying the possibility of building
Socialism in one country alone, by
declaring the existence of thermi.
dor in the Russian Revolution, BY
international fractional work anc
especially by their activities in the
A1-Union Communist Parties.
The undersigned delegations there.
fore approve unreservedly all meas.
ures taken against the opposition as
questions vital to the existence oil
the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Abroad the oppositionists are ally
ing themselves with the social dem.
ocrats against the Communist Inter.
national, as for example in Belgium
where they have split the Party, in
Holland where they have contrib.
uted to causing the Dutch trade
unions to leave the Red Information
al of Trade Unions, and in Italy
where anti-Communist work among
the emigrants is being carried on.
In France the leaders of the OPP
position were expelled and the oppo-
sition fell to pieces. The Congress
must condemn the Trotskyist oppo-
sition because it's activities only aio
counter-revolution.
Bell Speaks.
Bell, of Great Britain, then de-
clared that the opposition's state.
ment that the condition of the work.
ers in the Soviet Union is growing
worse is SANDER. The standard
of living of the workers in the U. S
S. R. is steadily improving, while
the building up of Socialism in the
Soviet Union is uninterruptedly pro-
ceeding.
The Trotskyist charge of the "na-
tional limitation" of Russia is dis
proved by the splendid help giver
by Russian workers to the British
miners and all other oppressed ano
fighting sections of the workers an6
colonial peoples.
All the weapons of the socia
democrats against the Soviet Unior
in recent years have been taker
from the Trotskyist arsenal The
undersigned delegations approve
completely all measures against the
opposition and demand no readmis
sion of oppositionists until they have
abandoned all false ideas and subor
dinated themselves completely t.
Communist discipline.
Rogitch's Address.
Rogitch then approved completely
the measures against the opposition
Only a united disciplined Bolshevist
Party can overcome the dangers ano
difficulties of the transformation
period, he said. The internationa
proletariat is no longer without 6
fatherland. 1t has its fatherland tc
defend.
Strachov declared that the success,
Of Socialist constructive work in the
Soviet Union is the best argument
against the Trotskyist opposition
The application of repressive meas
ures against the opposition are no
only right but are the duty of tn,
proletarian state. The Trotskyis
opposition declared the Canton in
surrection a putsch. effectively i
assists the counter-revolution.
Elect Commission.
Fachri then stated that, "our dele
cations approve completely all meas
ures adopted against the opposition
by the All-Union Communist Party
Long years of experience show tha
the Soviet Union is the only supper
of the international proletariar