The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-15

1nlS was CIle 1lrSC ple1ldfy
tee of the American Party s
Executive Committee of the
Communist International which
occurred in July. For this rea-
son the Plenum of the Amer
lean Party attained a special
Importance in respect to the mobili-
zation of the American Party in
line with the decisions of the Com
munist International.
The Plenum was attended by the
following:
Members and Candidates of the
Central Committee;
Members of the Central Control
Commission;
District organizers;
Members of the Bureau of the
N. E. C. of the Y C.L.;
Members of the Bureau of the
New York District of the c. P;
Department Heads and Section
Organizers of the New York Dis
trict of the c. P;
Certain comrades admitted fol
special reason by action of the Pre-
sidium of the Plenum.
Elected to the Presidium Of the
Plenum were Comrade Krutis, Slim
ger, Kamp, Huiswood, Foster, Vein
stone and Bedacht.
Elected as the Secretariat of the
Plenum were Comrades Minor, Am
ter and Chernenko.
Comrade Huiswood was chairman
of the first day, Comrade Kamp, OF
the second day and Comrade Cher
nenko of the third.
The recommendation of the Poll
tical Committee for the agenda OF
the Plenum was accepted as follows
Report on Tenth Plenum Of
the E.C.C.I-Comrade Minor.
2. Report on the general political
and economic situation and the tasks
of the Party-Comrade Bedacht.
8. Report on Trade Union Work
-Comrade Foster.
d. Report on Negro Work-Com.
rade Huiswood.
Comrade Minor reported on the
Tenth Plenum of the E C.C.I. anc
Comrade Bedacht followed with ar
extensive report on the general poll.
tical and economic situation, after
which a discussion took place on the
two reports lasting through the
first, second and third sessions ano
into the fourth session. Many COM
rades participated in the discussion
during which the unity of almost the
entire Plenum on the line of the
Sixth World Congress of the Com
munist International, of the Tentl
Plenum of the E.C.C.I. and of the
Party was made clear. The marked
exception was in the case of Com
rades Weisbord and Koppel
In the entire discussion, as in the
reports of Comrades Bedacht ant
Minor the greatest emphasis was
laid upon the necessity of struggle
against the right danger in the Com
munist Party, the war danger, espe
cially of the war against the USSR
the oncoming upsurge of the revolu
tionary labor movement, radicaliza
tion of the working class, the con
crete manifestations of sharpening
class struggle throughout man!
countries and especially the concrete
manifestations of sharpening elias:
struggle in this country, as shown
in the southern fields, etc., togethel
with the tasks of the C.P. of U.S.A
under these conditions marking th'
third period of the postwar crisi
of capitalism.
The recent Address of the Com
munist International to the member
ship Of the Communist Party of th'
U.S.A. was discussed from the poin
of view of it's function in correctinl
the line of the American Party, it,
assistance in roofing out the fac
tionalism of the Party and in layin,
the basis for real struggle agains
right wing opportunism in the Amer
ican Party in accord with the direc
tions given by the Sixth World Con
gress and in the various utterance
of the Communist Internationa
since then. The struggle agains
the counter-revolutionary Trotsky
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