The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-12
COMMUNISTS IN
GERMANY START
PARTY CONGRESS-
Record Demonstration
of Heroic Berlin
PrOletariat
Many Bring Greetings
Is Steeled to Tackle
Important Tasks

The Presidium was unanimously
elected, and included Thaelmann,
Remmele, Heckert, PECK, Nieder-
kirchner.
Stain, Losovsky, Molotov, Kus-
inen, Manuilski, and class war pris-
oners Terracini, Marty, Doblog-
heanu, Stoyanoff, Pashin, Margies,
and Rakoshi were elected honorary
members of the Presidium.
Fighters Proud of Congress.
Samer, representative of the We'd
ding workers addressed the congress
amidst great applause, declaring the
Wedding workers who fought for the
proletarian cause on May Day are
proud that the Congress is held in
Wedding.
Bittner of Poland, greeted the
Congress, declaring the right wing
was practically settled and the con-
ciliants within the Party were more
dangerous.
Boeck, of Belgium, praised the
heroic Berlin workers and demanded
closer cooperation of the Communist
Parties of western Europe as an
answer to the PREPARATIONS confer
ence.
Amidst storms of applause,
Blascio greeted the Congress in the
name of the Italian Communist
Party and declared the Fascist
danger is international. The Ger
man social democracy is abolishing
democratic institutions and the only
alternative is bourgeois or prole-
tartan dictatorship.
Strikers Show Correctness.
Delegate Tchykish declared the
farm hands strike in Slovakia proved
the correctness of the Communist
Party's struggle against the liquida
tors and opportunists.
Schueller of Austria praised the
Berlin workers, declaring the Ger
man Communist Party had followed
the correct feminist policy on May
Day. He said the Austrian social
democracy was developing in the
same direction as the German.
The Communist Parties of many
countries sent fraternal letters and
kilograms.
PECK answered the greetings of
these brothers parties in the name
of the Central Committee : of the
Communist Party of Germany.
Workers Greet Congress.
Delegations from the International
Red Aid, the children's conference,
the Silesian textile workers, the
Hamburg dock workers, the Stettin
dock workers greeted the Congress.
The Congress unanimously adopted
I kilograms of greeting to the Exec
utiye Committee of the Communist
international, the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union, the Executive
Bureau of the Red international of
Labor Unions, the strike committees
of the Bombay textile workers, and
the Bulgarian tobacco workers.
The session concluded with Hec-
kert reading numerous letters and
kilograms of greetings from factory
workers and peasants organizations.
In the afternoon the delegates
were driven in motor trucks decora-
ted with red through the streets of
the workers quarters, where they
were enthusiastically greeted, to the
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the graves of Liebknecht, Luxem-
burg, and other victims of the Revo-
luton, including the May Day
murdered.
PECK spoke and the Internationale
was sung.
Visit Battle Scene.
The returning delegates were
driven through Koeslinerstrasse
where the fiercest May Day barri-
cade fighting occurred. The work.
ers greeted the delegates here with
tremendous enthusiasm.
During the Monday session,
further foreign delegates greeted
the Congress, assuring the. Party
support in the struggle against de-
viations.
Heckert reported for the creden-
tials commission: two hundred and
one delegates including one hundred
and thirty-two factory workers and
five farm laborers. The overwhelm-
ing majority of the delegates were
trade unionists. Over fifty per cent
Of the delegates suffered imprison-
nlent for revolutionary activity.
The chairman then read a letter
from a worker delegate to the social
democratic Magdeburg Congress de-
scribing the secret session discussing
May Day and Zoegiebel's prohibit
ton. The social democrats were
very much depressed because May
Day developed so catastrophically for
the social democratic party. Zoer-
gebel was criticized. The social
democrat session finally decided the
withdrawal of the demonstration
prohibition was necessary.
Thaelman Speaks.
After reading numerous further
kilograms and letters greeting the
NCongress, Ernst Thaelmann took the
floor and was greeted by singing of
the International. Thaelman spoke
over six hours, declaring that the
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