The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16

Workers (Communist) Party at its
meeting of January 9Th fully en-
dorsed the following Open Letter
adopted by the Presidium of the
Executive Committee of the Com
munist International at its session
of December 10th:
To All Members of the c. P. of
Germany.
Comrades,
Since the German revolution of
the year 1923, the fractional activity
of the Right, openly opportunist,
elements in the Communist Party
of Germany has never completely
ceased. This refers quite particu-
larly to the adherents of Brandler,
who continue to insist on their own
special line Of activity, a policy
which finds constant expression in
the capitulatory attitude of Brand
Ter in relation to the bourgeoisie as
also in the tendency to form bloc
with the social democrats. The
Right wing has not given up all hope
of one day finding itself at the head
of the Party and changing it's pol
icy. Their fractional policy in this
direction has at times lessened and
at times flared up again.
The fifth plenary session of the
E. C. c. l. established in its resolu-
ton on the fractional activity of
Brandler, Radek, and Thalheimer,
chat there is an organized frac-
ton in the C. P. g., which COM
prises several inner-party groups
besides one group of members of
the C. P. S. u. (Brandler, Thai
heimer, Radek, etc. and carries
on fractional work on the basis of
a political platform expressed in
a series Of articles and docu-
ments." Is
The said plenum administered a
severe rebuke to Brandler, Thai
heimer, Radek, etc., declaring that
"any further continuation of their
fractional work could not but
place them outside the ranks of
the R. C. P"
The Essen Party Congress of the
year 1927 brought further rein
forcement to the adherents of
Brandler. At this congress they at
tempted to put through the opin-
ions of Brandler, which had been
formulated by the latter in an ar
ticle on the Programme of Action"
written even prior to the congress
but only published at the beginning
of 1928. The opportunist interpre-
tation of the slogan of control of
production" as suggested by the
Right, was rejected by the Party
Congress, which pointed out the OPP
portunist mistakes of the Brandler
group in the question of the work
ers' government, which the said
group looks upon as transition
phase between bourgeois and prole-
tartan dictatorship, and to the inter
probation of united-front tactics in
the sense of bloc with the social
Observation-Disclosures which might
have led to inadmissible obligations
in relation to the Left wing of the
social democrats and to renuncia-
ton of an inedepndent policy on the
part of the Communist Party.
The next stage of the fractional
activity of the Right fractions is in
connection with the TX Plenum and
the Nv Congress of the R. I. L. U.
The Right elements in the c. P. g.,
including the adherents of Brandler,
declared open war on the resolutions
of the ~ Congress of the R. I. L. U.
and closed their ranks more COM
pactly in this connection. They pro-
ceeded openly to pursue fractional
activity, led an attack upon the
whole line of the c. C. of the c. P.
G., and started to work out their
own political platform, the original
drafts of which were contained in
various fractional documents.
The Wittorf incident afforded the
Right wing the desired occasion to
attempt the realization of their frac-
tional intentions and the conquest
of the leadership of the Party, with
a view to changing the political di-
receives of the Party as laid down
by the World Congress of the Com
intern. In it's resolution Of October
9th, the presidium of the Comintern
pointed out that the Right wing in
tended
''to exploit the Wittorf incident in
their own interest in opposition to
Comrade Thalmann as an eminent
representative of the directives of
the vi. World Congress, in which
connection they were STRIVING to
bring about an alteration in the
Party membership and thus to pre-
vent the realization in the G. P.
G.. of the political direction ac-
cepted by the vi. Congress of the
Communist international. CA dras-
tice example of such inadmissible
fractional activity was afforded
by the speech of Comrade Hansen,
representing the Right, and partly
also by that Of Comrade Gerhart
at the plenum Of the C. c. on Sep
TENDER 26th.)"
The resolution passed on October
9Th by the presidium Of the E. C.
C. l. was answered by the Right
with the most violent attacks. In
their opinion, this resolution threat