The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-08

5TATEMENT BY N BlkhaHta Ia the C.C.CPSU.
IN view OF a series of resolutions and inquiries
concerning my attitude towards the general
nne of the Party the decision Of the Sixteenth
Congress and also of the inner Party situation
II the current day. consider it necessary to
state the following: an
/. On the question of nner-Pariy policy: al
ready before the Sixteenth Party Congress
several times fully and completely recognized
my errors of right deviational character; and
after the November ,.lenuin Of The Central Com
mittee. J. together &ith Comrades Tonsky and
Rykov, presented a statement to that effect;
in, the Pravda sor December IS, 1929, published
an article entitled The Technical Economic
Revolution THE Working Glass and the Engn-
GERS" in which gave an exact enumeration
Of the articles and documents llla1 contained The
errors recognized by myself: later I published
in the same ?lavda article entitled The
Great Reconstruction where defended the line
of the Central committee ip a positive iorm
2. 1 recognize that HE lest form of soldariza-
ton with lie decisions If the Congress would
have The :orn Jf sending declaration to
that effect - 'he Congress vr to The Central
Committee CP5JSSR tB,. which enormously,
did not 30. ,st,ll. Immediately before the Party
Congress was SICK Hith pneumonia and during
the Congress MAS sick leave Of absence
Immediately after ire Congress, vile still on
leave OF absence. twice look the floor at open
meetings 10 defend The decisions of the Sixteenth
Congress. Jnfort unately, our Central Press was
not informed about that.
g. Af'er returning from my leave OF absence
on the 18th OF september, I, on the following
day September 18TH declared in Party Or
ganization tone Of the nuclei Of the Supreme
Economic Coancil that l recognized the deci-
sions OF me Sixteenth Congress correct in
ctttc md Ot o111v o
proceeding IRON considerations of Party discip-
line TAXING the floor at a meeting against
the damagers. l defended the decisions of the
Sixteenth Congress- and appealed for struggle
against tie deyatons "a report about this was
printed in the paper Ia IndustrializatziW.
4. 1t follows therefrom that fully and ir
revocaby condemn all and every attempts
against the unity of the Party every fractional
work every attempt at covert struggle against
the Party leadership, every covert defense of
another political line. different from the line of
the Party. etc. and that recognize the neces-
Sty of fighting two fronts against all devia-
tons from this line, against the right deviation
as the main danger, against a conciliatory at
ttude towards deviations & seeu
5. condemn most decisivelyC the right-eft
bloc of the comrades Syrtzov-Iominadze, the
fractional work of their groups, and I am in
agreement with the organizational measures ap-
proved by the Political Bureau of the Central
Committee and by the Presidium of the Central
Control Commission both in relation to the COM
rsdes SyYi zov Lominadze and Shapkin and in
relation 10 NusInov and Kavraisky Just as de-
cisivey Go l condemn the double handed work
OF NJ Ruin and l AM in agreement with the
decisions OF the Party concerning him
6. On the question of International politics
declare that. having withdrawn my erroneous
assertions after the November plenum of the
Central Committee. fully stand, on the position
OF the leading organs Of the Cornintern and the
CPUSSR. tB). therefore decisivey condemn
the struggle against the Comntern, the splitting
away from 1t. the factonal groupings and every
kind OF nom submission to its decisions dis
Organizing the ranks of international Commu-
nsm playing in the hands OF its mortal enemies.
the social democracy and the open bourgeois and
bourgeois lancindist parties lcate- orcally con-
de.nn bo;h the l1silt ard the \ 1T splitters
whether Of an theological political or oil an or
ealnza. ola. ndlure. ! think that in the foreign
section OF the CT a consistent struggle against
the deviatlons is necessary. in the first place
against the right danger as well as against all
conciliatory attempts to slur over evade these
dcyiatons