The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-07
The Political Report Of the Central Committee the XVI Party Congress
ofhe Communist ary Of the Soviet Union Stains Address June q 1896

ly fall under the mental thrall OF the sabotap-
ing elements. We are thus f ced with the
enormous tasks of the reconstruction of our
whole national economy, requiring great num-
Der of fresh ca1res capable of grasping the new
technics. In this connection the problem of the
cadres has become an actually vital problem.
We are solving this problem on the follow
ing lines /. Determined combat against the
saboteurs; 2. The accordance of ere and con-
sideration to the overwhelming majority # the
technicians and specialists who have kept aloof
from the saboteurs there do not refer to chat
tere"s and jumping jacks of the type of an
UStryalow, but to real scientific workers, work
ing side by side with the working class without
any Interior intentions). 3. The organization
of technical advice from abroad. A. The send
ing of our scientists abroad TO study and to
gain technical experience 5. The superinten-
dence of the Institutions for technical instruc-
ton by the corresponding economic organza-
tions, in order that a sufficient number OF
technicians and specialists from the ranks OF
the working class receive training.
Ou task consists of organizing to it's fullest
extent the work for the realization of these
measures
4. The problem of the struggle against
bureaucracy. The greatest danger of bureau.
cracy lies in its liability to allow to run waste
the enormous reserves contained in our econ.
omic structure, to prevent the utilization OF
these, to crush the creative initiative of he mas
ses, to paralize by adhering too closely to the
letter, to reduce every fresh effort of the Party
to petty fiddling attaining no good for any.
body. The further danger of bureaucracy lies
in it's refusal to tolerate control of it's meth
DDS, and in its attempt to reduce the funda-
menal instructions of the leading organizations
to a scrap of Gfeless paper. 1t is not so much
the old bureaucrats who have remained in our
institutions who represent the chief source Of
this DANGER but at the same time-and espe
cially-the new bureaucrats, the Soviet bureau
Gratis among whom the communist" bureau
Gratis by no means play the smallest role. ]
refer to those Communists" whose official com.
mands and "decrees"-to them perfect fetishes
replace the creative initiative and the per-
sonal activities of the masses of the workers
and peasants
1t is our task to destroy the bureaucracy il
our institutions and organizations, to lquidate
the bureaucratic manners and CUSTOMS, and
to clear the path for the utilization OF the
reserves contained in our economic structure
to the end that the creative initiative and per
sona activities of the masses be given the OPP
portunity of development.
This is no easy task. 1t cannot be accom-
plshed "in twinkling." But it must be &C
complished at all costs if it is our earnest viii
to transform our country on the basis OF so
cialism.
In the struggle against bureaucracy the work
of the Party extends in four directions. The
development of self-crticism, the organization
of the control over working methods, the purg
ing of the apparatus, and finally, the inclusion
in the apparatus of co-workers devoted TO tht
cause out of the ranks of the working class.
1t is our task to exert our utmost efforts
for the accomplishment of these measures.