The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-14
The Bankruptcy of the
COnciliatOrs

BERLIN, (By Inprecorr Press Service).-
Comrade Arthur Ewert, the leader of the Ger
man conciliants group has sent the following
declaration to the Central Committee of the
German Communist Party:
"The acute political situation in Germany
and the fact that a united front of all the
forces of the reaction, including the Social
Democratic Party, is forming against the
Communist Party, and the growing danger of
war against the Soviet Union make it neces-
sary for all members to take up a clear att-
tude towards the policy Of the Communist In
ternationa and of the German Communist
Party. AS I was of different opinion to
that of the Central Committee of the Party
in number of questions and even where i'm
portant decisions of the C. I. were concerned,
up to the time of the Wedding Party Congress
l would like to register the following:
II declare the position adopted by me and
rejected by the Party at the Wedding Party
Congress to be false. The estimation of the
situation put forward by me has proved to be
wrong. The crisis in the U. S. A. and the
intensfication of the situation, particularly in
Germany, have proved the correctness of the
estimation put forward by the G. I. and the
German C. P. The same is true of the tactical
questions in which disagreed with the Party
Grade union question, shop councils question,
social faseism, etc..
81 undertake to carry out actively all the
decisions of the Party, and recognize the i'm
permissbity of all forms of fractionalism.
II am completely in agreement with the
general policy and tactics of the G. P. of the
Soviet Union and reject in particular the
standpoint adopted by Comrade Bucharin.
Il undertake under the leadership of the
c. c. of the German c. P. to carry on s+r-.,--
gle against all opportunist deviations in the
Party and against the right wing enemies u
the Party, the Brandler organization, and
against any tendency to conciliater with this
group.
"My recognition of the decisions of the C.
l. and of the German G. P. and my pledge to
assist in their carrying out applies also to the
decision of the c. l. in the Wittorf affair"
Commenting this statement, the "Rote
Fahne" declares that it represents the declara-
ton of bankruptcy of the conclants group,
after facts had long ago shown that the bank
ruptcy of the group was an accomplished fact.
Experience had shown that such declarations
could not be taken at their face value, as they
were only too often political maneuvers, such
as the conciants group had made on a num-
Der of previous occasions.
simple declaration from a comrade who
had made such serious mistakes and done the
Party SO much damage should be treated with
mstrust by the Party until such time as ac-
tual proof had been offered.
The admission that the Bolshevist leadership
of the Party had been right with regard to
all questions, and that it had saved the Party
from the severe crisis into which the con-
ciliants would have led it, was sign of the
internal bolshevist consolidation of the Party
and warning to the bourgeoisie and social
democracy not to speculate on internal differ
ences in the Farty.