The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-09

Sdium of the Executive committee, Commu-
mist International, the achievements and weak
nesses in the work of the c. P of Germany
and the measures which are necessary for
improving this work and overcoming the exist
ing shortcomings. The Central Committee
then thoroughly discussed the problems con-
fronting it and adopted unanimous decisions.
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The Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I had
thoroughly analysed the world situation and
the development of the revolutionary class
struggle and ascertaned that the accentuation
of the fundamental antagonisms of world CAPT
talism is being accelerated to the highest de-
gree. The Plenary session of the C. C. of the
c. P. G. agreed with the statements of the
Presdum regarding the beginning world
economic crisis and the further growth of the
revolutionary upsurge in the capitalist coun-
tries. The Central Committee emphasized the
powerful advance of socialism in the Soviet
Union which changes the relation of forces be-
tween the two world economic systems in
favor of international socialism and renders
the Soviet Union still more factor of the
further revolutionary upsurge of the prole-
tariat and of all the exploited masses of the
world. With the growth of the crisis of CAPT
talism and the simultaneous achievements Of
the Soviet Union in the carrying out of the
rive lear Ran, Oh lnQuSurldllZaClOn ana col
lectivization of agriculture in the liquidation
of the kulaks as class, the danger of an
imperialist intervention war becomes more
acute.
The Young Plan not only increases to an
enormous extent the plundering of the Ger
man proletariat and of the other toiling sec
tions of the population by international fl
nance capital, by the German bourgeoisie and
the social fascist hangmen who are playing
the role of ask-masters of capital against the
German workers, but also enhances the danger
of an imperialist attack upon the country of
the proletarian dictatorship and of socialism.
The danger of an mperialist intervention war
vas never so great as it is today The whole
attention of the Communist advance guard of
the world proletariat must be devoted to the
war preparations of the imperialists. The re-
pulsion of the war Indictment against the So
Wet Union, the active defense of the Soviet
Union is more than the main task of the
revolutionary proletariat.
The Plenum of the Central Committee dealt
thoroughly with the position and the perspec-
tives of the class struggle in Germany. Com
rade Thalmann in his report examined with
Bolshevist soberness the effects of the world
economic crisis, of the fall in prices on the
world market and the acceptance of the Young
Plan upon the revolutionary development in
Germany. The international fall in prices
is counteracted in Germany by the accelerated
establishment of trade monopolies, the in
creased customs barriers, the enhancement of
indirect taxes imposed on mass consumption,
increased unemployment, etc. There is not
the least doubt that the Young illusions will
be dispeled much more quickly than were
those illusions which portion of the German
proletariat cherished in connection with the ac-
off ho l;,,o
of development rests upon the extremely Shaky
foundation of capitalist sterilization, upon the
stormy character of the class struggle the
rehabilitation of the masses and the disinte-
grafton in the ranks of social democracy and
the other bourgeois parties. All these factors
have the effect that the revolutionary upsurge
in Germany, in spite of its uneven develop
ment, is on the upgra lie.
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The special character of this session of the
Central Committee consisted in the fact that
the chief portion of its work was devoted to
the most determined examination of all the
weak positions in the practical work of the
Party, to ruthless self-criticism and the meas
ures necessary for overcoming the weaknesses
and shortcomings. In particular, certain fail
ures which occurred in the last few weeks in
the factory council elections together with
great successes of the Party and the revolu-
tionary trade union opposition, were thorough
ly investigated.
The defeat of the Party in the Berlin Free
Thinkers elections, the failure at the factory
council elections in the Leuna works and in
the Berlin street and underground rail
way depots, the stagnation at the Krupp
works-all these and other phenomena servel
as occasion for serious examination of the
whole work of the Party.
According to the decisions of the Wedding
Party Congress which have been confirmed
by the Tenth Plenum of the E. c. c. I. and
again emphasized by the Enlarged Presidium,
the c. P. of Germany is confronted with the
central task of capturing the majority of the
proletariat. This means drawing the decisive
sections of the proletariat into the revolution
airy class struggle, the organization of revolu-
tionary mass actions, starting from economic
struggles for higher wages and bread and
raising them to the political mass strike for
the general class demands of the proletariat
up to the final struggle for power. The lead
ership of struggles and mass actions by the
Communist Party--this is the central task and
the revolutionary line laid down by the We'd
ding Party Congress.
The turn to revolutionary mass work is only
in its initial stage. This fact has been estab-
lished by the Plenary session of the Central
Committee on the basis of the fighting exper-
fences of the last few weeks sand months.
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The greatest hindrance to the carrying out
of this Party line is Right opportunism in
practice. This opportunism against which the