The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-13

political significance. 1t is
based on a resolution Of the
Sixteenth Party Conference
April 1920 concerning the necessity
of periodic cleansing among members
and candidates to the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union for the
purpose of improving the social COM
position of the party, raising the
political and moral level of the party
organizations locally and in the en-
tire party.
Lenin Called for Cleansing.
1.-THE first general party cleansing
was carried out on motion by Lenin
in 1921 when the party was consoi-
dating its ranks while passing over
to the New Economic Policy.
The second general cleansing and
check-up in the party ranks occur
red in 1929 at the most difficult stage
of the struggle for socialism when
the party passed to an extended So
cialist offensive along the entire
front.
THE third cleansing will be carried
out in the first year of struggle for
the Second Five Year Plan"
50 Percent Growth.
The editorial points out that the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
increased in membership from 952, =
900 in April of 1929 to 100000 in
June Of 1882, which is an increase
of SO per cent in three years. The
Pravda editorial then continues:
Frequently comrades are admitted
to the party anly on the basis of
sympathizing with it and of support
for the Soviet rule. Is this sufficient?
No. BY this symptom the overwhelrn-
ing majority of the toilers in our
country should be admitted to the
Party. 81" Certain party organizations,
particularly those in rural districts,
were found polluted by persons for
eign to the cause of Communism,
incapable of carrying out the Party
policy
Here and there class enemies
managed to penetrate our ranks, ut
ilizing the lax political watchfulness
of certain party organizations"
The Pravda editorial emphasizes
Lenin's demands for strict standards
of admission of new members, in
sisting that a six months probation
status for candidates be granted
"only for workers at least ten years
working in large industrial
Discussing the qualifications for
or candidacy in the
Communist Party of the Soviet IN
ion, Pravda continues:
Duties of Members
"Every member and candidate in
the party is duty bound to know its
program, its most important reso-
lutions, bound to carry out its re-
solutions in practice, to observe iron
party discipline. -. in the factories.
Besides, every Communist is tested
by his way of struggling, by his la
Dor discipline, against wilful absen-
ces and absentees, against botchers,
loafers, drifters, and by his own set
ting of an example of labor dis
cipline.
do we lack members and candi-
dates of the party who are not only
not shock brigade workers in their
production but who, on the contrary,
blot the name of Communist by abb
sences, selfishness, etc.. All these
cases of opportunism and bureau
cracy in our state and economic APP
paratus will be dealt hard blow by
the party cleansing.
"In villages every party member
will also be tested by the manner
of his struggle for carrying out the
state assignments, fulfilling the OBJ
legations of the Collective Farm and
peasant with respect to
the quotas of bread, meat, etc.
Every rural party member will
be checked up on his securing
influence in the Collective
Farm, his active struggle against
kulaks and their aids, his guarding
Of the socialist public property, his
degree of active participation in col
ective farm production"
In conclusion the Pravda editorial