VIOLENT DISPUTE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 7

VIOLENT DISPUTE.

COMMUNISTS DIVIDED. NEW PLATFORM ADOPTED. NEW YORK, Dec. 26. ■ The New York Times’s Moscow correspondent says that a violent political and economic dispute, lasting several days, which divided the All Russian Congress of the ' Communist Party, culminated in votes of 559 in favour of a platform adopted by the central executive committee. M. Kamenetf headed the opposition numbering 65. The adopted platform censures the minority faction for over-estimating the danger from wealthy peasants and under-estimating the importance of co-operation with the middle-class peasants. It instructs the committee to take all steps necessary to strengthen the red army, sea and air fleets, and also to follow a reconstruction policy designed to industrialise Russia to an extent where the country would manufacture heavy ' machinery and equipment, thereby assuring independence from capitalist countries. The platform further urges discounting the political stabilisation of Europe, and issues a warning of a growing American role in international affairs. It notes the pacific manoeuvring for another world war by the Locarno conference and League of Nations and directs the committee to consolidate by all means the Soviet Republic as a base for a future revolution, while simultaneously it instructs the Soviet Government to pursue a peaceful foreign policy.—A. and N.Z. cable.