THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE CPSU(B) - December 2, 1927

From THE MESSAGE OF GREETINGS

OF THE MAKEYEVKA FACTORY WORKERS

TO THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE CPSU(B)

December 2, 1927

The metalworkers of the Makeyevka Factory, Donbas, send ardent proletarian greetings to the Fifteenth Congress of the CPSU(B), leader of the Party and the working class.

During the past two years factory workers have closely followed the activities of the Party   and its headquarters, the Central Committee.

In practice, at our own factory, we have seen for ourselves that the Party and its CC have pursued a correct Leninist policy aimed at furthering the building of socialism and improving the living standard of the working class.

The opposition enjoys no success either in the Party or among the working class because its lying words are completely refuted by our reality.

We are confident that the Congress will put an end to all the activities of the Trotskyite opposition. For our part we pledge our utmost support.

The workers are sending a model of the blast-furnace, the largest in the USSR, under construction at our factory, and request their Party to see to it that the building of the blast-furnace continues with the same success as before.

Down with the oppositionists, who are hindering us in the building of our blast-furnaces!. . .

The Struggle of the CPSU etc.,
pp. 496-97

RESULTS OF THE PRE-CONGRESS DISCUSSION IN THE CPSU(B)

Result on December 2, 1927

Number of participants—730,862. Votes for

the CC line—724,066; against—4,120 or 0.5 per cent; abstentions—2,676 or 0.3 per cent

The theses of the CC have been discussed at 10,711 cell meetings. The meetings were attended by 

730,862 Communists; votes for the CC line—724,066; against 4,120 (or 0.5 per cent of the total 

number of participants in the meetings); abstentions—2,676 (or 0.3 per cent).

The Struggle of the CPSU etc.,

p. 497