INFORMATION BULLETIN NO.1 OF THE CENTRAL COMMISSION OF PARTY CONTROL

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Central Commission of Party Control at the Central Committee
INFORMATION BULLETIN
No. 1
I. Editorial Note
II. Fight for the Implementation of the Tasks of the III and IV Plenum
of the Central Committee, and the Work of the Party Control Commission.
III. Struggle against the Stifling of Criticism and against Cliquishness.
IV. Some Conclusions from the Work of the Voivodship Party Control Commissions
at Lublin and Gdansk.
V. Numerical Data Concerning Party'Nembers and Candidatesho Have Been.
Expelled and Struck Off in 1959.
VI. Resolutions of the Central and Voivodship Party Control Commissions.
VII, Plenary Sessions and Conferences of the Central Party Control Commission.
VIII. Complaints and Grievances.
DC. From the Work of the Municipal Party Control Commission at Gliwice.
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Central Commission of Party Control at the Central eommittee
of the PZPR
INFORMATION BULLETIN
No.1
WARSAW February 1960
Contents:
I. Editorial Note
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Fight for the implementation of the tasks of the III and IV Plenum
of the Central Committee, and the work of the Party Control
Commission.
Struggle against the stifling of criticism and against
cliquishness.
IV. Some conclusions from the work of the Vnievodship Party Control
Commissions at LUBLIN and GDANSK.
V. Numerical data concerning Party members and candidates who have
been expelled and struck off in 1959.
VI. Resolutions of the Central and Vbievodship Party Control
Commissions,
VII. Plenary sessions ax conferences of the Central Party Control
Commission.
VIII. Complaints and grievances.
IX. From the work of the Municipal Party Control Commission at
GLIWICE.
Edited by the Editorial Board of the
Central Party Control Commission,
I. EDITORIAL NOTE
The important tasks in the struggle for the purity of the Party
ranks, and for the continual raising of the ideolegical and ethic,/ level
of the Party members, which are facing the Party Control Commissions (ERP),
call for a further increase of their work and for improvement in its
methods. This aim should also be served by the contents of the Bulletin of
the Central Party Control Cemmission, the publication of which is now being
revived.
The Bulletin will bring periodic summaries of the results of the
work of the Central Party Control Committee (MP) and its Presidium, and
of the work of the -local 'Ws, and will contain factuAl and numerical
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information illustrating their activities in the individual fields, coupled
with attempts at its analysis.
The Bulletin will also discuss the most important problems arising
in the course of the work of the KKPs, and also their ideological-
educational and prophylactic work, closely connected with the whole of the
Party activities, and the tasks laid down by the Central Committee of the
PT212.
We also desire to include in the Bulletin the decisions of the CICKP
and the Voievodship KICPs, together with their justification, concerning
matters which are of a wider and more essential. importance, matters which are
more typical and urgent in a given situation. We shall also include
explanations of the more difficult questions connected with the enquiry
procedure and with the making of decisions, which will appear in the course
of practical work.
The Bulletin should not only be a means for disseminating
information, but also a forum for the interchange of experiences of the
K1CPs throughout the country. An exchange of this sort should greatly assist
the improvement in methods of work and the attainment of better results.
With the help of the Bulletin, we desire also to pass on information
to members of the Central Party Levels, Sections of the Central Committee,
and Voievodship and Powiat Committee Secretaries, on the work of .he COP
and the Voievodship Ma's.
We reauest the readers of our Bulletin to send us their comments on
the first issue, which we regard as a trial one. We particularly request
the Chairman of the Voievodship and other KKPs to send us information and
other material) and to discuss their problems in the pages of the Bulletin.
All material and comments should be sent to the CKKP, for passing
to the Editorial Staff of the Bulletin.
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II, FIC-HT FOR THE IDENFQa\TTATION OF THE TASKS Of THE III AND IV PLENUM
OF TBE CENTRAL COMIaTTEE, AND THE WORK OF THE PARTY CONTROL COMhISSIONS
The fight for bringing order into the national economy, in
accordance with the resolutions of the III Plenum of the Central Committee,
imposes an extremely responrible task also on the KEPs, from the CKKP, down
to the Ptwiat and Munioipal KKPs. Their fight for the correct attitude of
Party meMbers, in all the sectors entrusted to them, against the
infringements of the principles of Party ethics, against transgressions,
economic offences and the tolerant attitude adopted towards them, against
the infringements of State discipline and the toleration of such
infringements, forms an elementary condition for the successful fight against
all symptoms of this nature in the State maohinery, in the national councils,
in trade, in industrial urdertakings, and among the broad non-Party masses.
These problems were the subject of a number of conferences by the
Chairmen of the Voievodship KKPs, which took place in 1959, in the CKKP,
with participation of representatives of the Supreme Chamber of Control
(NI), and of a conference of the Central Team for Fighting Transgressions,
held in conjunction with the CKKP, and attended by Chairmen of the Voievodship
KKPs, and representatives of NIK, the Public Prosecutor's Office, the
Ministry of Justice, and of the State Trade Inspection (PIH), which took
place on the 16th December, 1959.
It appears both from the report by the Chairman of NaK, and Chairman
of the Central Team for Fighting Transgressions, Comrade K. DASPOWSKI and
from the discussion of this report, that the teams for fighting
transgressions in the field, and the Party teams, har.e.../..222,111I101/...afggts
as compared with the period of verifications. The Party organisations and
local levels, which have expended much effort in the implementation of the
resolutions of the III Plenum, have, however, insufficiently mobilised their
own resources, and the resources of the State and economic organs, for the
struggle against economic offences. The...growth of offence offences has been
retarded as nompared with 1958 but there has not yet been any reduction
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in their numbers. Furthermore, they are discovered mainly thanks to external
control, with a very insufficient activity on the part of the internal
control organs and of Party and Trade Union organisations, and of the
Workers' Autonomous Councils in factories and institutions.
The discovery and eradication of crime is not being accompanied by
a consistent combating of all those people who tolerated it, or who failed
to expose it, even though it was their duty to do so. Frequently the posts
of Directors, Chief Accountants, and other positions involving financial
responsibility, are filled by persons who had previously been punished for
economic offences, which in turn leads at times to the commission of new
offences. It was pointed out at the Conference that the local Party levels
and their varioue links, responsible for the observance of the principles
concerning nominations (appointments), have not been sufficiently thorough
in their screening of cadres put forward for appointment to responsible
economic positions. There have also been cases of supporting the
candidatures of persons who had been punished for economic offences, or of
hindering the prosecution of persons responsible for such offences. At
DEBICA (Voievodship of RZESZOW), as appears from the report of the
Voievodship KKP, out of a total of 52 Party members occupying leading
;positions in the Powiat, 11 had been prosecuted, or had been arrested for
economic transgressions.
The Chairman of the Voievodship KKP, Comrade MAZELON? has given
instances of the appointment to leading positions, by certain Municipal and
Powiat Committees in the Voievodship of KATOWICE, of persons who had been
expelled from the Party by the Voievodship KKP.
number of Voievodship KKPs have shown much activity in their
struggle for the purity of economic cadres. Thus, for instance, the
Voievodship KKP at POZNAN obtained and examined a list of 265 persons
employed in economic administration who had been convicted (or are still
under prosecution), and it gave instructions to the appropriate branches to
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take the necessary disciplinary action against such persons, informing the
Voievodship KEPI within a specified time, of the action taken.
The Is throughout the country, and the CKKP as well, have
increased.cheir struggle against the infringement of the principles of
Party ethics, and in particular against economic offences and the tolerant
attitude towards such offences. Thus, in 1959, parallel with the control
carried out by the Supreme Chamber of Control in the Vbievodship of KATOWICE,
the Voievodship KKP examined 26 cases concerning economic offences, as a
result of which 15 persons were expelled from the Party and 11 others were
subjected to various Party penalties. Among those expelled were 7 directors
of undertakings, and 8 persons occupying other leading economic positions.
In the Voievodship of RZESZOW, ?ut of 210 Party members expelled during the
period from Septedier 1950 to October 1959, 127 were expelled for economic
transgressions. In the Voievodship of WARSAW, conferences of the economic
aktiv were orpnised and held in all the roviats and corporate towns,
attended by ever 1500 Party members and non-Party activists. As a result of
the increased activity of Party organisations and levels, 113 members
holding various positions in the socialist economy wore expelled from the
Party, and 14 were subjected to Party penalties for exceeding their official
powers and for their tolerant attitude towards transgressions.
Nevertheless, a considerable number of the Basic Party Organisations
(POP), some Powiat and Municipal Committees, and also some Powiat and
Municipal KKPs, show insufficient energy in their fight against tr.nsgressions
often regarding them with a tolerant eye. Thus) in the powiat of PRZEWORSK
(Voievodship of RZESZOW), during the three Quarters of last year, not a
single member of the Party was expelled, in spite of the fact that, during
the same period) 17 members of the Party were arrested by the Citizens'
Militia for thefts and other transgressions.
The commission of economic offences is possible in those places
where the Party and other social organisations do not struggle against them,
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where Party members and activists regard them with tolerance, and, what is
worse, when they themselves participate in them, stifling criticism and the
attempts to expose the offences.
In the "CENTROGAL" undertaking at BYDGOSZCZ, as a result of the.
criminal activities of the Director, W. SWIATKOWaKI, (a Party member since
1946), the State suffered losses reaching 2 million zloty', among other
things through the purohhase of various articles of poor quality, from
private producers, and at excessive prices. The Secretary of the Basic
Party Organisation, J. RATTER, (also a Party member since 1946), did not
take any action against the transgressions, since he himself participated in
them by supplying, in 1958, to the "CENTROGAL", under his mother's name,
goods to the value of 146,000 zl. The Party organisation was neglected, and
persons who combated the transgressions (such as the woman accountant) were
treated harshly. The Disciplinary Team of the Voievodship EKP at BYDGOSZCZ
expelled &IIATKOWSKI and RAITER from the Party.
The problem of insufficient activeness of the Basic *Party
Organisations, particularly in the smaller factories, in the co-operative
movement, and in trade, their often passive attitude towards transgressions,
caused mainly by the fear of being persecuted for any criticism, and often
by reason of their own participation in the transgressions, is a question of
great urgency, as was stressed at the Conference on 16th December 1959, and
illustrated by the example of several Voievodships (POZNAN, SZCZECIN, and
others).
The important part which should, and can, be played by the Basic
Party Organisations in their fight against transgressions and for the
observance of economic discipline, is illustrated by the example of the
Basic Party Organisation in the Cotton Industry Tirks at PABIANICE. Here)
the Basic Party Organisation, having investigated the administrative work of
the Management, and having had it studied by the Works Committee of the PzPa,
transferred the case to a Party meeting (attended by 700 people), and there
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exposed a number of transgressions (such as keeping on the production
establishment a number of members of the factory sports club). As a result of
this, one of the Directors was given a Party reprimand, other workers were
subjected to Party penalties, while the head of the Cadre section wa
removed from his post.
Maximum attention should be paid to the activisation of the Basic
Party Organisations in the sphere of fighting against economic transgressions
and for the implementation of the resolutions of the III Plenum.
The sensitization of the Basic Organisations and the rank-and-file
of Party members to transgressions, and the increase in their activeness in
conbating them, depends to a large extent on the activity of the local Party
levels, and on the attitude of the workers in the Party apparatus. Hence
springs the great --mportance of the constant struggle for securing the model
attitude of the workers in this apparatus, and of the ruthless fight against
all symptoms of demoralisation, particularly drunkenness among Party
metbenz. which blunt their sensitivity towards transgressions, and often
pave the way to participation in economic offences.
The fight against economic transgressional for bringing order into
our economy, for the implementation of the resolutions of the III Plenum,
will be effective if it is carried on on a wide front by the Basic Party
Organisations, the Party levels, the KKPs, and also by the worker-0 ?autonomouB
organisations, the trade unions, economic administration, and all other
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It is essential to activise further in this field the Voievodship
and Powiat and municipal Ma's, to eradicate the symptoms of a liberal
attitude, still appearing here and there, towards the perpetrators of
economic trensgressions and the tolerant attitude towards them, and
particularly in view of the infringements of economic and financial
discipline.
An important part in this field should be played by the Voievodship
teams for fighting transgressions, and the Voievodship Party teams. The
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first of these have relaxed their efforts, while the second generally give
evidence of only very slight activity, while in a number of cases they are
totally passive and do not even meet. At the Conference on 16th December
there were some who urged that the Party teams should be abolished, on the
grounds of their allegedly unspecified duties, and their functions taken
over by the Voievodship KKPs.
However, as was shown by the experience of certain Voievodships
(e.g. that of KIELCE), suitably picked Party teams may play an important
part, carrying out a systematic Party analysis of economic crime and its
specific sources in the given area, Initiating the taking of essential
measures by the Party levels, and preparing the appropriate materials and
suggestions. A+ the sane time, the Party teams can, and should, regularly
prompt the Voievodship teams to combat transgressions, aiding them in
delineating the correct course of action, and introducing the spirit of
Party firmness and persistence in fighting economic crimes.
The fight against economic transgressions, in the defence of
socialist property, and for bringing order into the economy, forms a burning
task facing the whole Party, and particularly the Party Control Commissions.
III. STRUGGLE AGAINST THE STIFLING OF CRITICISM AND AGAINST CLIQUISHNESS
In 1959, misuse of authority, stifling of criticism, cliquishness,
and nepotism, led to the summary expulsion by the Basic Party Organisations,
Party levels, and Party Control Commissions, oUgLpsrsons, including 825
Party members, and 56 Candidates.
The greatest number of expulsions for the above offences took place
in the following Voievodships: WROCLAW - 196; OPOLE - 121; KATOWTCE - 118.
The smallest number was in the Voikodship of: KOSZALIN - 1; WARSAW - 3;
RZESZOW LODZ-city - 6.
The difference arose not because there have been more offences of
this nature in the first group of Voievodships, but rather because the Party
levels and Party Control Commissions there had paid more attention to
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combating this evil. In KATOWICE, the question of combating the stifling of
criticism was discussed at a meeting of the Executive of the Voievodship
Committee.
The above figures do not, however, give a correct picture of the
struggle of the control commissions against this evil, since the stifling of
criticism is usunlly accompanied by economic transgressions and illegal
schemes of various sorts. For this reasmil in many decisions made by the
Control Commissions, the stifling of criticisms forms one of the offences of
Party meMbers.
The practical experience of the Control Commissions has indicated
that the stifling of cE1.1,1212111_1P...quite widespread, A rich arsenal of
various methods is found in ord3r to cow and silence the honest and true
workers. This is sometimes done with such consummate skill that one has to
study the case very carefully before reaehing theconclusion that a worker
had been punished precisely for having once dared to utter words of
criticism. For instance, Comrade JAROSZ, an employee of the Local Industry
Works at DABROWA, furnished the Supreme Chamber of Control with evidence of
transgressions in the Works, for which he was discharged from employment on
the excuse of lack of suitable qunlifications. It needed much effort on the
part of the KKP to secure the cancellation of this unjust decision.
One may say that this is a classic example of the methods employed
by the management in settling scores with those who had darei to criticise
the incorrect actions of the leadership. The only variation is in the
excuses for dismissing an inconvenient worker, or for transferring him to
other, less remunerative, work. This is usually done not immediately after
the man has made the critical remark but a few weeks or even months,
later when the incident has already somewhat faded in the memory.
There are also such methods of combating criticism as were employed
in the case of PATALAG Pranciszek, the former Second Secretary of the Basic
Party Organisation in the A-16 Works at BP7FZINKA, Vcievodship cf KATovaa.
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All those who reported the transgressions of a clique existing in the
Factory were denounced by PATALAG at public meetings as uAgax_thereby
discouraging others from similar action. The Voievodship KEP expelled
PATALAG from the Party.
There also exist, though not as frequently, such forms of combating
criticism as were employed by Comrade R0ZNIAK0 the Commandant of the
Citizens Militia at PLONSK. He became involved with speculators, which was
frequently criticised by various Comrades in the Militia Command. Comrade
ROZNIAK firmly suppressed all the critical voices raised against him, and
even went to such lengths as to cause a completely unjustifiable house search
in the home of one of the criticising Comrades, Aleksander OBOJSKI, and
demanded that thr, Prosecutor should issue a warrant for his arrest. It must
be stated that the Executive of the Powiat Committee of the PZPR at PLONSK,
together with the Voievodship KKP, treated this case with ?iberality, since
Comrade ROZNIAK was only punished with a Party reprimand and an application
was made to the Voievodship Militia Command to get IlAm transferred to a less
responsible official post. There was also the notorious case of the Chairman
of the Powiat National Council at LUBLINIEO, Comiade ZUPOK, who gave orders
for the arrest of a. peasant, only because the latter had dared to criticise
his person at a Co-operative meeting. The Voievodship KKP punished Comrade
ZUPOK with a reprimand and a caution, and submitted an applicatioi., to have
him removed from the post of Chairman of the Presidium of the Powiat National
. Council.
Similar facts arise under conditions of indiscipline, lack of sense
of Party responsibility, and lack of reaction to instances of combating
criticism on the part of Party organisations and levels.
A fairly widespread form of combating criticism is to denounce the
critic as a wrecker, This form is all the more convenient for various
schemers in that it can be ouccessfully suggested to a large proportion of
factory workers, or to the Party organisation. It is comparatively easy to
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do particularly in places where the leadership of the Party organisation
forms a clique with the schemers in the factory. In such a case, steps are
taken to prevent the investigation of the charges made by the criticiser, or
such a cormniss.on is chosen which will investigate these charges only
superficially, will find nothing, and thus transform the criticism into
wrecking, and the criticiser into a wrecker.
It does happen that the Commission investigates a charge and find
it justified, but even then the suppressors of criticism find a way out.
Thus, the Party Works Committee in the "WlEK" Cement Works at OGRODZIENIEC
was obliged to appoint a three-man Commission to investigate the charges
made by Comrade PAS at the electoral meeting of the Basic Party Organisation.
Comrade PAS stat ;d that various Heads of Sections encourage the workers to
drunkenness, causing a high rate of absenteeism in the factory, and that
help was given in the building of a church, at the factory's expense. He
pointed out the phenomenon of the absence of discussion at Party meetings,
and stated that the management of the factory, the Works Council, and the
Workers Council, have all been combating any critical remarks, while the
Works Committee was aware of the unhealthy atmosphere in the factory, but
did not react to it. The Commission fully confirmed the charges made by
Comrade PAS, but the matter ended simply with the results of the work of the
Commission being discussed at a meeting of the Executive of the Werks
Cormnittee, which passed a resolution to expel Comrade PAS from the Party as
a wrecker. The Powiat Committee at ZAWIERCIE, without studying the case in
detail: confirmed this unjust resolution. The matter was taken up by the
Voievodship KKP at KATOWICE, Comrade PAS's rights as a member of the Party
were restored, and the guilty Comrade OSOWSKI was punished with a Party
reprimand, while Comrades LUKASIK and WOLEK got an admonition. This fact
also indicates that sometimes even Party levels do not sufficiently study
the cases of the so-called wreckers, and permit the forcing through of
resolutions against the critics, passed by various schemers and cliques.
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The W.ARSA17 Voievodship KO, in its report, states that "insufficient
attention is paid to the matter of justified criticism in Party levels and
Basic Party Organisations. In Powiat and Municipal Committees, quite a lot
is said abnut the facts of suppression of criticism, but there is a lack of
deeper study of the causes of this state of affairs. The basic cause for
this state of affairs is in fact this, that the Party levels and
organisations do not defend the criticise, and that Party members in
responsible positions are insufficiently controlled by Party organisations
and levels. All this favours the adoption of a passive attitude by Party
members, and deepens the fear of criticising the leadersnip. Such a
situation, in certain Party organisations, prepares a fertile ground for the
creation of vari DUS neighbourly cliques which, assured of their imhiunity,
are able in a skilful manner to finish off honest Party nEmbers and non-
Party men."
The trvith of this statement is confirmed by the fact that it is a
rare thing to find that action had been taken against neighborly cliques or
against suppressors of criticism direct by the Basic Party Organisation
concerned.
In the majority of cases, these matters are reported by single
individuals or through anonymous communications, or we discover them from the
post-control reports of the Supreme Chamber of Control or some other outside
Commission, often at a tire when the matter is already in the hands of the
Prosecutor.
One is obliged to admit that unfortunately not everyone, and not
every time, reacts to those reports in the correct way. For instance, the
workers of the Distillery at SIERAKOW (pow-iat LUBLINIEC) reported to the
Citizens' Militia that the Director of the Distillery, Citizen Jan FALUKA.
(non-Party), uses the barley and potatoes belonging to the Distillery for
the feeding of his own pigs, and that he employs Distillery workers, in
working hours, on jobs on his own allotment. The MaitYonaries at
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SIERAKOW not only did not react to these reports, but, on the contrary, told
the Director who had made the reports. The result was that the Director of
the Distillery dismissed sore of these workers under various excuses, and
made the life of the rehminder so unpleasant that they themselves asked to
be released from employment. This state of affairs lasted for two years.
Action was taken on the case only when it came up at a joint conference of
the Powiat KKP and the Powiat Team for CoMbating Transgressions. The
Executive of the Powiat Committee also took an interest in the case, but no
disciplinary action was taken either by the Powiat Committee or by the
Prosecutorls Office, and FALUKA still remains at his post.
.Hcwever? the KKPs are not always sufficiently sensitized to the
reports reaching them, or at least they do not always investigate each fact
broadly and thoroughly. Thus, the Voievodlhip KK P in KRAKOW kept receiving
reports that things were not going well in the KRAKOW Powiat Committee, that
there were transgressions, and that the instructors were forging official
journey warrants. There were also reports that the 1st Secretary of the
Powiat Committee, DULENBA, had during the (German) occupation fairly close
contacts with the fascist Police. In spite of tiis, and without further
thought, the Voievodship KKP confirmed the resolution of the Plenum of the
Powiat Committee in KRAKOW on the expulsion from the Plenum and the Party
of a member of the Powiat Committee Executive, Comrade PODEIECKI, on the
grounds of alleged wrecking. This consisted of his sending leports on
transgressions in the Powiat Committee, and of the fact that on one occasion,
in private conversation, he took the liberty to repeat what was at that time
openly said about the past of the Powiat ConamIttee Secretary. The
Voievodship IP based its decision only on the fact that the Revision
Commission of the Powiat Committee had failed to discover any transgressions
in the activities of the Powiat Committee. It was only after a second appeal
by the injured man, who produced a number of new facts and details, that
the KEP carefully examined the whole case and revised its previous decision,
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restoring the Comradets Party Membership, and sending the case of DULENBA,
for review, to the CKEP. The Disciplinary Team of the CKKP expelled DULEMBA
from the Party.
The KKPs often discover facts of suppression of criticism when
examining the appeals of Party members suspected of wrecking.
However, not every such case is brought to its proper conclusion by
the KKPs. Not infrequently, the Disciplinary Team cancels the decision of
the lower level and the matter ends there. At best, the KEP restricts itself
to talks with the Works Committee which had failed to notice the flagrant
cases of suppression of criticism. One does not meet, however, or one does so
but rarely, cases when the Disciplinary Team takes action against the
suppressors of criticism, who turned an honest Party member into a wrecker
and caused his expulsion from the Party. It is also rare for the method of
dealing with a case to be discussed at a meeting of the Basic Party
Organisation. The members of the Party organisation concerned find out the
details of action taken against other members of their organisation either by
some unofficial means, or not at all. Individual cases connected with the
suppression of criticism are inadequately reported in the Party press. It is
clear that such behaviour by the KKPs is of little help to the Party levels
in their struggle against the suppression of criticism and for the education
of Party members.
IV. SOME CONCLUSIONS FROM THE WORK OF THE VOIEVODSHIP PARTY CONTROL
CONIaSSIONS AT IUBLIN AND GDANSK
At the end of 1959 representatives of the CK KP studied in the field
the work of the Voievodship KITs in the Voievod ships of LUBLIN and GDANSK.
The results of these studies were discussed at the beginning of last
February in the Presidium of the CKKP, with the participation of the
Chairmen of the Voievodship Is concerned, and their Deputies. Both the
discussion and the conclusions reached from it are instructive, and should
help to raise the level and efficienqy of the work of the LUBLIN and GDANSK
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Voievodship KKPs. We can indicate here only the most important ones, which
may be of significance also for the work of the remaining KKPs.
In general, it should be stated that the Voievodship Is both in
LUBLIN and GDANSK increased their work in 1959. This is evidenced by the
wide range of cases Which they handled, and the help which they gave to
Party levels and organisations in their struggle against the infringements
of programme and statutory principles, and by the activity not only of the
Voievodship Is, but also of a considerable proportion of Powiat and
Municipal KKPs in both the Voievodships.
The Voievodship KKP in LUBLIN helped the Voievodship organisation
in its struggle against economic transgressions. Out of 312 persons
expelled from the Voievodship organisation during 10 months of the last
year, 186 were the perpetrators of economic offences. The Voievodship KKP
had a number of conferences and briefing meetings with members of KKPs and
with teams for combating transgressions. A valuable step was the carrying
out, with the participation of the Voievodship KIT, of a conference of
Chief Accountants, dedicated to the cause of increasing their sense of
responsibility and of sensitising them to the necessity of conducting a
struggle against economic offences and economic inefficiency. But although
the losses suffered by the State in the .Voievodship of LUBLIN as a result
of these offences had fallen last year by 7 million zl., as compared with
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1958, they still amounted in 1959 to over 24. million zl., which shows how
still very inadequate is the struggle against these offences. Nevertheless,
the LUBLIN Voievodship KKP, which has taken steps against a number of
specific offences, should make more widely known its experiences from the
struggle in this sector, and conduct a deeper analysis of the causes which
facilitate, in the Voievodship? the perpetration of economic offences and
hinder the struggle against them, in order to pass on its suggestions to
Party levels and organisations, and to help them more effectively in their
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the resolutions of the III Plenum of the Central Committee.
This applies to an even greater degree to the Voievodship KKP at
GDANSK. It too, and with it the Powiat and Municipal KKPs1 have helped to
expose several transgressions (e.g. in the SIALEquipment_VIorks,, in the
GDANSK Electric Machine Factory, etc.), and examined a nubber of cases,
taking disciplinary measures against guilty Party members. The GDANSK
Voievodship KKP should, however, conduct this struggle in a more regular
fashion, particularly in view of the great material wealth which is handled
by the national economy in this Voievodship.
The report of the GDANSK Voievodship FEP does not discuss or
analyse this problem against the wider background of the extent of economic
offences in the Voievodship as a whole, and the part played by the Party
organisation in combating them. Until recently, indeed, the role and tasks
c,f the teams for fighting transgressions were underrated by the whole
Voievodship organisation.
A deeper analysis is also called for, in view of the great extent of
this phenomenon, of the fact, quoted in the report of the GDANSK Voievodship
KKP, of dispensing Party penalties on 72 Militia and Security workers, and
official penalties on g09 Militia workers, for various transgressions and
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offences in the Voievodship.
The LUBLIN Voievodship KKP has shown great activity in its struggle
against signs of ideological and class alienation. Nevertheless, the fact
that out of 150 persons (,)pelled from the Party for this reason during 1959,
the majority were workers and peasants, calls for a deeper study of the
matter.
An even greater degree of study by the Voievedship KKP is called for
by the fact that, in spite of the large number of expulsions on the
occasion of exchanging the Party membership cards (particularly in GDANSK:
2,566 workers the overwhelming majority of
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within the ranks of the Party.
The Voievodship and other EXPs should take a greater interest in the
morale in Party organisations, particularly in the Basic Party Organisations,
in the changes taking place within them, and in the attitude of Party
members, counteract in time all undesirable phenomena, and give effective
assistance to Voievodship and Powiat Committees in raising the ideological
and ethical level of the Party organisations. For this purpose,
representatives of the Voievodship and other KKPs should have more frequent
conversations with Party members and regularly visit the Party organisations,
particularly the neglected ones. It is such a systematic ideological and
educational work, based on the study of cases and on disciplinary decisions,
in close contact with the current tasks of the Party, and aimed in particular
at increasing the activeness of the Basic Party Organisations, which should
form the principal task of the Party Control Commissions.
The Vo.:_evodship KKPs in GDANSK and LUBLIN do not always have
adequate knowledge of the work of the Municipal and Powiat KKPs, the extent
of which is continually growing, and they still give them assistance to an
inadequate extent. It is a fact that sone of these Commissions are actively
working, while others give signs of only slight activity. For this reason
they should be placed under the permanent care of the most experienced
members and workers of the Voievodship IEP. There should also be more
frequent Plena of the Municipal and Powiat KKIPs, in order to delineate the
correct course of action, to assess its results, and to activise all KIT
members.
The discussion has shown that the activities of the Voievodship
KKPs and KKPs are only effective and are able to produce an educational
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effect when they adhere firmly to essential principles, implement the Party
lino regardless of difficulties, do not permit any procrastination in
dealing with cases, and are firm and consistent in achieving their
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of the necessity to increase the struggle with cliquishness and the stifling
of criticism.
An essential condition for a healthy atmosphere in the Party
organisaticns is the maintenance of a model attitude by workers of the Party
apparatus, and regular gssistance by the Voievodship and other KEPs to
Voievodship, Municipal, and Powiat Committees in their struggle against any
infringements of socialist ethics by workers of the Party apparatus. Both
the GDANSK and LUBLIN Voievodship KKPs. have shown vigilance and vigour in
this sphere (the case of the Powiat Committee at KRASMIK).
Their work, and the work of the remaining RKPs in this sphere, will
be all the more effective if it is energetically supported by the
Voievodship and Powiat Party levels, in accordance with the directive that
the infringement of the program= or statutory principles by workers of the
Party apparatus should be punished more and not less severely than similar
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offences commit;ed by other, rank-and-file, Party members, since the workers
of the Party apparatus should serve as an example for Party members and the
non-Party masses.
It was also stressed during the discussion in the Presidium of the
CKKP that the Voievodship and other KKPs should take a more active part in
Party life as a whole, and that, during the deliberations of Executive
Committees, at plenary sessions of the Voievodship, Municipal, and Powiat
Committees, and at Voievodship, Municipal, and Powiat Party conferences,
they should regularly bring up new, specific, problems connected with the
situation in the Party organisations, and with the struggle for the correct
attitude of Party members.
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V. NUIERICAL DATA CONCERNING PARTY ME1g3E,RS .2i.I\TD CANDIDATES WHO HAVE
MIEN EXPELTRD AND STRUCK OFF IN 1959.
In.22222_19A+L.312L.tyr members and candidates were expelled, and
70,137 Party members and candidates were struck off. The total number of
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members and candidates struck off or expelled was 80,580, which is 7.9
per cent of the total membership of the Party (as on 31st December 1959).
Party members and candidates expelled or struck off,
grouped according to employment (in percentages)
1
Profession 1 State as on Members and I Members and
31.12.59. i candidates candidates
1 expelled in struck off
1959 in 1959
Workers ' 407,869 1
Peasants 117,460
Salariat 438,576
4,528
1.1
42,799
1
10.5
985
0.8
10,614
9.0
4,361
, 1.0
, 12:358
2.8
(Percentages in relation to the total Party membership in the
various social groups, as en 31st December, 1959),,
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Thf?se expelled or struck off from the Party, according to profession
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Profession I Expelled
i metbers !
,
I andand
! candidatesi
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I
Struck off
members
candidates
%
1.
WORKERS
4,528
43.4
42,799
61.0
in this:
(a) workers directly employed
in production
(b) employed outside production
(c) agricultural workers
2,020
2,015
493
20,0L7
18,85
4,067
2.
PEASANTS
985 9.4
10,614
15.1
in this:
a) peasants farming individually
b) members of production
co-operatives
C, 959 10,235
26 379
!
1 .
3.
SALARIAT
4,361
1
41.8 12,358 i 17.6
in this:
(a) office workers
(b) established staff of Party
apparatus, TUs, MB, ZMW
(c) Security, Militia, Prison
staff
(d) National Council employees
(e) Directors of the economic and
administrative apparatus
(f) creative intellAwit,11.
3,048
181
.;,.,420 -
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340
1
I
8,960 1
749
199
316
2)053
(engineers, technicians,
doctors, etc)
4.
OTHERS (handicraftsmen,
housewives, old age and other
pensioners)
156 1.5 3,735 5.3
5.
POLISH ARMY
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3.9 631 1,0
TOTAL
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1 n_),i, , irn_n ' _77n i7 il nn n
(Percentages in relation to the total number of persons expelled
or struck off from the Party in 1959).
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Expelled and struck off, according to age:
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Age lExpelled %
imembers &
icandidates1
t
Struck off
members &
candidates
%
up to 25 years
from 25 to 40
from 41 to 50
over 50
Total
1 837
6 615
1,867
1 1,124
1 10,443
7.0
63.3
18.9
10.8
100.0
8,686
12.4
45.6
18.9
23.1
100.0
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,,,,,31,j9,91
13,250
16,210
70,137
Expelled and struck off, according to membership period:
Membership period 1
Expelled
members &
candidates
German occupation until liberation
5
From liberation to I PZPR Congress
4 ,124-
39.5
From I to II PZPR Congress
1,491
14.3
From II to III PZPR Congress
/4.2
Total
10,443
100.0
iStruck off
members &
candidates
7
7,657
4/..-3-17i,14=j92)
70,137
44.6
10.9
44.5
100.0
(Percentages in relation to the total number of persons expelled
or struck off from the Party in 1959).
Reasons for expulsion or striking off from the Party:
Reasons for expulsion
Members&
candidates
Ideological and class alienation, participation in
hostile organisations and bourgeois machinery of
oppression, hostile activity
Infringement of Party and State discipline,
infringements of the law
Infringement of the principles of Party ethics,
drunkenness, immoral conduct, financial transgressions
Misuse of authority, stifling of criticism,
cliquishness, favouritism
Total
798
3,216
5,548
881
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Reasons for striking off
! Members & I
! candidates 1
Accidental reasons
Passivity
Struck off at own request, handed in Party cards,
refused Party postings
Other reasons (loss of Party card, death,
permanent departure abroad, etc).
Total
4,3A7
. 38,370
417ED
70,137
6.2
54.7
35.3
3.8
100.0
By whom expelled or struck off from the Party:
Expelled
' Members &
crladidates
Struck off
Members 8c
candidates i
By the POPs
79.9
59,375
84-.7
By Party levels
2,097
20.1
10,762
15.3
Total
10,443
HIC0.0
70,137
100.0
(Percentages in relation to the total number expelled or struck off
from the Party in 1959).
VI. RESOLUTIONS OF THE CENTRAL AND WIEVOIDSHIP PARTY CONTROL comassioNs
The problems touched on in our Bulletin in articles concerning the
struggles waged by the Commissions against transgressions, cliquishness,
stifling of criticism, lack of Party vigilance, or the corruption of Party
activists, have been the subject 3f very many resolutions, a number of which
we quote below.
On the 10th November 1959, the Board of the CKKP expelled from the
Party Antoni LULEMBA a former Seym Deputy in the Polish People's Republic,
on the grounds that, while a Member of the Party, and as a worker of the
Party apparatus, being the 1st Secretary of the Powiat PZPR Committee in
KRAKOW, he ruthlessly suppressed all attempts at the criticism of h.:
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attitude. He did not even shrink from such methods as using his influence
for securing the expulsion from the Party of those who had been criticising
him, and obtaining legal writs for alleged slander. Putting his private
interest above that of the Party, he permitted a general slackening of
discipline to take place among workers 6f the Powiat Committee, leading to
their demoralisation.
On the 23.1.1960, the CKEP expelled from the Party Ludwik.-ilaNIARSK_,_
on the grounds of_neglectino his baaic duty of Party and civic vigilance
in connection with the flight abroad of Pawel MONAT former Chief of the
Military Attach6s1 Section in the Ministry of National Defence. 'OTNIARSKI
ho maintained frien4y,and-family-reIations-withMONATI_ durljng the last few
days of the lattDr's preparations for his flight, paid a call on the MOAT
family and collected from them various per3onal belongings, which ',they were
getting rid of. Although a Party member of long standi a former worker of
the Party apparatus, and, lately, a responsible worker in the Diplomatic 1!
Service, he failed to take any steps to warn the appropriate Party and
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official authorities of MONAT's intentions
On the 20.1.1960, the Voievodship KKP in KRAKC5 expelled from the
Party Krystyna TREPA a former employee of the Party apparatus, on the
grounds of her having conducted anti-Party and harmful activities after the
VIII Plenum of the Central Committee and the III Congress of the PR. In
her speeches and conversations, she sowed distrust towards the Party line,
charging the Party J,:)adership with deviation from the Marxist-Leninist
principles and with conducting an-economic policy at variance with the
interests ftf the working class. She invented and disseminated the idea that
the present Party line is contrary to the interests of the aorking masses and
that, in its essence, it suits those persons who Lre hostile towards
Socialism.
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National Council at GRUDZIADZ.
On the basis of post-control reports of the NIX, it was found that
the leadership of the Presidium of the Municipal National Council at
GRUDZIADZ had for a considerable time been conducting a reckless financial
policy, and had been taking advantage of their official position for
personal material gain. Circumventing the financial regulations, the
Presidium allocated the sum of L220as premiums or. the occasion of the
15th anniversary of the Polish People's Republic, and the Chairman and the
Secretary alone received about ten per cent of this sum They also
organised excursions for their families, charging them to the funds intended
for tourism, and spent in this way, in 1959, the sum of 44,5C0 zl. The same
funds were used for paying for the cost of receptions organised for the
delegation from the city of TEGNICA, with which GRUDZIADZ keeps in touch.
The story of these receptions became public knowledge, and aroused
indignation amorg the inhabitants of GRUDZIADZ. At one such reception,
given in honour of a 6-person delegation from LEGNICA, 16 litres of vodka
wee consumed during a sumptuous lunch. It was also established that
responsible workers of the Presidium of the Municipal National Council, and
Party members, conducted a widespread trade in building plots.
Those guilty of infringements of the financial discipline and of
breaking the People's Law, were punished by the Voievodship KIT at
BYDGOSZCZ/ as follows:
1. Wlodzimierz DABROWSKI, Chairmanof the Presidium of the
Municipal National Council, was expelled from the Party;
2. Tadeusz MiNDAK, Secretary of the Presidium of the National
Council, was expenn-From the Party;
3. Leon NADZIKLKISKI, Head of the Municipal Parks Departzent,
was expelled from the Party;
4. Hugon GOSTOMMK, Head of the Administration and Budget
Department, was expelled from the Party;
5. Stanislaw STARKOWKI, Head of the Municipal Hotels, was
given a reprimand and a caution;
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6. Witold MURAWSKI, Head of the Financial Department, was given
a Party reprimand;
7. Mieczyslaw ZABRPCKI, Commandant of the Municipal Regular Fire
Brigade, was given a Party reprimand.
VII. PLENARY SESSIONS AND CONFERENCES OF THE GLNTRAL PARTY CONTROL COMMISSION
Last year, the CKKP, on the basis of the resolutions of the III
PR Congress and the Plenum of the Central Committee, held the following
Conferences:
1. On the 26.3.59/ a Plenum of the OKI, on the subject of
appointing a Presidium of the CKKP and laying down the
direction of work after the III Congress.
2. On the 14.5.59, a conference of Chairmen of the Voievodship
Is, with the participation of members of the CKKPI the
subject being "The Tasks of the KKP in the Fight against
Transgressions and Corruption".
3. On the 9.6.59, a Plenum of the OKKP, on the subject of
discussing the draft regulations for the work of the MIT,
discussing the expulsions axle', strikings off during the 1st
Quarter of 1959, and giving an account of the work of the
Presid.'.um of the CKKP.
4. On the 3.9.591 a conference with the Chairmen of the
Voievodship Ws, with the participation of members of the
CKKP1 to discuss the taskz resulting from the exchanging of
Party Cards,
5. On the 16.12.59, a conference of the Central Team for
Fighting Transgressions, and of the OKKP, in order to analyse
the results of the work of the Party Teams for Fighting
Transgressions at the Voievodship Committees. The conference
was attended by members of the CKKP, chairmen of Teams,
chairmen of the Voievodship KKPs, representatives of the NDC,
Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor-General's Office, and of
the State Trade Inspectorate (PIH).
Conferences corresponding to those in the CKKP were also organised
by the Voievodship KKPs, and took into account the directives issued by the
CKKP. These conferences were run by members of the CKKP and ether workers.
Informatin and reports given to the Executive meetings of
the Voievodship Committees
On the basis of the controls carried out, the Voievodship KKPs
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Such information was submitted by the following KKPs:
1. The Voievodship KKP at KATNICE: on the progress of the struggle
against the stifling of criticism; On the work of the KKP in 1959.
2. The Voievodship KKP at KRAKOW: On the ideological and moral
attitude of Party members in the Presidia of the National Councils.
3. The Voievodship KKP at KL: On the work of the KKP and the
awarding of Party penalties by Powiat party levels and organisations.
4. The Voievodship KKP at PZESZOW: On the work of the KKP in 1959.
5. The Voievodship KKP at KOSZAIIN: On the work of the KEP and the
results of the struggle against transgressions and corruption.
b. The Voievodship KKP at 0CLAW: On the work of the KKP in 1959.
7. The Voievodship KKP in WARSAW-Voievodship: On the problems
encountered in the struggle against the stifling of oriticism.
N information was supplied on their work in 1959 by the
Voievodshiyt KKPJ at BYDGOSZCZ, OPOLE, SZCZECIN, BIALYSTOK, and others.
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Conferences of the Presidium of the CKKP
During 1959 there were 20 Conferences of the Presidium, 13 of which
dealt with cases of appeal to the III Congress of the PZPR, and the
following matters were discussed:
1. On 9.5.59; Discussion on the Regulations of the CKKP, and the
division of work among CUP members; Study of the expulsions and strikings
off during the 1st Quarter of 1959; Preparations for the conference with the
Chairmen of the Voievodship NKPs on the subjeot of the struggle against
transgressions and corruption.
2. On 23.5.59: Adoption of the draft regulations and agreement on
the date of the Plenum of the CUT; preparations for the issue of the CKKP
Bulletin, and other matters.
3. On 27.6.59: Report on the conference held in the Voievodship KKPs.
4, On 28.8.59: The question of extinguishing of Party penalties in
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5. On 31.10.51: Study of the Report Questionnaire for the 3rd
Quarter of 1959; Report on the situation in the field against the background
of the resolutions of the III Plenum of the Central Committee (fight against
transgres3ionJ, financial discipline).
6. On 21.11.59: Discussion of the draft of the Reporting Questionnaire-,
and the introduction of a uniform reporting system.
7. On 15'4,12.59: Discussion of the draft bulletin of the 001KP for
1959.
In addition, at each Presidium, a number of appeal cases were
considered, in connection with the re:aewed applications of the interested
parties, in accordance with the draft regulations of the CKKP.
VIII, CONPLAINTS AND GRIEVANCES
In 1959 the CKKP received 1,041 letters written direct by Party
members and non-party persons.
The following table illustrates the nature of t.17,0 letters sent to
US:
Nc. '
Subject matter
Quantity
1.
On employment .
220
2.
Various requests
195
3.
Accusations against Party members
168
4.
Anonymous letters
120
5.
Requests for intervention, grievances
176
6.
On housing
53
7.
On pensions
53
8.
Complaints
56
Total
1,041
In the majolity of cases, these letters were forwarded to the
Voievodship KKPs) to Presidia of the Voievodship National Councils, and to
other State institutions, f--)r giving explanations or assistance to their
writers.
The writers of zhe anonymous letters reported to us facts of serious
transgressions, favouritism, cliquishness, supprossic -1,TJA/Icism, and the
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misuse of the Party and State machinery. Undoubtedly, some of them spoke
the truth, but there were others which, in a tendentious, malicious, and
often openly hostile manner attempted to undermine confidence in honest Party
members or Party activists.
It is therefore essential that the Voievodship KKPs should check
very carefully all complaints and anonymous communications, from. the point
of view of their truthfulness. Objectiveness and fairness in the assessment
of the incoming complaints and grievances will undoubtedly influence the
growth of confidence in the KEPs or the Party levels.
IX. FROM THE .'irORK OF THE 13JNICIPAL PARTY CONTROL COMMISSION AT GLIWICE
The Municipal KKP at GLIWICE has been operating since November 1957.
Its activities extend ove/ the city and the Powiat. The area of op3ration
of the Commission is a difficult one, on account of its extent and the
interweaving of problems peculiar to strongly industrialised districts, on
the one hand, and agricultural, en the other, with the addition of others
peculiar to the estern Territories. GLI/ICE is an important centre of the
chemical industry, and the seat of a number of planning bureaux, research
institutes and combines. The city is one of the biggest centres of skilled
technicians. In the Powiat 5 the position is equally complicated. On the one
hand there are a number of urban areas, such as PYSKUWICE, TOSZEK1, or LABEDY,
some large agglomerations of the working class, such aL the LABEDY
Metallurgical Works, the Mechanical Works, Non-Ferrous Metals
and the Sand-pit, and, on the other, agriculture, developed to a fairly high
level, with 43 State Farms forming about 14.0 per cent of the total number of
State Farms in the whole Voievodship, producer co-operatives, and several
Agricultural Circles.
Such a situation in the area of activity of the Municipal KEP, the
mingling of various groups, traditions, views, and often of personal
. ambitions, results in the KIa' having to encounter a wide variety of
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provincial antagonisms, infiltration of West German propaganda, clericalism,
Charges of collaboration with the Nazis, etc. The complicated and very
varied financial and organisational structure of many businesses causes
further difficulties in discovering economic offences. Much difficulty is
also caused by the inter-connection of many people, bound together by mutunl
shady interests. Considerable difficulty in the work of the Municipal KKP
is also caused by the excessive tolerance of the administrative authorities
towards persons who had been dismissed from the Party and from their posts.
The fifteen-person team of the Municipal KKP, operating under such
conditions, was obliged to possess a detailed knowledge of the area, to
maintain at all times the correct, Marxist and class, point of view, so as
to be able to assess the cases investigated in as fair a way as possible.
The members of the Commission, in spite of frequently being burdened by their
own professional work, have yet found time to carry out the tasks entrusted
to them.
Of great importance for the correct performance of the duties of the
Municipal KKP was the regular help afforded to it by the Voievodship KKP at
KATOWICE. The existing work of the Municipal EKE' has fallen into two
distinct stages: the first, where the majority of cases concerned
ideological and political deviations, and the second, embracing the year
1959, in which the dominant cases concerned economic offences, speculation,
wastefulness, and infringements of financial discipline.
At the present time, the work of the Municipal KKP has become more
regular and efficient, holding cut the promise of the achievement of
improved results. The activity of the Municipal KKP, thanks to its close
co-operation with the Party levels in that area, results in greater
possibilities of unmasking and neutralising various elements who conceal
their own personal aims behind a screen of often fictitious Party activity.
An example of this may be found in the case of the former Party
member, NOWOSIELSKI, who through his denunciations and slandering of Party
Comrades and of municipal and Voievodship authorities, created an atmosnhere
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of suspicion and feat in his Basic Party Organisation, causing bitterness even
among non-Party people, who knew him to be a drunkard and trouble-maker.
A separate problem is the question of the co-operation with the
Commission for Fighting Transgressions and Corruption. The GLIWICE team
of this Commission, throughout the period of its activity, achieved favourable
results in its efforts to cleanse the branches of national administration
from corrupt and criminal elements. In the initial period of its activity,
the Commission for Fighting Transgressions centred its attention on the
activisation of Basic Party Organisations in their struggle against
wastefulness and economic offences. The results were very satisfactory. It
is sufficient to recall such cases as the discovery, in the "GLIWICE" and
"SOSNICA" mines, of conscious wastefulness and destruction of equipment.
Considerable assistance was given to the second mine by the Party aktiv from
the "GLI7ICE" mine, thus introducing order into many affairs in that
establishment. The Commission for Fighting Transgressions also helped to
activate the Party organisation and the Management in the Rolling Stock
Repair Works, indicating the unhealthy economic condition of these Works.
This led to the eradication of a number of transgressions which were taking
place especially in the timber storage yard, and to the dismissal from work
of a number of dishonest workers.
The passing for further investigation by the Prosecutor or by the
Militia of a number of cases connected with economic offences, in such
establishments as the Wire Factory, Electrical Machinery Repair Jerks, the
General Consumer Co-operative, Municipal Meat Market, the Communal Economy
Section in the Presidium of the Municipal National Council, and many others,
has led to the liquidation of various economic pests and has made it possible
to bring order into the econcmy of these establishments.
An important achievement of the Commission for Fighting Transgressions
has been the organisation of a meeting between the Managements of key
establishments and representatives of the Citizens' Militia, who pointed out
the inadequateness of the measures for the protection of public property and
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the indifference shown in the struggle against economic offences. This
conference helped not only to reveal a number of offences already committed,
but revealed also the conditions for making such offences impossible in
future.
The activities of the Municipal KKP and their result made it
possible to increase the authority not only of the KKPI but also of the
whole Party organisation, and to strengthen its ties with the whole of the
community in GLIWICE. A proof of till: can be found in the further inflow
of reports by the public on facts of transgressions and other criminal
phenomena, submitted by letter, or even by personal calls to the Municipal
KEP.
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