Transcript I have already had to deal in the press with this mass influx of workers. I quoted the case of the Kolomna works, one of the biggest machine building factories near Moscow, where during the "Lenin days" 12 shops signed a collective application to join the Party. Some weeks later similar applications were put in by all the other shops, and in this way over 8,000 metal workers, in 37 shops, collectively declared their desire to enter the C.P.S.U. It is characteristic that this took place at a factory, the majority of the workers in which have still their links with the villages and of recent months have entered the collective farms in a body. The Kolomna works is no exception. In Leningrad alone, 24 shops in 15 works, comprising 5,184 workers, throughout the largest factories such as the Red Putilov, the Runner, the Red Triangle, the Bolshevik, the Stalin Metal Works, the Red Viborg Worker, the Northern Shipyards, the Red Dawn and others, have put in collective applications for admission to the Party. There{ is not a single working-class area of any importance in which there have not been similar collective declarations by shops and even whole factories. We have bad them from the Don Bas and Dniepropetrovsk, in the South, to Perm in the "North, from Krasnoyarsk in Siberia, to Ivanovo-Yoznesensk and Bezhitsa in the West. As a rule these collective applications are made by the shock brigades, or else resolutions are adopted simultaneous^/ to apply for membership of the Party and to proclaim the shop a shock brigade. In Moscow the entire body of workers in four factories passed resolutions to apply collectively for membership of the Party. In all, during the last six weeks, we have had in seven of our largest Party districts over 120,000 applications from workers. These (acts speak for themselves eloquently enough. They vividly reflect the new enthusiasm of the mass of workers, and give some indication of the tremendous growth of the Party's authority in the eyes of the working class. In this connection the Central Committee has made an alteration in the decision adopted 18 months ago to the effect that the Party by the end of 1930 should be not less than 50 per cent, composed of workers at the bench. The alteration is that the Central Committee has recognised this objective as attainable earlier than the time fixed, namely, by the 16th Party Congress in May. This is of great bearing on the strengthening of the Party. The Party has also recognised it as desirable to increase the recruitment of agricultural labourers, poor peasants and the most advanced collective farmers. The mass influx into our Party is not allowed in any way to relax our demands of the applicants. Admission takes place only 32
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