XVII. FINANCES

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2008
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REPORT TO THE THIRD T~~~OI'R CONGR'~:SS
OF THE SOVIET UI~'ION, BY H. STASSOV~'~.
( Congress held Feb. 15-1?, 1031)
SVII. FINANCES
Now I am going to the basis of the base of our
work, namely, to the finances.
The general sum of the means which were expended
both by the Executive Committee of ~IOPR as well as the
local organisations abroad, constitutes 17,056,580
rubles. Of this amount 90.3 per cent was expended on
direct aid, 9.7 per cent expended on the organisational
and agitational expenditures of the sections and on
political emigration.
{IPhat was the co-relation in percentage of what was
given by the Executive Committee and what was collected
by the foreign organisations?
In the beginning the Executive Committee gave 53:7
per cent; there was even one time in 1924 when the
Executive Committee gave to the support of the political
prisoners and their aid 69.2 per cent. In the past year
of 1930 the co-relation has strongly changed; the Ex-
ecu tive gave 33.1 per cent and the local collections
constitute 66.9 per cent, that is, the centre of gravity
has been transferred to the local collections. Perhaps
you will be surprised and say that this is an incorrect
policy of the Executive Committee. But comrades, first
of all the demands which are placed before us cannot be
satisfied to the extent even by the Executive Committee,
even with the assistance of the section of the U.S.S.R.
On the other hand picture what will be the situation if
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war or intervention will take place? tNhy then they
will not be able to exist at all if timely measures
were not taken.
For this reason we introduced the line which is
carried on in the U.S.S.R. by the Central Committee of
MOPR SELF-SUPPORTING ORGANISATION, the sections should
maintain themselves, and only in extreme cases should
receive any subsidy. At the present time we are giving
aid only to the illegal organisations. And illegal
organisations must also stand on their oyvn~f eet.
Finally, we set for ourselves the task that our
sections should give equal assistance to all the politi-
cal prisoners, and that we should not have such facts as
we have in France, when to the ordinary rank and file
member assistance was given by the MOPR and the Communist
who was arrested and who occupied some sort of a Party
post received during the course of along time wages,
which he received at his place of work.
In France, this campaign in part was raised by Com-
rade Marty who declared that he must receive the same
as the other political prisoners, and not as a member
of the Central Committee of the Party. At the present
time our section agrees with this and began to carry out
the corresponding line.
A few words about the work of the Auditing Commission.
The Auditing Commission of the Executive Committee
was elected completely from the comrades of the Soviet
Union, but, however, it is necessary to say that the
Auditing Commission worked very poorly so that when
recently we had to verif y one of the balances of the
Executive Committee we could not call together the
Auditing Commnission.
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