INFORMATION BULLETIN NO. 8 OF THE CENTRAL PARTY CONTROL COMMISSION

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CENTRAL PLRTY COJTROL COMMISSION
at the Central Committee of the PZPR
INFORMATION BULLETIN
No. S . Confidential
WARSAW APRIL 1963
I. Report of the Central Party Control Commission for 1962.
Excerpts from the discussion at the Plenum of the CEKP.
Annual statistical tables.
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Edited by the Editorial Board
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CEEP - Central Party Crntrol Commission
WK KP Voivodship Party Cdntrol Commission
YKKP - Urban Party Control Commission.
MEP 2owiat Party 'ontrol Commission
KKP - Party Control Commission
EA Voivod ship Committee
EM A Yunicipal Committee
KP Powiat Committee
KD Ward Committee
POP - Basic Party Organization
OOP - Branch Party Organization
ZO - Disciplinary Team (of the KKP)
WRN Voivod ship National Council
Powiat National Council
YRN - Hunicipal National Council
VG "- CitizensvYilitLa
PZPR Polish UM:bad Workorm Party
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I. REPORT OF TT: CalTRAL PARTY CONTROL
CM-MISSION FOR 1962
A year has passed since the Plenum of the CKKP, attended by the.
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PUR, Wladyslaw GOFULKA.
This Plenum made an assessment of the activities of the CKKP aM WKKP,
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and laid down directives for the basic line of operation, a further
development of internal Party democracy, and an increase in the drive of
the YOPe in educating Party members.
Growth of the Party and data on members expelled or struck off
in 1962
How did our Party develop from the
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In 1962, 132,224 candidates were recruited for the Party. The
most numerous group among those new candidates are the workers. This
group embraoes 47.6% of the total of accepted candidates, while in 1961'
the figure was 46.9;10. The percentage 8f peasants among the now intake
fel/ from 15.6;0 in 1961 to 10.8;0 in 1962.
Among the non-manual workers accepted into the Party, over one
half consisted of engineers, technicians, teachers, and economists.
Administrative and office workers formed 25.1% of the total number
of non-manual workers, or about the same as in 1961.
In 1962, 37,494 persons were expelled or struck off the Party
r000rds) this being about 3010 more than in 1961. In reality) however,
there had boon an inorcase only in the struck off group, which amounted
to 29,571 persons. Of those expelled from the Party, the most numerous
group consisted of non-manual workers, while of those struck off the
majority were workers.
The greatest number of porsons, viz. 3,724, that is 46.9, of
the total of those expelled, wore expelled for finAn41,41 Vp4Atwoo4
thefts, and bribery. Among thoee expolloB ft& 01,40h Orfoftek tbot4 wo.Po
2,183 non-manual worker?, 124 of whom were in leading poslitorm Afi f4etery
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managers and directors of offices;
2,020 persons, or 25.5p, of the toIal, were expelled for immoral
and drunkenness.
Other reasons for expulsion were:
? infringement of Party discipline
? exploiting of one's offieial position
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? duplicity and deceiving the Party
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in the armed forces, where the majority of the expulsions were prompted
by immoral
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Of those struck off in the Party
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(excluding the
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armed forces), the most numerous group consisted of those who were struck
off for showing a lack of interest in the life of the Party and for
neglecting Party duties. This group numbered 12,895 persons, or 43.0:
of the total of those struck off. The next biggest group, 7,955 persona,
or 26.9%, consisted of those who were struck off "automatically", that
is, those who left without being transferred to other Party cells, or
those who were given such transfers but did not report to another POP.
The next group consisted of those who left the Party at their own
request' 5,577 persons, or 18.9%. 0
The remaining groups, very much smaller, consisted of persons
who were struck off in connection with their leaving Poland or for
ether reasons.
Among those struck off or expellee from the Party, a fairly
considerable group consisted of Party candidates 16,597 persons, or
44.3% of the total of those expelled or struck off.
Attention should be drawn to the fact that during the past fsw
The POPs and KPs continue to pass resolutions, contrary to the a atute,
on expelling oandidates from the Party, instead of striking them off the
list.
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years 'there has been a constant increase in the proportion occupied by
Party candidates among those expelled or struok off from the Party. In
1960, e proportion was 21.3%, while in 1962, it was 44.3,4a.
Of those struck off in the Party in the armed forces,
the bulk oonsisted of other ranks. The percentage of candidates expelled
and struck off in the army Party among the total number
expelled or struck off Party members or candidates is increasing more
than in the civilian
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In the light of the above data, and a direct investigation of the
situation carried out by some WKKPs, the instructions issued by the CKKP
continue to remain valid. These call for an increase in the standards
demanded from the new intake and a development of regular educational
and political work with Party candidates.
Some conclusions drawn from judgpents made by the
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In 1962, the CKKP received 852 appeals against 'the decisions of..
WKKPs and various Party levels, administering various Party penalties,
and 21 primary cases.
An analysis of the appeals shows that the biggest group was formed
by appeals against expulsion from the Party, i.e. cases concerning
reinstatement in the Party. The next biggest group consisted of requests
for permission to rejoin the Party. The numerically smallest group
consisted of appeals requesting a revision of the deoisions administering
the so-called disciplinary Party penalties.
The CKKP examined 399 appeals against expulsion from the Party,
including 279 appeals for restoration of Party membership rights and ?
120 appeals for permission to rejoin the Party once more, and made the
following deoisionet
- expulsions from Party uphold 197
- decisions oowtorning expulsion from
, the Party quashed and Party membership
rights restored
(17 of those without any Party .penalty) 78
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- permission given to rejoin the Party 101
- permission to rejoin the Party refused 19
Party:
The following
formed the basis for expulsion from the.
- infringements of the principles of Party ethics and norms
of Party life (drunkenness, theft, bribery, cliquishness,
wrecking, suppression and criticism) 116
- t:.'ansgressions against ideological principles of the
Party (mainly a two-faced attitude towards world
outlook questions) 56
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- transgressions against Party and State discipline 28
The following reasons formed the basis for the refusal of permission
for rejoining the Party:
- an assessment which had formed the basis for
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the original decision to expel the Party member and which,
in the opinion of the disciplinary team of the CICKP
disqualifies the appellant as a Party candidate, even in
a case where many years have passed since the sentence of
expulsion from the Party;
- opinions on the social and professional work, and on the
political and moral qualities of the appellant, which prove
to be negative or excessively weak.
As can be seen from the above data, a few dozen sentences of
expulsion from the Party have been quashed and the appellants were
restored to Party membership rights. That were the reasons for
reviewing the sentences?
In 56 cases the reason was the view by the disciplinary team (ZO)
of the CKKP that the Party member had been given an excessive punishment
which disregarded his attitude and pat work as a whole; in 20 cases,
the reason was an absence of any confirmation of the charges, or only 4
partial oonfirmatio
A number of decisions on striking off the list of Party members
were also quashed.
? Including 3 eases of increasing the decizion to ft dnten00 of04
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What changes have taken place in the matter of the jiistioe of
the decisions during the past few years, and particularly decisions..
such as expulsion from the Party?,
Hitherto, we have regarded this question purely from the point:
of view of the previous decisions on expulsions, without studying the
nature of the appeals ? whether the appeals requested the restitution.
of Party membership rights, or whether they were requests for permission
to rejoin the Party. Yet this is ofqFeal importance.
For instance, the comparison of statistical data concerning the ,
question of the justice of the sentences passed by the Vales, adopting
the existing method of analysis, i.e. calculating the number of the
expulsion sentences being reviewed in relation to the total number of
reviewed appeals against expulsion (i.e0 taking into account both the
requests for restoration of Party membership rights and requests for
permission to rejoin the Party), indicates that:
in 1959, restoration of Party rights was granted in 32.9% of oases
in 1960,
ditto
30.6%
ditto
in 1961,
ditto
25.2%
ditto
in 1962,
ditto
19.5%
ditto.
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restoration of Party rights was granted in 37.5% of cases
in 1960,
ditto
37.1%
ditto
in 1961,
ditto
33.0%
ditto
in 1962
ditto
28.0%
ditto
We consider this second method of calculation as more accurate,
sinoe it eliminaton tho intrinsically different nature of the
requesting
requesting permission to rejoin the Party from appoals -which Aro Of
main Interest to us hero, against expulsion from the Party and rev
the restoration of
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In future, when studying the question cf the justice Of the
decisions, we shall apply a more accurate method of calculation, which
will talfe into account only the appeals against expulsion, coupled with
requests for restoration of Party membership rights.
It must however be stated that both methods of caloulation
indicate a real improvement in the administration of discipline by the
WKKPo in the period which has elapsed since the III Party Congress.
This is also confirmed by the direct control of the work of the WKKPs.
Every year brings a visible improvement.
From the statistical data quoted above, it can be seen that, in
1959, the CGP reviewed about 38 sentences out of every 100 appeals against
expulsion from the Party coupled with requests for restoration of Party
membership rights, while in 1962 it reviewed 28 sentences.
The disciplinary decisions are more just owing to the raising
of the level of preparation and examination of oases. The methods of
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work are changing. The disciplinary teams examine oases more thoroughly,
take into account the circumstances of the prosecution
ask for the opinion of tho,POPs, and take it into acooun
when passing judgment.
While recording a considerable improvement in the justice of the
decisions by the VPs during the past four years, we consider that the
WKKie should continue to work on this problem, as this has a basic
importance in the strengthening of the feeling of fairness and confidence
by Party members towards Party levels and organs.
The work of the VIKKPs and the method by which they
assisted the powlat and urban KKPs
Tho WKKPs oxaminel 8,596 oases, making 5,355 decisions! Of these,
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4)874 oases wore appoalo, and 481 canes were new. Altogother, Toro
decisions were =de th7)h in the provioun year. Ti14) only 4Y4optlml,mro
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There has, however, been a change in the structure of the appeals
by reason of their character. There laas been a reduction in the number
of decisions concerning the imposition of sanctions and penalties, or
the freeing from Party responsibility, while there has been an increase
in the number of decisions dealing with requests for the erasure of
Party penalties.
The 4,874 decisions were classed as follows:
- decisions dealing with various Party sanctions
or penalties, or freeing from Party responsibility 1,949
- decisions dealing with requests for the erasure of
of Party penalties 2,089 or 42.0
- decisions dealing with requests for permission to
rejoin the Party 836 or 17.2,1.
Among the appeals against various sanctions and Party penalties,
the bulk consisted of appeals against expulsion from the Party. These
appeals led to 1,906 decisions, as follows%
- expulsion from Party =held 797
or 34
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- sentence of expulsion quashed and Party rights
restored (136 with no new penalty)
- permission granted to rejoin Party
- permission refused "
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- infringement of the principles of Party ethics and
norms of Party life (drunkenness, thefts, bribery,
cliquishness, wrecking, suppression of criticism) 615
- breaking Party and State discipline
89
- transgressions against ideological principles
(mainly duplicity, deceiving the Pal, and active
participation in Church 115
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The main reasons for the quashing of penalties are different
than in the case of the GICKP, since in almost hcaf the onsiee thore hAd'
been an absence of confirmation of tho charges, wbdle in bttit tbo oagoo
+ This includes 22 oases whore the sentence was inorPasod to on ot
expulsion
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the penalties imposed were excessive. This means that the submission
of evidence to disciplinary bodies at lower levels is not as effioient
as in the case of the WKKPs.
In 22 oases, the WKKPs increased the Party penalties, passing
sentences of expulsion from the Party.
That is the position of the justness+ of decisions by the POPs,
Party levels, and PKKPs in the light of the judgments made by the 1KKPs
during the last 4 years?
Comparing it with the total number of examined appeals against
expulsion, asking for the restoration of Party membership rights, Party
membership was restored:
in 1959, to 50.3%
in 1960, to 40.1%
in 1961, -to 39.5%
in 1962 to 34.4/..
There has therefore been a considerable improvement during the
past four years. While, in 1959, the WKKPs revised 50 out of every
100 sentences of expulsion from the Party, in 1962 the percentage was
3441 The decisions of the POPs, Party levels, and PMPs are more just.
Nevertheless, we are not yet satisfied with the present state
of affairs.
The fact that out of each 100 sentences of expulsion from the
Party, reported to the,. WKKPs, 34 sentences are quashed and the
membership rights restored, indicates that there are still considerable
shortcomings in the disoiplinary decisions of the POPs and the lower
Party levels (KP, KZ), and the PKKPs, both as regards the justification
of the charges and the yardsticks employed when imposing a Party penalty.
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A certain deterioration, compared with the previous year, has bei
noted in the Voievodships of KATOWICE, 7DGOSZCZ, and KRAKOW, where tho
WKKPs are obliged to quash a much larger proportion of sentences of
okpulsion from the Party, compared with other WKKPs. Thus; -
? the WKKP at KATOWICE, examining 120 appeals of persons
requesting the restoration of Party membership rights,
was obliged to quash 54 sentences and to restore membership
rights to the applicants (45%);
? the WKKP at BYDGOSZCZ, examining 71 appeals, quashed 31
sentences and restored membership rights to the
applicants (43.7A;
? the WKKP at KRAK3W, examining 48 appeals, quashed 27
sentences and restored membership rights to the
applicants (56.3%).
the WKKPs should study this problem in greater detail and consider
what is the nature and reason for this phenomenon.
The fact that one in every three persons appealing for the
restoration of Party membership rights (according to average data
throughout the country) had these rights restored by the WKKP, fades'
the WKKPe with the absolute necessity of giving greater help to the
PO2s, KZs, KPs, and PKKPs in disciplinary decisions.
It should be added that the matter of more effective help for
the POPs has also been stressed in many resolutions passed by the
Voievodship levels as a result of the assessment of the work of the
WKKPs.
When discussing the question of the fairness of disciplinary
decisions, attention should be paid to oases of expulsion of Party
members solely on the grounds of the member having been detained by
the police authorities, but without having studied the oharges, the
explanations of the aocused Comrade, or the evidence of other persons.
In crises of this sort, the Party levels.have hitherto made Insuffioicint
use of their statutory rights, namely tho (it Ottopo641t4g. th4
rights of a Party member for a spoolfied time, during which all
charges should should bo investigated and elucidated by tho X". ."'A A^'4
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In connection with the large number of POP and Party level
resolutions revised by the WaPs, with a reduction of penalties, the -
question may be asked whether the WKKP decisions are not too liberal
and whether by any chance they may result in the retention in the Party.
of people who are passive, alien, and having no ideological connection
with the Party.
The WKKP at BYDGOSZCZ tried to answer this question. From the
study made by it it appears that, of the Comrades who in previous years:
had had their sentences of expulsion quashed by the WKKP and substitutei
by another Party penalty, the groat majority enjoy a good Party
reputation. Many of them are activists in Party committees, members
of Party authorities, or acting as FOP secretaries. This confirms
the belief that, in principle, the disciplinary procedure of the WKKP
had boon correct, and that the educational penalty had fulfilled its
purpose.
Fighting for the purity of Party ranks, the WKKPs have taken
up a number of oases on their own initiative and examined them either
directly in the WKKP, or in the FKKPI or passed them for examination
to the PCPs, giving direct help in the more difficult cases.
All the WICKPs examined 481 new cases, and sent several hundred
to the POPs, giving them appropriate help in the elucidation and final
drafting of the charges, and in reaching the correct decision..
Of the 481 new cases examined on the initiative of the WICKPs,
the following were decided as follows%
126 persons were expelled from the Party,
258 persons were punished with other Party penalties
92 persons er6 freed from Party responsibility, as
the charges were not substantiated.
As a result of the action of the =Ps, the Party raaa won
freed from many alien and demoralized persons, who by their Attitude
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Throughout the country, there are in existence 137 powiat,
urban, and ward KKPs.
this next section deals with the slight improvement in the
operation of the KKPs, resulting in fewer expulsions compared with the
previous yeai7
The index of expelled persons in. relation to the total strength'
of the Party was lower in 1962, being 0.6%, compared with 0.7% in 1961.
The index of persons struck off from the Party is, on the other hand,
higher and was 2.310 in 1962, compared with 1.8% in 1961.
As regards expulsions, there is a considerable disparity among
the various voievodships. The lowest ,index was in Warsaw, amounting
to 0.2%, and the highest in BIALYSTOK and OLSZTYN being 1.1%.
As regards strikings off, the lowest index was in Warsaw: 1%
and the highest in BIALYSTOK: 3.51;.
The Warsaw KKP carried out an investigation into the process of
purifying the Party in the various wards and circles in Warsaw. The
investigaticn embraced 110 POPs and KZs. Its result was as followsv
- Expulsions from the Party take place to a large extent as
a consequence of the prosecution of Party members (42% of
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- When there is only a small number of strikings off and
expulsions, there is generally a large number of so-called
educational Party penalties imposed on Party members.
Conversely, a large number of strikings off and expulsions
is acoompanied by a small number of educational penalties.
The highest number of expelled persons is to be found in the
co-operative movement (0.5%) and in commerce (0.4'0); the lowest is
found in offices and institutions, and among teachers, cultural workers
and journalists.
In industry, builaing and transPOrt, the percentage of those
expelled approaches the general Warsaw average of O. of the membership
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proportion of struck off Party members and candidates is to be found
in transport (1.8%), in building and commerce (1.3%) and in industry
(1.24). In those branches, the percentage of persons struck off exeeeds
the general Warsaw average, which is 1.0%.
Similar phenomena have been observed by other WKIKPs. The WICKP
at BYDGOSZCZ has pointed out that 74.7%. of persons expelled from the
Party in 1962 were facing charges of a penal charaoter: financial
transgressions, thefts, hooliganism, which either led to convictions
(53% of those expelled), or which remain under legal investigations
A similar phenomenon was pointed out by the WKKP at LODZ.
There has been a fairly considerable loss by the Party of Comrades
with a long membership record, often dating from before the Union
(with the Socialists, in 1907. Retirement from professional employment
is often regarded as synonymous with a withdrawal from Party life and
resignation from Party membership.
Some WKKIPs carried out a study of the reasons for the loss of
Party Candidates
The WKKP at LODZ drew up two studies for the leadership of the
Voievodship Committee, as follows
1. The causes of expulsion or striking off of Party Candidates
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2. The causes of the resignations from the Party, made at their
own request by Party Members and Candidates.
For some years we have been observing certain tendencies
resulting in the draining of Candidates from the Party.
While, in 1961, the expelled and struck off Candidates formed
5.7% of the total number of Candidates within the Party, in 1962 this.
proportion rose to 10.10 of the total number of Candidates. Th
proportion of expelled and struck off aCandidatesin the total number ?
of Party members and candidates expelled and struck off each year has
The POPs have boon passing sentences of expulsion of Candidates which
are contrary to the Statute. Subjects should have been struck off'
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been crowing.
This is illustrated by the following indioes:
1960: 21.3%
1961: 39.6%
1962: 44.3%. 4
Those indices relate to the country as a whole. The lowest
index is to be found in Warsaw-city: 314, and the highest in the
Voievodship of ZIELONA GORA: 56.8%.
The study carried out by the VflaPs leads to the following
conclusions:
- The necessity for observing all the statutory requirements
when signing-on Candidates for? the Party, both as regards
a knowledge of the Candidate, and the required criteria
concerning his personal and moral qualities, and social
and professional activities;
- The duty of developing a systematic educational process
vis-a-vis newly-accepted Candidates for the Party;
- The necessity for a careful scrutiny when confirming
decisions to strike a man off the list of Candidates.
Studying the Party disciplinary methods, the WKICPs also draw
attention to a number of shortcomings in maintaining records and to
the method of dealing with cases and imposing sentences which is
contrary to the Statute.
Cases have been met when members leaving the Party at their
own request have been recorded as having been struck off for neglecting
Party duties. In other cases, the Executive of the Powiat Committee
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decision to strike off a Comrade from the list of Party members, when
in fact the POP had recommended that the Comrade should be expelled from
the Party. There have also boon cases of the POPs deciding on
expulsions or striking off in tho absence of 4 quorum of at lea
of members.
There have dflo bcori 0.60i4t0a4tofltWIKA
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persons who had committed serious
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of the nature of striking off as a Party penalty, or often a consequende
of liberalism and of persons unworthy of the name of Party meMberA-
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The POPs have also continued to make unstatutory decisions in
respect of Party candidates, whom they expelled
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of being struck off the list.
A study of the appeals against expulsion or striking off has
shown that the Party is losing a comparatively greater number of workers
and peasants than of non-manual workcrs, and that fewer workers and
peasants appeal against the decisions made by the POP than the non..
manual workers. This is illustrated by the following data:
Social structure
Structure of the
Persons expelled
and struck off
in %
in 1962
Appeals lodgee
in %
1n1962 4
Partvl
in %
in 1962
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of this
workers
39.8
51.2
35.1
peasants
11.5
14.4
4.9
non-manual
workers
43.7
27.3
60.0
Based on data for the 4th Quarter, since the statistical data for
the whole year are not available
In 1962, there took place a deterioration in the social
composition of the Party. The proportion of workers and peasants
fell (in 19611 the proportions were 40.1 and 12% respeotively), and
the proportion of non-manual workers increased (in 1961, the proportion
was 42.M.
Lot us now examine the facts behind the oxpulsions.
Almost half tho people were expelled from the Party for varioUa
transgressions theft and bribery. Those expelled included 124 ,
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directors of factories and institutions. Of course those people had '
nothing in common with the Party. Our Party is a mass movement and
varioue careerists and schemers try to get into it in the expectation
that this will facilitate their schemes. A part of the people joining
the Party are completely alien, and the Party must get tid of them,
while a part gets demoralized, and tho Party must counteract this.
Those people do not represent the true image and nature of the Party.
Nevertheless, they do the Party immense harm, since many of them were
regarded as activists, spoke at Party meetings, and were known to a.wide
circle of activists.
Let us examine this case in greater detail and not only from the
point of view of Party members.
A study of the prosecutions for theft of public property shows a
certain shift in comparison with previous years. The number of persons
prosecuted for petty thefts has fallen, but there has been an increase'
in the number of persons participating in the theft of publio property
of greater valuo. Those thefts are carried out by criminals in larger
groups9
groups conducting economic
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are generally
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composed of people who are quite well-off. Petty thefts, on the other
hand, are perpetrated by people who earn less, and who do not hold any
loading posts.
There have also been many cases of the offering of small bribes
when doing business in the Rural National Councils, Rural Co-operatives
etc. Party members
are often involved in these which sometimes take place in
full view of others, with no counter-measures being taken at the.
appropriate time.
In addition to the large number of Per404g oxpf.) o4. for 49(4%900
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persons expelled for drunkennosu, domoralization; and tho inttAngomont
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of Party ethics.
Transgressions and schemes of various sorts are usually
accompanied by the stifling of criticism
There exists a rich arsenal of means for intimidating or
discouraging from criticism many honest Party members and non-party
people, such as dismissal from employment, transfers, refusal of
promotion, smaller bonuses, etc.
The 'CPI's, investigating theao cases, encounter considerable
difficulties in establishing the true state of affairs. Dismissals or
transfers do not-tako place immediately after a critical speech: there
is a deliberate interval to allow others to forget the incident, and
to prevent them from coupling the dismissal with the critical speech at
the meeting. Quite often, such a man is represented as a wrecker, the
criticisms made by him aro investigateein a superficial.fashion and
his charges are stated to be unjustified.
Drawing attention to this problem does not mean that we are
blind to the existence of persons who engage in wrecking, and who
maliciously and tendentiously try to undermine confidence in honest
Party members and activists. Such wreckers write letters of complaint
to various offices and Party levels, anTymously slander honest people
The POPs and Kles expelled 147 persons from the
Party for activities of this sort.
In their activities, the KICPs also examined the problem of
eduoating Party members in the spirit of the materialist world outlook,
abandoning roligous practices. Attention was paid to the indifference
shown often even by Party activists to their own families, and
particularly childronl indulging in religious practices. This problem
can only be solved by a long-term and regular educational proceas.
Cloricalists who engaged in aotive campaigns in support of the clergy
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and spread Church ideology were 'expelled from the Party. Altogether,
155 persons were expelled, and a number were struck off from the Party-
recorda. Sanctions were also applied against Party activists who
adopted a two-faced attitude in the matter.
[The remainder of this section deals with recommendations for
closer supervision over the work of the Kies in the future, including
extra safeguards ensuring that individuals are able to appeal against
Party penaltiei7.
(The Discussion which took plaoe at the Plenum of the CKKP
included statements by: Adolf STARZEC, a member of the CKKP and
Secretary of the KKP in the Polish Army; Jozef KOWALSKI, a member of
the OUP; Wladyslaw SZAFRANIEC, Chairman of the WKKP at SZCZECIN;
Jan JALOSZYNSKI, Chairman of the WKKP at GDANSK Stanislaw SPYT,
Chairman of the WKKP at KRAKOW; and Szymon ZACHARIASZ, a member of
the CKKP. Following are extracts of the more interesting pointil
Comrade J. JALOSZYNSKI:
The matter which I wish to bring up and discuss concerns a
large number of Comrades holding responsible positions in various
places, who are engaged in 'feathering their nests, or, to say it
plainly, who use their influence and connections for enriching themselves.
In our area this tendency has reached quite serious proportions, taking
the form of people holding responsible positions, including some Party
members, building houses for themselves. This is done in a variety
of ways, taking advantago of the possibilities opened to them in the
past, such as the purchase of building sites, various ways of
obtaining building materials, etc. We were recently obliged to take
disciplinary action against several Comrades, such as the Vico-Chairman
of the Voiovodship National Council, who was engaged in buying and
Belling building plots the Chief Editor of 1DZIENNIK ialYCKII, who
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was engaged in similar activities, the Director of the Finance
Department in the Voievodship National Council, and the First Secretary
of the Powiat Committee at WEJHEROWO, who was also mixed up in those
things, and whom we were obliged to remove from his poet. We have
also encountered in our work a widespread practice of 'making oneself
presents' as it is called of non-returnable loans for building
dwelling-houses attached to places of work, for sums of 20 to 50
thousand zlote. In places where the Party
had taken
action against this, there followed various forms of blackmail and
intimidation, loading even to dismissals from employment.
A disturbing factor in all this is the fact that many
responsible Comrades, know about these matters, but fail to
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react to the evil, paper over the cracks, gloss them over, and even
engage in defending the guilty.
Comrade S. SPYT:
When looking into the disciplinary aotion taken in the Powiat
Committees, in the KZs, and in the POPs, we came to the conclusion
that in many oases the Comrades remain ignorant of the Statute and of
the instructions, and often it is necessary to have lengthy discussions
with them, and even produce the Statute, to convince them that certain
things are laid down there. The reason for this lies in the annual
elections to Party posts, loading to 60 per cent. of the Secretaries
being new to the job, and changes among 50 to 60 per cent. of the
members of the Executives. Such people have either not been trained
at all, or have had only a superficial training, and even with the best
will in the world they are unable to reach a oorreot decision at Party.
meetings. For this reason there have been cases when the aecisions
were made in absentia and the Party member was expelled or struck off
in absentia. These people do not even know that the atatute guarantees
to the Party member his presence at the mooting, and gives him the r3tht
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of expressing his views.
We have also had cases where a POP accepts a Candidate into full
Party membership. The Comrade is on the whole not a bad fellow, but
somebody on the Executive takes a dislike to him, and ha is struck off.
When asked for the reasons, the Executive say that they had asked him,
What do you read? To this he answers, Sometimes nothing, sometimes I
do read, when I am in the town I buy a paper, but sometimes I don't read
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anything. So they say, Let us strike him off, as he does not read
Party newspapers and periodicals. As for that, one could strike off
some members of the Powiat Conmittee for the same reason. But is this
an argument? Absolutely no. When one puts this to the Comrades, they
begin to give other explanations.
[The Bulletin ends with 11 statistical tables, breaking down the-,
expulsions and strikings off into various categories. Two of the tables
are reproduced belo.g.
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Table 10
Figures illustrating the non-Statutory decisions
made by the POPs, Party levels and KKPs, towards
Candidates who are expelled instead of being
struck off.
Voievodship
Total No. of
Candidates and
Full Members
expelled
Proportion of Candidates
In actual Percentage
fidures index
TOTAL 7,923 732 9.2
BIALYSTOK
BYDGOSZCZ
GDANSK
KATOWICE
KTP.LCE
KOSCALIN
KRAKOW
LUBLIN
LODZ
IODZ-city
OLSZTYN
OPOLE
POZNAN
RZESZOW
SZCZECIN
WARSAW
WARSAW-city
WROCLAW
ZIELONA GORA
378 32 8.5
849 89 10.5
345 lo 2.9
821 107 13.0
384 31 8.1
261 22 8.4
305
472 82 17.4
487 40 8.2
212 ' 24 11.3
365 38 10.4
361 40 11.1
462 18 3.9
348 ' 51 14.7
351
430 38 8.8
172 4 2.3
680 95 14.0
240 ?11 4.6
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No.
Number of expelled from the Party in 1962
by the POE's, Party levels and KICPs,
according to causes.
Causes of expulsion
TOTAL
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Number e7cpel:!ea ?
In actual Percentage
figures index
7,923 I 100.0
? Financial transgressions, thefts, 3,724 46.9
bribery
Abuse of official position for 1 298 3.8
obtaining material gain
Tolerant attitude towards
transgressions
Causing material losses through
culpable negligence of
official duties
Abuse of power, infringement
of the People's law code
Suppression of criticism,
cliquishness,
Slander, personal intrigues,
wrecking etc.
Infringement of Party discipline
Immoral behaviour, drunkenness
etc.
10. Pro-clericalist
active participation in
Church organisations
11. I Duplicity, deceiving the Party
12. Nationalist activities and
pronouncements
13.
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Other anti-Party pronouncements
and activities
Otner causes .
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1.2
0.2
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5.1
25.5
2.0
2.9
0-1
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