ATTACK BY POLISH PZPR OFFICIALS ON PARTY FORMALISM AND INDIFFERENCE

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• Publication Date: December 17, 1953
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED Warsaw, Bydgoszcz
DATE
PUBLISHED 15, 29 May 1953
LANGUAGE Polish
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Poland
DATE OF
DATE DIST. /7' Dec 1953
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
ATTACK BY POLISH PZPR OFFICIALS
ON PARTY FORMALISM AND INDIFFERENCE
/omment; Summary: The following two articles from the Polish
daily press discuss problems facing the PZPR (Polish United Work-
ers Party) as a result of indifference and formalism in party
ranks.
Franciszek Nowak, chairman of the Wojewodztwo Committee of
Party Control, indicates some of the abuses resulting from party
indifference in the Bydgoszcz Wojewodztwo. A. Starewicz, direc-
tor of the Propaganda and Agitation. Division of the Central Com-
mittee of the PZPR, calls for more careful control and more enthu-
siastic support of party schools.7
PARTY AE-JSES AND INDIFFERENCE SCORED-- Bydgoszcz, Gazeta Pomorska, 15 May 53
The Third Plenum of the EC PZPR (Central Committee, Polish United Workers
Party) enjoined the entire party to greater revolutionary vigilance. Although
it is now 31 years later, the injunction retains its applicability, importance,
and meaning. This vigilance must be increased even more since the class enemy
is now using more ingenious methods against the people's authority.
It must be admitted that many party units and management organizations in
the economic apparatus of the Bydgoszcz Wojewodztwo have forgotten the exist-
ence of the class enemy.
As a result of the inability of the party organization in the Krochmalnia
(Starch Factory) in Torun to combat the work of the enemy, a class enemy pene-
trated the party ranks and then the executive organ of the party. His name
was Stanislaw Grudzik, a former administrative manager, who until 1939 was a
functionary of the uniformed police and the secret police in Torun. He also
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.served in the uniformed police of the occupation forces. As an accomplished
secret agent, Grudzik was able to conceal his identity for a long time; he
even managed to gain access to the executive organ of the basic party organi-
zation by pretending to be an energetic party activist. He was also one of
the first to vote for the expulsion from the party of Szymanski, Zawadzki,
and Loza, who were exposed as an alien element in the party.
Aleksander Loza was a member of the POW (Polska Organizacja Wojskowa,
Polish Military Organization). Until 1939, he held important prison posi-
tions; during the occupation he was a staff member of the ZWZ (Zwiazek Walki
Zbrojnej, Union for Armed Struggle) and the AK (Armja Krajowa, Home Army).
Wladyslaw Zawadzki also was a prison official before 1939. He was first
the assistant director of the starch factory and then the chief bookkeeper.
It was not difficult to discover the reason for unfulfilled production
plans, breakdowns, and economic damage in the starch factory. This clique of
enemy elements, through its opportunistic and often inimical attitude toward
the realization of production plans, deliberately delayed the fulfillment of
plans by this plant.
The light and indifferent attitude of Zawadzki toward repairs resulted
in unfulfillment of plans and serious losses in potatoes, whict had to be
dumped in the Wisl-, River. The losses to the state treasury amounted to over
one million zlotys.
As a result of this kind of management, the workers did not receive their
earned premiums, robberies increased, and the production plan for 1952 was
only 51 percent fulfilled. Potatoes were contracted for from people who had
none, but who received payment for them.
The Central Administration for the Potato Industry (Centralny Zarzad Pr-
zemyslu Ziemniaczanego) in Poznun, and particularly Instructor Iwaniszyn,
knew of the robberies and sabotage- However, since Iwaniszyn, who was the
control inspector for the factory, was a member of the clique he did nothing
to remedy the situation,
The Municipal Committee in Torun discovered this harmful activity rather
late because it had too little help from the basic party organization, which
was dominated by alien elemc"cr
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Ideological purity of party ranks and observance of revolutionary vigi-
lance are two basic elements in internal party work.
The party organization in the Regional Administration of the PGR (Pans-
twowe Gospodarstwa Rolne, State Farms) in Bydgoszcz should heed this advice
and be more vigilant. This organization tolerated a class enemy in its ranks
for too long. He was Czeslaw Zielkiewicz, former director of this region.
Under his "solicitous" care, sabotage activity was carried out in certain PGR
groups and even within the regional administration itself.
Zielkiewicz was the owner of a large estate before 1939 and during the
occupation. After the liberation, he slipped into the party by falsely claim-
ing that he was a KPP (Komunistyczna Partja Polska, Communist Party of Poland)
acta:1st before the war. After ?a.;ing o. . the pest of the OR regional di-
rector, he surrounded himself with large landowners and started his disruptive
work. He did not permit any personnel changes in the positio_is occupied by
these former large landowners.
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After the removal of Zielkiewicz by the WG (Wojewodz'ra Komis;)a Kontroli
Party,jne,j, Wojewodztwo Committee of Party Control) from the party and from the
position of regional director, the basic party organization, with the help of
the WKhy, removed the class enemies from the Regional:,dministration and from
certain PGR groups.
.lmong the-e -emoved were the following; Edward Kaczanowski, former pro-
fessional officer of the KOP (Komitet Obroncow Polski, Committee of Poland's
Defenders); Jan Szalski, a former large landowner. Stefan Doncew, former staff
officer before 1939; and Zachorski, a former large landowner and the director
of the KCobylniki PGR Group, who with the help of others like him, through mis-
use and sabotage, caused a loss of millions of zlotys. The 1.10 (t?tilicja Ob'.wa-
telska, Citizens Militia) is now taking care of the Zachorski case.
However, the basic party organizations and other regional party organiza-
tions, still are not exercising revolutionary vigilance toward enemies active
in the R. The authorities in the B,rdgoszcz Region PGR administration exer-
cise too little concern in training new cadres. These authorities are charac-
terized by a rotten liberalism toward class and ideological enemies who carry
on harmful activity.
In the Marcinkowo Group of the PGR, the director is Bak, the son of a
kulak with 80 hectares; the agronomist is Marian Por..irski, whose parents also
were large landowners. Both ore guilty of economic waste and sabotage. De-
spite signs of bad conditions in this group, the regional FAR administration
did not dismiss Bak and Pomirski from their positions, because they had man-
aged to get into the good graces of some of the powiat authorities.
Another important task is the development of the ability to uncover the
enemy who cleverly conceals his jtrue7 identity with a party identification
card. This was done by leopol.d Januszewski, secretary of the Wyrzysk PRN
(Powiatowa Rada Narodowa, Powiat People's Council) Presidium and former acti-
vist in the BBWR ~ot further idertified7 and the OZON fnot further identi-
fied7; Antoni Cybulski, deputy chairman of the Inowroclaw PRN Presidium and
former active worker in the National Party; and Leon Dorenda, a worker in the
WRN (Wojewodztwo People's Council) Presidium. It was only because of the
lack of vigilance by party organizations that these people were able to re-
main in party ranks and to continue their harmful work for so long.
Another example is the director of the general. education lyceum in
Chelmza, Jan Czarnecki, an ideologically alien person who introduced methods
to subvert ZMP (Zwlazek Moldziezy Polskiej, Union of Polish Youth) students
and personal teaching methods, including shaving of the herd, expulsion from
class, etc. He surrounded himself with people of alien class and ideology of
the type of Szczaniawska, the former large landowner.
The basic party organization, occupied with' its personal plans, was not
aware of this enemy activity of Czarnecki, who was corrupting Polish youth
and leading it against the people's state. This activity was permitted for
such a long time because Zalewski, the secretary of the Chelmza Municipal Com-
mittee, completely ignored revolutionary vigilance, and under the influence
of the class enemy, drank, spread harmful gossip and rumors, and did not help
the party organization to rid itself of the enemy clique in the lyceum.
Czarnecki was expelled Erma ttc patty by the and removed from his
school position. Zalewski was removed from his party position. The Powiat
Committee of Torun will take measures a inst others guilty of similar action.
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An example of smugness and lack of vigilance is the executive organ of
the basic party organization in the Oblewnia i Emaliernia (Casting and Enamel-
ing Plant) in Grudziadz. It was unable to oppose Kaczynski, the plant direc-
tor, and his clique. The latter carried on criminal activity for a very long
time by drawing up fictitious lists of payments for contracted work in order
to avoid taxes on these amounts.
The investigations of the irocp established a complete lack of revolution-
ary vigilance by both the executive organ of the party organization and the
plant management which tolerated this enemy element in the plant. The execu-
tive organ of the basic party organization and Laskowski, its secreatry, show
no concern for the safety of the plant or for revolutionary vigilance. The
WKKP is continuing its investigation and will, apply severe measures against
those who are guilty.
The weakening of vigilance, the lack of control and care in the conceal-
meat of party and state secrets, carelessness, inexcusable naivete, and the
minimizing of criticisms and trends from below are used to advantage by the
enemy atd are a possible source of great losses to the state.
The following is an example of this. Kazimierz Kubiak was employed by
the Autrotransnort sic' Cooperative in Grudziadz. His unfriendly attitude
toward the people's state was known for a long time by the Grudziadz Munici-
pal Com-ittee, which ?,aas. in fa c'., considering his expulsion from the party.
Kubiak had forged his party identification card, and had even persuaded his
friend, Bronislaw Kimel, to report Kimel's identification card as lost because
Kubiak needed it for the forgery. Unfortunately, Kimel was issued a new
party card without investigation of his claim of a lost party card. Kubiak
not only was not expelled from the party, but was promoted to the position of
planning manager of the factory. Here he surrounded himself with similar per-
sons with whom he carried out various schemes resulting in great losses tc
the state.
Thin happened because the Municipal Committee in Grudziadz, and espe-
cially the present cadre manager, Comrade Uisniewski, did not do its duty
in checking Kubiak. The WKPG' finally expelled Kubiak from the party and will
appl,; the proper measures against those guilty of this political blindness
and apathy.
Another example of gullibility and apathy is the following incident. An
unknown woman reported to the GRIT (Gniiuna Fade i]arodowa, Gimina People's Coun-
cil) Presidium in Inowroclsw Powiat, 7.!otniki Ku,; Cmina, and introduced her-
self as an official of the Ministry: of Finance, without any official identifi-
cation. She energetical_:.y entered upon her "duties" and accused all of lack
of energy in the collection of the proper amount of taxes due the state from
the peasants. She then stepped into the task herself, very zealously collected
a large amount of money from the peasants, and fled with the money.
In the ul.camnromising struggle against the enemy, the party organizations
must be especially vigilant against enemy attempts to penetrate the party.
CALL FOR INCREASED ::TTEIUTION TO PARTY EDUCATION -- Warsaw, Trybuna Ludu,
?? Iday 53
The P'LPR places great importance on the Marxist-Leninist education of
every party member. Therefore, the party directorate and especially Comrade
Bierut give party education constant rare and protection.
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During th+ school year of 1952 - 1953, although the level of ideological
work in the party was raised to a new high, it still did not reach the level
called for by the August 1952 resolution of the Central Committee of the
PZPR's.
The practical application of party education to everyday activities can-
not be limited, as often happens, to matters of economic plans, to the develop-
ment of producers cooperatives, or to the task of improving the work of the
organs of the people's authority.
The practical application of party education to everyday activities by
the party school graduate must be manifested in work among nonparty masses,
in more serious and more effective education of the masses to counteract the
enemy ideology of nationalism and clericalism, in the exposure of imperial-
istic lies and treacher:?, and in the exposure of kula: and reactionary gossip.
Party education should be applied in the struggle for ideological unity
and purity of the party, in combating bourgeois ideology, in propagating so-
cialist ideology, patriotism, internationalism and an enlightened attitude to-
ward work and the public wealth, and in propagating a concern for state in-
terests and the ideology of encouraging the masses in building the new system
of socialist Poland.
The party should show particular concern and care for the nonparty acti-
vists who attended party schools, through which they come closer to the party
and become eligible to be party candidates. The party executive committees
should take the most mature candidates into the party.
Executive officers of powiat, municipal, and wo ewodztwo committees of
the PZFR should thoroughly evaluate the results of party education on all
levels, the work of lecturers, and the idec'.ogical content and level of the
courses. The Central Committee of the 1'LPR, in its resolution of August 1952,
stressed that "the responsibility for party education rests on the executive
officers of party committees, and especially on the first secretaries."
Many committees approach the task of i'rrxist-Leninist education of party
members in an indifferent manner by passing it on to certain instructors. The
powiat committees of 'r;olobrzeg, Bydgoszcz, and Wroclaw are examples of this
indifference. any committees which seem to show an interest. in the ideologi-
cal education of party members resolve this whole problem simply on the basis
of participation percentages, the number of courses and meetings, the disci-
pline of participants, etc.
It is high time for an end to such a formalistic approach to the problem.
Attention must be turned to vital ratters such as the content of courses, the
ability of the lecturers, the ideological direction rf the education as a
whole, and the application of theory to practice.
The main task for the coming school year, as pointed out by the Central
Committee of the F2PR, is the improvement of the lecturer cadres. Every lec-
turer in party education should be approved by the executive organ of the pow-
iat or municipal committee, and the directors of seminars for lecturers and
directors for self-education groups should be approved by the executive of-
ficers of the wo,jewodztwo committee. Many party committees have been indif-
ferent Lo this principle and h:-,e prrnitLcu Lhc direction of education to fall
indiscriminately into the hands of improperly trained and ideologically weak
people. In some cases, people alien to the party were used. The wojewodztwo
committees of Opole, Wroclaw, Bialystok, Szczecin. Lodz, and Lublin generally
did not check on the seminar directnrs who tench thousands of lecturers. This
failure results in many ideclogical errors, harmful deviations, and the
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degradation of the content of school courses. It also result: in the low
level of instruction methods and often in indifferent and disinterested con-
duct of courses. It results, finally, in the great turnover of lecturers.
Regardless of whether an instructor has been previously approved, he
should be checked again on the basis of the experiences of this past school
year and the opinion of his party organization. Comrades must be approved
who are politically maturing, good, and devoted. Bad, alien, and immoral lec-
turers must be removed. Nev lecturers must be chosen from among the most
active members. These lecturers, according to the August resolution of the
Central Committee, should be selected especially from the important industrial
centers and plants, the producers' cooperatives, f he most active members of
the teaching profession, the young intelligentsia of the party, and from among
the workers in the party apparatus. Every lecturer and every seminar director
must be duly approved by the proper party unit before he gives instructions.
The wojewodztwo committees are now preparing a 2-week preschool course
for lecturers. These courses, taking in 1/4 - 1/3 of the total number of
lecturers, should include the most valuable and active propagandists and lec-
turers. They should include only those who have shown in practice that they
have the proper perspective toward the ideological education of party members,
and ' )se that have been approved as party lecturers.
The task of selection and of improvement of the political level of lec-
turers and seminar directors must be the center of attention for all it
charge of directing party propaganda and all party organizations charged with
the ideological development of party members.
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