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At the session of January 12, after the speech of Comrade Zinoviey, it was proposed not to continue the discussion in the Plenum of the Presidium but to set up a commission. Comrade Zinoviev proposed that the commission should be composed of representatives of the majority (Centre) and the Left of the German Communist Party, and of one representative of the Communist International. The Commission should aim at arriving at a project for a common resolution which would thus be the first attempt at collaboration by the majority and the Left.

This proposal gave rise to a debate, in which Comrades Radek, Pieck, and Clara Zetkin demanded that representatives of the Right and Comrade Radek should also take part in the Commission.

On a vote, the proposal of Comrade Zinoviey was adopted, all voting in favour, with the exception of Comrades Radek and Zetkin. The following were selected as members of the Commission: Kuusinen, Pieck, Remmele, Koenen, Maslov. Thälmann.

In the vote on the resolution in principle only Comrades Radek and Zetkin, and of the German comrades, Brandler and Walcher voted against; Pieck refrained from voting.

A supplementary resolution by Comrade Walsky on the united front was rejected.

The resolution as a whole was voted on by the Presidium and was adopted against the votes of Comrades Radek and Zetkin. The representative of the Young Communist International voted in favour. Of the German comrades, the following voted for the resolution: Remmele, Koenen, Fischer, Maslov, Hesse, Thälmann, König: and the following against: Brandler, Pieck, Walcher, Jannack, Hammer, Kisenberger.

The final session of the Presidium was held on January 21. The resolution on organisation and the theses on the trade union question were adopted unanimously. Comrade Hesse refrained from voting on the trade union theses.

In voting on the instructions for the organisation of factory nuclei in Germany, Comrades Maslov, Fischer, Hesse, König, and Thälmann at first voted against Point 4, but in the general vote, the instructions were adopted unanimously.

Comrade Zinoviev then made a final declaration, which was followed by declarations by a number of other comrades.


 * Comrades, we have now reached the end. It would perhaps be useful, now that the complete work is before us—not only the political resolution but also the resolution on the trade unions and the organisations—to make another summary vote, a vote upon the whole result of the discussion. In my opinion this would be desirable. I should like. however, to say a very few words beforehand.