The resigned editors will reassume their positions.
In order to prepare for the National Conference, the Party page will be re-established, in which each tendency will have the right to express its point of view.
(c) General Secretariat.—This position will be occupied on a party basis by one comrade from the Centre and one from the Left; all disagreements to be settled by the Political Bureau.
Member, Frossard. Substitutes, Louis Sellier and Treint.
(d) Delegates of the Executive.—This Congress considers it absolutely necessary, in order to establish normal and cordial relations between the Executive Committee of the Communist International and the French Party, that the two most important tendencies be represented in Moscow by those comrades best qualified and authorised by their respective factions. That is to say, that they shall be represented by Comrades Frossard and Souvarine for at least three months, until the end of the crisis within the French Party.
The fact that the French Party will be represented at Moscow by Frossard and Souvarine, will give complete certainty that every suggestion of the International Executive, arrived at in agreement with these two comrades will receive the support of the whole party.
(e) Appointment of Party Officials.—With regard to the appointment of Party officials, editors, etc., the Party will set up a special commission composed of comrades possessing the complete confidence of the Party, in order to regulate this question from two points of view: (1) The elimination of all possibility of one comrade filling two or more paid posts, which provokes legitimate indignation among the members of the Party; (2) Those comrades whose work is absolutely necessary for the Party, shall be given appointments which will permit them to give their whole time to the service of the Party.
(f) Committees—(1) Administrative Committee of l'Humanité, 6. Centre, 5. Left, 2. Renoult Faction.
The French Commission states that proportional representation is used here also purely as an exceptional measure for the important committees.
(2) Trade Union Secretariat.—There shall be a secretary from the Centre and one from the Left; all misunderstandings to be settled by the Political Bureau.
(g Cases in Litigation.—Those cases which came out of the decisions taken in Moscow, and their application, will have to be regulated by a special committee composed of one representative of the Centre, one representative of the Left, and the delegate of the Executive as President.
(h) Positions forbidden to former Masons.—By this we understand those posts where the holders have the power of representing more or less independently, on their own re-
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