The The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958 · November 26, 1927
Trotsky Group Forming Party, ████████ States
MOSCOW, Nov. 25.—████████, secretary of the All-Union Communist Party, declared in a speech at the Moscow Provincial Conference that the Opposition had been completely wrong, and that its predictions of the revolution's failure had proved groundless.
"The platform of the Opposition testifies to its complete separation from the Party, the working class and the proletarian revolution," ████████ declared. "It is necessary to choose between the two parties." The meeting greeted ████████'s speech with loud applause.
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