Copyright by Clinedinst, Washington, D. C., from Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.

SANTERI NUORTEVA

everywhere has been evinced towards Soviet Russia. No barriers have been able to prevent them from realizing that what the Russian workers are striving for represents the highest ideals of the liberation of the working class from exploitation. In the dark hours of the past year the Republic of the Workers of Russia was encouraged in its struggle for liberty of labor by the sympathetic understanding evinced towards it by the workers everywhere.

"On this, the holiday of the international movement, we feel that the night is passing and that the bright day is beginning. The attitude of the workers of the world towards the Russian workers' revolution has proved that the spirit of international solidarity of workers is not dead. It also has proved that the International is not dead.

"It is resurrecting in the Third International in new glory. Long live the Third International."

The interest taken by this Third International in the revolutionary movements carried on in the United States is demonstrated by documents seized from a messenger representing the Third International, who was bearing a message from Zinoviev to the comrades in this country.

A portion of one of the important documents thus seized is here given, and the circumstances attending it may be gathered from the record of the sub-committee of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate at pages 413 et seq.

I. Address by G. Zinoviev as president of the executive committee of the Communist International to the Central Committees of the American Communist Party and the American Communist Labor Party:

"From reports of comrades who have arrived from America the executive committee of the Communist International has acquainted itself with the open split between the two American parties. This question has been submitted to and considered by the members of the executive committee, together with representatives of the American parties and the other nationalities. This split is a heavy blow to the movement; unprecedented sacrifices must be made by the American proletariat. The question of tactics is the principal source of disagreement, and this split is therefore unjustified."

Here follows an exposition of the different viewpoints of the two American factions. The American Communist Party principally consists of foreign or so-called national federations and the American Communist Labor Party comprises the English-speaking element.

"With the aim of bringing about unification, the executive committee of the communist international proposes an immediate joint convention, whose decision shall be binding on both parties.

"The following matters are pointed out to American comrades:

"1. The communist party should unite to seize power and to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. A determined struggle should be made to overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie. For this aim all differences are inadmissible."

Here follows the statement that frank discussion is desired between the various more or less radical groups, but that there must be an absoute final submission of the minority to the decision of the majority.

"The complete break with the old Socialist and Socialist Labor Parties is naturally a condition for the creation of the American Communist Party.

"Individual members or entire groups of these can be received by Communists when they come over whole-heartedly. The Communist Party will be for them the best school for Communism.

"The party must take into account the every-day incidents of the class war. The stage of verbal propaganda and agitation has been left behind. The time for decisive battles has arrived. The most important task confronting the American Communists at the present moment is to draw the wide proletarian masses into the path of revolutionary struggle. The party must have (for its goal) the dissolution of the American Federation of Labor and other unions associated with it and must strive to establish the closest connections with the I. W. W., the One Big Union, and the W. I. I. U. The party must support the formation of factory workers' committees in factories, these serving as bases for the every-day struggle and for training the advanced guard of labor in managing industry."

The amalgamation of the foreign-speaking national federations with the English-speaking party is insisted upon. Being better trained theoretically and more closely bound by the Rusgian revolutionary traditions, the members of the national federations may in the future have a guiding influence. The employment of the referendum should be reduced to a minimum.

"One of the most important tasks for the American communists is the establishment of a large daily political paper, not for theoretical propaganda in training, but for giving information on all public events from the Communist point of view. The executive committee urges American comrades to establish immediately an underground organization for the purpose of revolutionary propaganda among the masses and for carrying on the work in case of violent suppression of the legal party organization. The fewer people who know about it the better.

"G. ZINOVIEV,

"President of Executive Committee of the Communist International.”

II. Agreement for the unification of the American Communist and the American Communist Labor Parties:

"1. A committee is to be established in America for the purpose of uniting both parties, each committee to be composed of three members of each party.

"2. This committee is to call a convention.

"3. The convention is to further consolidation under the name United Communist Party of America.

"4. The convention is to be the party's supreme organ. "5. The convention is to elect a central committee for directing matters in the intervening periods between conventions.

"6. Party conferences are to be called in case of necessity. "7. Referendums are considered undesirable during the period of disagreement.

"8. A new executive of national federations must be retained particularly for propaganda among the non-Englishspeaking masses which must be Anglicized as rapidly as possible. The central committee is to further amalgamation. "9. Dues are to be paid to the local and State committees. "10. All present propaganda of the national federations is to be subject to the control of the party's central committee.