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-3-loaders of superior quality and courage, have been torn from their factories and from war fellow workers and sent coun te occupy koy positions in the Red Army a18-tricte and in the Red armies themselves. Indeed, thie common practise of extracting the most conscious and pro-gressive working class elements from their vorking class environment and sending them down to the Hed districts is a good irdex to the criminal transposition of emphasis which has helped paralyze the working class movement in the cities. If the White Terror doesn't carry off the workers' lenders as they arise, the C.P. Goee and hae done so in hundreds of cases. This helps in no mall part to explain why it has also been impossible to mobi-lize a genuire mass anti-Japanese movement in the face of military aggression and why the White Terror of the Kuo Hin Tang has succeeded, by filling mass gravce and in-numerable prisons with the martyred dead and living, in downing the anti-imperialist movement or efforts toward the organization of such a movement and paving the way for the ever-increasing encroachments of the imperialista. The party has not yet gripped and directed the bitter and often inarticulate hatred of the masses of the people for their oppressore and this includes large sections of the lower party bourgeoisie who could be won by Buссеssful mase pressure from below. This is because they party has failed to translatethe realities of every-day events into its program and tactics.....XXXXXBut precicely because ut all costs I desired to carry on the Forum's open struggle against the common onemy - against the Kuo Min Tang and the imperialiste I seduloualy avoided bringing these issure into the columns of the paper, increasingly against my better Judgment. "I leaned over far backward in this respect. Tris expressed itself in many of the current issues with which we had to deal.I ask you to recall the whole uphill fight which the Forum waged on behalf of Paul and Gerturd Ruegg in the epring and summer of 1932 during which time I repeatedly warned against the emphasis which was being placed on the "legal" aspects of the case and the "negotiations" with the Kuo Min Tang to the detriment of mase pressure and the capitalization of the case for political purposes. You paid lip service to the need for mass prceaure - particularly here in China but in fact the "legalities" and futile negotiations remaired the major pillars of the defense. Until in the very end I finally rebelled, I wasn't even permitted to give Ruegg his honorable and rightful title secretary of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat! Yet although I felt the struggle for the Rueggs was being seriusly handicapped by the tactica being pursued, I carried on the fight with ail the energy at my command and you will recall that it was I who created the local defense committee and was chiefly responsible for the widespread press propaganda campaign and the considerable sympathy which we aroused. Yet the strictly non-political attitude which Ruegg was forced to assиде at the trial (in contrast to the highly political attitude of his prosecutore!) was in my opinion one of the major reasons for the fate to which he and his wife were condemned,I ask you to recall the whole period of the organi-zation and activities of the China League for Civil Rights, from Decamber 1932 to June 1933, in which I tock an active. part. I gave full play to this hybrid League ard its sork without once publishing the basic criticisms wrich I often voiced to you and which in the end were wholly confirmed by what happened after the Kuo Min Tang murdered Yang Chien in June that year. I ask you to recall the views 1 set forth in August and September 1923, on the