The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-02-05

working CLASS ana therefore Wish TO bargain
with It's class enemy, the bourgeoisie They
forget that civil war is war not for life but
to the death, in which prisoners are not taken
and agreements are not made, but the op-
ponent is beaten down.
''The work of the Extraordinary Commits
sion is thus divided into two parts-the fight
with the direct onter-revolutionaries and
the fight with those who are counter-revolu-
tionaries for lack of clear thought
With the first counter-revolut the
Petrograd Revolutionary Military Committee
had to fight. After our first victory the Of
ficers Immediately started an uprising (. (.
but they were crushed and arrested and sent
to their homes in the provinces After the
Peoples Commissaliats and the institution of
the Extraordinary Commission had been set
up, the fight passed from the Revolutionary
Committee to the Extraordinary Commission.
'In December, 1917, was liquidated coun-
ter-revolutionary union under the name of
Saving of the Motherland and the Revolu-
tion.'
I'm January began the fight against the
adventure in the Don region
"At the same time was inaugurated new
counter-revolutionary organization under the
name Union of the Constitutional Conven-
ton
"After the dispersal of the counter-revolu-
tionary Constitutional Convention, which re-
fused to ratify the Declaration of the Rights
OF the Free Working People, the activity Of
the counter-revolutionarie was intensified.
CONFER R-REvOLUTIONARY CATALOGUE
Among the affairs further listed and dis
cussed in detail in the pamphlet are "The En-
listment of Polish Legionaries in Murman'
the "Lockhart Affair" Nockhart was, spe-
cial British emissary in Soviet Russia, who
carried on negotiations with the Bolshevik
Government and was accused of aiding plans
to overthrow them at the same time, including
proposals to blow up railroad bridges and dis
organize food and raw material supply;
white Socialist Revolutionary Plot" in Mos
COW, an "All Russian Monarchist Military
Union" the organized attacks of assasSins on
the Soviet tleaders--Lenine, Uritzky, and Vo-
lodarsky--the second of whom was killed, and
"counter-revolutionary plots" in Ryazan, Ko-
stroma, Vishne-V Volochka; a "Back Hundreds
Plot in Velizha; various plots in Kiev, Sara
tov, Chelnigov, and Astrakhan; the union of
"Great United Russia" the Southern Az
my" the 'Romanov Order" the United Of
III Il.
Organization" the "Monarchist-S Socialist Re-
volutionary Organization" revolts in KraS-
maya Gorka and Kronstadt, the National
Centre" (alleged to have been an organization
of spies of the Entente Allies and Denikine),
the Military Organization of the Staff of the
Volunteer Army" and various activities of
officials of the Greek Orthodox Church.
which had been the state Church of Russia
for the purpose of creating sentiment against
the Soviet Government
There follows criticism of the Counter
revolutionaries for lack of clear thought OF
through stupidity" In this category are in
cluded the Socialist Revolutionaries and the
Menshevik Social-Democrats, who held the
reins of the administration up to the Bolshe-
visit seizure of power. These parties are cri-
ticised for having formed coalition govern
ments with bourgeois parties, for having con-
tinued the war against Germany, and for
having imprisoned Bolsheviks who argued in
favor Of seizure Of power "by the workers
alone" From the time of the Bolshevist over
throw Of the Provisional Government, says
the pamphlet, began the mad activities of
the Right Socialist Revolutionaries."
Similarly, the Left Socialist-Revolution
aries are attacked as 'counter-revolutionarie
for opposing the Soviet Government in con-
nection with the signing Of the separate peace
with Germany at Brest-Litovsk. They are
charged with having formed secret .fighting
staffs" to organize revolts and to seize and
hold Soviet officials and disorganize their
power
Among alleged Left Socialist-Revolutionary
plots are listed revolts in Veliki Luki, Chem
bara, Mstislavi, Kazan and Ryazan and plans
for explosions in Moscow, Including the Krem-
lin.
The Mensheviks are characterized as "a