The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-27


 just reached here, is addressed to the workers of the world. It at | tempts to explain why the Workers l Opposition has decided to break with the constituted authorities of Soviet Russia and expose the tyranny and disloyalty to the pro- letarian cause which the Moscow leaders have been guilty of"
 For the first time in history the words betrayal and traitors will appear in the columns of the prole- l tarian press addressed to the lead | CTS of the proletarian movement" | the appeal declares. But even these words are too feeble to define the meanness of the double faced pol icy which has victimized our con- rades who have fallen fighting for the revolution"
 1 After describing the enthusiasm which prevailed in Russia at the beginning of the revolution, the doc ument states this feeling was killed by the policy of the Bolshevists, and has now been replaced by hat red, civil war and terror.
 HUMANS BECOME BRUTEs
 Human beings were transformed into wild brutes, the appeal con- | |: bon the first months of the revolution gave place to orgies of blood, when the bayonets of the maddened mob did not discern between guilty and innocent. This was the period of civil war, the blackest, vilest and most miserable page in the history of the Russian revolution and hu- manity in general
 The Reds" were infinitely more to blame in this civil war than the whites" the appeal asserts, be- | cause lone could not expect any other attitude from the latter"
 "One can justify the creation by the revolution of the mailed fist for purposes of self defense" the document continues. "One can jus. tify the fact that sometimes the mailed fist crushes with equal ef- feet both open and hidden foes. But the mailed fist is permissible only in the sphere of defense of the rev. olutionary creed; if it begins to sur uress also the free thoughts and free speech of the workers, if 1t de- stroys, together the best forms of revolutionary individualism, then we ask, in whose interest is this mailed fist working?
 DOCUMENT ASKS QUESTIONS 'Is it working on behalf of the revolution or merely on behalf of a government? In Russia today the dictatorship of the proletariat has degenerated into the dictatorship of a tiny band of demagogues, linked to- gether by their own petty personal interests, who are clutching at pow CT like limplets and want only pow CT for themselves.
 Comrades of the West, if you carefully analyze the tactics of the, Third Internationale for the last few months, if you carefully follow the policy of the Russian Communist Party, you will see that both these organizations are merely slaves Of the Soviet Government. You will re- alize that all these congresses, res olutions and declarations are merely farce enacted to fool you. All these resolutions, etc., are infallibly fabri- cated in the secrecy of various Soviet Commisariaats, in order to support and prop up the collapsing building up the Russian Soviet Government
 LEADERS ARE ACCUSED
 we, group of independent of the Russian Communist Party, openly accuse the leaders of this Soviet Government of having delib- erately and knowingly betrayed the revolution, and of having sold the in terests of the Russian working mass es and the world proletariat, in or der to obtain power and retain it. We accuse them of being the leaders of the new bourgeoisie, which is much more greedy avaricious and brutal than the old bourgeoisie, of inspiring the most cruel and bloody measures and reprisals against the workers, whom they are mercilesly exploiting.
 mWe the Russian workers who