The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-26
V I.
vi.
We Make a Raid.

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wave of pogroms that followed the
first days of celebration in honor of
the victory of October II, the car
again felt the ground under his feet.
With all kinds of regulations, instruc-
lions and explanations" the mani
festo of October IL was made to
naught.
The Russian Social-Democratic La
Dor Party remained underground
altho legal newspapers Of the party
made their appearance. The duma
was called and issolved by order of
the czar. The duma was too revolt
utionary for him altho it was boy
cotted by the Bolsheviks as fake pro-
position to keep off the revolutionary
wave. We made use Of everything to
show up the cars schemes and to
revolutionize the masses and prepare
them for an armed uprising for the
overthrow of the car.
The members of the left fractions
of the dissolved duma collected at
Vyborg, Finland, which at that time
was a somewhat autonomous part OF
the Russian empire. Among them
were also the constitutional demo
Gratis Ccadets) the party under the
leadership of Professor Miliukov.
They considered themselves "lefts" at
that time. The deputies passed re-
solution of protest in connection with
the dissolution of the duma Altho the
resolution was far from being a rev.
dictionary document, every newspa-
per that dared to PRINT it was prompt
ly suppressed The resolution was
published sby the Social Democratic
Labor Party in the form of circu-
lar and distributed among the masses
who were still under the lnusion that
the duma was a democratic institu-
ton.
In our city we received only two
copies of the resolution with a sug-
gestion that we reprint it. There
were two printers in the city who
used to do printing for the party
for considerable reward, of course.
We had no printing plant of our own
at that time. We had many party
members working in the print shops.
The usual price for printing the un-
derground party proclamations was
one kopek per copy. / used to deal
with the printers, having close con-
nections with them. This time I was
authorized to pay twice that amount
if necessary, but to get it out in a
hurry.
When l met the printers, first one
and then others, they categorically
refused to print the Vyborg appeal,
as the resolution became known.
They told me that the chief of police
warned all the printers in the city not
to print anything about the duma, and
that no excuse of any kind will be ac-
cepted. One had shown me the let
ter from the chief Of police. Besides
that he told me that the police cap
tain is paying visits to the shops to
see if anything is being printed a.
gainst the government. The other
pointed out a policeman thru the
window who was stationed opposite
the shop. There was never a police
man there before.
you see, can't do it."
l offered to double the price for the
job, but the printers rerusec.
We had no print-shop Of our own,
and to organize one was quite diff
cult proposition. 1t would take too
much time and we needed the pro-
clamation at once.
/ had a talk with one of our active
party members who was printer.
explained the situation to him and
asked his opinion.
"Why not raid a print shop and
print 1t by force?" he suggested.
explained the difficulties, the
alertness of the police, etc.