Evening star., 1927-10-01
TROTSKY EXPELLED
BY RED EXECUTIVES
Former Leader, Defiant, De-
posed From International
Communist Activities.
Ty the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, October Leon Trotsky,
once aIl.powerful war minister of the
Soyiets. has again felt the weight of
discipline for his outspoken opposition
to the Stain and Bucharin group,
controlling the Communist party and
the Communist or Third international.
Shorn of governmental posts and
denoted in the Russian Communist
party for his attacks on the controlling
group in the past, he has now been
expelled from the executive body OF
the International, together with NJ.
Nuyovich, one of his chief aides.
Vote Is Unanimous.
The expulsion was unanimously
voted by the presidium or controlling
organism of the International, which,
as the name indicates, directs inter-
national Communist activities.
Trotslly and Nuyovich, the resolu
tion said, could no longer be allowed
to serve on the executive body be-
cause "of their violent struggle
against the organization by means of
underground printing plants. coupled
with organizing illegal centers and
,inciting malicious slander against
Soviet Russia abroad"
In view of the previous warnings
given, the resolution said, to refrain
further from disciplinary measures
would be dangerous and impossible;
it. was necessary to counteract the
undermining activities of the opposi-
ZIONIST rebels" in order to preserve
unity in the ranks.
Ii Persons Expelled.
The action came after the expulsion
of Ii persons, including several Red
army workers, from the ranks of the
Communist party Thursday. These
persons were accused of carrying on
insidious oppositionist propaga nda,
maintaining q secret printing plant,
circulating secret party documents in
bulk, holding conspiratory conferences
and working with a number of intel
lectual bourgeois violently opposed to
the central executive committee.
Trotzky and Vuyoyich, summoned
before the disciplinary committee, ex-
pressed open defiance, the former
war minister saying: bureaucratic
discipline is founded on false political
Drecepts, and offers no weapon for
unity but for disorganization and
split
Charges Power Usurped.
He accused the Stalin-Bucharin
group OF placlnS the question OF sur
yival above all else. Attacking the
Presidium directly, he declared that
body had usurped power by contin-
uing beyond the one year Of tenure
voted it by the Communist 1nterna
tional Congress.
In defense of those who have carried
on. the oppositionist fight with him,
TrotZky said these men lowered over
''those who conceal their crimes under
party discipline" And to make this
Statement more specific, he added that
''the Presidium of the Communist In
ternational is no exception"
The official newspaper Pravda, in
commenting on Trotzky,s expulsion,
serves sweeping warning on all his
Rdherents today.
''The Communist party" it says,
twill permit no one to change Lenin's
regime. Nobody can come to our par
ty with his own code. Those on whom
Lenin's shoe feels too tight must
choose either to continue their mu-
tinous work against the Bolshevik
party, thereby losing the right to par
ty membership, or remain within the
party, Internationally submitting
themselves to all its decisions and i'm
mediately ceasing all group activity
They must choose"