New Britain herald., 1928-01-10
IRoTSkY BANlSHEG
 REFUSES 10LEAVE'
S,ys Falu k N,sdM to
 Nlke Him Go

mo0y rom Nu19l4 Of b1 leaders 0f the opposition to the soviet Russian government has been ordered and in some instances already has taken place. the United Press learned to- day.
 Those banished include Leon Trotsky. who once shared with Nikofai Lenine, tho supreme power In Russia.
 Reports that banishment of 90 leaders was impending have been in circulation but confirmation and ad- ditional details wers not available until today.
 Trotsky. who in the past few months has been gradually shorn of tho last vestige of his former posi- ton. is still in Moscow but has been ordered to Astrakhan. on the Black sea.
 Others have been ordered to and some actually sent, to remote por- tiona of Russia.
 Get 94.S0 . Month
 Each will receive g pittance of nine roubles (about t4.50) monthly.
 Tho 52 exiles were ordered sep- arated and each sent to . different place. most of them hundreds Of miles from civilization.
 Fears were expressed here that some Of the exiles would not survive as some Of tho regions of exile are cholera or plague-stricken.
 It was rumored that the banish- ment followed differences between stalin and the secret service. The latter insisted upon imprisonment or even more ruthless measures, 1t was reported. Stalin was said to have contended that banishment was suf- ficient.
 Trotsky was sentenced to do gov- ernment work at Astrakhan but he was reported to have refused, say ing he could be more useful in Mos- COW. He Is still in Moscow.
 The immediate cause of the ban- ishment was certain incidents in the factories of Moscow and the Bog oronsk districts. Workers refused to renew their collective agreements with the state management after insisting upon better conditions. etalin attributed the dtsatfcction to the subversive activities of the op- position.
 Piatakoff. former trade repre- sentative in Paris. escaped with the mildest punishment. he merely being ordered to Australia to arrange wool purchases. Piatakon. however. de- clined.
 Reports that Zinovien and Kam- cncff, had been banished. were de- clared untrue. Zinovicff is writing q pamphlet said to contain an nt- tack upon Trotsky.
 Christian Rakovsky, former soviet ambasaador to France. was ordered to . point near Archangel.
 SebriakoH, active in connection with trade relations between the United States and Russia, was ban- ished to simipalatinsk. in Turkestan. sosnovski. an editorial writer on Pravda. waa consigned to Siberia.
 Others were sent to various re- mote districts. including Transcaspia. the ural mountains, Archangel and the White sea districts.
 Refuses to Go
 Trotsky, according to information here, has said that it would be nec- essary to use force to make him go to Astrakhan.
 This Is not Leon Trotsky's first ex- perience as an exile in Siberia. In 1898 he first set foot on the dreary sterpes of western Siberia prisoner of the Czar under a four-year sen- tence, charged with radical activity.
 Again in 1905. following the dra- matic but short lived revolt in what was then St. Petersburg. Trotsky was sent to Siberia. to escape again in Austria, and to resume his rev. olutionary propaganda work. Once more as late as 1917. just prior to tho triumph of the Lenine-Trotsky bolshevik combination. Trotsky was arrested and imprisoned under . two month sentence by the pro- visional government.
 Although a life time leader of Marxian propaganda, . radical and general 'suhsersive' in almost every country of Europe and in the United States, Trotsky's periods of imprison- ment or exile have been largely con- fined to his native land.,
 TrotsEy. (Leon Dronstein) was born in 1879. He early entered radical work In south Russia. He took the name of Trotsky in 1898 when it appeared on false passport forged and given to him to escape from his first Siberian exile.