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tion of hostility with regard to the Federation of Labor combined with friendship to Bolshevism. There can be no doubt that some of them are subsidized by Moscow. A resolution passed by the Second Congress of the Communist Internationale declared:

 

The Communist parties must create a new type of periodical press for extensive circulation among the workmen; (1) Lawful publications in which the Communists without calling themselves such and without mentioning their connection with the party, would learn to utilize the slightest possibility allowed by the laws. (2) Illegal sheets.

 

One of the first actions taken by the new Bolshevist Government after it seized power was to vote money for such purposes. Here is one of its first decrees:

 

The Soviet of People's Commissaries deems it necessary to bring all possible means, including money to the aid of the Left International Wing of the workers' movement in all lands, quite regardless of whether these countries are at war or in alliance with Russia; or whether they are neutral.

To that end the Soviet of People's Commissaries, orders to appropriate for the needs of the revolutionary international movement 2,000,000 rubles, to be taken charge of by the foreign representative of the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs.

(Signed)
	President,	Soviet People's Commissaries,
		VI. Ulianoff (Lenin)
(Signed)
	People's Commissary of Foreign Affairs,
		L. Trotzky.

(Published in Izvestia, Dec, 13, 1917, p. 9.)