В РЕДАКЦИЮ ГАЗЕТЫ «ПРАВДА»
Date: 1912-11-24
Source: PSS vol 48
Translated by: AI (Claude)

Dear colleague! I am sending you the Petersburg mandate, which accidentally, thanks to a very quick messenger from Petersburg, fell into our hands. Be sure to place this mandate to the Petersburg deputy in a prominent place in large type. It is completely inadmissible that "Luch," distorting the mandate, is already talking about it and placing notes, while "Pravda," whose supporters composed the mandate, carried it through, set it in motion, is silent about it... What is this? Can a workers' newspaper really exist if it will treat with such neglect what interests the workers? (It goes without saying that in case of uncensurability of individual expressions and phrases, partial changes are possible, as is usually done in such cases.) But not to place such a thing means not only creating grounds for hundreds of conflicts in which "Pravda" will turn out to be guilty, but also damaging in the strongest way the purely newspaper business, the business of distribution and establishment of the newspaper as an enterprise. A newspaper is not such a thing that the reader reads a bit—the writer writes a bit. A newspaper must itself seek, itself find in time and promptly place certain material. A newspaper must seek and find the connections it needs. And here suddenly a mandate to the Petersburg deputy, emanating from supporters of "Pravda," but in "Pravda" there is nothing... Answer, please, immediately upon receipt of this letter.

in the book: "From the Epoch of 'Zvezda' and 'Pravda' (1911-1914)."

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Written November 24, 1912

Sent from Cracow to Petersburg

First published in 1923

Issue III

Published according to typewritten