...flee from red tape, which must be feared above all else. (It was probably out of fear of red tape that Ignat also protested. His apprehensions are understandable to us, but if you manage to finish the questioning quickly, the matter can be rectified.)

For our part, we will write to the Iskra organisations about our advice to accept your draft immediately and in its entirety. We earnestly request that you put all available forces into operation so that the dispatch and communication of the draft (on the basis of § 49), the "session" of the arbitration courts, and the determination of the composition of the delegates are all completed within no more than a month.

Informally, we would advise you to recommend, in this connection, that all fully entitled organisations appoint, as far as possible, one (of the two) delegates from among comrades known for their past work and residing abroad — in order to avoid increasing expenses and the difficulties of transporting delegates abroad.

Formally, we propose: 1) to supplement your draft only with a note to § 49: "Organisations that do not submit their comments within one week from the day of receiving the draft shall be deemed to have accepted the draft congress rules"; 2) to add a provision concerning candidates for delegates in case delegates are arrested before the congress.

1903.

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Written between March 6 and 9

Sent from Paris to Kharkov

First published in 1928

in the Lenin Miscellany VIII

Printed from the manuscript