Data on the number of newspaper issues published and circulation figures do not yet fully prove the Party's superiority over the liquidators. Newspapers can also be published by small groups of liberal intellectuals. Any newspaper "friendly to workers" or even a liberal newspaper with a radical tint will always find many readers in Russia. Besides workers, liberals will read them, as will petty-bourgeois democrats.

There are, however, facts that are far simpler and clearer in proving the liquidators' and the Party's connections with the working masses in Russia.

These are the data concerning the monetary funds serving to finance the workers' press.

For a long time there has been agitation among workers in Russia for collecting funds to publish a workers' newspaper. It was clear to everyone that without such a newspaper participation in elections was nearly fictitious. The newspaper is the principal instrument of an electoral campaign, the principal means for Marxist agitation among the masses.

But where could one obtain money for a newspaper?

It was necessary to organize collections among workers. These collections form a fund and testify to the strength of connections of one group or another. They would demonstrate their authority, the confidence of the workers, their actual influence on the proletarian masses.

And so, such collections for a workers' newspaper were opened in Petersburg at the beginning of 1912. Six months, from January 1 to June 30—a sufficient period. Data on the collections are published in all the newspapers mentioned above, both liquidationist and anti-liquidationist.

The conclusions from this data over six months represent the very best material—open, complete, objective, and conclusive—as an answer to the question of the correlation of forces between the liquidators and the Party in Russia. Therefore in the appendix we have provided a complete translation of all monetary reports on collections for the daily workers' newspaper from all five of the aforementioned newspapers for the six-month period.

Here we present only the summary data.

Over the six-month period, anti-liquidationist newspapers published reports of 504 monetary collections among workers' groups—that is, such collections for which the name of the workers' group that conducted the collection is directly given. These collections were conducted in 50 Russian cities and factory settlements.

During the same six months, from January 1 to June 30, 1912, liquidationist newspapers published reports of 15 monetary collections among workers' groups. These collections were conducted in 5 Russian cities[48].

Here are these precise reports.

After six months of struggle against the Party, the liquidators were completely defeated.

The liquidators constitute an absolute zero in the Russian social-democratic workers' movement. This is proven by the data presented above, which anyone can verify. Such are the facts published in Russia over an entire six-month period, in spite of the boasts of Trotsky and the liquidators.

It should be noted that Trotsky is a contributor to *Zhivoye Delo*. Furthermore, the Latvians themselves in a letter of June 24 acknowledged that all six groups—including Trotsky, the Menshevik *Golos*, the editors of *Zhivoye Delo* and *Nevsky Golos*—form what is called the Organizational Committee. Therefore our data prove that not only the liquidators, but also all their pretentious foreign friends constitute a complete zero in the social-democratic workers' movement in Russia.

On their side stands, on average, only one workers' group for every thirty workers' groups in Russia.

We present here also the addresses and publication dates of all social-democratic newspapers in Petersburg.

Liquidators:

1. *Zhivoye Delo*. Petersburg, B. Moskovskaya, 16. No. 1–20 January 1912, No. 16 and last—28 April 1912 (closed).

2. *Nevsky Golos*. Petersburg, Kolokol'naya, 3. No. 1–20 May 1912, No. 5–28 June 1912 (exists to the present—until 29 July 1912).

Anti-liquidators:

3. *Zvezda*. Petersburg, Raz"ezzzhaya, 10, apt. 14. No. 1 (37)—6 January 1912, No. 33 (69)—22 April 1912 (closed).

4. *Nevskaya Zvezda*. Petersburg, Nikolayevskaya, 33, apt. 57. No. 1–26 February 1912, No. 2–3 May 1912, No. 14–24 June 1912 (exists to the present).

5. *Pravda*. Petersburg, Nikolayevskaya, 37, apt. 18. No. 1–22 April 1912, No. 53–30 June 1912 (exists to the present).