If an attempt is made (no matter by whom—someone from the I.S.B. or from our opponents) to “dismiss” or push aside the data on our majority, the objective data, then it is imperative to ask for the floor to make a formal statement on behalf of the entire delegation, a formal protest along the following lines:

We categorically protest against the statement (or attempt, suggestion, etc.) that our objective data on with whom the vast majority of class-conscious workers of Russia stand cannot be considered by the Executive Committee, as not verified by it (or as not pertaining to the question of unity). On the contrary, we believe that the undoubted interest of the entire International and the clearly expressed will of the I.S.B. Bureau in the resolution of the I.S.B. (December 1913) consist in obtaining the fullest, most accurate and documented information about the actual state of the labour movement in Russia.

We believe that our opponents, who knew about the December decision of the I.S.B., have failed in their duty, having not independently gathered objective data on the labour movement in Russia to this day.

We declare that after the successful trip of Comrade Vandervelde to Russia, there can be no doubt that the Executive Committee of the I.S.B. could, through Comrade Vandervelde, quite legally address an open letter to all editorial offices of all workers’ (or would-be workers’) newspapers in Russia and to all members of the boards of all legal workers’ societies in Russia, in order to collect from a direct source data on how the class-conscious workers of Russia are divided into Pravdists, Liquidators, Socialist-Revolutionaries (Left Narodniks), and other trends.

Without such objective data, subjective statements by representatives of separate “groups” have absolutely no value.