It is well known that workers' newspapers in Russia began to emerge after the period of despondency and disintegration of 1908–1910, from 1911 onward, and strengthened in 1912.

Take the year 1912. First and foremost, the weekly newspaper *Zvezda*{48} emerged and became consolidated, which subsequently began to appear twice a week and prepared the ground for the daily *Pravda*. *Pravda* arose thanks to extraordinarily strong workers' support in April 1912. This newspaper rallied around itself the majority of conscious workers. Its direction was the direction of the majority of organized and conscious proletarians.

In 1913, there already appear two all-Russian newspapers of the same direction. An enormous upsurge in workers' support created *Nash Put'* in Moscow, a newspaper of the same direction.

The other direction, the liquidationist one, only from autumn 1912, after very weak weekly newspapers, came forward with the daily *Luch*.

Consequently, the facts irrefutably prove that the majority of workers rallied around *Pravda* much earlier. The creation of a liquidationist newspaper was a later affair, an affair of struggle against the will of the majority, an affair of schism — that is, the unwillingness of the minority to submit to the majority.

Every worker will understand that the unity of action of the proletariat is violated by the creation in the same city of a second newspaper, striving to undermine the first. Nowhere in Europe does any Social-Democratic party permit this.