Six deputies submitted to the judgment of the workers the question of their suppression within the Duma faction by the casual majority of the faction.

They presented striking facts from the life of the faction. What answer did they receive from the 7 deputies?

Instead of a direct and clear statement and refutation of the cases of limitation of their Duma activity cited by the 6 deputies, the 7 deputies occupied themselves with an enumeration of a series of facts in which there was no limitation or suppression.

Undoubtedly, there were cases within the faction when the 6 deputies were taken into account; if this had not been the case, it would simply have been mockery of the proletariat—such a state of affairs within the faction could not have persisted for a single day.

Unity of the faction is possible, and agreement is necessary—this is demonstrated by the experience of a year's existence of the faction.

But this experience also demonstrates that the 6 deputies were bound hand and foot within the faction by 7 vacillators leaning toward liquidationism and showing no regard for the majority of the worker deputies.

The facts presented by the 6 deputies and clearly depicting the picture of internal life within the faction remained unrefuted.

The 7 deputies: 1) made attempts to alter the Social-Democratic program. For example, they defended from the Duma tribune the cultural-national autonomy rejected by all Marxists in 1903.

2) Admitted to the faction with a decisive vote on Duma matters, and wished to admit with a decisive vote on party matters the deputy Yagello, belonging to another organization and not belonging to the Social-Democracy.

3) Despite repeated demands, refused the 6 deputies the right to have their own secretary.

4) In every way limited the 6 deputies in their speeches from the Duma tribune.

5) Refused to grant the 6 deputies representation in one important institution.

6) Limited the participation of the 6 deputies in Duma commissions, including the budgetary commission.

To all this the 7 deputies have but one answer—the interests of the cause.

It is clear that the suppression and limitation of the activity of the 6 deputies, who represent the vast majority of the workers of Russia, cannot be explained by the interests of the workers' cause and the cause of Social-Democracy.

How the 6 deputies were suppressed within the Duma faction is convincingly demonstrated by the data on the participation of Social-Democratic deputies in Duma commissions.

Of the 26 commissions in which there are Social-Democratic representatives:

The 6 deputies participate in 7 commissions; the remaining 7—in 13 commissions—almost twice as many.

Of the 20 commissions in which there is one Social-Democratic representative:

The 6 deputies are found in 7 commissions; the remaining 7—in 13 commissions—almost twice as many.

In the commissions in which there are 2 Social-Democratic representatives:

The 6 deputies participate in 3 commissions; the remaining 7 participate in 6 commissions—twice as many.

In 3 of them there are two representatives of the remaining deputies each.

Of the number of 6 deputies, not a single one participates in more than 2 commissions; among the remaining:

Chkhenkeli participates in 6 commissions; Skobelev—in 6 commissions; Mankov—in 4 commissions.