It is well known that the metalworkers — the most developed and advanced workers not only in Petersburg, but in all of Russia, — not only in Russia, but in the entire world.

No one can deny — and the liquidators themselves admitted this on the day of the metalworkers' assembly — that the metalworkers are the vanguard (the advance detachment) of the entire proletariat of Russia.

What then did the metalworkers' assembly in Petersburg demonstrate?

There were elections for the board. There were two lists.

One list, printed in the liquidators' newspaper and defended by that newspaper, contained a number of names of well-known liquidators.

The other list, printed in *Pravda*, was anti-liquidationist.

The liquidators deceitfully presented their list as the union's decision, but their deception did not help them.

At the metalworkers' assembly there were up to 3,000 people. Of these, only about 150 cast their votes for the liquidators' list.

It is clear that the will of the conscious and advanced workers has been fully determined. Workers do not even want to hear about liquidationism.

Of all the trade unions in Petersburg, only the printers' union still clings to the liquidators,[14] isolating itself from the entire Petersburg proletariat. And it must be noted that even there things are not going entirely "smoothly" for the liquidators. How many adherents of liquidationism do the shop assistants, woodworkers, goldsmiths and silversmiths, tailors, bakers, construction workers, tavern employees and so forth have? How many are there, where are they? How many such adherents are there in cultural and educational institutions? None to be seen! Yet the liquidators, speaking out against underground work and "strike fervor," championing legality under the aegis of Stolypin's reforms, claimed that all that is legal is on their side! And which side did the workers' intelligentsia follow? In the previous issue, 106 working students greet the six and condemn the liquidators!

The deputies of the seven, following the liquidators, violate the will of the majority of workers. This was demonstrated by the elections to the Duma, by collections for newspapers, by the metalworkers' assembly, as well as by all the work in the legal movement and the insurance campaign now underway (support for the insurance weekly at the call of six worker deputies). The seven deputies, who violate the will of the majority of workers, must remember what inevitable consequences follow from their insistence on their own will against the worker majority.