The present Central Committee of the S.D. of the Latvian Region asserts that it supports the August conference and Regional Committee not as liquidationist institutions, but for the sake of unity within the RSDLP.

But such an answer can satisfy only children, and the Latvian S.D. workers are not children.

The organizers of the August conference themselves invited to it both Plekhanov and the "Forward" group. Neither the first nor the second participated in the January conference, that is, they proved by their deeds, not by their words, their neutrality in the struggle of tendencies.

And what did these neutral S.D.s say? Plekhanov and Aleksinskii decisively recognized the August conference as liquidationist. The resolutions of this conference fully demonstrate its liquidationist character. The *Luch*, which declared that it adheres to the decisions of the August conference, conducts liquidationist propaganda.

Whom do the S.D. workers of Russia follow?

This was demonstrated by the elections to the Duma by the workers' curia and the data on the workers' press.

In the Second Duma the Bolsheviks had 47% of the workers' curia (11 deputies out of 23), in the Third – 50% (4 out of 8), and in the Fourth – 67% (6 out of 9). The workers' press of the anti-liquidationists (*Pravda* and the Moscow newspaper) was supported by 1,199 workers' groups against 256 groups of workers who supported the *Luch*.

Thus, the present Central Committee of the S.D. of the Latvian Region – in the name of the revolutionary S.D. Latvian workers – supports the liquidationists against the manifest majority of the S.D. workers of Russia!

This must be put an end to. We all recognize the underground and revolutionary tactics. We must support the Central Committee of the RSDLP that conducts these tactics, behind which stands the overwhelming majority of the S.D. workers of Russia both in the underground and in the open movement.