reveals "obvious unfamiliarity with the League's past" — is it the Central Committee or a League administrator, comrade Deich? Comrade Deich's appeal that "all League members should gather for a congress as soon as possible" astonishes us by its anxious haste. For any League member who submits to the decisions of the Party's Second Congress, his attitude toward the Central Committee's circular and the forthcoming League congress is fully determined. By Party statute the League's role has been changed; its old charter loses force; to reorganize the League with the aim of giving it viability is desirable and possible only on the general organizational principles adopted in the Party, and since these principles and the entire plan of Party organization are best known to the Central Committee, it is entirely natural that it proposes the fundamental provisions of the League's new charter for our consideration. A charter composed on the basis of these fundamental provisions finally gives the League the opportunity to enter into the general party life and activity.

In conclusion, we cannot refrain from expressing our protest against those crude violations of party discipline by means of which an official of the League permits himself to obstruct the organizational activity of a party institution and calls upon other comrades to commit the same violations of discipline and charter. Phrases such as "in such work at the invitation of the Central Committee I do not consider myself entitled to participate," or: "comrades! ... we must in no case allow it (the Central Committee) to work out a new charter for the League," and so forth, belong to such a kind of agitational methods that can only provoke indignation in anyone with the slightest understanding of what the concepts mean: party, organization, party discipline. The point is the dissatisfaction of League members with the state of affairs within the organization, since until now membership in the League had been merely some sort of honorary title, thereby creating a kind of paper organization. The past year has shown that League affairs are declining, ties are weakening." Taking this opportunity, we declare in turn that the disorganization and lack of viability of the former League is beyond any doubt for us. It is not in the League's interest, in our opinion, to close one's eyes to its shortcomings merely because a higher authority might encroach upon our "rights" by its directives! Members of the administration: Sharko, Litvinov.