We have now listened to the extremely diplomatic speeches on the part of comrade Shliapnikov and comrade Ryazanov, so diplomatic that in negotiations with concessionaires and with bourgeois states they would be in the highest degree good. We have come to a meeting at which I am reporting on the disagreements that have occurred in the Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars. They will also emerge here in the discussion... As a result of the disagreements, a resolution of the 10th Congress appeared, which says: "Approve the decree of the Council of People's Commissars and grant a concession in Baku and Grozny." Here we want to discuss this issue.

RECORD OF DEBATES

e i i t i one note:
"irritation and envy among other workers"?

Tomsky: the disagreements were purely practical:
10 pounds of water per 1 pound?
Should labor be regulated? and how? strikes?
Ryazanov...
former representative of the flogged "worker opposition"
;''!' !'!
Tomsky has a "fit of delight" when he comes from the C.C.
Not to improve the situation of the workers, but to increase
productive forces...
...got involved with Vanderlip...
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Marte*: cash*, not a check, not a bon. Bons are absolutely unac- j|
ceptable: the Amsterdamers will beat us...
Va better -f-
, / в ?
3/ 5? inadmissible from the [point] of view of a pro- !, [
||] fessional. They will strike.

Tartakovsky:
will you force the workers to work? "there will be no impulses."