Comrades! We have received your resolution** and ask you to answer us the following questions. Please discuss them

* This concerns the resolution adopted by the Don Committee on the results of the II Party Congress. —Ed.

** This concerns the resolution adopted by the Committee of the Union of Mining and Factory Workers on the results of the II Party Congress. —Ed.

in a full assembly of all Committee members (or distribute them to all members if they are not together), as an inquiry from the editorial board of the Party's Central Organ.

1) Did the Committee hear a report from the representative of the majority at the Party Congress?

2) Does the Committee consider it normal to pass a resolution evaluating the actions and decisions of the Congress before the protocols have been published, and even before the Committee inquired of the Central Committee or members of the majority about what was unclear to it?

3) How could these disagreements on organizational questions destroy everything previously accomplished by *Iskra* and the Organization Committee? In what did the destruction manifest itself? What precisely has been destroyed?

This is completely unclear to us, and yet if you wish to warn the Central Organ against any error, then it is your duty to explain to us wherein you see our error. Set forth the matter with complete thoroughness, and we will carefully discuss your opinion.

4) What precisely are these "sharp disagreements on organizational questions"? We do not know. (We asked Martov and former members of the *Iskra* editorial board to set forth these disagreements in the pages of the publications we edit, but our request has so far not been honored*.)

5) In what does the atmosphere of political intrigue and mistrust express itself? From whose side? Speak more clearly. (If we did not trust Martov, we would not have invited him to work on *Iskra*.)

6) If there truly are "sharp disagreements on organizational questions" between us and the former editors, then how can the two of us co-opt the four of them? This would mean making their tendency dominant? But the Congress voted for ours? Thus you want the Congress's decision to be now re-decided on the basis of a private agreement?

7) Do you consider it normal for party officials (the Central Organ's editorial board and the Central Committee) to be threatened with schism, boycott, and the like in order to force them to do what these centers do not consider useful in the Party's interests?

* See the present volume, pp. 305-306. —Ed.