From an address in Germany. comes an appeal signed by a body calling itself an "International Group of Communists" to the "International Communist Proletarian and those who are in sympathy with it." Among the signatories of this appeal are representatives of "the Communist "of India, Czechoslovakia, Germany," Latvia, Poland, and Afghanistan.
The appeal is practically an indictment of the Russian Communist Party and its leaders, who accused by th fellow-Communists of persecuting opposition factions within the party and of persistently striving to exterminate the so-called Workers' Group of the Party consisting of "real working men who have spent all their lives in the factory and not of party bureaucrats and intellectuals who form the leading element Russian Communism."
The Russian Communist Party' and its leaders (continues the appeal) is constantly deceiving not only the Russian, but also the foreign proletariat by con. coaling the terrible reprisals to which the members of the opposition factions of the party are being subjected. All those members of the Communist Party who do not accept without, criticism the dictatorial edicts of the Political Bureau are immediately thrown into. prison, where at present several members of the Workers' Group are languishing.
The leaders of the group, Byasnikoff, Prostakoff, and Kusnetsoff, are at present in one of the Soviet prisons in Tomsk, in Siberia.
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