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 Rh may see from the following Moscow wireless sent out in December, 1920, to trade union officials throughout Russia:

Also these "trade unions" do not have the right to strike or to propose a change in the form of government. They may elect their own officials if the officials elected meet the approval of the Communist Party, otherwise the officials are "appointed."

In his report to the party printed (See Krasnaya Gazeta) January 11, 1921, Zinoviev declared:

If we recall the fact that only 70,000 industrial workers are listed by the Communist Party itself as party members, we see that Zinoviev's estimate of communist trade unionists is indeed highas he confesses. The British Labor Delegation to Soviet Russia reports