in the face of bandits and executioners advancing
from all sides. In a word, it was the worst form
of state crime, namely, treason to a state of work-
ers and peasants. The Committee considered use-
ful every kind of practical criticism of the work
of the Soviet Government in all departments, but
it could not allow that in the rear of the Red
Army of workers and peasants, under that army's
protection, should be carried on unrestrained an
agitation which could have only one result, the
weakening of Soviet Russia in the face of its
many enemies. Therefore Vsegda Vpered would
be closed until the Mensheviks should show in
deed that they were ready to stand to the defence
and support of the revolution. At the same time,
the Committee reminded the Mensheviks that a
continuation of their counter-revolutionary work
would force the Soviet: Government "to expel them
to the territories of Kolchak's democracy." This
conclusion was greeted with laughter and ap-
plause, and with that the meeting ended.

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