RUSSIAN OPPOSITION IS BECOMING BOLDER

Manawatu Times, Issue 6848, 1 March 1929, Page 7

RUSSIAN OPPOSITION IS BECOMING BOLDER

Stalin Hard Pressed ACCUSED OF PREPARING FOR HANGMAN’S HARVEST WORKERS WARNED. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. Received Thursday, 10.10 p.m. BERLIN, Feb. 28. It is learned that the Moscow branch of the Communist party has warned all workers that any deviation from the official policy will bo drastically dealt with. It has reaffirmed its approval of tho measures taken to crush Trotsky and his supporting oppositionists and has declared war against tho supporters of the new Right opposition, headed by Bukharin, Bykoff and Tomsky. The Tageblatt goes as far as to say that the situation in Moscow is criti cd. The above-named leaders have now come into the open and have sem. letters to tho Political Bureau, demanding the resignation of Stalin. Trotsky’s German organ, Volkswille, has opened a vigorous campaign against Stalin. It draws attention to the accusation embodied in the decree foi his banishment, to the effect that Trot sky was implicated in preparations Tor an armed struggle against tho Soviet. The article declares that it is Stalin who is trying to provoke an armed rising, in order to have an excuse for exterminating it with the sword. Tho article says tho opposition last, year became a political factor in the life of tho workers. Stalin’s supporters were being continually repelled and commenced reprisals. ■Stalin’s extremity drove him to associate the opposition with outrages and preparations for rebellion but first it was necessary for Stalin to expel tho leader of tho opposition and thus free his hands for hangman’s work on the oppositionists. _ Tho article insists that Stalin’s sanguinary plot can only be countered by a campaign of exposure.