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Show SMALL GROUPS DAREIOSPEAK Olposition to irbn Rule of Russ Communists Gains Courage MOSCOW, April 29. (By the Asso-, elated Press. upoo.-i'.if.n to policies' laid down by the majority of the Communist party haS become more open op-en and daring In Russia recently than! al anj time since iron-handed method.-: j were Inaugurated In 1918. Groups, extremely small numeri- cally and perhaps devoid Of any pow-l er to change the trend of things, j which formerly aired their grievances,! if at ail. In secret meetings and were prompt i voted down, have recently, in! several instances, surprised Moscow' by coming rfghl out in the open. Principal among these was the iuuv l" - perao.nB nennca by a. Shllapnlkoff, of the metal workers group who, disappointed vith the return re-turn of capitalism and the apparent abandonment of Communism." dared to take (heir grievances to the Third Internationale. They were promptly Sat upon and threatened with expulsion ex-pulsion from the Commiini-i partly unless they obeyed discipline. The two. Menshoviki and two Social Revolutionists In the Moscow soviet generally tinTrd folks, weighted down by the thousand or more Communist "i- "nnnparlism" fellow members of ne soviet, plucked up courage enough the other day to Speak right out in a nidi, meeting They merely wanted to change the wording of a resolution anent tho TJiird Internationale but the fact that the ystood up and voted against the cheduled plan, despite the hooting and Jeering of the majority and in the presence of Leon Trotsky, war minister and dozens of foreign journalists and diplomat, attending the meeting seemed seem-ed something new ln Moscow |