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eG te Spontrot COtinittee” when the four egitators return to give an account of sy “their” work and especially of the fact that they have been forced to kill es © . Communist comrade whose intentions were good but whose death wes deened . @ necessity by the four agitators since his activity threatened to endanger . the Commmist movement among the Chinese. aie NaMaaplige . In order to explain their position to the “Control Comittee", the four agitators ‘re-enact for that body their activity in Lukden. In the first of these scenes, the four agitators expiain that “they were from Moscow, enroute to Mikden to spread propaganda and to support the Chinese party, and stated that they required the services of a guide and in wn automobile. The Young Comrade who explains that he is in favor of the - measures of the Commnist Party, consents to act as a guide for the fur agitators who further explain to him their purpose as “bringing information about their situation to the uninformed; bringing class consciousness to the _ Oppressed ond the experience of the revolution to the class conscious.* a : i . : Before he may go as a guide for the four agitators, the Young aad Comrade obtains permission to do so from his superior, the head of perty headquarters at an outpost of the Soviet Union. This party head expl-ins to the agitators and the Young Comrade that they will have to cross the border into Mikden in disguise and will have to remain simoly unkno.m . workers "in the interest of Communism" and “in agreement with the onverd ~’* , march of the proletarian masses of all countries approving world revolution”. “ait -* "When the four agitators and the Yourg Comrade went into -Mukden, “they instructed the Young Comrade to spread propaganda among the ae - oolies towing a rice boat on the river. They specifically instructed the xy ' Young Comrade not to be overcome by sympathy for the coolies, thus being impelled to help them, but rather, to merely stir them up to demand better .- _. @onditions of work, When the Young Comrade sees the sorry pligh* of the 4. coolies, he cannot restrain himself, however, from assistinz them, cnu he was ? iumediately chased by the authorities. “ The four agitators explained that this activity on the part of the Young Comrade endangered all of them, thereby endangering the movement. In the next scene, the four agitators explained that they founded cells in industries ami instructed the first functionaries as to how to print forbigded literature secretly. fihen part of a textile factory. went out on strike and the reminder of workers continued at their joba, .. the four agitators instructed the Young Comrade to go to the factory gate . and distribute pamphlets. ' This, the Young Comrade does with the ar a he becomes involved in a brawl in which a pliceman was killed, The four agitators consider this a mistake because