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, oe . T oe ° _ the “fortrol. Cdtinittee” when the four agitators return to give an account of. is > their” work and especially of the fact that they have been forced to killa ~ young Communist comrade whose intentions were good but whose death wes deened a necessity by the four agitators since his activity threatened to endanger the Communist movement among the Chinese. a ae In order to explain their position to the “Control Committee", the four F agitators re-enact for that body their activity in lukden. to the first of these scones, the four agitators exp:ain that sO" * “they wore from Moscow, enroute to Mikden to spread propaganda and to support wv the Chinese party, and stated that they required the services of a guide and ros wo 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 wninformed; bringing class consciousness to the - oppressed ond the experience of the revolution to the class conscious.* lee ay: ae é dn - Before he may go as a guide for the four agitators, the Young . Comrade obtains permission to do so from his superior, the head of party headquarters at an outpost of the Soviet Union. This party head expi:ins to the agitators and the Young Comrade that they will have to cross the ° dorder into Mukden in disguise and will have to remain simoly unimo.m - workers “in the interest of Commmism" and “in agreement with the onverd ~’* , march of the proletarian masses of all countries approving world revolution". “a ve -* "When the four agitators and the Yourg Comrade went into ++ » -Mukden, “they instructed the Young Comrade to spread propaganda among the Be coolles towing a rice boat on the river. They specifically instructed the x ' Young Comrade not to be overcom by sympathy for the coolies, thus being ' impelled to help them, but rather, to merely atir them up to demand better . conditions of work. When the Young Comrade sees the sorry pligh® of the . coolies, he cannot restrain himself, however, from assistirn: them, cnu he was . iumediately chased by the authorities. The four agitators explained thet this activity on the part of the Young Comrade endangered all of them, thereby endangering the movement. In the next scene, the four agitators expiained that they founded cells in industries and instructed the first functionsries as to ; how to print forbidderd literature secretly. fhhen 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 et he becomes involved in a brawl in which a pliceman was killed, The four agitators consider this a mistake because ~ ee