VIII. PATRONATI AS A FORM OF AUXILIARY WORK AMONG THE EMIGRANTS

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REPORT TO THE THIRD LiO~=~R CO~'GR ~'S
OF' THE SOVIET UNION, BY H.
:~TASSOVk. (Congress held Feb.15-
19, 191)
VIII. nPATRONATI" AS A FORM OF AUXILIARY
'NORK AMONG THE EMIGRANTS
During this time, one more form of auxiliary work
was begun. The beginning was made by the Italian emi-
grants. The situation is such, that in a number of
countries - in France, in the United States of America,
and in almost all the countries of South America there
are economic emigrants, that is, people who for economic
reasons because of material conditions were forced to
leave their country.
The comrades from the former Jewish Ghetto in
Tsarist Russia know well what a great percentage of the
Jews, not having the possibility to work in Russia, emi-
grated to America. This example I am citing in order
that the cause of emigration should be clear to tYie
comrades.
The same emigration of the Hungarians, Jugo-Slavs
and others, takes place in a number of countries. The
Italian comrades decided that it is necessary to find
a method for embracing this broad mass of economic emi-
gration which is insufficiently prepared politically,
in order that it will be possible to approach it with
direct political MOPR demands, but which must be first
swung into line for our purposes.
And so they organised the so-called "Patronati"
which in translation into the English language means
"Patronage." But the term "Patronati" has been estab-
lished as well as our Russian word "Smitchka" in all
foreign languages.
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The essence of "Patronati" consists in the fact
that one of the r,20PR members or in general one of the
revolutionary working comrades of a definite nationality,
living in the country where there are a large number of
economic immigrants of the same nationality, finds the
people, which came from any certain individual province.
For example - from Lodz. In uniting these comrades he
begins to tell them abut the terrible conditions of the
political prisoners in the Lodz jails. Then it is finally
discovered that these immigrants have there some acquaint-
ances.
Hearts are warmed and opened up - and so also are the
pocket books.
In order to strengthen this feeling, the comrades
are given the right to collect money for those of the
political prisoners which are known to the economic im-
migrants. Confidence is strengthened, they see that the
money which they themselves collected, they themselves
also send directly to the prisoner in jail.
The next step: the money is divided into two parts.
One half goes to the corresponding jail, and the second
- to the national organisation of MOPR of the same nation-
ality as the immigrants. Then the percentage is changed
- we haue 25 per cent and 75 per cent. The first part
is given,to the MOPR of the country where the immigrants
live, and the other 75 per cent is distributed between
the national MOPR and the "Patronati"..
Further, members of the MOPR are gradually enrolled
from the general mass of the economic emigrants, and the
distribution of literature begins, etc. In a word - new
methods are sought in order to approach ever broader masses.
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