ies, and having considered
the situation, hereby resolves:

(1) That the disorganization of the food-supply system and the
weakening of the army's fighting capacity, due to a distrust of a
majority of the military authorities, to lack of inner
organization, and to other temporary causes, have reached such a
degree that the freedom won by the Revolution is seriously
endangered.

(2) That the sole salvation lies in establishing a government
enjoying the full confidence of the toiling masses, in the
awakening of a creative revolutionary enthusiasm, and in concerted
self-sacrificing work on the part of all the elements of the
population.

The convention extends to the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers'
Delegates its warmest appreciation of the latter's
self-sacrificing and honest work for the strengthening of the new
order in Russia, in the interests of the Russian Democracy and at
the same time wishes to see, in the nearest possible future, the
above Council transformed into an All-Russian Council of Workmen's
and Soldiers' Delegates.

_The convention is of the opinion that the war is at present
conducted for purposes of conquest and against the interests of
the masses_, and it, therefore, urges the Council of Workmen's and
Soldiers' Delegates to take the most energetic and effective
measures for the purpose of ending this butchery, on the basis of
free self-determination of nations and of renunciation by all
belligerent countries of annexations and indemnities. Not a drop
of Russian blood shall be given for aims foreign to us.

Considering that the earliest possible achievement of this purpose
is contingent only upon a strong revolutionary army, which would
defend freedom and government, and be fully supported by the
organized Revolutionary Democracy, that is, by the Council of
Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, responsible for its acts to the
whole country, the convention welcomes the responsible decision of
the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates to take part in
the new Provisional Government.

The convention demands that the representatives of the Church give
up for the country's benefit the treasures and funds now in the
possession of churches and monasteries. The convention makes an
urgent appeal to all parts of the population.

1. To the co