(Poland,
Lithuania, Courland), and to subject the whole country to their
complete economic, if not political, domination.

The question of provisioning has taken on an unheard-of acuteness;
the gross interference in the functioning of organs already
created for this object, and the civil war kindled everywhere
throughout the country, have completely demoralized the
provisioning of wheat in regions where they had none, the north
and the army are found on the eve of famine.

Industry is dying. Hundreds of factories and workshops are
stopped. The short-sighted policy of the Commissaries has caused
hundreds of workmen to be thrown on the streets and become
unemployed. The will of the entire people is threatened with being
violated. The usurpers who in October got hold of the power by
launching the word of order for a swift convocation of the
Constituent Assembly strive hard, now that the elections are over,
to retain the power in their hands by arresting the deputies and
dissolving the Constituante itself.

_All that which the country holds of life, and in the first place
all the working class and all the army, ought to rise with arms in
their hands to defend the popular power represented by the
Constituante, which must bring peace to the people and consolidate
by legislative means the revolutionary conquests of the working
class._

In bringing this to your knowledge, the Central Committee chosen
at the first elections invites you, Comrades, to place yourself
immediately in agreement with it.

Considering the Congress of October as incompetent, the Central
Committee chosen at the first elections has decided to begin a
preparatory work in view of the convocation of a new Congress of
the Soviets of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates.

In the near future, while the Commissaires of the People, in the
persons of Lenine and Trotzky, are going to fight against the
sovereign power of the Constituent Assembly, we shall have to
intervene with all our energy in the conflict artificially encited
by the adventurers, between that Assembly and the Soviets. _It
will be our task to aid the Soviets in taking consciousness of
their role, in defining their political lines, and in determining
their functions and those of the Constituante._

Comrades! The convocation of the Congress f