This bill of Mr. Maslov's is downright betrayal of the peasants by the S.R. Party, and signifies its complete subservience to the landed proprietors. The utmost must be done, every effort must be made to drive this fact home to the widest possible sections of peasants. On October 18, Dyelo Naroda carried Clauses 25-40 of Maslov's bill. This is a triple fraud worked on the peasants by the Socialist-Revolutionaries, and each of these three points must be dealt with in greater detail. This summary of 242 mandates, made by representatives of peasants in the localities, gives the best idea of what the peasants want.
Party is a swindle.
Such is the clear-cut statement of the peasant demands based on 242 local mandates submitted by the peasants themselves. This means that the great landowner who has a sugar refinery, a potato processing plant, oil or other mill, orchards and plantations, hundreds of head of cattle and dozens of employees and workers, is to retain a great estate farmed on capitalist lines. The S.R. Party has indeed cheated the peasants with exceptional brazenness. On the contrary, it contains a whole series of outrageous departures from democracy. Under this swindling landowners' law, the committees are so constituted that the uyezd committee is less democratic than the volost committee, the gubernia committee is less democratic than the uyezd committee, and the central committee is less democratic than the gubernia committee.