New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-12

Petrograd. May 10 (via London. May
1n.-An appeal to the peoples OF the
world concerning the calling Of peace
conference in a neutral country Will be
published Immediately by the Council
of Soldiers and Workmen's Delegates
according to a resolution adopted at a
meeting yesterday of the executive com
mittee Of the council.
The committee also resolved TO send
a delegation to establish relations with
the Socialist delegates at Stockholm
and 10 send delegates 70 neutra and
Allied countries to further the peace
movement.
II was resolved to call conference OF
the Socialist Internationale and to in
vite to the conference representa-
tives of all parties agreeing with the
councils appeal. The resolutions adopt
ed by the executive committee IN
cluded:
First-To convoKo 4 conference OF
the Socialist InternatiOnale.
Second To invite TO attend TIE CON
ference representatives of all parties
and factions of the international pro
letariat agreeing with the Council OF
Soldiers and Workmen's Delegates APP
neal TO the peoples of the world.
To Publish Appeal TO the World
Third-To form special commission
of the representatives of the executive
committee and one representative oil
each of the Socialist parties to organize
tho conference ana arrange a pro-
gramme.
Fourth-To publish Immediately an
appeal to the peoples of the world ana
a special appeal to the Socialists IN A.
lied countries concerning the cohVoca
tion of a peace conference. ~
Fifth-To send delegation OF tne
executive committee 70 neutral ana Al
lied countries and to establish cohtae'
with the Socialist delegates at STOCK
holm. = .o
Sixth-The peace conference Is 10
take place in neutral country
AQNGnf
essnecessary condition that free passage
he accorded 10 all parties and fractions
without distinction, requests that al
nartios in said countries demand from
their governments free passage 1or
their delegates.
Rumors of Anarchy Denied
\. c. Tcheidse, president OF the
Counc;l of Soldiers and Workmen
delegates. after an investigation de-
clares that all rumors OF anarchy, the
nroclamation of an autonomous unit or
strikes in powder works IN the SchlueS-
sclburg district are absolutely un-
founded. .,,.o
members of the Council OF Soldiers
and Workmen's Delegates, including
the president, had gone TO Schluessel-
burg to cope with the situation created
by the district committee in declaring
itself an autonomous unit. -.
Skobelef. who moved the report OF
tho executive committee of the council
concerning the proposed Socialist CON
ference at Stockholm, said that for the
sake of restoring the internationale and
stopping the war he was willing 10
meet not only Scheidemsnn, but the
devil and his grandmother. The tone
adopted by the Russian Socialist pacl-
fists is exemplfied by Gorky's "Novaia
Zhizn," which declares that even II the
British and French Socialists refuse to
participate in the conference the Rus
sian Socialists will.
Socialists Evade Responsibility
The government, in suggesting a
coalition ministry, appears to have put
the issue squarely up to the Socialists.
The move on the part OF the ministry
is seemingly an effort to remedy the
analogous situation in which the cOun-
try finds itself through having nom
jnal government with the power lodged
elsewhere. The call upon the Social
ists. as represented by the Council of
Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates, was
intended to shift some OF the respon-
sibility for government upon the ele-
ments which WELD the power and which
assume the right to direct. criticise and
thwart The acts of the ministry.
In endeavoring to determine what il
is that the Socialists want the minis
ters have developed that there is wide
divergence OF opinion among the So
cialistic group. but that they are prac-
tically united in a desire TO evade re-
sponsibility for the government of the
country. The suggestion that repre-
sentatiyes of the Socialists take a hand
in directing the difficult affairs Of the
nation met with a fiat refusal on the
part of the Moscow Council of Depu-
ties and the "Bolshi Vike." meaning the
Extreme Letters in Petrograd. The
proposal elected only slight support IN
Tho petrograd Council of Deputies
Annarentlv the objection to coalition
o. of .ho Toh,,ot