The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-01-24
By Associated Press.

Russia's constituent assembly had
been i'm existence out a few hours be-
ore it wa dissolved early Sunday by
he executive committee of the con-
greSS of Workmen'S and soldiers dele
gates. 1t is reported it will be sue
,eeded by the workmen's II soldiers
congress-, which has been supporting
he Lenine government. Dissolution
anne after the bolshevist adherents
aad been defeated in attempts to gain
control of the assembly.
Bolshevist troops now guard the de-
serted assembly meeting place, and
Premier Lenine he will not
permit the delegates to reaSSemble.
Whether the socialist revolutionists ma
lority will submit to the b~olshcvist
orders without protest is not yet
lear.
Petrograd, Sunday, lar. 20.-fhs
lecree issued by the central executive
committee of the ongres OF work.
mems and soldiers delegates. dissolrinS
he constituent assembly, says that the
revolution. created the workmen's anu
soldiers council as the only organiza-
ion able to direct the struggle Of the
exploited working classes for complete
political and economical liberation. Dur
ing the first period of the revolution
the workmen's and soldiers congress.
1t is added. perceived the illusion OF an
understanding with the b~ourgeoiso
and its deceptive parliamentary organ
iZation and realized hat the liberation
of the oppressed classes was impoS-
siblc without a rupture with the bour-
gcoiSe.
"Therefore. the revolution OF No
vember arose giving all authority TO
the Of workmen's and sol
Gicrs' delegates" the decree says
Represented Old Regime.
The constituent assembly beinS elect
ed from the election lists. was thc
expression OF the old regime when au-
thority belonged to the bourScuiSc.
The people who voted for the social
list revolutionists We're unable to dis
cinguish those of the right who were
partisans of the bourgeois, n from
those of the left, who were partisans
Of socialism. Therefore, the constituent
thority of the bourgeois republic set
ting itself against the revolution ot
November, and the authority Of the
workmen's and soldiers council.
"The revolution Of November" the
decree continues, has shown the work.
ers the old bourgeois parliame:t&riaD-
ism has had it's day n was incom-
patible with the tasks and thai only
such institutions as the workmen's and
soldiers councils were able tr over
come the rich classes and create a new
socialist state"
Every refusal" it adds, ito reC"g-
nize the authority of he republican
workmen's and soldiers councils ana to
place in the hands of the constituent
assembly and the bourgeois the liberty
which had been won would be & step
backward and toward the bankruptcy
of the workmcn's and peasants rcvo-
luton.
In Control Of kerensky.
The constituent assembly opened on
January Is and for known reasons gave
a majority to the social reVolutionists
of the right-the party Of Kerensky,
Tchernoff and AVksentieff. 1t is COM
~prehensible that this faction refused 10
debate the just and clear program OF
the central executive committee OF the
congress of workmen's and soldiers
delegates and to recognize q deciara-
ton of rights Of the exploited working
classes, as well as the revolution OF
November ana the authority of the
workmen's and soldiers councils
This, the dee says made a breach
in the assem- Y and the departure or
the bolshevis and social revolutionists
of the left in liable. The social revO-
%lutionists of ''o right, it says, are fight
ing openly a INST the authority of the
workmen's ; soldiers councils and
supporting Il Nxploiters Of labor and If
this party OF remained il might play
the role of /, ing a bourgeois counter
revolution. r decree concludes:
"The CoN' executive committee
therefore ordc : the constituent assem-
hIy dissolved