The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-01-24
BY Associated Press.

Bv Associated Press.
Russia's constituent assembly had
,een in existence put few hours be-
ore it was 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 and soldiers
congress, which has been supporting
The Lenine government. Dissolution
zane after the bolshevist adherents
mad been defeated in attempts to gam
control of the assembly.
Bolshevist troops now guard the de-
serted assembly meeting place, ana
Premier Lenine announces he will not
permit the delegates to reassemble
Whether the socialist revolutionists ma
lority will submit to the bolshevist
orders without protest is not yet
clear.
Petrograd. Sunday, Ian. 20.The
lecree issued by the central executive
committee of the congress of work
mems and soldiers delegates, dissolving
The constituent assembly, says that the
revolution created the Worknen'S ana
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 bourgeoise
and it's deceptive parliamentary organ
tzation and realized that the liberation
Of the oppressed classes was impos-
sible without a rupture with the hour-
geoise.
Therefore, the revolution OF No
vember arose giving all authority to
the congress of workmen's and sol
diers delegates the decree says.
Represented Old Regime.
The constituent assembly being elect
ed from the election lists. was the
expression of the old regime when au-
thority belonged to the bourgeoise.
The people who voted for the social
list reyolutionists were unable to dis
einguish those of the right who were
partisans of the bourgeois and from
those of the left, who We're partisans
Of socialism. Therefore, the constituent
assembly necessarily became the au-
thorlty of the bourgeois republic set
ting itself against the revolution Of
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 parliam e.. ttsrian-
ism has had it's day and was tncom-
patlble with the tasks and that only
such institutions as the workmen's and
soldiers councils We're able to over
come the rich classes and create new
socialist state"
Every refusal" it adds, ito reccg-
nize the authority of the republican
workmen'S and soldiers councils and to
place in the hands Of the constituent
assembly and the bourgeois the liberty
which had been won would be a step
backward and toward the bankru ptcy
of the woSkmen's and peasants revo-
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,
5IchernoH and AvkSentieff 1t is com
prehensible that this faction refused to
debate the just and clear program of
the central executive committee of the
congress of workmen's and soldiers
delegates and to recognize a decIara-
ton of rights of the exploited working
classes, as well rs the revolution of
November and the authority of the
Workmen's and soldiers councils
This, the decree says, made a. breach
N the assembly md the departure of
me polsheVlst ara social reyolutionists
", the lett newt; lie. The social revo-
iulioHlsts OF the i5slt, 1T says, are fight
lng openly again the authority of the
Workmen's and diers councils and
supporting the exn nlters of labor and IL
TINS party only Ifsa aimed it might play
eie ioie VI seadln y bourgeois counter
revolution. The Z .ree concludes.
Inc centrai ecutive committee
therefore orders ti4 constituent assem-
bly, dissolved