New Britain herald., 1918-01-21
ASSEMBLY BID NOT
 REPRESENT PEOpLE
This Is BOlSheyik Excuse for
 Ordering Convention Dissolved MAY ARREST TCHERN0FF

BlaciJiSt-Rcd Guards Begin to
 Assembly to Rcconvcne.
 Petrograd, Jan. 21-The decree is sued by the Central executive con- mittee of the Congress of Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates dissolving the constituent assembly says the revo- lution created the WOrkmen'S and Soldiers Council as the only organ izatiOn tO direct the struggle of the exploited working classes for com plete political and economic liberty. During the first period of the revo- lution the Workmcn's and Soldiers congress. i is added, perceived the illusion of an understanding with the bour9poiso and it's deceptive parlia- mentary organization and realized that liberty: for oppressed classes was impossible without a rupture with the bourgoiese. Therefore the revO- lution of November, arose, giving all authority to the Congress of Work mems and Soldiers Delegates, the decree says the constituent assembly being elected from the old election lists was the expression of the old regime when authority belonged to the bourgoise. The people who voted for the social revolution were un- able to distinguish between the diff ferent persons of the bOurgeOise and those from the Left who were parti- sans of socialism. Therefore the as- sembly necessarily became the au- thority of the bourgeoise republic setting 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 workers that the old bourgeoise par ianoentarianisn has had it's day and was incompatible with the tasks be- fore socialism and only such institu- ticns as the Workmen's and Soldiers Council were able to overcome the opposition of the rich classes and create new socialistic state. Every refusal, it adds, to recognize the au- thority of the republican Workmen's and Soldiers Councils and to place in then ands of the constituent as- sembly and bourgeoise the liberty which had been won would be a step backwards and toward the bank ruptcy of the worlmen's and peas ants revolution.
 The constituent assembly opened Jan. IS and for known reasons gave a majority to the social revolutionists of the right-the party of kerensky, TcharnOff and AVksentieff. It is com- prehensble that this faction refused to debate the just and clear program of the Central executive committee of the Congress of Workmens and Soldiers Delegates and to recognize a declaration Of rights of the exploited cI ton of November and the authority of the workmen's and soldiers council
 This, the decree says, made a breach in the assembly and the departure of the Bolsheviki and social revolution iStS of the Left inevitable. The social revolutions of the Right, it says, are fighting openly against the authority of the Workmen's and Soldiers cOun- cils and supporting the exploiters of labor and if this party only remained it might play the role of leading Q bOurgecise counter revolution. The decree concludes: The Central exc cutve committee, therefore orders the constituent assembly dissolved
 Boishevil1i Denounce Canard.
 The Bolsheviki government has is sued a proclamation to the People of Petrograd saying in part:
 "Enemies of the people spread the report that revolutionary worllmen and soldiers have fired on a peaceful labor dem onstration. This is done for the purpose of sowing trouble in the ranks of the workers, causing ex- cesses in melting against the revoluu- tionary leaders.
 ''It has been proved that the authors of these rumors fired at sailors, sol diers and Workmen who are keeping order in the city. The central execu- tive has opened a searching inquiry and the culprits vii be tried by re- volutionary tribunals"
 The proclamation concludes by ad- vising the people to ignore the rumors and remain calm and by assuring them that order is being maintained by sailors, soldiers and workmcn.