New-York tribune., 1918-12-13
Russian Workers
Denounce SOviets
I'm Secret Appeal
Petrograd Document To Be
Read at Convention Here
To-day of Federation of
All-Russian Organizations

Convinced that the truning point in
the affairs of Russia is at hand, 800
delegates to the second annual conven-
tion of the Federation of Russian Or
CARNATIONS in America will assemble
this afternoon at Beethoven Hall, 210
East Fifth Street.
Regarding Bolshevism, leaders of the
convention announced yesterday that
they intend to begin proceedings this
afternoon with the reading Of a COM
munication from Petrograd, which has
just reached this country through Sc
cret channels after beirg suppressed, it
is said, by the Bolshevik powers abroad.
This communication contains a resolu-
luton which, it is declared, was re-
Gently passed by an assembly of the
workmen and peasants of Petrograd,
condemning the Bolshevik regime and
most explicitly charging it with falsity
to the peoples interests.
Text of Resolution
The text OF the resolution, as trans
lated here, follows:
"The workmen have supported the
new powers which declared themselves
to be the government of the workmen
and the peasants, promising to consider
our wants and protect our interests.
All our organizations were at their
service. For them the blood of our
sons and brothers was spilled and we
patiently endured want and hunger.
In our name they destroyed those at
whom the new government pointed it's
finger, and we were satisfied with the
declaration of our rights and liberties
in the name of the fate and the charac-
ter OF the new government, in the name
of hope and promises.
"But we see our fate mercilessly de-
stroying our hopes. The new govern
ment calls itself the workmen-peasan
government, but in fact any attempt
on our part to express our will in the
Soviet by way Of vote is cut off, and
workmen heard a threat of shooting at
their meetings and manifestations.
German Management Provided
Owe were promised an immediate
peace, democratic peace by the peo
Piles through their representatives, but
in fact they gave US capitalistic Ger
man management.
"They gave us peace which strikes
the Russian workmen's progress; they
gave us peace which assures destruc-
tion of Russia and which makes it
prey of foreign capital; peace which
destroys our economic conditions.
"We were promised bread, but in
stead they gave us civil war, which de-
stroys the country.
"Under the guise of Socialism they
gave us destruction of industry and
finance; they gave us a destruction of
capitalist. Men with unsatisfed appe-
tites, they placed us in a position of
want for work, depriving us of the
method Of defending ourselves against
it.
"The unions were destroyed. The fac
tory committees cannot protect US.
The Duma was dissolved. BY abandon
ing Petrograd the Soviet is leaving us
to our fate, closing the factories and
throwing us into the streets without
money, without bread, without work,
without ordnance Of selfdefensc,
without hope for the future.
All Freedom Denied
eve were promised liberty, but what
do we see, indeed? Where is the free
dom of speech, assemmblage, union,
press? We came down to the shame of
execution, practiced by men who are at
Investigators, prosecutors and execu-
TONERS.
"And in the name of all this, the
blood of the workmen and peasant of
Russia is being spilled"
year ago, when the first all-Rus-
sian convention gathered in the same
hall where to-day's meeting is to be
held, an attempt was made by the local
Bolshevik element 10 stampede the
meeting and gain control. After sew
eral tempestuous sessions, this often
sive was finally repulsed. To-day, the
committee predicts, there is no chance
for a repetition of such mannuvre.
Bolsheviki and monarchists alike are
barred. During the summer the or
ganization work has been very care
fully perfected.