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have to any degree lost their capacity to work
- Note l. Local Soviets may upon approval of the
central power lower the age standard mentioned herein
Note e. yNon-ctzens mentioned in Paragraph 20
(Article 2, Chapter s. have the right to vote. =
The article referred to grants POLITICAL rights for
leigners in Russia who engaged in toll
Fully as significant is the article of exclusion from
the franchise: L
E These May Not Vote.
The following persons enjoy neither the right to vote
NOR the right be voted for though they belong
one of the categores enumerated above, namely:
(a) Persons who employ hired labor in order to
obtain from it an increase in profits IL
(b) Persons who have income without doing
any work. such as interest from capital receipts from
property, etc.
F(c) Private merchants trade and commercial
brokers.
(d) Monks and clergy of all denominations
(e) Employees and agents of the former police, the
gendarme corps and the Okrana Gears secret sevce)
also members OF the former reigning dynasty
(fl Person; who have in legal form been declared
demented mentally deficient and also persons under
guardianship
(g) Persons who have been deprived by Soviet of
their rights of citizenship because of selfish or dshonora
BILE offenses, for the period fixed by the sentence
In short, the person who has accumulated property
no matter how accumulated is DISTINGUISHED The peas
ant farmer who finds that he needs help to gather his
|crop dare not employ helper under penalty of being
dsfranchised and disarmed Business men of all classes
lare penalized the same way.
Military Service For Toilers
For the purpose of defending the victory of the great
peasant and workers revolution the Russian Socialist
Federated Soviet republic recognizes the duty Of all
casses OF the republic to the defense of their So
REALISTIC fatherand and it therefore introduces universal
military training. The honor of defending the revOl-
ton with is given only to the toiers and the non
tolng elements charged with the performance of
other military duties.
In order that there may be doubt about what the
purpose of the to be- if there any doubt
after reading the paragraphs referred to- the constit
ton further declares:
The third Al-Russian Congress of Soviets of Work.
es Soldiers and Peasant Deputies believes that dur
ing the progress of the decisive battle between the proe
tarlat and expoiters the expoiters cannot hold po
son in any branch Of the Soviet government The pow
must belong entirely to the tong masses and to their
of Workers. Sol
diers and Peasant Deputies.
In brief paragraph the constitution clears the deck
of national Indebtedness by simply repudating all debts
created by former government. The "brotherhood of
man idea may be well enough to talk about bv Socialist
orators but the Boshvst constitution does not propose
to take any chances ON restraining by any such
methods. 1t says:
For the purpose of securing the working class in the
possession OF the complete power and in order to elm
nate all possibility of restoring the power to the exploit
ters is decreed that all tOiers be armed and that So
clast Red army be organized and the popetied class be
Csarmed
That would seem to be military despotisln combn-
ed with severe rule by the proetariat
There are many more provisions that are drastic
ana severe but what given in the foregoing should be
sufficient to convince anyone that the Bolshev expert
nent IN government is modern INSTALLATION of Aesops
fable OF The Belly and the Members"