The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-17

THE victory of the Provisional Gov
eminent and the Menshevik and
Social Revolutionary Soviet Exec
utive over the proleJariat on July s.
gave q free hand to the bouregoise,
by the Mensheviks and Social Reyolu-
tionists. The Provisional govern
ment, having smashed, with the help
of the forces brought from the front,
the workers demonstrations, and
based on its struggle against the
proletariat and the peas antry,
hurried to undertake a determined
offensive so as definitely to crush the
revolutionary mass movement.
The Provisional Government soon
after crushing the demonstration of
July 3-5 started to prosecute its par
Elephants and leaders, members of the
Bolshevik Party, peasants, soldiers
and sailors. On July Z the Provisional
Government instructed the Petrograd
Palace of Justice to investigate the
causes of the demonstration of July
3-5.
THE Provisional Government cate
gorically ordered "the arrest and
the bringing to justice of all those
guilty of high treason and betrayal
of the revolution" Another decree
of the Provisional Government threat
ems: "Those guilty of publicly advo
eating disobedience to the laws and
DEGREES of the government will be
punished by Imprisonment not ex-
ceeding three years"
The series of laws and DEGREES
stipulating the punishments to be
meted out to workers and peasants
for opposing the bourgeois govern
ment eliminates with the decree
granting the Ministry for Home At
fairs and the Ministry of War the
right to arrest people by mutual
agreement ''who are menace to the
State, to its safety, and to the con-
quests of the revolution and free
DOM"
IN July 8th, Kerensky issued a
" special decree to the Army and
Navy in which he orders the
restoration of strict discipline in the
ranks. The decree said: 81 command
the establishment of the discipline
in the army. The revolutionary gov
eminent must assert itself to the full,
not stopping even before the use of
armed force" Kerensky wanted to
save the army by the employment of
old methods. To save it, meant to
subordinate the forces entirely to the
bourgeoisie and the Provisional Gov
eminent. In order to subordinate the
army, the Provisional Government
knew only one method, namely, to
drag the revolutionary leaders and
organizers out of the army and to
terrorize the soldiers by means of re-
preston and persecution.
Kerensky's decree ordered "that
all criminal elements be removed
from the army, advocating disobedi-
ence to the government and the COM
manders either in the press and
orally" On the 9Th of July the Pro-
visional Government began to re-
move the dangerous elements in the
army and it's first step in that direc-
ton was the decision to dissolve all
military units. which participated in
the revolutionary demonstrations Of
July 3-6. By doing SO the govern
ment hoped to "kill two birds with
one stone.' 1t meant to break up the
revolutionary forces in the army, to
scare them, disorganize them and
drive them underground. By the dis
solution of the military units in
Petrograd the bourgeoisie snatched
the arms from the hands of the revo-
luton; it disarmed the revolution, de-
stroying those revolutionary forces
which the revolution created for it
self.
RY trying to hold on to its shattered
~ position and to keep the army in
its hands the bourgeois government
and the bourgeoisie naturally directed
all their forces, all their blows,
against the Bolshevik Party which
was the organizer and the leader of
the proletarian revolutionary move
ment. The Provisional Government
issued a series of orders and DEGREES
for the purpose of destroying the
Bolshevik press. On July 18th the
Provisional Government granted the
Minister of Domestic Affairs and the
Minister of War the right to close
down all publications which "advo-
cate disobedience to the revolutionary
government and the refusal to fulfil
military duties and propagate civil
war, bringing at the same time the
leaders to the bar of Justice"