The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-17
After the July Days.
Repressiv Measures Taken by the Social
utiOn2ry Authorities Against the Mass Movements
of the Boshevks.

July 18th the Soviet printery on the
Nassiliev Island was smashed. On
July 18th the chief committee of the
army and navy officers league de-
cided to put on the black list all
Bolshevik officers. After the Party
apparatus was demolished and the
leaders arrested, rank and file Party
members were taken next. The jails
were filled to overlooking with Boil
sheviks. At the beginning of August
there were about 800 rank and file
Bolsheviks from the different fronts
in the Dvinsk prison. Subsequent to
the arrests and the closing down of
the workers press, the pogroms
perpetrated on Party organizations
and the Party apparatus, the Pro-
visional Government let loose its re-
pressions upon the entire working
class.
The Provisional Government had its
loyal followers and supporters in the
ranks of the working class in the
shape of the Socialist Revolutionary
Party. In all factories fight was
on between the followers of the Pro-
visional Government and Bolshevik
sympathizers. One of the comrades
in the 'Skorohod" factory of Petro-
grad says in his "reminiscences that
after the events of July 3-5 the So
cialist Revolutionists raised their
heads in the factory and declared at
an open meeting of the workers that
the Bolsheviks are German agents.
IN dealing with the Bolsheviks the
Socialist Revolutionists did not
merely bring charges against them
before the workers, but they reported
all Bolshevik workers to the govern
ment. In one factory (the Gallery
Island) for instance, a meeting took
place on July 7th, at which the So
cialist Revolutionists demanded that
the Bolsheviks responsible for the
July 3-5 demonstrations be handed
over to the Government. After this
offensive of the Socialist Revolution
lists on the Bolsheviks and the pro-
letariat in the factories, after the at
tempt to create among the workers
sympathy for the Provisional Govern
ment and to demoralize the prole-
tartan ranks, taking advantage of it's
temporary disorganization, the Pro-
visional Government launched its at
tack. On July 7th, the Provisional
Government decreed the surrender of
all arms to the Government.
SUBSEQUENT to this punitive ex-
y petitions were sent to the factor
les with the purpose of disarming
the military workers detachments and
to remove the leaders of the Work
ers' Revolution from them. A whole
punitive detachment with extensive
powers was sent to the Sestroretskv
Factory to disarm the workers. The
first thing the detachment did was to
smash the Party committee, then it
searched the houses for Bolsheviks
and ordered the workers to submit
their arms and to swear allegiance
to the Government. The disarming
of the workers subsequent to gaining
control of the army strengthened the
Provisional Government.
A bloody alliance was formed in
the days of July 3-5. The Menshe-
viks and Socialist Revolutionists
called the forces to Petrograd exert
ing their authority as Socialists and
Revolutionaries in pefpetrating a
dastardly deed. They deceived the
rank and file soldiers. They placed
them at the disposal of the counter
revolutionary generals and officers
and sent them to fight against the
proletariat and the peasantry. On
July 18th the same Mensheviks and
Socialists Revolutionists justified the
bloody action of the Provisional Gov
eminent, which had only one aim in
view, namely the destruction of the
proletariat, the disarmament of the
proletariat, the destruction of the
revolutionary army, the destruction
of the General Staff of the revolu-
tion-the Bolshevik Party.