The daily worker., 1930-04-30
ServiCemen and EX-ServlCenen,
Unite with Workers May lst

ers' and Peasants Delegates. The central
government power must be united in these
local soviets-whether you call them a Con-
stituent Assembly or a National Assembly, or
a Congress of Soviets, the name does not
matter.
There must be no police: no bureaucrats, who
have no responsibility to the people, who stand
over the people; no standing army, cut off
from the people, but only the people armed
from head to foot united in the soviets--it is
they who must run the government. 1t is they
who must establish the necessary order, it is
they whose authority will not only be obeyed,
but also respected, by workers and pesants
Only this power, only the Soviets of Soldiers
and Workers Delegates, cannot in the inter-
ests of the land-holders, nor in the bureau
cratic manner-sove the great question of
land. The land must not belong to the feudal
owners. The land INST be taken away at
by the peasant committees from the land
holders; they must see to it that the raising
of grain is increased in order that the soldiers
at the front may be better supplied. All the
land must belong to the whole people, and this
consummation must be realized by the local
Soviets of Peasants Delegates. In order that
the rich peasants-themselves capitalists
may not hoodwink the farm laborers and the
poorest peasants, it will be necessary either to
compound, unite, or fuse with them, the
one hand, or erect our own Soviet of Farm
Laborers' Delegates.
Do not permit the police to be reestablished
do not permit the government power or the
control over the government to pass into the
hands of bourgeois officeholders not chosen
by election, and irremovable and paid
bourgeois scale; unite yourselves, weld your
selves firmly together. organize yourselves,
trusting no one depending only on your own
intelligence and experience. and Russia will be
able to move with firm, measured certain
steps toward the liberation both of our own
country and of all humanity, from the yoke of
capital as we'll as from the horrors of war.
Our government a government of capitalists,
is continuing the war by reason of capitalist
interests. Like the German capitalists of all
the other countries wagng only for
division of the profits of the capitalists, for
world rule. Hundreds of millions of people,
almost all the countries Of the earth, have been
dragged into this criminal war. Hundreds of
billions of capital have been invested in "pro-
fitable" concerns, bringing to the peoples
death, hunger establishment, barbarism, and
to capital scandalously high, insane profits
In order to free ourselves from this frightful
war, and to conclude a truly democratic peace
based not on force, there is only one way pos
sible: the transfer Of all the government power
to the hands of the Sovets of Workers
and Soldiers Delegates. The workers and the
poorest peasants, who are not interested in the
preservation of the profits of capitalism, in
the conquest of weaker peoples, will be able
truly to bring about that which the capitalists
merely blabber about-nanley a conclusion of
the war with lasting peace which shall assure
liberty to all peoples without exception.