Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24
Soviet
Main Street

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fierce but soon ended battle
Disarming the police, the work
ers chose a Revolutionary Staff
and distributed the arms among
their ranks. Later, a mass fun
eral was given those who hat
fallen during the encounter
Yesterdays stiff-backed ruler
were frightened. They came be
fore the soviet and mass meet
ings, declaring, I'VE greet the
revolution and join the people!
Among them was Dixon. who
called God himself to the aid
of the revolution!
The capitalists were not sorry
to see the power of the landed
nobility and their tsar broken
The problem was how to make
the reused workers stop there
What If they should decide to
drive out the capitalists as well?
The POdolsk Regional Soviet
of the workers and Peasants
Deputies decided that all EN-.
plOyers must pay full wages to
their labouring force for the
time lost during the days of the
revolution. The TrOvisio n
Government set up Petrograd,
backed by the capitalists, re-
: fused all support to the soviets
The workers decided to tan
themselves from their wages
creating a fund to carry on the
SOviet's work. The Soviet was
rapidly extending its cont I o
over production, and forcing EN-
ployers to listen to the workers
demands. BY the third week
of March the eight hour day was
enforced, without any decrease
in wages. All factories organ
unions, and militia.
lied their shop committees,
Feodor, who up to this time
was still working in Moscow, now
hoped to return to his home
town job at the Singer foundry.
The factory committee insisted
that Dixon re-emplOy him. Dix.
on refused. Dixon and his kind
still have the power" Feodor
pointed out to his fellows. Was
it for this we made revOlu-
tion?'
Every day the issue grew
clearer. The soldiers and tOiling
masses demanded, END the
War! Give us Peace! Lib
ertyl Landl Bread!" The Pro-
visiOnal Government refused to
heed them. In the ranks of the
workers were confused, even
traitOrouS elements. Only in
the Party, which in Podolsk had
grown from thirty-seven men,
bers in February to six hundred
by October, did the masses find
a clear lead. FeOdOr, who had
gotten work in a small Podolsk
foundry, agitated with his COM
rades, "All power to the SOviets!
Away with the Provisional Gov
eminent and capitalist rule !"
Many who a few months earlier
disagreed with the Bolsheviks,
now were ready to listen, to
join in preparations for the Sc.
cond insurrection. Andree, still
at the front, told his hungry, DIES.
perate fellOw-sOldiers, Support
the soviets and b d hey X s.
That is the one way to stop this
bloody war;
When word came in October,
that the Petrograd and Moscow
workers had taken power, the
Podolsk masses were quick to
follow. According to plan, all
public buildings and factories
were seized by the workers milf
tia. The soviet set to work es-
tablishing the new order and Sc
lecting its commissars to fill
all responsible posts. Heavy
tasks, they knew, were ahead.
At the same time the other
factories were taken over; the
armed workers occupied tn e
foundry, workshops and offices
of the sewing machine works.
The former Singer plant was de-
elared the First Soviet State Sew
ing Machine Factory, to be
owned and operated by tn e
workers in power. Andree along
with FeOdOr tossed his old cap
whooping high in the air.
As for Dixon, he packed his
bags and left on the next boat
for America. There were few
who regretted his hasty depart
danger threatening Moscow, ten
The next evening, Moscow
wired that armed eounter-revo-
lutionary groups were threaten
ing the city, and to send rein.
forcements. A canvas was made
of Podolsk factories that same
night. for volunteers. At first
not enough signed. Six hun.
dred were needed. At the news
danger threatening Moscow,ter
thousand massed the next day
Men. women, and children. Peas.
ants from nearby villages flocked