Taking advantage of the nation's greatest misfortunes, these criminal
spoliators are playing with the health and life of millions of
soldiers and workers, for their own benefit.
Such a situation cannot be borne a single day longer.
The Council of People's Commissars proposes to the Military
Revolutionary Committee to take the most decisive measures towards
the uprooting of speculation, sabotage, hiding of supplies,
fraudulent detention of cargoes, etc.
All persons guilty of such actions shall be subject, by special
orders of the Military Revolutionary Committee, to immediate arrest
and confinement in the prisons of Cronstadt, pending their
arraignment before the Revolutionary Tribunal.
All the popular organisations are invited to cooperate in the
struggle against the spoliators of food supplies.
_President of the Council of People's Commissaries._
V. ULIANOV (LENIN).
Accepted for execution,
_Military Revolutionary Committee attached to
the C. E. C. of the Soviets of W. & S. Deputies._
Petrograd, Nov. 23d, 1917.
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_To All Honest Citizens_
_The Military Revolutionary Committee Decrees:_
Spoliators, marauders, speculators, are declared to be enemies of the
People….
The Military Revolutionary Committee proposes to all public
organisations, to all honest citizens: to inform the Military
Revolutionary Committee immediately of all cases of spoliation,
marauding, speculation, which become known to them.
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