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IT IS THE DUTY OF THE ALLIED DEMOCRACIES 10
The All-Russian Government in Omsk, led by Admiral Alexander Kolcfiak, includes repre?
sentatives of ail shades of Russian progressive public opinion, liberal and socialist, and works in
close cooperation with the organs of local self-government--the Municipalities and Zemstvos. The
Democratic, Socialist and Cooperative Organizations, in the territories liberated from the Bolshe
viki support the All-Russian Government. The All-Russian Government pledges itself to convoke
an AII-Kussian Constituent Assembly as soon as the plague of Bolshevism is destroyed
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The Program of The Omsk
Government
Admiral Kolchak, the head of the Omsk
Government and the Commander-in-Chief of
the Russian Armies, addressing in Ekaterin?
burg a joint Session of the Municipal Council
and of the Zemstvo Assembly, thus formulated
the program of the Government:
"The program of the Government is to reestablish
the economic and political life of the country in close
cooperation with the organs of local self-government?
the Municipalities and Zemstvos. The first task of the
Government is to reestablish the rule of law a?d order,
the rule destroyed by Bolshevism from the Left and the
Right. The Government will fight, without any possi?
bility of compromise, the Bolsheviki of the Left and of
the Right, with the purpose of establishing a great, free,
democratic Russia.
The future Russia will be a democratic Russia.
The Government, of which ? have the honor to be the
head, believes in universal suffrage, in the autonomous
development of the nationalities comprising Russia, in
a democratic solution of the main Russian problems:
the land problem and the labor problem.
The Government considers the people ? of Russia
the supreme authority in all problems pertaining to
Russia's life. After the menace of Bolshevism is de?
stroyed, the people of Russia, through a freely chosen
Constituent Assembly, will express their supreme will
and will define the structure of the State, will solve" the
main political, social and national problems. The
Government and myself will consider it our duty to
transfer to the Constituent Assembly all the power
which now belongs to the Government."
{??Struggling Russia,'' May 3, 1919.)
Land and Labor Policy of the Omsk
Government
On April 10th, 1919, the All-Russian Government
in Omsk issued the following Declaration:
"It is the duty of the Government to assure the
agricultural population that the harvest will belong
to those who are at present cultivating the soil. Con?
sequently, the Government declares that' all who
at present profit from the land, who have sown
and cultivated it, even if they are not legally the .
proprietors or tenants, have the right to reap the
harvest. The present measures are being taken with
the view to meet the indispensable land needs of the
laboring rural population. The agrarian question, in its
final form, will be decided by the Constituent As?
sembly.
Legislation regulating land relations, as well as
concerning temporary' utilization of seized land, just
distribution of same, and, finally, regarding compensa?
tion of former proprietors, will be enacted in the near
future. The general aim of these laws will be to trans?
fer the land to the laboring population and extend as?
sistance to the development of farms without discrimi?
nation whether they are established on principles of
private or communal land ownership."
("Struggling Ru*?ia," June 7, 1919.)
The Minister of Labor in the Omsk Government, ? ?
Social-Democrat and a member of the Constituent
Assembly, Leonid Shumilovsky, said the following ?o
the representatives of the press:
"The policy of the Ministry of Labor is to combine
the protection of labor with the interests of the State.
The interests of the workingmeu can be safeguarded
and the living conditions for the working class can be
improved only on condition that the industries in the
country will exist and develop. The destruction of
the industries means poverty and utter need, first of all,
for the workingmen. We have decided upon an eight
hour working day in all the industries. The State is
Underwood & Underwood.
Admiral Alexander Kolchck, the head of the All-Russian Government |
in Omsk and the Cornmander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies. I
interested in establishing working conditions under
which the generations should grow up strong physical?
ly, morally and intellectually. We .have introduced
sickness and unemployment insurance. With the help
of the Government, employment bureaus will be
established everywhere on the territory cleared from,
the Bolsheyiki. The Ministry of Labor greets the ten?
dency of the workingmen to organize themselves into
unions, considering it in the interest of the State that
the workingmen should form themselves into an
organized, disciplined body."
{??Struggling Russia," June 7, 1919.)
The Democratic ? and Socialist
Organizations Support the
Omsk Government
IRKUTSK
"The political organizations of the city of Irkutsk
have united in a bloc which, among others, includes the
Constitutional-Democrats, the Autonomists and the
Social Democrats, of the Group Tedinstvo.' The
parties have decided to support the Omsk Government,
which has as its task the regeneration of Russia and the
convocation of the Constituent Assembly. In their first
declaration, the parties composing the bloc declare that
the time has come when Russia should occupy again
the place which belongs to her among the great nations
Of the WOrld." (Struggling Runsia," Mag 3, 1919.)
OMSK
"The Socialist Groups in Omsk issued on Febru?
ary 23rd, 1919, a declaration in which they called upon
the people to support 'the legitimately functioning
Omsk Government, founded on the basis of the rule of
the people and the summoning of a new Constituent
Assembly as the sovereign organ of free Russia.' "
('?Struggling Russia," Mag IT, 1919.)
PERM
"The Socialists-Revolutionists, the Social-Demo?
crats^ and the Labor ?Unions in Perm have united
in a'bloc which published.,its first? Declaration calling
upon all Democratic and Socialist organizations to par?
ticipate in the regeneration of Russia and in the build?
ing up of an Army capable of fighting the enemies of
the Russian State. The -Declaration announces that
the organs of local self-government, the Muni?
cipalities and Zemstvos, as well as all other public
bodies, will support the Omsk Government against all
anarchistic elements." ("Struggling Rustia," June 7, 1919.)
The Cooperatives Support the
Omsk Governr?TnT
The Council of the All-Siberian Coopera?
tive Assemblies says the following in its recent
Declaration:
"The All-Siberian Cooperative Movement?as the
expression of the unity of the creative democratic ele?
ments?strives for the rehabilitation of the destroyed
statehood of Russia.
The United Cooperatives of Siberia consider it of
utmost necessity that all democratic elements who
think in terms of State-building should unite upon one
common platform. The immediate aims of our politi?
cal activities must be?the support of the existing Omsk
Government, which has proclaimed itself a democratic
rule ; the steering of its political course into democratic
channels; the struggle with anti-democratic influences
from the Right as well as with the anarcho-destructive
forces from the Left ; the strengthening of the ties be?
tween the rear and the fighting Front and the support
of the Army as the cultural force which is reconquer
ing^the violated rights of the people to the formation of
a democratic State; and the establishment, fortifying
and development of friendly relations with Govern?
ments and democracies allied with us, such as France,
England, America and others."
("Struggling Russia." May 17, 1919.)
On the basis of this and other documents coming
from Russia, the following Appeal to the American
people and to the Members of Congress was issued
on May 20th, at the office of the Russian Cooperative
Unions, No. 136 Liberty Street, New York City,
signed by V. N. Bashkirov, the representative of the
Siberian Union of Creamery Societies, uniting over
4,500 Cooperative Organizations; G. A. Martushin,
the representative of the Northern Cooperative
Unions of Archangel ; A. A. Trutnev, the representative
of the Siberian Union of Cooperative Unions "Za
koopsbit," uniting over 9,500 Cooperative Organiza?
tions, and Chairman of the Cooperative Unions of the
government of Irkutsk ; N. G. Zolotookhin, representa?
tive of the Cooperative Unions of the Transbaikal
region, and C. A. Kovalsky, delegate of the Council of
the All-Siberian Cooperative Assemblies:
"In these terrible and trying times of bloody rule
that our suffering and worn-out country is passing
through, the Cooperative Organizations of Siberia and
North Russia serve as a unifying link for all the honest,
healthy and State-preserving elements of the Russian
democracy. In the fight for freedom and for the politi?
cal and economic regeneration of Russia, the Council
of the All-Siberian Cooperative Assemblies, uniting in
itself all the central organizations of Siberia, has
adopted a definite political and social-economic pro?
gram in the domain of real, practical, everyday
endeavor. This practical program the United Coop?
eratives of Siberia are realizing through their local
units and representatives in the Cooperative Organiza?
tions, in the Zemstvo self-governments, and social and
governmental institutions.
The All-Siberian United Cooperatives are fully
cognizant of the abnormal conditions in which the terri?
tories liberated from the Bolsheviki?the Ural, Siberia
and the North Russian Provinces?find themselves,
where in pain and anguish a new Russian statehood is
arising. Nevertheless, considering the unusual difficul?
ties connected with the work of rebuilding and reestab?
lishing legality and order in a land overburdened finan?
cially and economically, ravaged by civil war and hun?
ger, and with a popular psychology corrupted by Bolshe?
vism, the United Cooperatives recognize and support?
, until the formation of a new, ultimate Government
through the Constituent Assembly?the Provisional
. Russian Government formed on Siberian territory and
headed by Admiral Kolchak. The Cooperatives are
lending their support to it as to a practical Govern?
mental central power subscribing to democratic'princi?
ples, which is reestablishing the State, creating a fight?
ing, disciplined Army, and placing itself under obliga?
tions to bring the country .to the gates of an All-Russian
Constituent Assembly, and to insure its unity and inde?
pendence." ("Struggling Russia,'' May 31, 1919.)
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