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Show FIIEPAIINT ' TO IE leiHAL Inform Bolsheviki That They Must Be for Whole People or They Resign. PETROGRAD, Thursday, Dec. 13. The employes of the food supply department de-partment called today at the Smolny institute, the Bolsheviki headquarters, and urged that they be declared a neutral department. Otherwise they would decline to work under the People's Peo-ple's Commissaries. Their demands were refused. Tho senate, the highest Russian court, which hastheen abolished abol-ished by tho Bolsheviki, today held a secret meeting at which it w.-n determined deter-mined that the members would continue con-tinue in their offices. Striking employes of the government govern-ment departments announce that they are ready to go to Kiev if the constituent con-stituent assembly is dissolved and tho railway union decides also to go to Kiev. The Socialist newspapers appeared ap-peared this morning without advor- tisements, but they carried a long pro-j pro-j tost against the Bolsheviki advertis-j advertis-j ing monopoly. The People's Commissaries continue con-tinue to attempt to carry out their program. It is announced that elections elec-tions for the army, for which all men are eligible, will begin today. A decree de-cree abolishing all ranks and "titles becomes effective tomorrow. The commissaries com-missaries have declared all agricultural agricul-tural implements a government monopoly mon-opoly and all machines will be distributed dis-tributed for the equitable farming of all lands. n r . |