The question of provisioning has taken on an unheard-of acuteness;
the gross interference in the functioning of organs already
created for this object, and the civil war kindled everywhere
throughout the country, have completely demoralized the
provisioning of wheat in regions where they had none, the north
and the army are found on the eve of famine.
Industry is dying. Hundreds of factories and workshops are
stopped. The short-sighted policy of the Commissaries has caused
hundreds of workmen to be thrown on the streets and become
unemployed. The will of the entire people is threatened with being
violated. The usurpers who in October got hold of the power by
launching the word of order for a swift convocation of the
Constituent Assembly strive hard, now that the elections are over,
to retain the power in their hands by arresting the deputies and
dissolving the Constituante itself.
_All that which the country holds of life, and in the first place
all the working class and all the army, ought to rise with arms in
their hands to defend the popular power represented by the
Constituante, which must bring peace to the people and consolidate
by legislative means the revolutionary conquests of the working
class.
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