The aim of the slanders and the lies is clear. The usurpers do not want the people’s representatives to have the supreme power and therefore are preparing to disband the Constituent Assembly.  On the 28th of November, in the evening, having begun to arrest members of the Constitutional-Democratic party, the Bolsheviki violated the inviolability of the Constituent Assembly.  On December 3d a delegate to the Constituent Assembly, the Socialist-Revolutionist, Filippovsky, who was elected by the army on the southwestern front, was arrested.

In accordance with their decision reached on November 28th, the delegates gathered at the Tavrichesky Palace on November 29th and 30th.  As on the first day, armed soldiers stood guard at the entrance of the palace and would not let any one pass.  The delegates, however, insisted and were finally allowed to enter.

    On the third day, scenes of brutal violence toward the people’s
    representatives took place at the palace.  Peasants were the
    unfortunate victims of this violence.

When the delegates had ended their session and all that remained was the affixing of the signatures to the minutes, sailors forced their way into the hall; these were headed by a Bolshevik officer, a former commander of the Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul.  The commander demanded that the delegates disband.  In reply it was stated that the delegates would disband after they had finished their business.  Then at the order of the commander the sailors took the delegate Ilyan, elected by the peasants of the Province of Tambov, by the arm and dragged him to the exit.  After Ilyan, the sailors dragged out the peasant delegate from the Province of Moscow, Bikov; then the sailors approached Maltzev, a peasant delegate from the Province of Kostroma.  He, however, shouted out that he would rather be shot than to submit to such violence.  His courage appealed to the sailors and they stopped.

Now all the halls in the Tavrichesky Palace are locked and it is impossible to meet there.  The delegates who come to the Tavrichesky Palace cannot even gather in the lobby, for as soon as a group gathers, the armed hirelings of Lenine and Trotzky disperse them.  Thus, in former times, behaved the servants of the Czar and the enemies of the people, policemen and gendarmes.

This is not the testimony of correspondents of bourgeois journals; it is from a statement prepared at the time and signed by more than a hundred Socialists, members of the oldest and largest Socialist party in Russia, many of them men whose long and honorable service has endeared them to their comrades in all lands.  It is not testimony that can be impeached or controverted.  It forms part of the report of these well-known and trusted Socialists to their comrades in Russia and