Pravda publishes the call for a
demonstration decided upon the previous day. Trotsky persuaded the Central
Council of Factory and Shop Committees to endorse the call.
The slogans were
to be an old one: “All Power to the Soviets!” and a new one: “Down with the Ten
Minister-Capitalists!” (that is, the ten ministers of the Coalition Government
who did not belong to one of the socialist parties). The Bolsheviks began to
paste up posters in favor of the demonstration and its slogans. It had also happened
that Vyborg elected a Bolshevik majority to its local duma during that time.
But the Mensheviks
and Social Revolutionaries opposed the action. The Coalition Government did
nothing to stop it, but the Congress of Soviets, with its Menshevik/Social
Revolutionary super-majority, voted a resolution forbidding demonstrations for
three days.
Meanwhile, the
debates at the Congress of Soviets continued, as described in a separate entry.
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