The frustration
of railroad workers over a long-awaited raise boils over into a strike. Nothing
had been done about the raise since the February Revolution. With numerous
railroad lines paralyzed, the government offered concessions a few days later.
The strike was
symptomatic of increasing difficulty with industrial production and in the food
supply. The
overall effect was to shift the railroad workers to the left.
Meanwhile the
Bolshevik Central Committee appointed Sverdlov to monitor the Central Executive
Committee’s attitude towards the Congress of Soviets and to administer the
party’s campaign for the selection of delegates.
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