Envoys of the
Machine Gun regiment arrived that afternoon at the Putilov factory, one of
Petrograd’s largest, bearing the message of the armed manifestation. They told
the workers that the regiment had decided not to send anyone to the front, but
to take to the streets instead. The secretary of the factory committee was a
Bolshevik, but he was unable to persuade the assembled workers, some 10,000, to
send to the Central Committee for guidance. Representatives of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets had no better success.
At about 6:00
p.m., the meeting got word that the Vyborg workers were already on the march to
the headquarters of the Soviet in the Tauride Palace. This decided the matter. In
fact, the same result was reached virtually everywhere. The Renaud factory, for
example, provided trucks to the machine gunners at their request. The Red
Guards contingents in the factories took up arms.
No comments:
Post a Comment