“On the Bolshevik Revolution. 1919” in “Class Warrior”
On the Bolshevik Revolution 1919
Report of a speech by Kingsley in Nanaimo’s Dominion Hall on 2 March 1919, relating to the constitution of the Russian Soviet state and policies to support agriculture.
E. T. Kingsley Speaks on Bolshevik Regime
Mr. E. T. Kingsley, the veteran Socialist speaker, formerly of Nanaimo and now of Vancouver, addressed a large audience last evening in the Dominion Hall on the Russian situation. The speaker outlined the constitution of the new soviets, explaining the relations which exist between the town and village soviets and the Provincial and all Russian convention of Soviets. The voters are all citizens of both sexes who earn their living by productive work and are members of trade unions. No person employing another for profit enjoys a vote.
The aim of the new constitution is to decentralize government, and in this connection Mr. Kingsley referred to the action of the Bolsheviks in moving many residents from the cities to the country to take part in farming. Food is no longer sent into the towns sufficient to support the farmer populations and this was represented as part of the government policy for bringing more people back to the land.
—“E. T. Kingsley Speaks on Bolshevik Regime,” Nanaimo Daily News, 3 Mar. 1919, 1.
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