TO THE DISTRICT
Soviets of Worker's Deputies and
Shop-Factory Committees
ORDER
The Kornilov bands of Kerensky are threatening the outskirts of our capital. All necessary orders have been given to crush mercilessly every counter-revolutionary attempt against the people and its conquests.
THE ARMY AND THE RED GUARD OF THE REVOLUTION ARE IN NEED OF IMMEDIATE SUPPORT OF THE WORKERS.
THE DISTRICT SOVIETS AND SHOP-FACTORY COMMITTEES ARE ORDERED:
1) To bring forward the largest possible number of workers to dig trenches, erect barricades and set up wire defenses;
2) Wherever necessary for this purpose to SUSPEND WORK in shops and factories, it must be done IMMEDIATELY.
3) To collect all available plain and barbed wire, as well as all tools FOR DIGGING TRENCHES AND ERECTING BARRICADES;
4) ALL AVAILABLE ARMS TO BE CARRIED ON PERSONS;
5) Strictest discipline must be preserved and all must be ready to support the Army of the Revolution to the utmost.
President of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers & Soldiers Deputies
People's Commissar LEV TROTSKY.
President ol the Military-Revolutionary Committee
Chief Commander PODVOISKY.
[Reproduction in English of the Russian text on opposite page.]
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