“Workers, soldiers, peasants! We call upon you for revolutionary devotion and discipline. “Millions of peasants and soldiers are with us. “The victory of the people’s Revolution is assured!” 3. ACTS OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’s COMMISSARS In this book I am giving only such decrees as are in my opinion pertinent to the Bolshevik conquest of power. The rest belong to a detailed account of the Structure of the Soviet State, for which I have no place in this work. This will be dealt with very fully in the second volume, now in preparation, “Kornilov to Brest-Litovsk.” _Concerning Dwelling-Places_ 1. The independent Municipal Self-Governments have the right to sequestrate all unoccupied or uninhabited dwelling-places. 2. The Municipalities may, according to laws and arrangements established by them, install in all available lodgings citizens who have no place to live, or who live in congested or unhealthy lodgings. 3. The Municipalities may establish a service of inspection of dwelling-places, organise it and define its powers. 4. The Municipalities may issue orders on the institution of House Committees, define their organisation, their powers and give them juridical authority. 5. The Municipalities may create Housing Tribunals, define their powers and their authority. 6. This decree is promulgated by telegraph. _People’s Commissar of the Interior,_ A. I. RYKOV. * * * * * _On Social Insurance_ The Russian proletariat has inscribed on its banners the promise of complete Social Insurance of wage-workers, as well as of the town and village poor. The Government of the Tsar, the proprietors and the capitalists, as well as the Government of coalition and conciliation, failed to realise the desires of the workers with regard to Social Insurance. The Workers’ and Peasants’ Government, relying upon the support of the Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies, announces to the working-class of Russia and to the town and village poor, that it will immediately prepare laws on Social Insurance based on the formulas proposed by the Labour organisations: 1. Insurance for all wage-workers without exception, as well as for all urban and rural poor. 2. Insurance to cover all categories of loss of working capacity, such as illness, infirmities, old age, childbirth, widowhood, orphanage, and unemployment. 3. All the costs of insurance to be charged to employers. 4. Compensation of at least full wages in all loss of working capacity and unemployment. 5. Complete workers’ self-government of all Insurance institutions. In the name of the Government of the Russian Republic, _The People’s Commissar of Labour,_ ALEXANDER SHLIAPNIKOV. * * * * * _On Popular Education_ Citizens of Russia!