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Speculators + 

Two orders concerning them: + 

The disorganisation of the food supply created by the war, and the lack of system, is becoming to the last degree acute, thanks to the speculators, marauders and their followers on the railways, in the steamship offices, forwarding offices, etc. + 

Taking advantage of the nation’s greatest misfortunes, these criminal spoliators are playing with the health and life of millions of soldiers and workers, for their own benefit. + 

Such a situation cannot be borne a single day longer. + 

The Council of People’s Commissars proposes to the Military Revolutionary Committee to take the most decisive measures towards the uprooting of speculation, sabotage, hiding of supplies, fraudulent detention of cargoes, etc. + 

All persons guilty of such actions shall be subject, by special orders of the Military Revolutionary Committee, to immediate arrest and confinement in the prisons of Cronstadt, pending their arraignment before the Revolutionary Tribunal. + 

All the popular organisations are invited to cooperate in the struggle against the spoliators of food supplies. + 

The Military Revolutionary Committee Decrees: + 

Spoliators, marauders, speculators, are declared to be enemies of the People.⁠ ⁠… + 

The Military Revolutionary Committee proposes to all public organisations, to all honest citizens: to inform the Military Revolutionary Committee immediately of all cases of spoliation, marauding, speculation, which become known to them. + 

The struggle against this evil is the business of all honest people. The Military Revolutionary Committee expects the support of all to whom the interests of the People are dear. + 

The Military Revolutionary Committee will be merciless in pursuit of speculators and marauders. + 