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 5. The removal of all officers and ex-officers from the Soldiers' Councils.

6. Substitution of authorised representatives (Vertrauensmaenner) of the Workers' and Soldiers' Councils for all political organs and authorities of the old régime.

7. Creation of a Revolutionary Tribunal to try the men chiefly responsible for the war and its prolongation, & namely, the two Hohenzollerns, Ludendorff, Hindenburg, Tirpitz, and their fellow-criminals, as well as all conspirators of the counter-revolution.

8. Immediate seizure of all means of subsistence to secure provisions for the people.

1. Abolition of all separate states; a united German Socialist Republic.

2. Removal of all parliaments and municipal councils, their functions to be taken over by the Workers' and Soldiers' Councils and by the committees and organs of the latter bodies.

3. Election of workers' councils all over Germany by the entire adult population of working people of both sexes in cities and rural districts, along the lines of industries, and election of soldiers' councils by the soldiers, excluding the officers and ex-officers. The right of workers and soldiers to recall their representatives at any time.

4. Election all over Germany of delegates from the workers' and soldiers' councils to the Central Council of the W. and S. councils; the Central Council to elect the Executive Council as the highest organ of legislative and executive power. For the present the Central Council is to be convened at least every three months—the delegates to be re-elected each time—for the constant control of the activity of the