Line 2.0.0 "An astounding Bolshevist marriage

Line 2.0.1 proclamation has been posted in East

Line 2.0.2 Russia, and is being carried into

Line 2.0.3 effect at Ekaterinburg. The procla-

Line 2.0.4 mation commences thus: "In com-

Line 2.0.5 pliance with the decision of the Kron-

Line 2.0.6 stadt Soviet, -private possession of

Line 2.0.7 women is abolished. Social inequali-

Line 2.0.8 ties and legitimate marriages in the

Line 2.0.9 past have served as instruments by

Line 2.0.10 which all the most beautiful women

Line 2.0.11 become the property of the Bour-

Line 2.0.12 geoisie, and the proper continuation

Line 2.0.13 of the human race has been prevented

Line 2.0.14 accordingly. After March 1st the

Line 2.0.15 right to possess women between the

Line 2.0.16 ages of 17 and 32 years is abolished,

Line 2.0.17 and they are proclaimed to be the

Line 2.0.18 property of the whole nation.' This

Line 2.0.19 decree does not affect women who

Line 2.0.20 already have five chidren. Their for-

Line 2.0.21 mer owners may retain the right or

Line 2.0.22 using their wives without waitng for

Line 2.0.23 their turns. If husbands resist this

Line 2.0.24 decree they will forfeit this right

Line 2.0.25 The right of distribution and man-

Line 2.0.26 agement of women was transferred

Line 2.0.27 to the anarchist club, and three days

Line 2.0.28 after the decree was published all

Line 2.0.29 women were given to the use of the

Line 2.0.30 whole nation and obliged to present

Line 2.0.31 themselves at the club. The decree

Line 2.0.32 sets out that any man wishing to

Line 2.0.33 have relatons with women must have

Line 2.0.34 a certification that he belongs to a work-

Line 2.0.35 ing class family. Other male members

Line 2.0.36 of the community can obtain equal

Line 2.0.37 rights to the proletariat by the pay-