Leningrad, Oct, 15.
In connection with the forthcoming, tenth anniversary of the Bolshevist revolution, the second session of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Republic opened to-day at the Uritzky Palace, Comrade Kalinin presiding over the 632 members. The city is decorated and beflagged and the neighbourhood of the Palace is filled with crowds.
'The Committee, in of the approaching anniversary, resolved, inter alia, to reduce the industrial workers' working day from eight to wen hours within the next few years without reduction of wage increase by fifty million rouble Budget appropriation for building workers' houses; to reduce the taxation of workers and peasants; to institute old-age pensions for the poorer peasantry; to abolish capital Punishment except for State and military crimes and armed banditry, Jand to reduce the sentences of prisoners except active members of politi cal parties aiming at the overthrow' lof the Soviet and embezzlers and former officials who are in prison for!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.