331 330 DOCUMENTS THE CLASS STRUGGLE The counties united in this manner are, through the national county, parts of the Hungarian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic.
Sec. 87. The Hungarian continuous counties with German majority or Russian majority are herewith recognized under the Constitution of the Federated Soviet Republic as German and Russian national counties. in matters affecting the universal interests of the Soviet Republic the decisions of the Federated Soviet Republic extend to the national counties.
Sec. 88. The Hungarian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic shall interpose no obstacle if the national groups of the increasingly independent territories. empowered by their population and their economic strength, decide to form a separate Soviet Republic allied with the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
Sec. 89. The provisions of the Constitution relating to the rights of nationalities may be amended only with the consent of the Federal Council of the workers of the participating national groups.
only the working people shall have the right to vote. All those are voters and eligible for election to membership in the councils, regardless of sex, who have passed their eighteenth year and as workers or employees, etc. live by work that is useful to society, or occupy themselves with household labor which makes possible the labor of the abovementioned workers or employees, etc. Further, soldiers of the Red Army are voters and eligible for election, as well as those workers and soldiers who have formerly lived by useful labor, but have entirely or partially lost their capacity for labor.
Sec. 67. Citizens of other states shall also be voters and eligible for election, provided, they fulfill the conditions contained in preceding sections.
Sec. 68. The following may not vote and are not eligible for election: a) all those who employ wage workers for the purpose of obtaining profit; b) those who live off unearned income; merchants; d) clergymen and members of religious orders; e) those mentally deranged and those living under guardianship; f) those whose political rights have been suspended because of a crime committed from base motives, for the period of time stipulated in the conviction.
The Budget Privilege Sec. 78. The Hungarian Soviet Government shall be guided in its financial policy, exclusively from the point of view of the satisfaction of the needs of its workers. It shall show no consideration for unearned income.
Sec. 79. The branches of the Soviet Republic may collect receipts and defray expenditures only within the limits of an approved budget.
Sec. 80. The estimate of costs for the village, district, city and county shall be determined by the appropriate local council upon the suggestion of the directing committee, the estimate of costs for the Soviet Republic by the National Congress of Soviets upon the suggestion of the Revolutionary Soviet Government or of the Directing Central Committee.
The Rights of Nationalities in the Hungarian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic Sec. 84. All nationalities living in the Hungarian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic may use their language freely and foster and promote their own culture. To this end any national group, even if it does not live in a continuous territory, may create a federal council for the promotion of its culture.
Sec. 85. As a result of the Soviet system the local administration will be conducted by the workers of those nationalities whose workers form the majority in their respective local unit. This sort of local administration will naturally find expression in the matter of language. The national minorities may, nevertheless, use their own speech in dealing with the agents of the Soviets. This system cannot disturb the Soviet organization based upon territorial principles.
Sec. 86. Wherever the workers of any particular nationality in a continuous territory extending over several districts find themselves in the majority, independent counties shall be created.
Where any particular national group in a continuous territory extending over several counties finds itself in the majority, the districts may unite into one national county.
The Last Appeal of the Hungarian Soviet Government to the Working Class of Hungary TO THE WORKING PEOPLE OF HUNGARY!
Comrades! Proletarians. The international and the Hungarian counter revolution are swooping down with grim fury upon the Hungarian Soviet Republic, the state of the poor and the workers, the destroyer of the dominion of capital, the constặuctor of Socialism.
The police force of the international counter revolution of the capitalists, the Entente, has set its armed hordes upon us. The misled and terrorized mass of proletarians which has been welded to the slave chains of the Roumanian boyars or forced to groan under the yoke of the ChechoSlovakian capitalists is stirring against us in order to drive the proletariat of Hungary back into that pool of misery, of bondage, and exploitation which the Dictatorship of the Proletariat has dried up. On command of French, English, and American capitalists and Chech and Roumanian nationalists, Checho Slovakian, French, colored peasants and workers are attempting to force the liberated Hungarian proletariat once more under the yoke of the capitalists and oppressors. The attack which they are directing against the rule of the Hungarian proletariat PURPOSES TO RE ESTABLISH THE PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION.
They want to return the banks and hence the complete dominion over the economic life of the country to the money kings.
They want to return to the stockholders their dividends and their unearned income and to turn the hard labor of the miner and the industry of the factory worker once more into a source of prosperity and ease for the idlers.
They want to give back all the means of production, the factory, the machine, the raw material, the transportation facilities to the exploiters and once more set upon the workers necks the boss, the director, the slave driver.
They want to force the workers to pay the interest on the war loans and surrender a tithe out of the return from their labor to the drones, the various rent profiteers.