Page 157 - 4331

June, 5-10 (18- The Second Military Congress. It was called
23) despite the ban of Provisional Government.
1917 The Congress proposed C.C. to start
implementation of ideas concerning the
autonomy of Ukraine at once. A charter of the
General Military Committee was endorsed,
the Council of Military Deputies was elected
and the resolution to include this Council into
C.C. (more than 100 members) was affirmed.
June, 10 (23) І Universal of the Central Council.. On the
1917 basis of resolutions of Military and Peasant
Congresses, C.C. proclaimed its First
Universal, where it declared the autonomy of
Ukraine (“since now we will create our life”).
Besides, the First Universal included:
1) appeal to all Ukrainians to organize and
start immediately to lay foundations of the
autonomous order during the times of state
disorder;
2) the brief demands to P.G. were stated. The
special attention was paid to expectations of
getting state, landlords’, tsar’s and monastic
lands into the people’s ownership;
3) C.C. proclaimed itself to be the people’s
mouthpiece and took all the responsibility on
itself;
4) C.C. called Ukrainian citizens for accord
and understanding with democracies of other
nationalities, removal local people and organs
that are “hostile to Ukrainians” by means of
their reelection, but not by force.
June, 15 (28) The Central Council established General
1917 Secretariat, the first Ukrainian regional

155