aunt wiki says about it: On October 28, 1918, a delegation of the National Committee led by Karel Kramář in Geneva began talks with Edvard Beneš, a representative of the anti-Austrian foreign resistance, about the creation and form of an independent Czechoslovak state. On the same day, around 9 am, Antonín Švehla and František Soukup set out to take over the Grain Institute in Prague on behalf of the National Committee in order to prevent the grain from being taken to the front. Then the report on the recognition of the conditions of peace by Austria-Hungary spread. The conditions also included recognition of the autonomy of the peoples of Austria-Hungary, which the people interpreted as recognition of independence. This news became the impetus for spontaneous demonstrations, in which people cheered in the streets and destroyed the symbols of Austria-Hungary. On the evening of the same day, the National Committee issued the first law, the law on the establishment of an independent Czechoslovak state, and then the proclamation of the National Committee "People of Czechoslovakia. Your age-old dream came true ..." was published. Both documents were signed by Antonín Švehla, Alois Rašín, Jiří Stříbrný, Vavro Šrobár and František Soukup - later called "Men on October 28".