Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-09
GERMANY MAY HAVE RE
PUBLIC WITH WORK
ERS IN CONTROL.
U. S. Department of Labor to
Assume Larger Place in Gov
ernmental Affairs; Rejection
of War Board Decision
Results in Wreck.
BY LAURENCE TODD
Especial Representative The Denver Labor
BuIletinD

WASHINGTON, Nov. "A Eu-
rope of working class republics, fore
cast in this correspondence month
ago as the meaning of President VIII
sons warning to the needless states
men of Europe in his New York
speech, is rising from the ashes of the
world war.
Arno Dosch, who used to be a re
porter on the San Francisco Bulletin,
and has a good deal of hard sense,
cables TO the New York World from
Copenhagen today that red repub-
lies, similar to the one in Russia, have
been established in Vienna and Buda-
pest; that liberal republic has also
been declared in Budapest; that the
revolutionary government of the
CZechO-Slavs is moderate Socialist,
and the revolutionary government of
the Southern Slavs is radical He
thinks that the German people are
ready for their own revolution, and
that the kaiser and his friends are
about to take flight.
The fact of working class revolu-
ton in Austro- Hungary is beyond dis
pute, just as it is beyond dispute in
Russia. Today brings news that the
ant-soldier-wOrkmen counci s
have overthrown the new king of Bull
garia, and have established another
red republic there. Two of the cen
tral powers have passed thru the gates
of revolution, and the armed workers
OF those countries are appealing to
their brothers in Germany to rise at
the call of Karl Liebknecht and estab-
lish a great workingmen's republic in
Germany.
Emancipation of Labor
Nothing so fundamentally impor-
tant to the emancipation of labor has
occurred since the French revolution
For just as autocratic Germany and
Russia and Austro-Hungary kept all
the world bent beneath its load of ar
mament, and almost afraid to move
forward in democracy, so now the
workingmen's republics are to free the
whole world from the cost of arma-
ments. They are to make President
Wilson's task easy, when he under
takes to bring the great peace con-
greSS to agree upon an immediate
league of nations.
Let there be no misunders landing
of the effect of this seizure of gov
ernmental power by the working
classes in Europe. 1t will. one way
or another, sweep Italy and France
and England. 1t will topple the
thrones, soon or late, in Sweden, Den
mark, Norway, Holland and Spain. 1t
may have upset Roumania before these
lines are in type. 1t will finally cap
ture Belgium. That is simply be-
cause the masses of the warning coun-
tries have felt the meaning of armed
power, during the war, and they win
insist upon exercising at least politi-
cal power when the war is done. AS
President Wilson said at New York,
the statesmen who will not understand
the peoples will are going to be
broken
End of Industrial Serfdom.
As surely as Austria and Bohemia
and Bulgaria are in revolution now,
with their working class in control.
Just so surely must the United States
look forward to the increase of social
unrest in this country among the mil
lions whose families "in the old coun-
try have helped to tear down the
thrones and the aristocrats and the
old industrial serfdom Men will no
longer rush to the United States to
hnd jobs. Immigration here will not
represent Drawn and brain; the United
States Will have to bid high for even
the type of workers whom it has been
shutting out by its immigration laws.
Labor is going to be at premium
hereafter our troops and our sailors
come home-as compared with the
years before the war. Men who used
to do the hardest common labor will
now want to handle machinery, since
they have become skilled mechanics of
some sort while in the service. They
will be organized, down to the last
man. They will hold national con-
ventions, in which new men and new
plans will come to the front. We
shall have a new labor movement,
growing out of the old.
No man living in this country will
be able to guide this movement, it