The Benson signal., 1919-03-29

new and strong anti-bolShevik move.
ment is under way in the parts Of Rus.
sia controlled by the soviet govern
ment. 1t is led by the "independent
communistic'' party, and its first eff
forts are directed toward breaking up
the bolshevik army, by desertion If
necessary.
Unpleasant stories are coming from
VladivostOk to the effect that the anti.
bolshevik Russians there are bitterly
attacking the middle-of- -the-road policy
that is being followed by the American
expedition, and are accusing the
Yankees of being the friends Of the
bolsheviki. The antagonism is fos
tered by several newspapers which are
said to have been subsidized by some
Japanese agencies. The Americans in
Siberia are scheduled for return in the
spring. Just why the Yankee troops
should fight the bolsheviki in north
Russia and not in Siberia is not dis
cernible at this distance.
Directly connected with the strained
relations in Siberia is the row in Tien
Tsin, where Japanese troops and police
made what is declared to have been
an unprOvoked attack on American
officials and soldiers. Washington
may demand an apology and repara-
tion from Tokyo.
Meanwhile, true to their program of
freeing the proletariat of the entire
world, the Lenine- -Trotzky crowd are
increasingly active in lands far apart.
In China they are said to be organic
ing a great movement and spending
immense sums of money, Of which
they seem to have unlimited supplies.
Another uprising in India is being
planned. In western Canada their in
fluence is apparent in the action taken
by the labor unions. Nearly all local
unions there have voted to secede
from the American Federation of La.
Dor and to follow the I. w. w. plan of
organizing by industries instead of by
crafts. Their new body is to be
known as the One Big Union. The
delegates to the meeting that took this
action adopted resolution commit
ting them to the bolshevik plan of q
dictatorship Of the proletariat," and
also voted for q referendum to call a
general strike on June for 3O-hour
fve-day week.
What Mr.. Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, will
say of this remains to be seen. At
present he is in Paris, where the com.
mission on international labor legisla.
tiOn has been in session. The British
\ draft convention for a permanent or
ganiZatiOn was amended and adopted
for submission to the peace confer
ence. The American contention that
each country should settle it's internal
labor problems without invoking the
power of the league of nations pre-
vailed. The commission heard dele
cation Of women from the allied coun-
tries and promised to give due consid-
Grafton ITO the points presented, these
including eight claims in behalf Of
working women and children.
The Korean independence movement,
in reality peaceful revolt, is attract
ing much attention and giving Japan
considerable concern. The Japanese
have arrested a good many Koreans,
and with them some American mis-
sionary women. according to press
dispatches. No official stories of these
occurrences having been received in
Washington, the state department
cabled the American ambassador in
Tokyo to investigate the reports. The
Japanese, it is said, charge the Ameri-
cans with teaching the Koreans the
doctrines Of liberty and personal
rights.
Of great scientific interest was the
announcement last Wednesday that
wireless telephony had been estab
liShed between Ireland and Canada
and between New Jersey and Brest
France. Authorities agreed that for
TIE present, dt ledSl, lHlS means OF
communication will be one of the lux
uries and that it will not supplant
wireless telegraphy across the ocean
Director General Hines has pulled
the railroads out of the financial hole
for the time being by borrowing $50.
100000 from the war finance corpora
ton, which takes the stand that the
railways are essential war Industries
Other loans will follow as rapidly as