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Pr0qram of BoIshevism

Extra from the report on German
propaganda and Bolshevlsm Of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee tOverman Com
mlttee). First official United States
Government report on BOlshevism.-
New York Times, June 10, 1919.
"The salient features which consti-
tute the program Of BolsheYism as II
exists today In Russia and presented
to the rest Of the world as a panacea
for all ills may be summarized as
follows:
10 The Reputation OF democracy
and the establishment Of a dictator
ship.
"(2) The confscation OF all land and
the Improvements thereon.
"t3) The conflscation Of all forests
and natural resources.
~ The cOnfiscatiOn OF all live stock
and all agricultural implements.
"(5) The cOnflscation Of all banks and
banking institutions and the establish
ment Of a state monopoly Of the bank
ing business.
90 The conflscation Of all factories.
mills. mines, and industrial institutions
and the delivery Of the control and op-
Grafton thereof to the employees therein.
40 The c6nflscation Of all churches
and all church property. real and per-
sonal.
"(s) The conhscation of all news
papers and periodicals and all me-
chan,cal facilities and machinery used
In the publication thereof.
"(9) The seizure and conflscation Of
all public meeting places and assem-
bly, halls.
40 The conTscation Of all trans
portation and communication systems.
"(ti) The cOnflscation Of the entire
estate Of all decedents.
"(i2) The monopolizing by the State
Of all advertisements Of every nature,
whether newspaper, periodicals, hand
bills. or programs.
"li3) The Reputation OF all debts
against the government and all obliga-
tions due the non-Bolshevist elements
Of the population.
"(ii) The establishment Of universal
compulsory military service regardless
Of religious scruples and conscientious
objections.
"(i5) The establishment Of universal
compulsory labor.
40 The abolition Of the Sunday
school and all other schools and insti-
tutions that teach religion.
"(iO The absolute separation OF
churches and schools.
"lis) The establishment, through
marriage and divorce laws, Of method
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BRITISH DOMINANCE ADMITTED.

n great moment in the league fight Is the letter
~ esrthed and published in the Congressional Record
giving explanation OF Article Of the covenant by
Messrs. Wilson, Clemenceau and Lloyd George
1--WE in his view reads the document, that
upon the construction OF the first and second para
graphs OF that article representatives OF the segovern
ing domnions OF the British Empire may be selected or
named members of the council. We have hestita-
ton in expressing entire concurrence in this view
Then follow the signatures OF the men above named.
There four-self governing English colonies now
in the league namely, Canada Australia South Africa and
New Zealand.
BY strange coincidence there also four members
OF the council subject to appointment by the assembly
the other 1--WE OF the total Of nine being permanently on
the council.
Temporarily and until the assembly takes action Bel
gum Brazil Greece and Spain filling those transient
positions
II very well may be that the FIRST action Of the
semby when It is finally called together through the
gracious OF the President will be to proceed to
the election Of those four council nations; indeed It is
question whether it is not the duty of the assembly
Article to make that selection IFS first BUSINESS
With the six English votes in tpe assembly added to
those over which statesmen Of England will exercise
guiding hand such Hedfaz, Slam. Greece and others,
II may well be that the present temporary members OF
the council may never sit in that body at ALL
Before the council is convened they may find them
selves suppaned by four British selfgoverning colonies
In that situation the principal body Of the league
would Gnd Itself controlled by five English votes, clear
majority the British Empire being and Its coones
the other four.
Now under those conditions suppose the United States
involved dispute with France, Japan Italy. Under
the terms OF the coven both countries would not be
allowed to sit at the meetings Of the council and the
dispute would be decided by the remaining MEM
bers nye Of them being cast for the interests Of the
British Empire.
Would the action Of the council be primarily in the
interests Of the United States OF Great Brtain2
Again. imagine engaged in quarrel with the British
Empire The United states would Withdraw from the
deliberations Of The council and would England,
leaving members, four Of whom, majority, would
be British colonies.
With the jury packed like that would the United
States have any chance whatever Of fair decision?
Proponents Of the league win say that such hypo-
thetca will arise in fact and that is foolish
to debate them.
But before the proposition actually placed before
the Senate we would have considered man insane II
he had suggested that the Ufsed States enter league
where British with total population less than
one-lfth should have four votes to one
that the mother country should have another and that
the hordes Of India should be given still another.
Yet that has come to pass and through American
too.
In the face OF that fact should not conjure up every
American interests and warn the country against it9
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THE UN-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
R1hadS in CONNER

I public in a form that robs the Fedora
ton Of Labor of all respect.
II the Federation would prostitute
the police what next?
In effect the Boston police strike has
been the greatest defeat organized labor
has suffered in years. 1t comes as the
climax to a series Of blunders on the
part Of labor-blunders that resulted
from supreme arrogance or from con-
troll Of the federation having fallen into
weak hands during the absence Of
Gompers in Europe
The presentation OF the Plumb plan
Of control Of the ra lroads was a gro
tesque error or strategy. No depart
ment OF labor In America has been
treated much better than that Of the
railroads. IL has had accorded TO IL a
measure Of consideration larger than Il
deserved II we judge from results.
Nearly everything il demanded ii re-
ceived. And then il had the presump-
ton to ask that the nation buy the rail-
roads, take u into partnership and di-
vide profits with II and pay high wages
10 10, also.
The service record of the American
railroad man In the last two years is
not flattering. His wages have been in
creased greatly. His return for these
grants has been demands for still more
favors. Meanwhile the railroad force
has had TO be increased from 100000
TO 100000 persons. Now he threat
ems 10 tie up all the transportation
lines OF the country.
A few weeks ago railroad men Grip
pied the whole California territory by
quitting work because the trolley own
ers would not accede TO the demands of
the trolley workers.
Next came the Boston police strike.
Attend ng all these was the threat Of a
strike throughout the steel industry.
which President Gompers is now ex-
erting himself 10 postpone.
Mr.. Gompers is appreciatlve OF the
fact that without public opinion and
W thout a good cause he cannot win a
major strike. Never In history was
there threat Of strike Of such magniz
tude as has been facing the American
people lately. Look at the totals: The
railroads, 100000 persons; the steel in
dustry, 100000 or more. And with
these there were to be expected no end
Of sympathetic strikes.
No one but a fool would permit at
such a time strike by policemen,
threat to the public to cast them TO the
wolves unless they prostrated them
selves and begged the hbor lords for
mercy. Surely Gompers did not sane
tion this strike.
Gompers is not a fool He has been
abroad a long time. Those who would
step into his shoes have been in con-
troll while he has been absent. He has
been trying to get things stra ght since
he came back, but he finds it dif1icult.
Ostensibly he has more power than
ever. Really he has less. The Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor has gotten
away from him. The rabid, the radical,
the revomtionaI. element is In control.
It has run wild 1t has played the war
string, the high cost Of living string,
every string until it has not another
string 10 its bow but that Of a strike.
As matter Of fact there Is nothing
big In America that is so un-Amerlcan |
as the American Federht on Of Labor. |
Il has fattened on The war. II has
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stayed home and demanded more snd
more pay and has builded itself strong
er and stronger TO bring capital to
terms after tile war. II has no par
der or sailor. 10 holds the jobs and
the fat pay and demands that the SOL
/ der or sailor who worked without
thought of strike and who worked
night or day as the need might be and
who offered to sacr flee his life and all
for $50 a month-it demands Of the sol
der or sailor that he pay tribute to the
A. +. l.. for permission to enter the
union and work. II he enters any EN-
ployment against which the Federation
is hostile it brands him as a "scab."
The soldier and "a lor back from the
war has no love for the Gompers Or
ganizati0n. The boys who fought think
1t odd that a body Of this sort should
have such power. such control over
the avenues for employment in the ma
tiOn for which they made sacrifice.
They did not fight TO build up the
American Federal on of Labor or. any
labor organization, but they find Amer
lea today threatened with q labor die
tatorship if labor can put through It's
program.
But the program OF a nationwide
strike IS not the program of Gompers.
lie S not so wild as those who have
been running things in his absence. He
knows labor las oyerplayed its hand
and has lost more in the last month
than IT gained in the last year. He is
~ III 81.
for he knows public opinion has been
aroused suddenly against his ornniza-
tion as never before. He is trying to
correct the bunders OF his Teuten-
ants. He wants no strike, no big
strikes. The others do. They have be-
come drunk with power. They are
forcing him TO act.
GOmpers has great influence with
labor. The A. f. L. is his creation. No
No other labor leader America has had
exerc sed such control, but his forces
have gotten away from him. He knows
the folly OF the Boston police strike.
He knows what blunder it was 10
endeavor to bring the police within tho
sphere of unionism. He knows what a
blunder IL was 10 uniOnize the fire
men as has been done and S being
done. He knows the cost 30 labor Of
losing a major strike. He knows en-
ployers are willing now TO flght the
unions, willing for the first time IN
years.
1t is what the Boston strike revealed
to the whole country more vividly, i'm
pressively, convincingly than all the
sermons, arguments and speeches Of
all the preachers and orators that could
be assembled that has solidifled the no-
tion against the American Federation
Of Labor.
Today the American Federation Of
Labor Is without public good VII. It
has overplsyed its hand. II sought to
prostitute the guardians OF the pub
lie. It was willing 10 turn a great city
over TO thieves and savages in order TO
terrorize the C ty government into su-
ing for peace and mercy.
Gompers is not fool. Some fools are
about him.
Union labor has gone mad in Amer
lea. 1t is riding for fall. 1t will get
it. It cannot commit a crime against
civilization and not pay the penalty
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THE COAL STRIKE.

former years coal miners, when they struck, walked
out In the spring, at which time curtaiment Of coal
production least felt In American homes. Winter
was over cold weather disappearing, and most
families had quite pile OF leftover the furnace
door,
1t was by spring strikes that the United Mine Workers
OF America won recognition Of their union. shorter hours
higher wages and better working conditions This they
did without the terrors OF coaess winter to aid them
Less than one-sixth of all coal mined, and stl
smaller proportion OF bumnous produced is used for
home cooking and heating purposes The home demand
could have been a great factor in the winning or
losing a strike. 1t shutting Off coal to the big
industrial users and the railroads. that brought the coal
operators to their and compelled their yielding to
the demands Of the workers.
Railroads and ndustrias little coal in winter
than spring The larger railroads and In
dustrals have coal surplus piled up against shortage
for from to six months. The smaller concerns viii
be hit first and hardest That always has been the fate
OF the "lte fellow"
winter coal strike and the consequent decrease in
coal production viii hurt neither the big little in
dustral more than a spring strike would. But it
Will be felt severely by the home consumers, those
who use only sixth OF all coal mined.
Now as to the one-sixh: IL has been estimated by
coal expert that less than ten per cent OF all homes put
their winter coal the Another ten cent,
It is estimated get the winters coal in the fall The four
nfhs Of all homes buy their coal ton at time
Many buy It bushe at a time
And these the people who win be hit hardest by
winter coal strike Their supply will melt away rapidly
Their cook and their heating stoves Will be empty
The rich and the well-to-do have their winter coal
The poor have theirs to get Their pockebooks limit
their coal buying And these Will feel the winter coal
strike worst Of ALL The winter coal strike won't chill
the mionalres mansion will bring the temperature
down to the freezing point in the homes Of the In
these homes the lack OF heat will spell discomfort dis
ease and death
The strikers may set their pound Of flesh" by freez
ing the poor But whoever is responsible for this winter
coal strike viii be rendess in the home where the biting
cold winter be driven away because there is
coal in the stove.
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! police force. There is unionlsm in New
Yorks fire department. And there is
unionlsm In what was Boston's police
force. How many other cities are
unlonized by the A. +. l.. remains to be
seen.
Boston is peculiar In that the Police
Comm ssloner is an appointee Of the
Governor. The present commissioner
Is named Curtis. He knew Of the union
izing Of the force and the threat Of d
strike. He thereupon suspended iS or
20 Of the members prominent in the
union. Upon demand TO reinstate these
men being ignored practically the whole
pol ce force struck.
with the strike there suddenly de-
veloped a condition that shocked the
nation. HOodlums and crooks rloted
and plllaged. Stores and shops We're
plundered Through theft and destruc-
tion there was a loss within 24 hours
estimated at $4,000. Citizens were
"held up" In broad dayl ght. Women
were attacked in the streets. Not untll
an improvlsed police force made up Of
Harvard students and State troopers
and Others had been put on duty, and
until more than half dozen persons
had been killed and many wounded was
order restored.
Had there been such an outbreak In
Chicago or Cincinnati, or any one" Of
scores Of other cities the country would
have been horr fed, of course, but not
to the extent 1t was by the fact that 1t
happened In Boston. Somehow we as
soclate staid, sober good citizenship
with Boston. To have It. shown that
even In the athens Of America" the
line that divided orderliness and safety
from anarchy and sayhgry was ex-
tremely narrow made many persons
gasp.
If so in Boston how must II be else
where.
With law and order restored IL was
Inevitable the str kers would come TO-
their senses. Gompers telegraphed re-
questing their restoration TO duty pend
ing arbitration Of their demands. He
got an unsatisfactory reply. IL Is prob
able If any Of the policemen are re-
stored 10 VIII be as individuals and
with forfeiture of any seniority Of SER
vice they had attained. For the Com
m ssioner or the Governor or the Mayor
TO treat with GOmpers or the American
Federation of Labor is unthinkable.
Il may as well be understood now as
any time by pol cemen or flremen that
no one holding the protection Of the
life or the property of the public can
have divided allegiance 10 the public or
a labor union. There could and would
be no safety with police and fire de-
partments adjuncts Of labor bodies. A
union labor policeman could not be
trusted TO do other than help un on
labor where It was engaged in strike.
A union labor fireman would have TO /
decide between two masters II union |
labor put the torch TO property OF an
employer against whom IL was strik-
ing.
New York policemen stood by and .
saw hoodums and strikers batter work
3rs, destroy property. threaten death
10 faithful employees in the recent |
strike on the B. r. r. They probably
were American Federation OF Labor
serving the union rather than
the public.
This Bostan' strike has brought J
Unionlsm and the police before the !
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President Wilson pronounced the
strike OF the Boston police force a
crime against civilization.
IL was.
But even In that crime we can see
possibil ty II not probability OF good
results.
Here are the preliminary and present
facts. For a year or more the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor has been en-
ergetic in organizing and drawing into
rehtionsh p with II the police forces
and the fire forces of the cities and
towns Of America. There never was so
remarkably planned and so efficient and
effective a labor body In this country
as the American Federation. II is a
monument 10 the patience and skill Of
Samuel Gompers. IL was but a puny
thing when the r. " Powderly insti-
tute known as the Knights Of Labor
was big and great, but out OF the
wreck Of the Knights of Labor and out
Of the rivalries and conflicts Of other
labor groups Gompers has drawn re-
cruits and gone on year after year
building up the Federation, seldom de
Waiting from his settled plan and guild
ing and ruling his forces with rare
generalship. Today, the American
Federation Of Labor has a membership
running into the m lions
Gompers has come in for much critl-
cism. So would any one who fought
Capital He has won for Labor more
than any other leader OF modern time,
possibly of any age. He has done a lot
of good In forcing employers who were
brutal and selfish to accord better
treatment and better wages 10 work
ers. He has done much to improve the
cOnd tiOn Of Labor. lie has made Labor
a far better organization body than any
other In America except the army.
But while he has done a lot Of good
he has done a lot Of wrong. He has
endeavored to limit production by max
ing the output of a slow worker the
measure Of the output OF all. lie has
countenanced injustice by Labor while
he has weighed to high heaven against
the injustice done by Capital. He has
worked steadily, faithfully for one goal
"a power by Labor that would make
Capital obedient to Capital. lie has no
faith in a partnership Of Capital and
Labor. He. says one or the other must
rule and It must be Labor.
In the conf cts between Capital and
Labor the natural function Of the pO-
lice is to preserve order and protect
property. Gompers and others have be-
lleyed that II the police forces Of the
country could be drawn into the Fed
Grafton, Labor's position would be
strengthened greatly. For years this
question has been agltated. Not until
the war and The violent advance in the !
cost Of Lying did the Federation agents |
find many recruits among the police. /
Then they found no difficulty in union |
izlng the protectors Of the law. Along |
with the unlonlz ng Of policemen they |
unionized the fire departments. Here, |
too. they found difficulty before the [
war and none later This Is explained /
by the fact that the raising Of the pay |
OF city employees has been much de- |
layed and in many municipal ties po-
llcemen are getting today little more |
than they did years ago while costs
Of living have advanced nearly 100 per
cent.
There Is mionism In New York's !
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! for the legallzation OF prostitution.
when the same is engaged in by consent
Of the parties.
"(i9) The refusal to recognize the ex-
istence Of God in its governmental and
Judicial proceedings.
"(20) The comforting OF the rights
Of citizenship on aliens without regard
to length Of residence or intelligence.
"i2i) The arming Of all so-ealled
toilers," and the disarmlng Of all per-
sons that had succeeded in acquiring
property.
"(22) The discrimination in favor OF
residents OF cities and against residents
of the rural districts through giving
residents Of cities five times as much
voting power as is accorded to residents
Of rural districts in such elections as
are permitted.
",23) The Acknowledgement OF all
persons employing any other person in
connection with their business.
"l2i) The Acknowledgement OF all
persons receiving rent, interest or diyl-
dends.
"l25) The disfranchisement OF all
merchants, traders and commercial
agents.
"j26) The disfranchisement Of all
priests. clergymen, or employees Of
churches and religious bodies.
"i27) The denial Of the existence Of
any inalienable rights in the individual
citizen.
"(2s) The establishment Of a Judicial
system exercising autocratlc power
convincing persons and imposing penal
ties in their absence. and without op-
portunity TO be heard, and even adopt
ing the death penalty for numerous
crimes and misdemeanors.
",29) The inauguration OF reign OF
fear. terrorism and violence.
"Thls is the program that the revo-
lutionary elements and the so-called
'Parlor Bolshevik' would have this
country accept as a substitute for the
Government OF the United States, which
recognizes that 'all men are created
equal and that life, liberty, and the
pursuit Of happiness are the inalien-
able rights OF all its citizens. This is
the formula they would have adopted TO
supersede the Government which was
established by all the people Of the
United States In order 10 form a more
perfect union, establish justice, insure
domestic tranquility and promote the
general welfare The mere recital OF
the program IS a sufficient denuncistion
Of Il. and Of the individuals and groups
which advocate and defend IT,"
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Mt ASSACHUSETTS has gone Amercanl
lsI Governor Calvin Coolidge, Republican, has been
reelected
lie a law and order pstforml
His majority his Democratic opponent seemingly
is between 1000 and iOOoOOl
The result is a staggering for the Bosheviss,
tue Reds the advocates of unonzed police forces and
others who hoped this champion OF law and order
defeated at the polls
The voters Of the commonwealth Of Massachusetts, de-
much credit for the way in which they have stood
by and strengthened the Of a Republican governor
whose most pronounced traits intense Americansm
and uncompromising belief in law and orderl
What they have done at the polls will hearten the
other States support true Americans for Office
and to rebuff all the Establishments Of those whoseek to
introduce country those political principles and
practices Of which Lenine and Trotzky the chief
ponents and through which Russia and other infected
sections Of Europe have been thrown into state OF
anarchy and miseryl
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WOMAN FIGHTS THIEF
WHO FLEEs C0AILEss

CLEVELAND, Nov. b.-Ester Gensier,
a ianltress fought with burglar in a
downtown ofios building until the
prowier squirmed cut of his coat and
left IT in the hands Of the woman as
he fsd.
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It not surprising that commuters who live in towns
along the Maryland divisions Of the Pennsylvania rail-
road south Of Wilmington and who work in Wilmington
are protesting vehemeny against suggested change in
the train schedules which would land them here in the
morning long before the time they required to report
for duty Under the present schedule they hand In VIII
mington few minutes after eight o'clock in the morning
Rumors current that the contemplated change would
land them here about 73O O'Clock thus compelling many
Of them to get up between and o'clock order to get
breakfast and catch the rain and all for the accommo-
daton Of certain commuters who work in Philadelphia
and who under present conditions arrive there later than
the usual hour for beginning work.
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In New Jersey the Democrats have elected their cand-
date for governor, but the Republicans have won both
branches OF the Legislature by safe maorties That is
anotncr encouraging sign for tbs Republicans for the
national election next and only one Of many
signs.