The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-10
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Washington, Oct. 9.-The Republi-
can Publicity Association, thru its
President, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr.,
today gave out the following state
ment from its Washington head
quarters:
A study of the character of William
z. Foster, the man picked by Mr..
Gompers to organize the steel workers
and lead their strike gives an accu-
rate conception of the forces that are
behind the movement and the princi-
Piles which impel them. Foster is a
self-defined revolutionist. He has
published a book entitled Syndical-
ISM" in which he sets forth his the
cries of social reorganization. Direct
action is the means with which he pro-
poses to attain his ends.
The present so-called capitalist
system must be destroyed says Mr.
Foster. THE way to accomplish it is
to organize the working people into
great syndicalist organizations-rev-
dictionary labor unions.
THE political state as at present
constituted must be blown up,
wrecked and cast aside. The way to
accomplish this is by direct action
the general strike.
Labor must not stop to choose
it's weapons in it's Struggle against
the great industrial organization of
today and the state as whole. All
considerations of ethics and morality
must be discarded as so much dead
wood, as so many letters blocking
labor's liberty of action
"The man who wrote those inflam-
matory sentiments formerly belonged
to the Industrial Workers of the
World, which was aligned against the
Federation of Labor because of the
conservative methods which the latter
organization employed Foster per-
ceived, after long experience, that the
Federation could not be destroyed by
attacks from without so he left the
w. WIS and joined the A. F. of L.
with the idea of Transforming it into
revolutionary syndicalist association
from within. He proved an energetic
worker and was given the task of or
ganizing the stockyards and packing
houses of Chicago and Kansas City.
So well did he succeed that he was
given the post of secretary treasurer
of the committee to organize the steel
workers. While Mr.. Gompers was in
Europe Foster accomplished the
work, and soon after the leaders re-
turn announced that the time had
come for strike.
1.-THE destruction of society is Fos
ter's avowed aim. To him morality
is "dead wood" to be discarded when
it stands in the way of attaining the
ends of a strike. Murder, Arson and
looting are Fosters admitted weapons
| if by their use he can hasten the
wrecking of our political state. There
is absolutely nothing to distinguish
the doctrines advocated by Foster
from those preached and practiced by
Lenine, and Trotzky themselves.
d" THE workers in each industry
shall manage the affairs of their par
ticular industry reads the book.
The miners shall manage the mines;
the railroaders manage the railroads;
and so on thru all the lines of human
activity. Capitalism is organized rob-
berry. Capitalists have no more right
to take the waltz they have amassed
than burglar has to his loot
eve wonder to what extent the men
whom Foster has induced to desert
their jobs in the steel industry realize
the manner of man who is directing
their movements. The laboring ele-
ment of this country do not have an
archy and bolshevism in their hearts.
1t is only when their evil passions are
appealed to by such men as Foster,
aided and abetted by Mr.. Gompers,
that reason deserts them and they
adopt methods that will only bring
about their own destruction"