New-York tribune., 1919-06-09
WINNIPEG, June 5.-Bolshevism
y by that name was promptly and


that seduce the "proletariat" of the
American continent?
1t is militantly launched in the Cana
dian Northwest But radical Canadian
labor is tied up with that of the United
States. What starts in Winnipeg may
spread to Chicago and New York as
easily as to Toronto and Montreal. In
fact, it is more than likely that the
One Big Union movement is being
financed from the United States, and that
behind it are the same forces that failed
at Seattle.
The One Big Union is frankly revolu-
tionary. It's speakers, it's resolutions
and it's press all proclaim the fact. What
it does not frankly say is that it aims
to introduce into America the Soviet
idea to seize the power that is now held
by the government and put it in the
hands of committees of workers only.
1t is the old idea of the dictatorship
OF the proletariat, of which we have
heard so much from Russia--it is Boil
shevism by new name.
Strike, Any,vay
Watch the Winnipeg developments.
There was a demand for collective bar
gaining of kind that would permit the
paralyz1ng of whole city, province or
nation at the demand of single shop
force. But when the strike leaders were
asked whether they would stop the strike
If the principle of "collective bargain
ing" were granted they refused. They
wanted the strike, anyway. So it came.
They took particular pains to call out
the police, the firemen, the post1nen
and all civil servants, in a deliberate
effort to paralyze the government. The
strike committee then assumed control,
issued orders for policing, for SANTA
ton, for the distribution of food. It
tried to be the government and it
boasted that it was. For a few hours
Winnipeg had the Soviet idea-Bol
shevisn,--in full force.
The government struck back at it's
desertlng employees and the strikers
called for sympathetic strikes in other
cities in defence of the civil employees.
Thus the whole fight was made, bv the
strikers themselves, on the right of
labor to paralyze the government-on
its right to start a revolution.
The Neep Bolsherisns
None of this is denied even vet bv
the strike leaders. They do denv
that this was to be permanent, and claim
that their Soviet was intended to func
ton only during the emergency of the
strike. But the principle for which thov
were fighting is the power to install a
Soviet at any time. And the Zone Big
Union Bulletin" the organ of the new
Bolshevism, naturally defends the Rus
sian horror 1t said on April 18:
The Russian revolution avas the most
free from trouble of any n, the aoorld
SO 1t rs IN Germany today; the So
called atrocities of the Sportacides are
mere press fabricotions. The avork-
ing class took control of Hunqay,
7r5thout ony 1rouble.
The things that the One Bic Union
leaders openly advocate are revolution
airy. When the Federation of Labor of
British Columbia voted for the CO. B.
u" principle it adopted resolutions
which say in part
RESOLVED, That this convention
lay doavm as ats future policy tho
building up of an organization on, tn
dmstriol lines for the purpose of en-
forcing, By vi1'tue of their industrial
strength, such demands as such or
ga1alzations may at any time consider
necessary for their continued maiuteu-
once and a0eUbeing, and shall not be
as heretofore for the purpose of at
tempting to persuade Legislative os-
sen1blaes to amend, add to or take from
the enisting statutes alegedly ccllcd
labor laaUs.
The resolutions further demanded a
five-hour working day, the equal divi-
sion of profits" and the appointment of
central revolutionary committee"
One Grand
Working Class
The plan is very clearly outlined in
the Zone Big Union Bulletin" and the
resemblance to the |. W. W. programme /
and the Bolshevist doctrines stands out |
in almost every line. Here is the organ
ization, it's purposes and the methods it |
advocates, as set forth by it's own ad-
vocates:
The principle upon avhich INDUS
trial uniomisn, taks its standsis the |
recognition of the mever ending strug-
gle betauee', the employers of labor
and the aoorhing class. 1t
mast educate its membership to COM
rlLetc 1lndercLnaldinn of tho e;a,Lea