Evening star., 1919-05-04
SAYS BOLSHENSM
IS AbSOLUT|SM
Secretary Wilson Writes
Labor Leader Red Doc
trine Is Prussianism.
QUOTES LENIN SPEECHES

That bolshevism is precisely AS
democratic as was the absolutism of
Car Nicholas. Kaiser Wilhelm and
Emperor Carl, no more and no less. is
the assertion of William B. Wilson.
Secretary of Labor. in a letter to
James Wilson, president of the In
ternational Association of Pattern
Makers. yesterday.
Secretary Wilson supports his as
sertions with excerpts from speeches
OF Nikolai Lenin, pi emier of the Rus
Rand School of Social Science for
propaganda purposes in this country:
| These and other utterances OF
Lenin's. Secretary Wilson declares.
even dictatorship of the proletariat.
but is as wholly absolutist in type as
c1arism or Prussianism.
Means Dictatorship.
Bolshevism as understood in Russia.
| declared Secretary Wilson in has
letter, means the dictatorship of the
Individual, or, at most, the Few. win WIN
pulsory labor goaded to higher speed
by the introduction of the Taylor
system, under the direction of an
individual dictator.
The Russian belshevists." Secre-
tary Wilson says in his letter, bold
| ly declare the dictatorship Of the ad-
vanced class awakening to new de-
| mocracy, and this group is to be the
sole judge of how the people shall
live, what they shall do and how they
shall do It.
TT, sets up the dictatorship on ex-
actly. the same plea that every auto
| crat has used, that he knew better
what is good for the people and how
they should be treated than they knew
themselves.
This subjection,'" the Secretary
| writes. quoting from speech OF
Lenin, "fay resemble the mild lead
ing of an orchestra conductor II the
| people are submissive. good-natured
and obedient. but 1t may take the
acute form of dictatorship. enforced
with a merciless and firm rule and
| iron discipline against those who vio-
| late this control or who are careless
| with regard to control
Gives One Man Power.
Arguing that the workers Of this
country viii have none of bolshevism
once they understand. what it really
! is. Secretary Wilson says in his let
ter that bolshevist dictatorship goes
| farther than simply to the most
conscious vanguard" the advanced
| class" the "class-conscious vanguard
or the advance workers" as Lenin
.
up he says. an Individual dictator
ship with unlimited power and insists
! that the revolution demands the ao-
soIute submission of the masses TO
the single will of those who direct
! the labor processes. s......
| tions of Lenin himself a worker may
no longer, under bolshevistic regime,
] be permitted to quit work for -rea-
! sons sufficient to himself he cannot
| do so without pernissto1 CT the DC
! tator. He may dislike hts work, hI9
! foreman. his manager, his shep. h4s
wsges. his hours cf labor or TIE ccn-
ditiors Of his employment but te
dare not Guil because % whist Len =
calls "the msrciIess .Gict1tprship o.
individuals for definite processes o.
Under all this e,sbora-e syf,+s n. 'sf
discipline. punIs wtthori I
mercy" and "iron-handed rep:essicH
the press also is TO BE- Systematically
repressed. There must be no crit
cism of the dictator or diciatocs, .ant
nothing must reach the, masses NJ
| that which has been prepared 10
| them" by the autocrats as being su-
permen.
Not for Sane Americans.
"I am sure" Secretary Wilson
| writes, tQdI NO iH
whose mind has not been perverted
by self-tnterest would for a moment
| think Of displacing the orderly proc
esses of progress of, for and by the
people, which our institutions pro-
! vide, for this wild scheme of autoc-
racy based on the assumption OF
! superior knowledge of the needs and
wants of the proletariat. and which
| takes no cognizance OF the -ppssi-
bility OF the dictators changing tteir
minds or being succeeded by other
| dictators with different view
point"
The Secretary Of Labor in his let
ter cites. by page and para graph. eN-
cerpts from speeches of Lenin.
through all, Of which run the unmis-
taxable expressions of ideas of alb
solutism, irresponsible and absolute
control Of the people by an indi-
vidual or a small group, exploitation
of the masses as regards all matters
of labor, production and even the
smallest details Of living ana Of per
sonal conduct ..e-- .-..s..
These excerpts, Secretary Wilson
shows, are taken from published ut
terances of Lenin. prepared by
avowed bolshevists in this country
for distribution among American
workers as part OF the bolshevist
propag aganda.
Lenin Is Quoted.
Lenin is quoted. in regard to the
necessity of strict unity of will in
the control OF the productive capac-
yrs-