Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-10-27
Of agitators and trouble makers in


our midst show that they are Of am
ply sufficient importance to be reck-
oned with and at once. There are
1900. 900 aliens in the United States
who are not citizens. which in itself
creates an alarming situation. The
New York Times is informed by a
Federal official that al least $4,000
aliens are working openly or secret
iy for bolshevist form of govern
ment in this country. These agita
tors are supported and advertised by
many OF the 5000 foreign language
newspapers published here. The
most radical of these papers are in
the Russian. Hungarian. Lithuanian
and Finnish languages. and are now
the subject OF investigation by the
authorities.
All these agencies agree in de-
nouncing the United States and its
government and in making the most
reckless statements unsupported by
facts. Lurid stories of atrocities per
petrated by the police and other
municipal officials are told and pre-
sumably believed by some of those
who read the foreign language
papers. The New York police are
called Cossacks. the Federal govern
ment is represented as sending its
agents TO Kill steel strikers. General
Leonard Wood is described as a tool
Of the steel trust. and the abolition
of the wage system and of capitalism
are proclaimed as the only things
needful. to their way of thinking. to
redeem the proletariat from its
tJndaSe.
The philosophy of the /. W. W. is
expressed IN its creed which has re-
Gently been made public in New
York court. We print it for the con-
sideration of any of our readers who
may have been attracted to the cult:
The working class and the en-
ploying class have nothing in COM
mon. There can be no peace so long
as hunger and want are found among
millions of the working people and
the few, who make up the employing
class, have all the good things in life
Between these two classes a struggle
must 60 on until the workers Of the
world organize as a class. take pos
session of the earth and the ma
chinery Of production and abolish
the wage system. We find that the
Centering Of the management Of in
dustries into fewer and fewer hands
makes the trade unions unable to
cope with the er-growing power of
the employing class. The trade un-
ions foster a state of affairs which
allows one set of workers to be
pitted against another set Of work
ers in the same industry. thereby
helping to defeat one another in wage
wars. Moreover. the trade unions
aid the employing class to mislead
the workers into the belief that the
working class has intrests in COM
mon with their employers.
These conditions can be changed
and the interests Of the working class
upheld only by an organization
formed in such way that all its mem
bers in any one industry, or in all
industries. If necessary. cease work
whenever a strike or lockout is on in
any department thereof. thus making
an injury to one an injury to all.
Instead of the conservative motto.
A fair days wage for a fair days
work, we must inscribe on our ban
ner the revolutionary watchword,
Abolition of the wage system
1t is a historic mission of the
working class to do away with capi-
talish. The army of production
must be organized. not only for tn.
everyday struggle with capitalism,
but also to carry on production when
capitalism shall have been over.
thrown. BY organizing industrially,
we are forming the structure of the
new society within the shell of the
old"
Mere reading Of this program by a
person capable of thought is enough
fo condemn IL Tn m iRnorant m