Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-05
CLAIMS REDS WILL NOT
GAIN STRENGTH IN U. S.
Secretary of Labor Wilson Quotes
Speeches Made by BOlshcvist
Lcnine.
DICTATORSHIP is ESTABLISHED
Russian Radicals Put Control in
Hands Of Few and Require People
TO Sacrifice Every Liberty %
WhimS OF Their Leaders.

WASHINGTON. May 4.-Bolshcvism
will never gain Il foothold among the
workers of America. declared Secrc-
tary OF Labor Wilson I'm Il statement
issued here. lie quoted from the
speeches Of Nicholai Lcnine. the head
OF the Russian Soviet government to
prove that the Bolshevist government
was not even dictatorship of the
prolcturiat. but absolutism of n tyne
like cZuriSm.
Tho Russian Bolshevists." accord
ing TO the secretary: fear the VIII Of
Wilhelm, Emperor Carl or Car Nicho-
las did and boldly declare the dicta-
ing to a new democracy and this group
is to be he sole judge of how pco-
pie shall live. what they shall do and
II sets up the dictatorship on OK
actiy the same plea that every auto
crat has used, ,ha, hc knows better
they should be treated than they know
themselves This subsection may re-
senblc the mild leading OF an orchcs-
ira conductor II the proIctariat is sub
miHsivc. good natured and obcdient.
but 1t may take the acute form of a
Dictatorship enforced with "a 'merci-
less and firm rule and iron discipline
against those who violate this control
or who are careless with regard To
control.
Iins Unlimited Power.
The dictatorship goes farther than
slHlply 10 tue most conscious
guard. the advanced class the class
conscious vanguard or the advanced
workers. as the group Is yariously
tatorship with unlimited power and
insists that the revolution demands
the absolute submission OF the masses
TO the single VIII of these who di-
This single WiIi mus, be obeyed
worker is no longer to bc permitted
10 quit work for reasons that are
SUM, suflic!s's TO himself. lie may not
Ike the place. or have friends some
where else and desire to move. but he
cannot without permission OF the die
tntor. lie may dislike his work. his
manager, his foreman. his shop his
wages. his hours Of labor. or the CON
ditions OF employment. but he must
latorshin Il individuals for definite
Courts Arc RrinE Used.
means Of training in discipline that
VII con'tder tho responsibility for
, nme panGa OF famine and unempioy-
that is. those who fan to produce
bread FOR men and fuel for indus
trE. are 10 bc punished without ,ncr-
cy, no matter what the conditions are
under which they stop. While this
au'ocratic rule Is going on the public
Drcss Is to b. systematically rcprcsscd
There must be no criticism OF tho die
tator or dictators. N,othiuE must
reach the attention OF the masses cX-
''''h mas p'tIi prepared Tor
them b. the autocrnts who hay.. Net
themselves up like the German mill
tarists as being supcr-mcn
j am sure that no sane American
whose mind has not been perverted by
self interest would for moment think
OF dispiacinG the orderly process OF
progress OF. for and by the people
which our institutions provide FOR this
wild scheme, Of autocracy based upon
the assumption OF superior knowledge
or the needs and wants of the pro-
letariat. and which takes no cogn!-
Zance of the possibility of tho dicta-
tors changing their minds or being
succeeded 10y other dictators with a
definite viewpoint"