The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-12
REDS PLAN TO
WRECK CONVENT
RAMIFICATIONS OF PLOT
REVEALED IN LITERA-
TURE SEIZED.
RUSSIAN WORKERS
Private Ownership of Property
To Be Wiped Outflow
ernment To Be
Destroyed.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-Plans oi
the union of Russian workers to
bring about an overthrow of the
American government through gen
eral strike is revealed in documents
seized in the nationwide raids OF
federal authorities Friday and Satur-
day nights, and made public tonight
by Assistant Attorney General Gar
van.
With the government overthrown
and everything ''wiped from the earth
that is a reminder of the right to
private ownership of property" the
Russi,n workers, according to their
manifesto looked forward to "the
magnificent beautiful form of man
without God, without master and
free of authority"
The documents and publications OBJ
tanned in the raids, officials said to-
day. are of the most inflammatory
nature, and make no effort to conceal
the unions programme of destruction
ii,d death to achieve it's ends. Much
of the material made public tonight
is of such nature as to cause any
newspaper reprinting it to be barred
from the mails.
Included among the document;
seized. all of which were printed IN
Russian, is Observation-Disclosures
of hists-communists." This pub
lication, the most recent put out by
the union, was said by Mr.. Garvcl to
be the most dangerous piece of propa-
ganda ever disseminated py radicals
in the United States.
Extracts showing its violent revo-
lutionary character follow:
"Communissa IN TIL econenaie field
must Inevitably be crowned with an
archy in the field Of politics. There
fore, along with complete destruction
of private ownership, must go com
plete destruction of the state.
Estate Unnecessary"
"The state is unnecessary, because
with the determination of classes, its
principal function will cease, the pre-
servation of the dominion Of one
class.
"The destruction of the state means
the principal work in the formation
of the new society. Down with the
state! Long live anarchy"
"What must we do, the vanguard
Of the proletriat? We must con-
sciously hasten the elementary move
ment of the struggle of the working
class; we must convert small strikes
into general ones, ard convert the
latter into armed revolt of the labor
ing masses against capital and the
state.
"At the time of this revolt we must
the the first favorable opportunity
to proceed to an immediate seizure Of
all means Of production and all ar
ticles of consumption, and make the
working class the masters in fact of
all general wealth.
"At the same time we must merci-
Iessly destroy all remains of govern
mental authority and class domination
liberating the prisoners, demolishing
prisons and police offices, destroy all
legal papers pertaining to private
ownership of property; all field fences
and boundaries and burn all certifi-
Gates of indebtedness-in word, we
must take care that everything is
wiped from the earth that is remin-
der of the right to private ownership
of property; to blow up barracks,
gendarme and police administration,
shoot the most prominent military
and police officers, must be the impor-
tant concern of the revolving working
people.
an the work of destruction we
must be merciless, for the slightest
weakness on our part may aftefwa-u
cost the working class whole sea Of
needless blood.
an completely destroying al vest
iges of the dominion of capital and
state we must try as soon as possible
to start productions upon new founda-
ito S; that is, extend the existing labor
organizations and their unions, and
give production over to them. Every
city should begal the work sepcrate-
ly, to proclaim commune; that is,
the union OF free labor organizations
viii become masters o. the city.
"We will not summon the working
class to a social revolution in order
to strengthen in them a respect for
private ownership Of property created
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