Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-22
Red Doctrines Gaining Ground

DISCLOSURES before the Senate Labor
II Committee investigating the steel strike
and from evidence gathered from other
sources together with developments gen.
orally in connection with labor troubles, in
dictate the far-reaching spread of radical doc
trines whose purpose is to undermine conf
dence in American business and political in
situations as at present constituted, and even
tually to force the reorganization of society
on different basis. The effect Of this per-
nicious propaganda is already gravely ap-
parent in the prevailing unrest in tho ranks
OF both organized and unorganized labor
in which its demands are taking a form so
extreme as to threaten general paralysis
OF all industry.
That the organized agitation of these ultra
radicals has secured q firm hold upon the
minds of men connected with the various
labor unions and is responsible for walkouts
which could have been prevented if the coun-
sci or conservative leaders had been listened
to, is abundantly evident not only from
statements of these leaders, but from the
known disposition of employing capitalists
to consider the grievances Of their employees
and to remedy them as far as possible with
out bankrupting their own business.
AN mixing of the radical purpose which is
iomentlns and encouraging strikes was given
the senate committee in the testimony before
that body of Jacob Margolis of Pittsburgh.
j. w. w. attorney and admitted advocate of
OSHAA' QGnnoatcO
MS hearers partially successful attempt
covering the past two years to fuse at Pitts
ourgh for a vaguely revolutionary purpose
the combined forces of the Industrial
workers OF the World, Bolshevists and Rus
sian industrial workers, whose imagination,
rs acknowledged, had been caught by the
successes Of Lenine and Trotzky in Russia.
All are working. he told the committee "to
create new society within the she'll of the
DID, 49,
These admissions as to the activities and
purpose OF the radical elements enumerated
ABOVE were the more startling because OF
the working arrangement which he dis
Closed between them and Secretary Foster.
head or the strike committee directing the
steer strlke That similar understandings
eHlst elsewhere need not be doubted They
teho 10 conhrm the growing impression that
the strength Of the American Federation Of
LABOR In holding to the true purposes OF
the organization is being. undermined by
'leacherous ln1uences which are reaching
out to wrest its control from conservative
leadership and place it in the hands of tho
radical element that would convert it into
open syndcalism when the time is fully ripe
Hence 1t Is that strikes are being fomented
throughout the country to arouse class preiu-
olce as the surest means Of increasing the
opportunities to obtain the control which
they seek
While 1T may be taken for granted that
the American people will find way to deal
ehectiVeiy with the situation, and to thwart
'ne extreme purposes Of these utraradicals.
still they are very slow in awakening to tho
real menace OF it. and 1t may be grayelv
feared that they will not be aroused TO action
until they begin to experience some of tho
fury to which it will inevitably lead if ,.ft
unchecked.