The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-14
CARY STRIKERS
CALLED UPON To
GUST THE TROOPS
Revolutionary proclamation"
Is Found on a Worker
URGE WORKERS TO RISE
Would Capture Power OF the State
and Set Up Dictatorship
of Workers

Chicago. Oct. 13.-Purporting to be
a proclamation of the Communist Far
tv of America. a hand bill advocating
overthrow cf the military in Gary was
given to correspondents at the alter
noon conference with Colonel w. ii.
Names, commander of the troops. He
said that four copies were found on Il
striker who was stopped on the street
nv Secret Service men, but not arrest
ed.
This is the most dangerous piece
, OF literature that has ever come 10 my
i. attention" said Colonel Mapes. "Other
Red pamphlets have been severe but
the subject matter has been usually
general in direction. This is a direct
appeal to the followers to overthrow
the Federal troops in Gary. 1t IS a
most dangerous situation to deal with
and it will be dealt with accordingly
Before we leave we intend to clean
I Gary of Red agitators.'
Colonel Mapes has caused all print
ing shops in the district to be visited
in an effort to ascertain where the
proclamation was printed. The docu-
, ment begins as follows:
THE CAPITALISTS CHALLENGE
YOU WORKINGMEN
PROCLAMATION OF THE COM
MUNITY PARTY OF AMERICA.
Martial law has been declared in
Gary. Ind. Soldiers of the regular
army, soldiers who have seen service
overseas. who have waded through the
blood of their fellows on the battle
fields of Europe, as the capitalist press
is gloatingly declaring, are now in CON
troll
THE army of occupation entered
Gary fully equipped. Automatic rifles,
rifles, hand grenades, machine guns
and heavier cannon, cannon that can
clear two miles of city street in
few minutes, as the officer in charge
said These are ready for use in Gary,
and the soldiers wear trench helmets
made by the workers of Gary.
why are these soldiers here, work
ingmen OF the United States? What
has happened in the city of steel that
requires this murderous equipment for
the destruction of human lives?
THE workingmen of Gary are en-
gagged in a struggle against the capital
lists They have suffered long. Low
wages. lcng hours of exhausting work
in the heat of the steel ovens, life sap
ping toll with no time for home life,
this has been their lot.
"At last they revolted. Risking suf-
fering and hunger, risking the assault
of the brutal bullies of the steel trust,
who do not stop even at murder, they
resorted to the strike to make their
masters tighten the conditions of their
toll. They organized their power and
united dared challenge to a test of
strength the industrial octopus which
dominated the steel industry"
After a long harrangue the article
winds up as follows
The National government, the CAPT
talist State, had stepped in
1.-The Steel Trust was in danger of
being beaten. 1t might have to sub
NIT before the power of the workers.
To save itself it brought into the field
the instrument forged by the capital
lists to uphold their system of explor-
aticn and oppression the State, which
in spite of all its democratic preten-
| lions is but the physical expression of
the dictatorship of the capitalist class
"Worgingmen of the United States,
the capitalists are challenging you.
, They are demonstrating before your
very eyes that the governmental pow
er is theirs, for use against you when
you dare strike against the enslave-
ment which they force upon you.
"The homes of the workingmen of
Gary are being raided, their meetings
forbidden their literature conflscated
by the military regime which controls
Gary Martial law is supreme The
instruments to destroy ifves of the
workers are ready.
Are you, workingmen of this coun-
try, going to submit meekly to the use
OF military invasion and force to break
your strikes? Shall the iron heel rule
upchallenged?
This is the hour to rouse the work
ers.
Gather in great mass meetings.
Bring to the attention of the unenlight
ened workers the meaning of martial
law in Gary. Show them that it is
net enough to strike against low wages
and bad working conditions, but that
the strike must be directed against
capitalism.
"The workers must capture the pow
er of the State. They must wrest
from the capitalists the means through
which the capitalist rule is maintain
ed
THE answer to the dictatorship of
the capitalists is the dictatorship of
the workers"