The Washington herald., 1919-03-02
BOL SHEVK PLOT TO RULE
= BRITAIN BASED ON STRIKES
Red Leaders, Followers of Lenine, Delude
Workers by Pretending to Call Them Out
2 = to Make More Employment

for jobiess soldier who can work
thirty too. That In nutshell, is
the Bolshevlk 'issue" for the CAM
paign.
MaeLean continued; "The Miners
Reform Movement In South wales
and Scotland. in view of this,
adopted as their Immediate program
the six hour day, Eve days a week,
and ave dollars q day. 1 placed my
services primarily at the disposal Of
the Miners Reform Movement and
am recognized as one of their spokes-
men. 1 am IS proud OF that honor as
OF the one conferred by our Russian
comrades on me-"
Started In soath wales.
The Miners Reform Movement is
one OF the dangerous and active Boil
shevist organizations in the country
1t was organized in South Wales by
Mainwaring and other leaders OF the
syndicalist movement; all Of the lead
ers in Wales are members Of the In
dependent Labor Party, which in
Wales is O purely Bolsheyfk organixa.
ton while the chiefs Of the movement
in the Scotch mining district are
drawn from the ranks OF the Inde.
pendent Labor Party the British So.
eialist Party, and the Clyde Workers
Committee. the Bolshevik organixa-
ton among the great shipbuildins
plants.
The aim OF the Miners Reform
Movement. in the words Of its spokes.
men, is ''the mines for the worker"
That is, they propose by continual
strikes, continually increasing de-
mands. to make it Improbable for the
owners to work the mines at all.
Then. they think the state as a mat
ter Of self preservation, must ask the
miners to take the mines and operate
them themselves. /
Continuing his description OF his
work for the Miners Reform Move-I
ment MaoLean said, my first cam
paign was amongst the Lothian min
ers. and as a result of a weeks mis-
sion We have there now a powerful
unofficial committee and movement
Shortly a Lancashire County confer
ence will be held at Bolton when the
movement will spread like wild-fire.
"An Eyes en- Southport,
"On the clyde. and amongst the
miners, the cry was all eyes on
Southport 1t should be borne in
mind that the Clyde workers COM
mittee had issued a leaflet urging
the thirty-hour week, and pledging
its support to the miners. The
Miners Reform movement had de-
eided that, IL the Miners Fedora
tion at the conference at South
l..
not make up its mind to have the
strike about the middle of Feb
ruary. Thanks to this advanced
guard, the Miners Federation (the
official miners union) has at
Southport agreed to the six-hour
day. The government is asked to
enforce 1t by amending the eight
hour act Ny good old friend Bob
Smiilie at the conference pointed
out that we can produce enough
IN less than a stxahour day II we
are not producing to make million
aires
There the matter stands at this
moment The Bolshevik minority.
admittedly a minority. under Mac
Lean and Msinwaring, have forced
the great miners union to declare
for a six-hour day. They propose
now to ask the government to su-
thoriZe the six-hour day, and II
the government refuses, another
conference is to be thrust on the
MacLean said, and he
added. This will add to the fierce
ness of the fight when it comes
CT. for we know the government
will never concede the miners de-
mands. The delay meanwhile wilt
give the reform movement time to-
expand their propaganda in the va
rious coal fields and Knit up more
closely than ever"
Campaign Plan Clear.
The plan Of campaign is thus made
clear. MacLean's own admissions just
quoted prove that the minority" of
the workers he represents, and ad-
mits to be minority, are to take con-
troll of the country and the means Of
production at once" by using various
miners, OF shipbuilders and engineers,
of railway men, to strike.
But the devilish cunning OF the Boil
shevik chiefs lies in their knowledge
that they dare not reveal their real
tive British workman, so they play
not only on his natural human cupid
ity and laziness, but on his sense Of
loyalty to his fellows by telling him
that If he works shorter hours his pal
back from the war can get job. but
that II he does not strike the men
who survived the trenches must stand
in the bread line.
Another example Of the general
scheme is the present strike on the
Clyde. The national executives of the
engineering and shipbuilding trades
unions, having forced through a AZ
hour week, have sought to abide by
their bargain, and have implored the
men not to strike again. The Boil
sheviks, through the representatives in
every shop and yard of the Clyde
workers committee under the forr1id-
able McManus, have continued to de-
mand 30-hour week: against all the
FORCES OF organized labor they have
forced through the present great
strike, although as q tactical move
they decided to demand, for the mo-
ment, week Of forty hours, with
minimum wage Of IS daily. This 40
hour week they themselves call
compromise" or an ''installment,"
and IL forty hours is granted, they
Will agitate at once for another strike
to get thirty hours.
Doctrine of More Jobs,
Here again the doctrine OF more Jobs
is what the Bolshevik relies on to win
over the mass of the workers. There
is already some unemployment among
skilled trades on the Clyde, with pros
poets of more.