The Washington herald., 1919-01-19

up everywhere. The object. OF course,
Of the agitators. is to turn into Boil
rheyik channels these unions which.
Ike the G. A. r. at home, are formed
20 promote the interest of the soldier
At Sheffield at present the local
workers committee. under the leader
ship of ]. T. Murphy, shop steward,
Is exploiting the grievances of the dis
charged soldier and trying to unite
workers and soldiers as was done in
Russia and the same movement is in
progress elsewhere. notably in Wales.
Characteristics Different.
Bolshevism in Wales, among the
miners, presents characteristics some
what different from those prevailing
throughout England and Scotland. The
National Workers Committee, which
now covers the rest of the country,
does not control Wales, where the In
dependent Labor party appears to con-
troll the revolutionary propaganda
This organization elsewhere Is merely
the strongest of many extreme parties
THAT are more or less connected with
the extremists, but in Wales its whole
1 organization appears to be in Bolshe-
vik hands.
Wales, with the exception of the
Clyde, is the region where revolu-
| tionary talk and feeling runs high
est. There is much rivalry between
Wales and Glasgow as to which To-
cality will have the honor of father
ing the revolution. Bolsheviks from
| the Clyde frequently visit Wales and
address meetings OF the miners. Mrs.
Crawford. the leading woman agitator
of Glasgow. has recently been deliv-
ering fiery harangues TO large meet
| ings in Aberdare and Merthyr.
In Wales the organization corre-
spending to the National Workers
Committee is the Reform Committee.
1t aims at securing the mines for the
miners" but. as in order to this II
proposes TO abolish capital and prop
erty, it seeks TO accomplish its aims
! by a Bolshevik revolution. The Ian
AYRSHIRE Miners Reform Committee
the most violent of all such associa-
tions, was founded not only by the
| local genius of W. G. Mainwaring
| but by the efforts of our friend OF
| Glasgow. the dreaded McManus, and
| by the Bolshevik counsel in Glasgow
this appointee Of Trotsky, John Mac
lean. well earns his honor conferred
from Petrograd by his efforts through
out the country.
Financed In Germany.
The Bolshevik agitation during the
war in this country was undoubtedly
in part financed by Germany. as was
| the similar movement in Russia. II
! has always been pacifst- But, be-
cause the war is over and Germany
/ beaten. 1t does not appear to have
/ lost strength. but counts rather or
the period of Industrial unrest that
will accompany or follow demobiliza-
| tion to gain its ends. Its ends are
those of the !. w. w. and Trotsky
| Its method of warfare is not the ma
| chine-gun, but the general strike. In
which all workers in industries neces.
eary to support the life Of the nation
| such as the railroads. will down tools
until their demands are accepted. Be
| fore the war. the present leaders were
| syndiCalists. but now they glory in
the term BOlshevik and their ambi-
| tions have been whetted by the eN-
ample in Russia. In their philosophy
] there is no democracy and no parlia'
ment; the eA tinCtion Of the upper anc
middle classes by the abolition OF
property is their creed. but. like the
l. w. W, they seek not a real repub-
! lie of the workers. but an oligarchy OF
! the small class conscious" section oil
the industrial proletariat
The British workman is a sound
| sensible fellow. The danger in tht
! present situation is not that the bull
| Of labor will be led astray. but that g
! courageous. intelligent, fanatical ant
desperate minority, knowing exactly
what it wants. will be able to lead into
revolutionary paths workers whit