Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15

Heeretary OF labes Wilson went
a biz deeper inte this subject recent
iy In letter to James Wilson. pres
ideht OF the International Asseeia'
ten of Pattern Makers, In which he
said that the average American
mind In Interpreting the term
dictatorship OF the preletariat" has
understood it to mean the will of q
majority of tho workers imposed
upon ali the other members of soci-
ETY.. We have boon almost unani-
NOUS In reslstlns this theory. From
the beginning of time until the erea-
ton of the United States, the work
ers had been excluded from a voice
In Governmental affairs. There was
a perpetual struggle to remedy the
wronss~ The philosophy upon which
they ncted~>was that every person
who had to obey the laws of q eoun-
try ought to have a voice In deter
mining what those laws should be
They nre still. imbued with that
principle and, consequently, have
had no kindly feeling for dictator
ship OF the proletariat.
But clearly this Is not the prin-
ciple being pursued by the Russian
Bolshevists. They fear the will OF
the majority Just as much as Kaiser
wilhelm, Emperor Carl or Gar
Nicholas did, and boldly declare the
dictatorship of the advanced class
awakening to q new democracy, and
this group is to be the sole Judge
of how the people shall live, what
they shall do and how they shall do
1t. 1t sets up the dictatorship on
exactly the same plea that every
autocrat has used. that he knows
better what is good for the people
and how they should be treated than
they know themselves. This sub
lection may resemble the mild
leading of an orchestra leader, If
the proletariat is submissive, good
natured and obedient, but "it may
take the acute form of a Dictator
ship" enforced with "a merciless and
firm rule and iron discipline"
against those who violate this con-
troll or who are. careless with regard
to control" to quote Lenine himself.
That this is true is proved by the
labor control" which Lenine now
in which a few advanced
workers" rule that the great mass
of workmen must do as they say
workmen may not even so
much as quit their jobs or change
jobs except permission has been
given by the Bolshevist government.
we must have unity of will" says
Lenine, and continues: But how
can we secure a strict unity of will ?
BY subjecting the will of thousands
to the will of one. This subjection,
If the participants in the common
work are ideally conscious and dis
ciplined, may resemble the mild
leading of an orchestra conductor,
but may take the acute form of a
there is no ideal
discipline and consciousness. But,
at any rate. complete submission to
n single will is absolutely necessary
for the success of the processes of
work which is organized on the
type of large machine industry.
This is doubly true of the railways.
And just this transition from one
political problem to another, which
in appearance has no resemblance
to the first, constitutes the peculiar
lty of the present period. The revo-
luton has just broken the oldest,
the strongest and the heaviest
chains to which the masses were
compelled to submit. So it was yes
terday. And to-day the same revolu-
tion-and indeed in the interest of
ocialism-demands the absolute
submission of the masses to the
single will of those who direct the
labor process"
Here we have what Bolshevism
really means to Russia, and Mr..
Greenawalt is absolutely right when
he says that tradesunionism and
Bolshevism are implacable enemies
They must be. They are direct op-
posites in all their tenets and doc
trines.