Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-22
RUSSIAN REDS SOWING
SEED Of Discomfort
Would Overthrow American Rcpublic
by Stirring Up War of
Classes.
PLANNING GENERAL UPRISING
Literature Widely Disseminated and
Meetings Are Held in Large Mum.
bcr Of Cities-Body Known a.
Russian Workers Union.
GENERAL UPRISING

NEW YORK, June 2l.-Enorts frs.
20 undermine and eventually TO over
throw the United Stacs government
are being planned. and active propa-
ganda work is being carried on here
in furthcrancc OF the scheme, by an
organization directly connected with
Russia. Following is a copy. in part
Of the constitution of the Russian
workers Union. revealed by a Wash
Present society is divided into OPP
posite classes. on ono side the work
ers and farmers. submerged in pow
erty. but who hav. created by their
on the other side. the rich, who have
conhscated all these riches
Many times the class OF the de-
spoiled has risen against the parasitic
rich and their faithful servant and
ctender-government order TO ar
rive al it's liberation from the yok e
OF the capitalists and government but
every time it has suffered defeat be-
cause OF not having a clear conception
OF its final object and resources
through which it could be accom-
The struggle between these classes
is not finished at the present time, and
VIII end only when the laboring
masses, organized as class. will un-
derstand their true interests and will
come into possession o! 'he riches OF
the world through forceful social revo-
luton.
Their View OF the Millennium.
Having accomplished such change
and al the same time having destroyed
all the institutions 90 sovereignty
and government, tho class OF the de-
spoiled shall proclaim The Society of
Liberal Funct!onaries,' endcavoring to
satisfy the needs OF every separate in
dividual, who. in return. would give
tho society his labor, talents and ac-
complishments Tor achievements)
obtain these m
We set forth as the first plan the neces-
sitE OF creating revolutionary or
which. carrying tho Immediate s,rug-
gle against all institutions OF capital
and government must educate the
working class TO take the initiative
ALI their outbreaks (striiies, rebel!ion),
developing. therefore. the sense. the
necessity and incvita blesness OF a gen
eral uprising-social revolution.
wherefore organizing ourselves into
unions of Russian workers. we. as n
part of the world toilers. will go for
ward In our further work in order that
the principles set forth in the foun-
dation or this federation would always
ne for us the leading thread in the
work OF organizing large masses of
liberation of Russia and all humanity"
Meetings In Many Cities.
Traces Of the activity of the organi-
cation have been found from New York
10 san Francisco. l. * known that
agents Of the Russian Workers Union
have held meetings in tho following
cities: New York, Cleveland Akron
Chicago. Seattle and San Francisco.
The agitation has been chiefly among
the Slav races. but Scand.navians and
the representatives OF the other Euro
pean races in this country have been
subjects of the underground campaign
The main instrument OF the prom
ganda IL literature. which calls Cor
the overturn OF government by vio-
lence, asserting that there is no moral
wrong in accomplishing revolution by
bloodshcd
The literature is distributed at the
meetings aiE handed individually M
other places TO those who IL is thought
are ready 10 give hearing TO the meas
ures advocated. All the literature thus
Iar got hold of is printed in Russian
from tho traces Of their activity II is
ESTIMATED that there are not less than
900 propagandists ofthe Russian Work
ers Union in this country. The aim
or the organiza ton is to have a branch
IN every country in tho world In the
literature they make Z distinction no
tween themselves and anarchists" on
the ground that the anarchists are for
revolution leading TO condition of
no government. while they are for n
revolution by force leading TO a gov.
eminent exclusively by the prolctariat
the aim of the Rolshevists