The Washington herald., 1919-03-02
By JOHN LLOYD BALDERsroN.
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London, March L-Fferce and for
nnidabis labor unrest. that IL shaking
the whole foundation of the state,
makes the present the most critical
period through which Great Britain
has ever been forced to pass. The
Existence OF an organized Boisheyk
conspiracy to take over the country
when organized strikers have broken
down the fabric Of society and made
impossible Bourgeois" government
that Is. government by Pariisment-.s
now generally known. The Lenine and
Trotsky OF the movement. Arthur Nc
: Manus, Of Glasgow. and w. y. Wat
Son, Of London. are confident that
within a few months at worst Britain
will be governed by SoYiets.
Blood, bombs and machine guns do
not figure in the program of the brand
Of Boishevihs rampant here. They
believe thai. sstoppage Of work In
the principal trades. especially y rain-
road de-up, will bring the rest Of the
community to quick capitulatlon,
when the most class conscious Sec
ton of the proletariat" will seize the
reins OF power without armed oppo-
sition.
This belief they base on the theory
that neither police or soldiers can be
trusted to act against strikers or rev.
olutionfsts. And they point out that
a state which cannot command force
exists only on suferafce. Whether
this Is true or false will probably be
demonstrated during the coming
weeks
Russia as Warning.
These men may be mad. and they
ink f.
Of sanity, but what has happened Ia
Russia is a warning that they cannot
be disresarded. The views of one of
the inner circle Of twelve avowed Boil
shevtks on the situation in Britain
are accordingly Of interest Here
they are. as voiced by John MacLean,
appointed Boishevik consul in dlas-
gov BY Trotsky. and one Of the four
rins-leaders Of the revolutionary
movement here.
This man mild-lookinE school,
master who never mixed in politics
Until his mind was set afame by the
doctrines of German Socialism and
the success OF the Bolshevik uphesN-
a in Russia, admitted at the outset
that the mass Of workers whom he
and his friends are using as their
pawns in this country are not revolu-
tonists, and have no sympathy with
Russian doctrines. British work.
men" he said, are not generally OF
our way OF thinking. and SO are un-
able to see that their material inter
ests are bound up with BUIshevist sta
bility In Russia
hscLesn, as have known some OF
tho Sim Feiners IN ireland to do. out
lined without reserve the program Of
the revolutionary plot as he expect,
ha AL
of the ignorant men whom he and his
associates at heart despise for their
stupidity. but to whose prejudjces
they must pretend to give way. A
general strike TO compel the with
brA wal Of allied troops in Russia.
AacLean admitted would not suc-
eeed because Of this strange lsck Of
dove felt for the Bolshevik by the Eng
lishman. so" MacLean went or.
some of US on the Clyde have am
49,. All Working Together.
II must be explained that No
Nanus, who rules the BoIsheyik sec
ton in Scotland with a rod of iron
Watson. the Gar of revolution in
the engineering and railway trades
in London and the South, William
Mainwaring and his SyndicaIist agf-
tators in the Welsh coal fields, are
all working together and all belong
to the inner ring. Accordingly.
Welsh coal strikes. shipbuilding
strikes on the Clyde. engineering
strikes. railway and dock strikes.
are all directed by the same master
minds. though the pretexts are al
ways different and the deluded
workmen always imagine they are
striking merely for more money or
better hours, -..-.a
At this writing a soviet, calling
Itself a strik e committee, is at
tempting to rule stricken Belfast.
where the waIkout of shipwrights
has been converted by the BoIshevik
expediency OF making impossible
transport. Importation Of milk and
food. or operation Of the LublIc
utilities, into a situation temporar-
lily reminiscent of towns in Russia.
In Glasgow McManus. MacLean and
their associates are trying the same
game. and the issue hangs in the
balance 60. =. r. -.
These Belfast and Clyde tie-ups are
however regarded by the Bolsheviks
not as the revolution" itself. but as
interesting and valuable dress re-
hesrsals. on a small scale, for the
great Industrial outbreak that when
IT comes will break up society. not
in two or three cities, but in the
whole country
Inpetas for Revelation,
MaeLesn frankly admitted as nucb
and added that it is from the dist
feeted coal regions of Wales and
Scotland that the final impetus is to
come for the red reveluAp." This
Is hscLean's program in his own
words:
with a determined revolutionary
minority, we shall be able to take
control OF the country and the means
OF production at once. and holi them
tight through disciplined production
under the workshop committees and
the district and national councils
Through Lthe cooperative. movement
we shah be able TO control the full
distribution of the necessaries Of life
and 20 win the masses over to social
ism.
IAN revolutions have started from
trihing causes. Ours is to direct the
workers to the goal by pushing for
ward the miners program and back
ing % our black brigade" The con-
dition OF the army. the navy and even
the police Strengthens US in the fight
Capitalism Is in the last ditch"
Before analyzing this highly signif-
can't confession and explaining the at
titude Of the Bolshevfk leaders toward
the rank and file of their ignorant fol-
lowers, I will give much as MacI.ean
phrased 1t the method by which he