Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-01-09

other parts Of the country, it was an
nounced.
The two communist parties were
rapidly extending their activities to
all parts of the country, the evidence
shows. In their program was in
cluded a general uprising of negroes,
whom they expected to arm.
Efforts also were being made, it
was stated, to gain control Of all
labor organizations with the cry,
down with capitalism"
Appeals were made by the leaders
of the communist organizations for
violence and bloodshed in the two
recent big strikes-those Of the
miners and the steel workers. Alien
leaders travelled all over the country,
urging strikes and other labor trou-
bles, hoping thus to bore from within
and lead the large number of Ameri-
can workmen into their organization.
Much of the present unrest, the
evidence shows, can be checked up to
them.
twenty-five communist newspapers
were started in cities throughout the
country and tons of revolutionary
were printed. Most of the
alien editors have been caught in the
big raid.
The department of justice declared
it has conclusive evidence indicating
that the whole campaign was being
by the Bolsehvist govern
ment of Russia. The United States,
rich in resources, was the first strong
hold of democracy that Lenine and
desired to "sovietize." The
whole program was to establish the
same form of government in this
that Russia now has.
The department now has under
leaders known to be
direct agents of Bolshevism in this
and a few personal emissa-
ries of Lenine and Trotsky are likely
to be arrested in the near future, it
was learned.
Documents made public by the de-
partment of justice state that the
communist labor parties took the
manifesto of Lenine and Trotsky's
at Moscow last March and
made it their platform in this coun-
try. Every member swore allegiance
to the principles, the records of the
show.
Alongside the dethroned dynas-
ties of the Romanoffs, Hohenzollerns
and Hapsborgs and the capitalistic
cliques of these lands. the rulers of
France, England, Italy and the
United States stand revealed in the
light of unfolding events and diplo-
matte disclosures in their immeasure-
able vileness," the manifesto says.
THE revolutionary area compels
the proletariat to make use of the
means of battle which will concen-
trate its entire energies, namely, mass
action, with its resultant, direct con-
fiict with the governmental machinery
in such as the use of bourgeoise par
will be of only secon-
Diary importance"
Radical leaders planned to develop
the steel and coal strikes into a gen.
eral strike and ultimately into rev.
olution to overthrow the government,
according to information gathered by
federal agents. A definite program
to expand the two labor disturbances
for the purpose of blotting out every
of organized govern
ment was disclosed in evidence gath
cred in half score of cities. This
data, officials said, tended to prove
that the nationwide raids had nipped
the most menacing revolutionary plot
yet unearthed.
Officials indicated that both groups
Of radicals were only awaiting an OPP
perfume moment to carry on among
other workers the same sort of agi-
tation employed among steel work
srs and coal miners. Among the for
eign element of the communist and
labor parties information
described as conclusive revealed that
pay rolls had been loaded" with
agitators to be sent suddenly to every
fertile field in support of general
strike campaign.
During the last two weeks of the
coal strike communist agitators were
discovered to have penetrated prac-
tically every mining center east Of
he Mississippi river. Evidence
showed that in several instances
where miners had voted to return to
work, the communists had spread
heir propaganda of distrust of the
government to such an extent, 1t was
said. that few II any miners actually
got back to their jobs.
Attempt to incite the mine work
srs to violence were the boldest in
West Virginia, officials said, serious
rouble being narrowly averted there.