Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-05
NE .RLY 5000 TAKEN
AND RAIDS CONTINUE.

NE .RLY 5000 TAKEN
AND RAIDS CONTINUE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. although
nearly 5000 had been arrested since
the latest radical raid was started FRI
day night, Department o. Justice
agents are st4ll seeking members of
the Communist and Communist La
Dor organizations today. Appafent-
ly New York and Chicago are the
chief centers of activity.
Plans of the communist and cons
munlst labor parties againat whom
the great raids by government
agents are directed, to gain
control Of all labor organizations as
the means of fomentlng revolution,
were revealed in d.euments mada
pubic by the department Of Justice
Assistant Attorney Genera! Garvan
made public the documents, which
were seized in several cities, with the
desire, he said, that the American
people learn "the real purposes of
these menacing groups and the ma
ture of the poison they were spread
ing.
Officials said it was distinctly sur
prising that each party numbered so
many American citizens in its mem.
Dershlp. The party rolls were said to
carry the names of many persons well
known in their respective commune
ties, and American citizens. Although
there is no federal law under which
the American communists can be
dealt with, department. agents were
not overlooking these. Their cases
VIII be turned over to state govern
ments.
In their plan to "bore from within"
III the labor unions, as disclosed in
the manifesto and program" the
leaders of the communist and labor
parties outlined for their adherents
tie program for inciting simultan.
eously small strikes and DEVELOPMENT
OF these small strikes into mass action.
Ihe plan of action was given in detail
from small trikes to minor mass
strikes; fro minor mass strikes to
general s't,.tes, and from general
strikes to the dictatorship Of the pro-
letariat through revolution"
Der 'oring the trend Of develop
merit of trade unionism, tie "mani-
festo" lays:
The oder unionism was based on
craft divisions of small Industry.
The Unions consisted primarily of
skilled workers whose skill, in itself.
is form of properly. The unions
are not organs of the militant class
struggle now Today, tte dominant
nnionism is actually a 5uiwark of
capitalism, merging imperialism and
accepting state capitalism
I'VE recognize that The American
Federation of Labor is leactionary
and the bulwark of capitalism.
The ctmnunist parry members
pledged themselves, the mani e ia
shaw>. to participate ii I'll mass
strikes, hot SO much to achieve the
ends of the particular strike, but to
further its program of revolution,
complete capitulation by capital in
all strikes is given as one aim,
while collective bargaining, or dick.
ering of any kind between employer
and employee has no place in the radi.
Gals scheme of overshrowing the
present political economy system.
The manifesto of the communist
International" which was made pub.
lie as one of the documents subscrib.
ed to by both the communist ana COM
munist labor group of this country,
characterizes the league of nations as
"the cover under which the world cap
italists prepare for their final battle"
The league covenant itself is describ-
ed as only deluge of pacifst phrase
desperate effort made
to pull together the tumbling capital.
istic system"
Action of the government in oh.
tanning an injunction agains the lie d.
ers of the bituminous coal strike. was
by the communist party
heads as ammunition in their cam.
paign, declaring that the capitalist
used the governments power, a wea-
pom which the workers corlS vs.
ter. This evidence is contained in
pamphlet printed within few days
after Attorney General Palmer had
reached an acreerccnt wi4h oeiciais
Of the United Mine Workers Of
America.