The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-06-17

ers strongly Indicate the truth of the
conclusion thai they will appropriate
the capitalists as soon as they learn
| they have the power TO do SO. In their
daily strikes they pit their strength
| against that of their employers and
\ wiring from them whatever conces-
sions they can. They do not remain
| long content with these concessions,
| and as soon as they are able they pro
| ceed to win more. They are Unsuitable,
| and when the general strike proves
their ability TO do SO they will have
no scruples against eXpropriating the
capitalists. This appropriation will
\ seem the more natural to them then,
as they win be fortified by the syn.
dicalist conception that the capitalists
are thieves and have not right to
| their property.
The wealthy capitalists themselves
will also need generous guards.
Syndicalists in every country are
already actively preparing this disor-
ganization OF the armed forces by
carrying on double educational CAM
paign among the workers On the one
hand they are destroying their IL
usions about The sacredness of CAPT
| talist property and encouraging them
10 seize this property wherever they
have the opportunity. On rhe other
they are teaching working class sol
diers not to shoot their brothers and
sisters who are in revolt. but. IL need
be. to shoot their own officers and TO
desert the army when the crucial mo-
nent arrives. This double Propa-
sanda of contempt for capitalist prop
erty rights and antimilitarisnr are
inseparable from the propagation of
the general strike
In all probability the general
strike. at least in IFS incipient stages.
viii follow the course that any number
of modern great strikes have taken
Only small part of the workers will
be organized. This organized fraction
under some strong stimulus. VIII pro-
woke great strike: vast masses OF un-
organized workers seeing an oppo-
tunity TO better their eonditionss ana
caught in the general contae eion OF re
volt viii join the strike. organizing
themselves meanwhile. The strike
VIII spread. society will be paralyzed
and the revolutionary workers. per
cesving their power. will proceed TO
put an end to capitalism
The success of the general strike
does not necessitate the voluntary
striking OF every worker Modern
industry is so deiicateiy adjusted AMI
the division of labor so compete tina;
il the bulk OF the workers in few a;
the so-calied strategic Industries
transportation. coal mining steel amk-
ing. etc--quit work the rest of the
workers would be forced to do like
| wise through lack of materials and
| markets for their products. No doubt
the workers forced to quit thus. who
| would be mostly unorganized, un-
i hi faA
pressed would readily fall i'm with the
| program of the revolutionists once
the general strike was well under
way"
| could read you pages of modern
hair raising stun from notorious cit
izens such as Norris Hilldun. who
came near being mayor OF New York
ICity. Bill Haywood. Vincent St John.
and John Reed. all three of whom are
Well known in Colorado. and from the
| Platforms of the Communist and So
cialist Parties. the constitution OF the
|. w W. from the propaganda of the
communist socialist federations. and
other radical societies in the big cities
to show YOU that the manifestoes of
l.enin. and Trotski have nothing on
some of our own radicals for sheer Az
arehy. except that the pronounce.
meuts of the two notorious Russians
have the effect of law. but the limit
on my time fo-bids
out in the country where the dues
tions OF capital and labor are dis
cussed the term capitalist is wrnnsly
construed as meaning some ina ginaFy
individual who has accumulated a.
inherited millions or billions of dol
lars. He is far away in the dim dis
4 taucs and the determination of his
race would mean little Inconvenience
to most OF our people
But the fight OF the Rolshevist. the
syndicalist. the |. w. w. the commu
mist. the radical. is not directed eN
clusively against such II is directed
against and would overthrow the sys-
TEN OF property ownership. the system
by which YOU have saved up enough
money from your work TO buy a honY.
(which you hope TO leave to your IN
or daughter, by which. through THRIFT
hard work and enterprise. YOU own
your farm. or your store. or your il
tie shop. or stock in the local cannins
| factory. or -four mill, or mine. or oil
| we'll. or bank The new order of
| things would coufiScate your ssSin-s.
bank deposit. your insurance policy.
your investments. your Liberty bonds.
| II would put the thrifty farmer The
ambitious working man. the successful
merchant on level with the tramp.
the sluggard. the shiftless, the rowdy
In theory Il would be all that
In the light OF practical experience
| OF the recent past. as well as of all
ages. the revolution OF the general
strike would turn government iuto
chaos. in which the Dictatorship OF
| brute force would take the place Of