Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-01-09
EXPOSE PLOTS
OF REBELLION
Shown That Reds Sought Rule
of Soviets Over the
Nation.
CONVICTED BY OWN WORDS,
American Communist Party Is an In
tegraI Part of the Russian Bolshe-
viki-lt Advocates the Over
throw of U. S. Government

Washington, Jan. 5.-The depart
ment of justice revealed a plot by
which the radical leaders, targets of
the nationwide raids, planned to over
throw the American government and
seize control of the country.
Evidence in the hands of the au-
thorities, they said, proved that the
groundwork for the revolution had
been laid. Everything in representa-
tive government-the authority of the
nation, the rights of property. and the
idea of labor unionism included-was
to be swept aside and "ruIe of the
proletariat" substituted.
The Communist party and the Com
munist Labor party were to be the
foundations on which would be reared
a government Of the soviet. These
bodies were directly under control and.
direction of the Russian soviet.
Seek to Destroy Unions.
The first step was to be the disrup--
tion of union labor as it now exists,
and the seizure of power by the rad
icals Then were to follow the gen.
eral strikes, and the attempt to over
throw the government of the United
States.
1--WE maintain that the class strug-
gle is essentially a political struggle, ~
one red document says; "that is, a
struggle by the proletariat to con-
quer the capitalist state, whether its:
| form be monarchial or Democratic-Re-
publican, and to replace it by gov
ernmental structure adequately adapt
ed to the communist transformation.
| "The most important means of cap
| turing state power for the workers is:
| the action of the masses, proceeding
| from the places where the workers,
are gathered together-in the shops
and factories. The use of the political
machinery of the capitalist state is:
only secondary. The working class:
must organize and train itself for the
capture of state power"
in the briefs by the department of
justice with the bureau of immigra-
ton, asking the deportation of the
radical leaders, it is charged that
manifestoes of the communist party
and the Communist Labor party prove
these facts:
"The Communist party is the out
growth of the left wing Of the Social
lst party of America.
Il "It is an integral part of the first
congress of the Communist Interna-
tional which was formed by the boil
sheviki.
Through its history as the left
wing the party constantly followed the
doctrines of mass action and the ad-
yocacy of the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat.
Openly Advocate Force
'"The first congress of the Commun-
Ist International directly advocated
the overthrow of all the governments
of the world by force and violence
through mass action.
''The Communist party of America,
In its manifesto and program officially
adopted at its convention in Chicago,
held September 1, 1919, advocated the
overthrow of the government of the
United States by force and violence.
Each and every member of the
Communist party of America pledged
himself knowingly to the tactics enun-
ciated in the manifesto of the Com
munnist International.
''The Communist party of America,
through the propaganda being actively
carried on at the present time, is ad-
vocating the overthrow of the govern
ment of this country by force and vio-
tence"