The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-04-15

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Al the conclusion OF Mr.. Pafners
recital the president and other menu
bers 1T the cabinet thought the best
method to counteract the "outlAW1
strikers and the revofutiouists, an
archists and l. w. WIS in their ranks
was to bring the public OF the coun-
try and the loyal railroad workers
to n realization Of the peril now fac
Ing them. It was therefore decided
To make public the information held
by tho department of justice. To-
/ night Attorney General Palmer
made this statement:
II feel that it is highly important
! that the people and the strikers
know what Is behind tha strike, and
what Is the purpose of those In CON-
troll II is the latest working out Of
the program Of the communist par
l.ty TO overthrow governments estab-
/ lish relationships of leaders of the
proletariat and duplicate conditions
! that exist in Russia. -
| COMMUNIST PROGRAM
| The attorney general then took up
a mass of documents and read them.
+ one by one, interspersing his reading
/ with comments. The first document
/ he made public was a manifesto aud
| program Of the Communist party OF
I Amer
Saturday. May the attorney gem
! eral said, has been set as the date for
a general uprising of the men led by
/ the com munists.
/ The department, through its agents
/ ne said, has been informed of the ac-
/ tivities of the communists in other in
! dustries to bring about lust such \
situation as exists in the railway
strike, Dates have been set for the
| strikes in these industries he said ana
are known to the department. After
! the steel strike, he said. plans were
( laid for the destruction of the
| brotherhoods The department. was
aware of this, and set about making
! plans for meeting the emergency.
t ndcr !. W. w. leadership" the
! attorney general stated. acting as
i part of the communist labor party
/ of America. the railway workmen
/ have been led into the strike and
! they will he exploited by the leaders
into deeper waters than they antici-
! pated when they laid down their
! tools,
THE next step of the government
will await the reception which the
! truth gets from the public and from.
! the railway workers. Undoubtedly
/ many Of them have been led into the
strike through ignorance of the mo-
! tives of the movement. Should the
result be otherwise than expected
I other steps will be taken"
+ To show the motive of the COM
fnunist the Encouragement read ex-
cerpts from the program of the COM
! muniSts party adopted at the conven-
, tlOu in Chicago In il the American
/ Federation of Labor was stgmatized
| as "reactionary and a bulwark OF
! capitalism" The program set forth
! that Industrial unionism is not simply
a means for the everyday struggle
I against capitalism; its ultimate, pur-
| pose is revolutionary, implying the
| necessity of ending capitalist parIia~
mentary state. Industrial, unionfsn
, is factor in the final mass action for
the conquest of power"
ADVISED TO FOLLOW RUSSIA
The attorneys general made pn,hHr
photostatic copies OF the "bul1etin al
i The provisional bureau in nrsterffa N,
I OF the communist International
/ which contained an appeal TO the
workers Of Europe and America to
I follow the glorious example OF fha
/ Russian soviet republic"
We appeal tn the workers OF conn
/ tries - the article summed up its arru-
ments. TO follow this example and
Z with the utmost energy to wage the
war for their deliverance They n1usg
, attack and undermine capitalism en-
I IF"pIed ALREADY ana the bourgeois
+ state-power by ceaseless mass actions
! tdt mcnstrations, strikes)..
I AT the ~ me time they must b,rft1
. up their own class organizations.
their sovicts. as organs OF the coming
order of society. And when then eli
last, the despotism of the bourgeoisiA
/ breaks down under their attacks they
must boldly seize the power and cree
ate the new world of communism
The Encouragement also rrade
puhlie an appeal to the communist
+ party in America by G. Zinoview. al
president of the executive COMMITTEES
! OF the communist International 4thM1
was among the papers taken from 4
/ Rolshevist courier on his way to the
United States in March of this year.
I The appeal wss as follows:
The party must take into account
! the every day incidents OF the claas
war. The stage of verbal propagaYfda
and agitation has been left behind
I the time for decisive battles has a.
! rived The most important task COM
! fronting the American comm nist 1T
! the present moment is TO draw thG
wide proletarian masses into the nAth
4 of revolutionary struggles. The pasty
! must have for its goal the dissolution
| of the American Federation Of Las
| Dor and other unions associated With
/ 1t. and must strive to hltAh IN
closest connections with thu !. NJ MI,
| the One Big Union. and Tho WEB
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