Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1920-02-04
SOVIET PLAN IS
HIT BY G0MPE RS
a F. of l. Chief AsSaiIs Three
American Magazines.
B0LSHEVISM is CONDEMNED
Declares He Knows All About the
Cruelty, Intolerance and Auto
cratic Concept of Minority Die
tstorship of Lenine Regime.

Washington, Jan. Writing in
the current number Of the Federation
list, official organ of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, Samuel Gompers
condemns bolshevism completely,
finally and for all time"
The American labor leader says he
doubts whether the propaganda which
lemanates from the bolshevist organi-
cation itself is more effective than
that conducted by those who claim
ito be entirely detached from Russian
Influence and Russian pay rolls"
He says he doubts whether publ
cations issued by, Russian bolshevist
lAmericE as those (which like to be
known as journals of opinion such
as the Nation, the Dial and the New
Republic"
Mr.. Gompers makes an extended
reference to the argument American
people know little about what is going
on in Russia and the argument 1t is
unfair and unwise to pass judgment.
Soviet Rules Known.
1T is not necessary" says Mr.. Com
pers, ''fOr Americans to know exact
conditions in Germany before passing
judgment on the form of government
there. 1t was necessary only to know
the form of government and rules it
operated under.
1--WE do not have to wait for infor-
nation about the form of government
existing in what is called soviet Rus
STA. All the information necessary to
passing, of judgment on bolshevism
and the system of government and as
a state society is at hand from anthem
tic sources.
1.-THE plea of those misguided per-
sons in America who say wait for
facts before passing judgment is moth
ing more than an excuse, which, it is
hoped, will gain time for the Russian
experiment and enable 1t to spread to
other countries"
Quoting from the new bolshevist
constitution, Mr.. Gompers points out.
while the fifth Pan-Russian congress
declares for a dictatorship of the pro-
letariat and the poorest peasantry. a
great portion of the peasantry is dis
franchised, and the largest bolshevist
estimate of the proletariat calculates
them as only one-fifth of the number
of peasants.
Majority Not Represented.
Even a fairly prosperous working
man, by this calculation Mr.. Gompers
,o,-- - not N DrOJo+arian Pn1Shpvi ST
statistics, he says, show the bolshevist
minority does not even represent the
masses of factory workers in Moscow,
the bolshevist stronghold.
Quoting from bolshevist official
documents to show the extent of
massed terror by the bolsheviki, Mr..
Gompers said economic condition in
internal Russia at the present time
has absolutely nothing to do with the
merits or dement's of the bolshevist
philosophy of government" and adds :;
'It should have no influence in de-
termining the judgment of any person
upon it as such"
What They Do to Labor.
Mr.. Gompers quoted as the most
direct information a dispatch from
Russian trade unionists to w. A. APP
nletoI, president of the International
Federation of Trade Unions, which de-
clares that bolshevists have split up
the reserve funds Of trade unions,
throttled the labor press, killed labor
organizations. split up trade unions
as class and put down strikes by
''force of arms and plentiful exeeu-
tons"
I'm all concepts of freedom within
the American nation" Mr.. Gompers
said, zone fundamental principle is
that any involuntary servitude, that
Is compulsory labor, shall not be en-
forced upon the working people"