Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1920-01-08
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-
vki--it Advocates the Over
throw of U. S. Government.


Washington, Jan. 5.-The depart
ment of justice revealed 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 goyernment-the authority of the
nation, the right of property, and the
idea of labor unionism included-was
to be swept aside, and rule of the
proletariat" substituted.
The Communist party and the Com
munist Labor party We're to be the
foundations on which would be reared
government Of the soviet These
bodies We're directly under control and
direction of the Russian soviet.
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.
eve maintain that the class strug-
gle is essentially a political struggle"
one red document says; that is,
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
manifestos of the Communist party
and the Communist Labor party prove
these facts:
1.-THE Communist party is the out
growth of the left wing of the Social
list party of America.
ut 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 adj
vocacy of the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat.
"The first congress of the Commun-
list 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
munist International.
'The Communist party of America,
through the propaganda being actively
carried on at the present time, is adj
vocating the overthrow of the govern
ment OF this country by force and vio-
lence."