Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-27
REDS PLOT TO SEIZE
INDUSTRIES IS Barred
Hearing Of Unseated N. Y. Legis-
lators Discloees Daring of So
cialists in This Country.
ey Assocsated Press TO Every Bvsusns


ALBANY. N. Y, Jan. N.-Proponents
Of s.thc dictatorship of the prolctariat"
hold that the FIRST step must be seisure
Of the movement by any means possible
and the taking over Of industry by forco
according 20 pamphlet read today at
che trial before the assembly judiciary
committee of the Eve suspended socialist
assemblymen charged with disloyalty.
The pamphlet, published by the Jewish
socialist federation OF New York, was trans
lated from the Hebrew by Charles Nj.
Robinson. Department OF Justice oper-
alive serving the Joint legislative COM
mlttee investigating radical issues, who
was called to the stand today.
Purporting to give views OF both OPP
ponents. ths pamphlet asserted the former
held preparation must be made for 'revo-
luton" and "class dictatorship, Upon
the seizure of the industries, they would
be run by working men 8 Soviets, accord
ing to the program
The pamphlet says Socialists would
enter legislative bodies first, to be nearer
the doors of the government councils,
and, second to hinder this character OF
work in any way possible.
Socialism" tho pamphlet continued,
els revolution of world perspective and
the Socialist movement is a revolutionary
movement"
Tho pamphlet defined Socialism as
Ga Red movement, with blood IN its
veins, asserting that lin America we have
had only tho echo of what happened in
Europe" The book added that the
state here was still one "of the oratorical
discussion and ''there is danger the
housecleaning will not be rs thorough as
it should be-
'The great task" continued the pamph-
let, lis to create an army ready to make
social revolution when the moment ar
rives." Tho time for class struggle, it
added. is here
''Thc dictatorship OF the proletariat"
was defined in the pamphlet rs "the bone
Of the Socialist revolution"
stUntil tho war Socialism WAS q sort
of religion, a heavenly thing which al
most had no connection with real life"
said the pamphlet.
''The Socialists have suddenly dis
covered that the Messiah Times are
already here, and that they must apply
their sacred 81 believes to life; that IT IL
no longer sufficient TO say their Il be-
Hoves' with their lips: that now they must
60 through fire and water, for their
I believes place their very lives in the
game"
Under the heading ''The opponents of
the dictatorship of the proletariat,"
the pamphlet says;
"The opponents hold that the most
sacred thing as an abstract and practical
principle, is democracy, and since die
tatorshlp is the converse, Just the opposite
of democracy, it is unclean, filthy"
Under .'the defenders OF the dictator
ship of the proietariat, the pamphlet
s2es:
sr'Working men cannot depend on
peaceful evolution they must prepare
for revolution and class dictatorship.
$50 long as the bourgeoisie is the ruling
class, the state is the dictator for the
borgeoisie; when the proletariat viii
become the ruling class, the state will
be the dictatorship OF the proletariat.'
Socialism does not believe IN the
state. 1t wants to annihilate it entirely.
when society IS ready for the overturn,
when the Socialistic organization feels
that the moment has come, it VIII make
the revolution.
of the proletariat:
This dictatorship viii be employed |
for one thing, TO eliminate capitalism by |
force, take away by force the capital |
from private owners and trarsfer it TO /
the ownership of the community. After |
this work is finished, there viii remain /
nothing more for the dictatorship, for
the proletarian state to do
''1he industries viii then be managed |
by the working men through their Sow
lets The economic order viii be scattered
out through the soviets, when private
ownership is entirely eliminated, the op-
pressed class, the bourgeoisie, whom the
OF the proletariaf will doInin-
ate, viii entirely disappear"