Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-29
GOMPERS SAYS
 PINK JOURNALS
 ARE DANGEROUS
Labor Leader Condemns All Bolshevism and "ParIor
 Radicals"

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S-Writiug
 in the current number of the Fedora. tionist. official organ of the American
 Federation of Labor. Samuel Gompers
 condemns bolshevism completely
 finally and for all time"
 The American labor leader declares
 he doubts whether the propa ganda
 which emanates from the Bolshevist
 organization itself is more effective
 than that conducted by those who
 claim to he entirely detached from
 Russian influence and Russian pay
 rolls" He says he doubts whether
 publications issued by Russian Fol shevist agents have as great an eff feet in America as those which like
 to be known as Journals of opinion such as The Nation and The Dial, and the New Republic"
 Mir Gompers makes an extended reference to the argument that the American people know little about what is going on in Russia and the argument that it is unfair and un- wise to pass judgment
 We do not have to wait for in- formation about the form of govern ment existing in what is called Soviet Russia" he said, ''all the information necessary to the passing of judgment on bolshevism and the system of gov ernment and as a state of society, is at hand from sources that are authen- tic. The plea of those misguided per sons in America who say wait for facts before passing judgment is nothing more than an excuse which ir 1n Russian experiment and enable it to spread to other countries"
 Quoting from tine new BolsheVist constitution, MT. Gompers points out that while the Fifth Pan-Russian con- gresS declares for a dictatorship of the proletariat and the poorest peas antry, a grea portion of the peasantry is disfranchised and the largest Bol- shevist estimate of the proletariat calculates them as only one-fifth of the number of peasants. Even fairly prosperous working man, by this calculation, MT. Gompers says, Is not proletarian. Bolshevist statis- ticvs, he says, show that the Boi- shevist minority does not even repre- sent the masses of factory workers in Moscow, the Bolshevist stronghold.
 He quotes a dispatch from Russia trade unionists to w. A. Appleton, president of the International Fedora tion of Trade Unions, which declares that Bolshevists have split up the re- serve funds of trade unions, throttled the labor press, killed labor Organiza tions, split up trade unions as class, and put down strikes by force Of arms and plentiful executions"
 ''In all concepts of freedom within the American natlon,' says MT. Com pers, "one fundamental principle is that any involuntary servitude, that is, compulsory labor. shall not be en- forced upon the working people" He quotes the amendment to the federal and adds:
 That concept and the spirit of that amendment have been entirely reversed by the constitution of Bol- shevisS Russia which provides for end enforces compulsory labor The plea to withhold judgment is a least desperate attempt to win favor from the American people for sys tenn of government which by the con- fession of its own advocates and de lenders is foreign to every concept of the American republic. We know about bolshevism. We know the bite ous story of cruelty. and intolerance and we know the autocratic concept that underlies the minority distator- ship which is hailed to the world by it's dupes and advocates as the most perfect state of society yet advanced. We know sDout and we condemn 1t finally and for all time.