Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-05

Washington, Jan. 4.-Plans of the Communist and Communist Labor parties among which the great raids by government agents inaugUrated Friday night are directed. to gain control 2f all labor organizations as the means Of fomenting revolution were revealed tonight in ducoments made public by the department of iustsc. Assistant Attorney General were revealed Onight n documents which were seized in several cities. yViIh the desire, he said that the American people learn the real pur pose Of these menacing groups and the nature Of the poison they are spreading
 Department agencies in many cities continued today the work of running down and interrogatins members of of the TWO organizations. Officials said it was distinctly surprising that each party numbered so many Ameri can citizens in it's membership. Their eases will he turned over to state governments.
 Two hundred and eighty persons ZriE ise turned over to state gov c-nments. the list Of those taken into custody, which is fast approaching ] ,s1n. Ninety-fouF additional arrests of aliens we're reported to MT. Gar
 
 against whom the department be- lieves it has perfect cases" to 2.T29.
 Included in the arrests reported to- day were: Woodlawn, Pa, and TOle dog and Pittsburgh. two each.
 Among those arrested today in Portland. Oregon, was Victor Saulit, who attracted attention by his activi- ties as a delegate to the August con- e vention oT the Communist Labor par fy in Chicago.
 Tn their plan to bore from within in the labor unions. as disclosed in the manifesto and programme" the leaders of the Communist and Com munist labor parties outlined for their adherents the programme for melting simultaneous small strikes and de- velopment Of these small strikes into mass action The plan of action was given in detail from small strikes to minor mass strikes; from minor mass strikes tO general strikes and from general strikes to the dictatorship of the proletariat through revolution
 Depioring the trend of development of trade uniOniSns the manifesto" says:
 The older unionisrl was based on the craft divisions of small industry. The unions consisted primarily of skilled workers. whose skill in itself is a form of property. The unions are not or gans of the militant class struggle now. Today, the dominant unionism is actually bulWark of capitalism, merging in imperialism and accepting state capitalism"
 The -manifestos' admonishes the par ties followers that they must actively engage in the struggle to revolution ize- the trade unions. It adds that as against the unionism of the American Federation of Labor, there is need for emphasis of revolutionary implications and that:
 We recognize that the American Federation of Labor is reactionary and the bulwark of capitalism"
 The ComInunist party members pledge themselves, the manifesto shows. to participate in all mass strikes. not so much to achieve the snds of the particular strike but to further its programme of revolution. Complete equalization by capital in all strikes is given as one aim whi4 collective bargaining or dickering of any Kind between employer and eTn- pioye has no place in the radicals scheme of overthrowing the present political economic system.
 The manifesto of the Communist international which was made pub lie as one Of the documents subscribed to by both the Communist and Com rnunist Labor froups of this country eharacterizes the League of Nations as ''the cover under which the worIl capitalists prepare for their final bat tie"
 Action of the government in obtain ing an injunction against the leaders of the bituminous coal strike was em- pioyed by the Communist party heads as ammunition in their campaign, de- eiaring that the capitalist used the ZoFernmsnts power. a weapon which the workers could not muster. This evidence is contained in a pamphlet printed within a few days after At torney General Palmer had reached an agreement with officials of the United Mine Workers.