The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-04-07
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REVOLUTION
Paid Organizers Collect
Big Revenue From
Secret Meetings
BY HAROLD CROSS


The /. w. w. Communist move
ment, feared as much by labor
unions as Ly Industries because Il
seeks TO bore within the unions and
disrupt them. has beer sending put
literature again,
This morning under caption o:
"Confidential Instructions" citizens
received the following; cryptic mes
sage. postmarked Detroit" and pre-
sumably from the House OF Masses"
in that city:
You can't start revolution BY
sitting on your -"
Rather inelligant. but doubtless
true.
The world is on fire with COM
munism." the confidential instruc-
tions declare, adding:
1T is impossible TO estimate the
vast amount of money expended in
the United States TO defeat the cora
munist I. ". ". movement.
China's various governments hold
communism greater peril than
Japan. There is mora bolshevism in
Japan than IS permitted to go over
the cables. Go Slow strikes are
being conducted by the workmsn
throughout the empire. Bolshevism
has taken root in India.
ASKED TO "KICK IN.
What are you doing in your
town? Are you holding meetings,
talking to your fellow workmen
about the Great Revolution?
And Don't Forget. 1t Takes
Money to Keep the Cause Alive.
Kick In"
Rather embarrassing. isn't It. to
be on the mailing list of such .
worthy enterprise and TO have ac-
complished so little in its behalf?
In all probability similar letters
were received by two or three thou
sand men in Lake county this week.
They are urged TO:
Take advantage of the low wages
now being paid by the steel indus
try to crystalline the sentiment
among workmen and gain new con-
verts 10 the l. W. W
Tell the workmen that the unions
are exploiting them as much as the
bosses and that there is ony ono
square union and that IS the One
Big Union
RUSSIAN BoLSHEyISM
This propaganda has a two-fold
purpose. The first Is TO stimulate
the sale of radical literature. the
price list of more than two hundred
books being enclosed. and the Sec
ond to raise money. supposedly for
relief in Russia and for organization
work in this country
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noble political theory should be 50
grossly comnercialized. but the fact
remains that the I. W. w commun-
ist movement in the United States
has come to be a gigantic graft.
When big Bill Haywood led the !.
"Wobblies" q few years ago they
were somewhat aloof from grating
They simply voiced protest against
this thing called government. The
wv Wobbliesv Of those days operated
in the lumber carps. copper mines
and wheat fields OF tho west,
The new l. W. ". has a foreign
flavor The control is now in direct
sympathy with Moscow and the
movement has spread into the in
dustrial centers os the middle-west
and the east.
The revenue derived from the Sc
cret meetings held in practically
every city OF the ST. Louis. Chicago,
Detroit. Pittsburgh and New Jersey
industrial districts Is velvet for
the leaders. The last thing !. W. w.
in the United States
wants is the revolution they are a.
ways talking about.
The l. w. W, has prohted hnan-
cially in every big strike OF recent
years The big ''WoDbly" meeting
at Turner Hall. Gary, during the
steel strike and the meetings at
and Ywanls halls in East
Chicago last winter we're merely
advertisements for the underground
work Of money getting that has
been carried or without interruption
in this district by paid organizers
The dollars collecte5 from work
men. mainly eoreiEn-sr labor
ers. keeps the presses Of the J. W w
aumming throughout the United
States. There is no publishing bust
ness so profitable as that OF printing
radical literature.
The One Big Union is really the
One Big Graft"