The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-18
FOSTER TURNS UP AGAIN.

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At the very moment when soviet
Russia is making frantic and fearful
appeals for recognition and trade re-
lations with this country. and when
our government is being criticised in
certain quarters. foreign as well as
domestic. for not joining the "assas-
sins and looters of Moscow around
the Genoa conference table, there is
being promoted here, says a bulletin
issued by the National Civic Fedora
ton, a movement known as the Lenin-
Foster program for capturing the
American Federation OF Labor and
the railway brotherhoods as prelimi-
nary to the declared object of setting
up a Workers Republic" in the
United States.
Fortunately. continues the bulletin,
the appeal for soviet recognition falls
on deaf ears in washington, altho
urged tfrelessly and insistently by the
Bolshevist contingent in this country.
plus certain concession hunters and
red" sympathizers in the ranks of
the "intellectuals." all being ably re-
inforced by a vigorous press propa-
ganda from Moscow. publicly en-
dorsed by Tchitcherin.
Because Samuel Gompers protested
to President Harding against the rec
ognition of the soviet regime. it is
pointed out, Lenin launched a partic-
ularly venomous attack on him as fol-
lows:
In whose name is the despicable
renegade Gsompers speaking? Is 1t in
the name of the six million workers
who are organized in the trade unions
that belong to the American Fedora
ton of Labor? BY no meansi Ev-
erybody knows that the overwhelming
majority of the American working
men for a long time been demanding
the recognition OF soviet Russia Not
even the whole trade union bureau
cracy shares the spiteful Black Hun
bred views of Mr.. Gompers- Only a
most insignificant handful OF trade
union bosses who surround him. who
have long ago sold themselves to
trusts and syndicates, and who are de-
liberRtely turning the trade unions
into tools of American capitalism.
could support this latest mean trick of
that confirmed traitor
The best answer to Lenin's TRADE
is the fact that the American FEEDER
alton OF Labor continues to elect
Gompers to the presidency of the or
ganization-
The effort to disrupt the American
labor movement. it appears. is being
conducted from Chicago by w. z.
Foster, of steel strike fame, under the
suise of a so-called Trade Union Ed
vocational League" whose official or
gan. the Labor Herald" has all the
earmarks of a prosperous undertake
ing. Foster returned from Moscow
last fall with the Lenin program and,
apparently. plenty of money with
which to conduct an extensive as well
as intensive campaign.
This plan. said TO be the most scien-
tific and plausible yet evolved. on pa
per. for the revolutionizing of the le-
climate labor organization, contem-
plates the selection. as key men," of
one thousand disaffected. revolution
airy trade unionists in as many locali-
ties. who in turn are to round up all
brother rebels in their respective
unions-and then the boring in" proc
ess is expected to start. That is. they
are to attend faithfully all meetings of
their crafts, embracing every oppor-
tunity TO create friction. Dust the
present leaders. acquire office and
play the disruptive game generally
OF course it is not expected that they
will capture either the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor or the railway broth
erhoods but they will make trouble by
utilizing to the full the opportunities
offered by the coal strike. the textile
strike or any other large capital and
labor controversy.