The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-30

"It is possible only to present a most meager summary of our findings and to assure the convention that we find the statements contained in Resolution 84 sustained in every par ticular
 "Concerning many of the state ments contained in the resolution, there is no dispute. As matter of fact, those points which are in reality most significant and most important so far as American Labor is concern ed ,are not disputed. The existence of a dictatorship over the Russain people is beyond dispute On the contrary, the existence of that die tatorship has been proclaimed to the world as the fulfllment of all of the hope of those to whom Communism is a gospel In proclaiming ,Ae die tatorship of the Proietariat fine So Viet authorities are not always frank in depicting the methods by which that dictatorship Is continued in pow CT but it is possible to find in official and authenticated records descrip- toins of the methods employed and your committee IS of the opinion that those methods compare well with the methods of all the great dictatorships and autocracies. No refinement of cruelty has been overlooked.
 The statements that there is in Russia no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech and no freedom of assemblage are undisputed; they are everywhere known to be the facts. Neither do we find dispute as to the abolition of the secret ballot. The economic breakdown of Russia is a matter of world concern. We are 1f %I fo~A 4ha% f@- the Soviet government seek to excuse or explain the economic breakdown and the appalling condition. of star Vation on the ground of losses and disorganization incident to the war and on the ground of failure of rain fall. It is not necessary to minimize the effects of either of these factors. Nor does the presence of either state ment eliminate the disofganization and destruction wrought by the Soviet government as the direct result of it's effort to put into practice the philoso- phy of Communism.
 "It IS set forth in the resolution that propaganda of deception has been conducted under the direction of Soviet authorities and that in addition to other aims, it has been the purpose of this propaganda to undermine and destroy the American Federation of Labor. Numerous authoritative statements might be cited in this connection but we deem 1t unneces- sary to go at length into as point which has been made so thoroughly clear to the world by the Soviets themselves. We call attention, how ever, to one specific declaration of the Third Internationals, the political propaganda agency of Societ power, as follows:
 Special attention must be paid 10 the American Federation of Labor. It must be broken, agitating with the energetic aid of the l. w. w. for the creation of revolutionary trade unions.'
 Another official pronouncement of the Third Internationale containing instructions to sympathizers in the United States, contains explicit in- structoins for the undermining and destruction of the Amercan Fedora tion of Labor in the following langu- age:
 "'First, organize small Communist groups for the purpose of conducting revolutionary propaganda and estab fishing Communist influence in the component unions of the American Federation of Labor, and
 Second, organize in the unions special bodies, such as shop commit tees, workmen's councils, etc, for the purpose of opposing the bureaucracy of the unionist leadership and of at tempting to bring about the rejec- ton of the old forms of union or ganization in favor of revolutionary activity and a system of industrial rather than trade unions, as well as of organizing strikes wherever possible, irrespective of the decisions of the present-day leaders of the unions
 "This work in the old unions must always be connected with the realiza- ton that one of the principal aims of the movement in America must be the creation of new labor organiza- ton, independent of the American Federation of Labor. The fact that most workmen in America are not organized; that the unions which are not affiliated with the American Fed eration of Labor have a membership of more than a million; that theYe exists tendency toward the creation of "one big union"; that unions separ- ate themselves from the American , Federation of Labor all the time-all this makes it possible and necessary that all these forces be united into a new labor organization, based upon the principles of the industrial union and of the class struggle. The Com munist party and the l. w. w. should work together for the accomplish ment of this great aim.
 "In order that this should be done it is necessary that the revolutionary masses in the l. w. w. should take all power away from those union officials.
 Striving to create this new labor organization, the Communist party