The Connecticut labor news., 1923-09-15
Soviet Strikes
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they exist at this time.
 A. Seizure of all labor unions, through a process of boring from within them, and utilizing them as a strategic instrument in fultlllment of their revolutionary designs upon or gan1zed and constitutional govern ment.
 s. Invasion of the United Mine l Workers of America, with the custer ot It's present officials and leaders and the substitution of a leadership of Communists, that it may be used as an lnstrumentality for selzlng the other labor unions of America and for eventually taking possession oi the country
 "o/A well organized movement IS being promoted within the Big Four railroad brotherhoods and I6 railroad trade unions to amalgamate all rail workers into one departmentalized industrial union, controlled by single | leader of Communist principles and affiliations and owing allegiance to the Communist organization.
 v. Seizure of the American Fed eration of Labor, with the custer of it's officials, and, through such seiz- ure, gaining control of its affiliated units and trade unions.
 '0. Conversion of all trade crafts unions into single units of workers within an industry, known as indus trial unions,' with coordination un- der super-soviet union owing allegl- ance to and accepting the mandates of the Communist International and it's subsidiary, the Red Trade Union International of Moscow.
 g. Through conquest and subjuga- ton of the labor unions and conver- sion and mobilization of farmers and other related groups, the overthrow of existing institutions and the crea- ton of a condition similar to that which now prevails in Russia
 Has 200 Locals.
 The article charges that vast net work of agencies for the dissemlna- ton of Communist propaganda exists in the United States. This system, II is said, is veritable octopus of in terlocking directorates, with 200 locat organizations, 45 national ones, and membership that runs the social scale ot the continent.
 The names of William Z. Foster, professed radical; Alexander Howat, deposed head of mine workers in leader of the recent strike in Nova Scotia, and Roger Baldwin, executive secretary of the American Civil Lib critics Union, figure prominently throughout the alleged expose.
 American subsidiaries of the Mos COW government are charged with having fomented the steel strike of 1919 and the switchmens strike of 1920, and with having aided in lining up railroad shop craft and soft coal miners for the prolonged struggle of last year,-in an attempt to obtain pos session of the unions during the strike and making them instruments for the furtherance of the Moscow program.
 The Herrin massacre of non-union miners last year was blamed by auth ors of the articles upon groups of Communist bodies centered at Chi cago. Bombings, dynamitings, rioting and sabotage which marked the two big strikes last year also were laid at the door of the Reds.
 Aim at Revolution.
 The American Civil Liberties Union, it was charged, provided legal talent and money to obtain the re- lease of persons arrested for or pre- vented from delivering seditious speeches. The league was challenged to show where it ever espoused the cause of a person who was not di- rectly active in Communist circles.
 All these activities, in which 1t is said upward of 6,ooo leaders and r. 100000 adherents and sympathizers in the United States and Canada were involved, were aimed at the one big purpose-revolution and communism said the miners heads.
 "The seizure of this union is being attempted as the first step in the realization of thoroughly organized program of the agencies and forces behind the Communist International at Moscow for the conquest of the American continent" continues the article. .~
 The overthrow and destruction of this government, with the esta blish- ment of an absolute and arbitrary die tatorship and the elimination of all forms of popular voice in government tai affairs, is being attempted on more gigantic scale, with more reso- lute purpose and with more design than at any time in the history of this nation"