The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22

Recently Premier Mussolini, of Italy, expressed his desire to see Facisti movement organized among American citizens of Italian birth, | for the purpose of opposing certain doctrines and measures in the United States which he terms radical and revolutionary. He Is not the first prominent official of some other ma ] ton who has endeavored to spread | the influence of organizations exist | ing in their own country to the United States, and to have their rep lresentatives carry on the propaganda in our country. Probably no land is
 as burdened with propaganda, foster ed by official and other groups in European countries, as our own. Le-
 nine and Trotsky have expressed the same pious wish for their own or ganization 50 far as our country was concerned, as Mussolini.
 Serious-minded men in Europe, well-meaning individuals, as we'll as the entire variety Of revolutionary re- formers who believe that what exists must be destroyed before something
 better can be secured, have pestered America with propaganda They either believe that the American peo- pie, and in particular the American wage earners, are unable to think for themselves, or else they desire to build up an organization among Americans which will assist them to maintain the power they enjoy Tn their conditions within 1t which they are own country, or help to secure the endeavoring to establish.
 The trade-union movement has been altogether too good-natured and
 indifferent to this propaganda spread
 among it's members by Europeans
 whose object is not the welfare of
 the American wage earners, but the
 particular object which such Euro
 peans desire to establish. Propagan-
 dists are generally less frank than
 Lenine and Mussolini; they do not so
 clearly state their objects as have
 these two individuals, the one of
 whom desires to have the American trade-union movement overthrown, and the American Government along with 1t, so that his species of cure-all
 for industrial evils would be more
 successful in Russia, while the other
 tells US that his desire Is that we
 should form organizations, and that
 propaganda should be carried on among us so that the Soviet propa-
 ganda in America would be less eff
 fecsive
 It is high time that the European propagandist in our country and
 those on the other side carrying on propaganda in this country should be exposed for what they are; interfer- ing meddlers and busybodies at the
 best, and frequently most dangerous enemies of the trade-union movement,
 free institutions and orderly self government
 No human institution is perfect, and for that matter never can be, but the form of government in America both in the United States and Canada, is apparently the most practical and just form for free men which has yet been devised and applied. The American trade-union movement, an other human institution, has without doubt imperfections and weaknesses, but there Is nothing in the experi- ences of trade-unionists in other coun- tries which would justify them in at tempting to tell American trade unionists how they should conduct their affairs. It is high time that the propagandist was labeled for just ex- actly what he IS, and informed that neither his methods nor his propa- ganda Is welcome.