Gunnison news-champion., 1923-09-14
VI. W. EXPOSE ACTIVE
TIES OF SOVIET FORCES
IN AMERICA

new YORK, Sept. 9.-The United
" ne Workers of America today made
public the first Of a series of six
.r;lc!es charging that Red forces
-ndcr the direct supervision of Mos
cox are attempting 70 seize control
~ the organized labor movement OF
America and use il as the base from
hlch to carry on the communist eff
Tort for the overthrow Of American
governments
Imported revolution is knocking
It the door of the United Mine Work
rs Of America and the people of
he United States and Canada" says
me Introductory article, which adds
that its disclosures are the result of
an independent searching inyestiga-
ton by the miners organization
which led directly 10 original sources
Thru a revolutionary movement on
this continent the communist inter
rationale at Moscow has undertaken,
according TO the miners, to carry out
the following program:
!. Overthrow and destruction Of
the federal, state and provincial
governments, with the elimination of
existing constitutional forms and
foundations.
2. Establishment of soviet die
tatorship, absolute in its exercise of
power, owing allegiance to and con-
ceding the authority only Of the Com
munist or Third Internationale at
Moscow as governmental substitute.
3. Destruction of all social, eco
nomical and political institutions as
they exist at this time.
Saizure ny oil labor nnsapc
thru a process of boring from within
them and utilizing them as a stra-
tegic instrument in fulfillment of
their revolutionary designs upon or
ganized and governmental govern
ment.
5. Invasion of the United Mine
Workers Of America, with the custer
of its present leaders and officials
and the submission of a leadership of
communists that it may be used as
an fundamentally for seizing the
other labor unions of America and
for eventuality taking possession Of
the country.
6. A well organized movement is
being promoted within the big four
railroad brotherhoods and Is trade
unions to amalgamate all rail work
SAS WIG
controlled by a single leader of COM
munist principle and utilization and
owing allegiance to the communist
organization.
7. Seizure of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, with the custer of
its officials, and thru such seizure.
gain control of its affiliated units
and trade unions.
Conversion If oil trade ,r,f& 4.
unions into single units of workers
within an industry known as indus
trial unions with coordination un-
der super-soviet union, owing al
iegiance to and accepting the man
dates Of the Communist Information
ale and its subsidiary, the Red Trade
Union lnternationale at Moscow.
9. Thru conquest and subjuga-
ton of the labor unions and CONVEX
sion and mobilization Of farmers and
other related groups, the overthrow
of existing institutions and the Gre
alton of condition similar to that
which now prevails in Russia"
The article charges that vast net
work of agencies for the dissemina-
ton of communist propaganda exists
in the United States. This system, it
Is aiieBeu, Is u Eefltlpie octopus OF
interlocking directorates with 200
local organizations, As national ones
and membership that runs the
social scale of the continent.
The names of William z. Foster,
professed radical; Alexander Howatt,
deposed head of mine workers in
Kansas; J. B. McLachan, ousted
leader Of the recent strike in Nova
Scotia, and Roger Baldwin, executive
secretary of the American Liberties
union, are mentioned prominently
throuout the alleged exposure.
American subsidiaries of the Mos
COW government are charged with
having fomented the steel strike of
1919; the switchmens' strike of 1920.
and with having aided in lining up
railroad shop craft and soft coal min
ers for the prolonged struggle Of last
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