The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-07-18
THE COMMUNIST UPRISING IN
CALIFORNIA

CALIFORNIA
One of the gravest situations that ever
confronted this country, except in time of
war, exists today on account of the Pacific
coast strike In fact, it is war.
This is nothing more or less than Com
muniSt uprising. The State and federal
governments are aware of this fact; the
conservative union labor leaders of the
country know it, and some of them have
publicly called attention to it. 1t is time
the people of the United States were
awake to the peril of this strike.
Matthew Woll, one of the vice-presi-
dents of the American Federation of La
Dor, made this statement in an article pub
lished in Liberty Magazine:
early in April there was broadcast to
Communists an order for sixteen weeks of
intensive demonstration and strike agita-
ton, to eliminate in general strike on
August 16'."
If those engaged in this ruthless and I'M
American uprising against the State OF
California and the United States of Amer
lea gain a victory, Bolshevism will be in
control on the Pacific coast, and this con-
dition will speedily be followed by Com
munist uprisings in all the great popula-
ton centers of the country.
Labor unions in the Pacific coast States
are absolutely dominated by the Reds. The
present strike was made to order on the
demands of the radicals. This is no Ordi-
nary strike-in fact, it is not strike at
ALT is the beginning of what the Com
munists believe will be the revolution that
will overthrow the American government.
A strike can be settled. The issues can
be threshed out and an agreement reached
between employers and employees. The
issue in this California strike is the Ameri-
can people and their government against
Russian Communism. There are no issues
which can be discussed or arbitrated or
settled, except by war to finish-the fin
ish of the American system of government
or of Communism in the United States.
The foregoing no doubt will appear to
the average man in the streets as a fan
tastic pipe dream. The San Francisco
strike is just another strike to him. He has
been busy with his personal affairs, or with
community affairs, has not studied nation
wide conditions, is not informed about the
progress of foreign Red movements in this
country and it is absolutely inconceivable
to this man in the street that these state
mentS can be true.
Nevertheless, they are as real as the sun
which shines from day to day over the
mountains and valleys of this North Caro-
lima country.
The American government, if it is in
formed, was aware months ago of this i'm
pending danger. The State of CALIFORNIA;
position today affords ample evidence OF
the fact that the States officials are IN
formed. There are many informed persons
throughout the country Several months
ago friend sat in the office of The Times
News and outlined the conditions that ex.
list today on the Pacific coast. If it had
been possible to sketch this situation in
blueprint form it could not have been done
with greater accuracy.
Watchmen on the towers of patriotism
and Americanism, who have all along beer
informed of the movements of the radicals
in this country, know that the hour ha:
struck with the Communists for the at