Evening star., 1935-02-19
j. s. RED MENACE
CAUSING CONCERN
Burrowing Into Army and
Navy in Attempt to
Overthrow Government.
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made in the military forces by means
of propaganda spread by their agents.
The August, 1884, issue of the Com
munist, official organ of the Com
munist party of America, quotes this
resolution Of the thirteenth plenum Of
the Executive Committee of Commu-
mist International:
Civil War Proposed.
"In fighting against war the Com
munist must prepare even now for
the transformation Of the imperialist
war into civil war and concentrate
their forces in each country at the
vital parts of the war machine Of
imperialism.
In addition to increased agitation
the Communist parties must by all
means in their power insure the prac-
tical organization of mass action, pre-
venting the shipment of arms and
troops, hindering the execution of
orders for belligerent countries, organ
izing demonstrations against military
maneuvers, etc, and must intensity
political educational work in the
Army and in the Navy"
Communistic propaganda may be
bunk" as some contend, but it is in
teresting, nevertheless.
Plan to Overthrow Government.
A fair sample is a forecast of the
workers revolution" as contained in
a pamphlet by Moissaye j. Olgin,
member of the Executive Committee Of
the Communist party, head of the
Jewish section of the party and editor
of the radical Daily Freiheit. Here is
the Communists plan for overthrow
ing the United States Government and
establishing dictatorship of the
proletariat":
"A time comes when there is de-
moralization above, a growing revolt
below Many had armed themselves
before as the struggles sharpened.
Street fights become frequent. Under
the leadership of the Communist party
the workers organize revolutionary
committees to be in command of the
uprising.
There are battles in the principal
cities. Barricades are built and de-
Tended. The workers fighting has a
decisive influence with the soldiers.
Army units begin to join the revolu-
tionary fighters; there is fraterniza-
ton between the workers and the
soldiers, the workers and the Marines.
Hope to Rout Police.
1.-THE movement among the soldiers
and Marines spreads. Capitalism Is
losing its strongest weapon, the Army.
The police as rule continue fighting,
but they are soon silenced and made
to flee by the united revolutionary
forces of workers and soldiers. The
revolution Is victorious.
Armed workers and soldiers and
Marines seize the principal govern
mental offices, invade the residences
of the President and his cabinet mem
bers, arrest them, declare the old
regime abolished. establish their own
power-the power of the workers and
farmers"
After painting this red picture,
Olgin asks, Can it be done?"
His answer is, "It has been done
more than once" and he proceeds to
list series of revolutions which, he
declares, were effected by "the work.
ers." He mentions two upheavals in
Russia leading up to the final estab-
lishment of the Soviet government in
1917 and workers revolutions" in
Germany in 1918, in Hungary and
Bavaria in 1919, in China In 1927 and
in Spain in 1882.
A revolution cannot win, however,
he emphasizes, unless the armed
force, or at least part of them, join
the workers"
But once they join," the pamphlet
points out, "the workers have not only
rifles and cannon, but also airships
and poison gas and battleships to fight
the bosses.
Poison gases are destructive, to be