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August 28, 1919 been convicted.
Page Seven THE COMMUNIST individuals suspected of being in the employ of the German registered with the Moscow bureau, of which 2, 122 were men.
government while the war was on no longer exists. In fact, It is of interest to note that over 50 per cent of the. unemployed the war time laws, such as the espionage act, etc. were never were former employees of mercantile establishments, showing invoked against German spies, as not one of them has ever Such laws were used almost exclusively that the trader is being eliminated in Russia. The middleman is going.
against representatives of the class conscious workers of the Persons out of work in Russia and in need are pensioned country. The excuse for such prosecutions was that agitation by the government. From April 1, 1918, to April 1, 1919, Moscarried on against capitalism had a tendency to interfere with the military and naval operations of the United States govcow aided 37, 663 persons. Workingmen who reach the age ernment; but that excuse no longer exists. That fact, howof 60 and have lost 60 per cent of their productive ability are pensioned by the government.
ever, does not seem to concern these valiant champions of In the face of these facts, what becomes of all of the democracy, for they seem to be devoting more energy than malicious lies about the Soviet failure to operate industry?
ever to the persecution of people who hold other political views than theirs.
For a time it was thought such tactics were merely the result of the desire on the part of certain individuals connected COMMUNIQUES with the department of (in) justice to hold their jobs, but the persistence with which these persecutions are conducted convinces us that it is a part of the present day policy of the demoNow is the time for the churches to emphasize the idea that they who have the harshest times here on earth will have cratic administration.
the softest seats in their Master heaven, and thus do much Any government that encourages such despotic acts cannot long continue to exist and every time an individual promto lessen the resentment against the increasing cost of living.
inent in the proletarian movement is victimized by the official thugs and gunmen of the government. an ever larger number Actors call first strike in history, according to a newsof intelligent people lose respect for that government and its paper headline. Strange that it should take so long for the institutions.
actors to learn to act!
INDUSTRY AND THE SOVIET That trick of jamming down the high cost of living.
We have received so much news from the capitalist press didn fool the railway workers. They figure a raise of pay about the chaotic conditions existing in the Russian industry in the hand is worth a whole lot of hot air in the papers.
that one is led to believe that the streets are thronged with the armies of the unemployed. Nothing could be further from The Negroes were conscripted to make the world safe the fact News which is now coming from Russia shows that for democracy, and yet America is not safe for the Negro.
the stories that have been told of the closed factories have. The Messenger.
been malicious propaganda against the workers government.
The fact of the matter is that the industries under the Nothing is so obvious to any student of social forces, domination of the workers organized Soviets is thriving and says a Negro writer, as that the loyalty of the oppressed to production is being carried on at a remarkable pace when one the oppressor does not result in securing liberty for the considers the difficulties under which the Russian workers are oppressed.
laboring. In spite of the blockade which is maintained by the Allies, they are developing their industries and if it were not Texas subscriber remarks that a certain Mr. Wilson is for the energy consumed in fighting the reactionaries they the guy who put the mock in democracy.
would be in fine shape. Soviet chemical engineer says. You Americans can give is cotton and dyes, and many other Henry Ford won his case against the Chicago Tribune things, but give us peace and we will show you how our and was awarded six cents damages. It is now established industries can produce.
that Ford is not an anarchist, but the fact that he is an ignoThe textile industries are a fair gauge of Russian industry. rant idealist has been firmly established.
In the month of February, a month in which fuel is difficult to obtain, the textile industries of Petrograd produced 3, 750, From a news item we learn that 191 men were killed in 000 arshins of goods (an arshin is about three fourths of a Michigan last year while operating Ford tractors. Henry, he yard. The idleness that exists in the textile industries is due ain no anarchist. Anarchists have a habit of killing people to their being cut off from the cotton supply of Turkestan by by throwing bombs, but Ford sells em a tractor and let the Cossacks. Although Turkestan is under the control of the them do their own killing.
Soviet, transportation is cut off and cotton cannot be obtained.
Unemployment is not as pressing a problem in Russia as Congress cheers member who demands intervention to in some of the Allied countries. Many of the workers have make Mexico stable. That is doing pretty well, but cannot been absorbed by the Red Army and agricultural work on the be compared with the Professor slogan, make the world farms. Just as in the United States during the war skilled safe for democracy. People are not inclined to be aroused mechanics are in great demand. On May 19 a list was posted by such an unidealistic war cry.
in Moscow asking for 3, 000 skilled mechanics, 1, 600 trained railroad workers and 150 higher technical experts. In March When we go to war with Mexico we wonder if those who the demand for workers exceeded the supply. The Moscow oppose American imperialism will be branded as probureau received demands for 28, 713 men, exceeding the supply Mexicans.
by 11, 000.
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his energy to senseless and futile appeals who are now pleading with the capitalcapable of any action that will in the to the ruling class the revolutionist ist government of the United States to slightest degree threaten the supremacy strives to organize and educate the work give them a voice in the management of of the capitalist class. So far from de ing class for the conquest of the political the railroads are always the first to ensiring to drive an entering wedge into state in order to destroy that machine deavor to silence any revolutionary acof class domination and establish in its tivity on the part of the members of the any institution of capitalism as a prelimunions they happen, unfortunately for inary to sovietizing the entire system place the dictatorship of the proletariat the slaves, to be the heads of. The sloas a preliminary to the complete exprois the revolutionist that he positively regan of the labor fakir is always no polpriation of the capitalist class.
fuses to be a party to any sort of a comLet the labor fakirs and incompetent itics in the union, but they themselves bination brought together to ameliorate are always playing the game of capitalthe condition of the wage slave under defenders of capitalism exhaust themcapitalism.
selves fighting over the alleged recon ist politics. Their talk against politics is As Antonio Labriola says. To demand of this society that it shall struction measures and their effect upon simply propaganda to prejudice the change its laws which constitutes its de the public. The class conseious prole workers against working class political fense is to demand an absurdity. Equal tarian is interested in these quarrels only action, so they can continue to play the game of capitalist politics. To educate ly absurd is the naive proposition to sepoint to the fallacy of the workers hoping the workers in the principles of revolucure representation of labor on a board tionary political action is the task of the of management while the capitalist class to ameliorate their condition through true representative of the proletariat.
controls the state. Instead of devoting such channels. The same labor leaders