Combined with The Revolutionary Age The Communist All Power To The Workers!
Vol. I, No. CHICAGO, ILL, OCTOBER 25, 1919 Price. 5c Per Copy Resist the Terror! ARY and the steel strike are a livelihood still more precarious; but they This is the terror of Capitalism in acchallenge to the workers. struck, and they stood firm.
tion. This is the terror used against the Capitalism is desperate. It The city administration was against workers whenever the workers assert senses the awakening of the workers and them. The press was against them. their independence.
their coming revolt. Capitalism in the Church, press and government united There is industrial mutiny in Gary, and United States finds it more and more against them.
industrial mutiny is the prelude to indifficult to maintain its power, to prevent It was not enough that the strikers dustrial revolution. The mutiny must the workers from acting as a class for should suffer the ordinary deprivations of be crushed in order to crush the onthe overthrow of Capitalism.
a strike. It was not enough that they coming industrial revolution of the proThe American workers, as if just should suffer starvation. Theirs was an letariat.
awakening from the sleep of ages, are industrial mutiny, and they had to pay Every blow at the workers of Gary is becoming conscious of larger means and the price of mutiny in blood.
a blow at the workers of the whole counpurposes in the struggle against CapiMartial law prevails in Gary. The local try. If the Terror prevails in Gary, it talism. Everywhere there is unrest and government no longer exists. The army will prevail in every community where developing revolt. Strikes are assuming is in control and Major General Leonard the workers mutiny against their ina menacing character; Congress is held Wood is dictator. The Terror of Capdustrial masters.
in contempt: the power of the press over italism is in action.
The capitalist state has intervened in the workers is weakening; while, most What was the immediate cause for Gary. The power of the capitalist state menacing of all, workers in the trades is being used against our fellow workers calling in the army? The strikers were unions are actual revolution against denied the right to hold public demonin Gary. This power will be used against their old officials and reactionary policy.
Capitalism must act. Congress passes strations and parades. The hirelings of the rorkers everywhere. Capitalism and Capitalism know the value during strikes the state have issued a challenge to the law after law against the militant workworker of demonstrations, parades and meetings.
el Agitators are imprisoned by the The workers must answer this chalThey arouse the spirit of the strikers, scores. Criminal Syndicalism measures developing enthusiasm and courage. Unlenge!
in state after state make almost any less they meet together and demonstrate, The workers must rally to the cause advocacy of militant proletarian action the workers are isolated, and isolation of their comrades in Gary, to the cause a crime. Congress is considering probreeds suspicion, fears and a weakening of their comrades in every city where hibiting strikes in certain industries. The of morale. Morale is vital during a strike; the steel strike prevails.
iron claws of reaction are seizing the meetings and demonstrations are necesThe defeat of the steel strike would proletariat.
Legislative measures are not the only sary to maintain this morale. Realizing make all the more difficult victory for this psychological factor, the first act of other strikers.
means of repression of the workers used the hirelings of Capitalism during a The victory of Capitalism and the state by Capitalism. Capitalism maintains itstrike is to prevent meetings and dein Gary means victory again in the days self by force; and behind all these measmonstrations of the strikers.
to come.
ures there is the armed force of the capitalist state, the agency for the oppresThe strikers of Gary were prevented Armed force must not prevail!
sion of the workers by capital.
The workers must conquer!
This for two weeks from holding a mass paarmed force is now being mobilized rade. Permission was denied them. Then They can conquer by means of soagainst workers on strike, as it is mobithe strikers determined to hold their lidarity, by means of using their mass lized in Europe against workers in Revo mass demonstration in spite of the power against Capitalism and the state.
lution.
mayor order to the contrary. And they by rallying in mass strikes to the cause The steel strike had not yet started did. In spite of the mayor, in spite of of their comrades in Gary.
when capital mobilized its armed forces the order: the mass power of the workers Bring pressure to bear upon the state against the workers. Meetings are proconquered.
by means of mass strikes.
hibited: strike agitators are murdered This was dangerous to the capitalists The class struggle is becoming achte.
and imprisoned. The terror of Capitalism and Capitalism. Capitalism acted. The Terror is in action against the workers.
is in action against the militant pro army was called in; grenades and rifles The workers must resist the terror.
letariat.
and machine guns were to answer the The process of the proletarian revoluAt this moment the class struggle is workers.
tion consists in weakening the class flaring up in all its intensity in Gary, And now Gary is under martial law. power of the capitalists as against Indiana, where thousands of steel work Now Gary is in the control of a military strengthening the class power of the ers on strike are being repressed by the dictator. To the devil with civil liberty. workers. Victory for Capitalism and the power of the Federal government, in The Terror prevails in Gary. Machine state in Gary means strengthening the cluding its army: runs and rifles and arnored trucks bristle class power of the capitalists. Victory in the city of Gary named after Steel everywhere, prepared for action. And for the workers in Gary means strengthTrust Gary and symbolical of Steel Trust behind the array of military power, the ening the class power of the proletariat.
domination the steel strikers were skulking hirelings of Capitalism are ac Workers, act! Out of your mass strikes solid in their determination to carry on tive the spies and the agents of the to aid the Gary worker will come the to the end. They had revolted against Department of Justice. Automobiles impulse and the action for establishing intolerable conditions against the de rush through the city, arresting strikers privation of life, against being compelled a state of the workers, proletarian dicand agitators Hundreds have been arto live as beasts of burden. It was rested: dozens are being prepared for cietatorship, which will crush the capitalists a terrible thing this trike, making their as the capitalist state now crushes the portation workers