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CHICAGO, ILL. NOVEMBER 15, 1919 Five Cents Czarism and American Freedom Ne bihe venih vitnessed the betime with phrases. American Democracy We appeal for working class underginning oi the third year oi the Soviet is what it is, and let those who do not like standing of what is going on.
greument of Russia. After two years. it hold their tongues. The time for camou hen, on this anniversary of Russian freetuo years of such resistance to internal and flage has gone by. We have the courts and dom, comes the decision of Judge Anderson external assaults upon the working clas the jails and we mean to use them.
We the order to rescind the call for the strike rule of Russia that it is impossible to find have the power to drive out of the land of the coal miners. This decision will have comparison in all history Soviet Russia is those who speak of these things in the fora more momentous place in history than the on the eve of decisive triumph. But more, eign languages used by the mass of indust Dred Scott decision. Judge Anderson, by these two years of struggle by the peasants rial workers in the United States. We will the trick of fate which located him in Indiand industrial workers of Russia have al drive them out. We will use the mob power anapolis, will rank alongside of Judge Taney.
ready blazed the trail for the working class which is allowed by our servile officials Both able jurists, both men oi high standing in all countries. Not only is there the great when it suits our purposes. This country in their own time, both the unconscious inspiration of working class power and hope belongs to us the men of substance and means of precipitating the irrepressible conagainst the most fearful odds, but there is power today and we will run it to suit ilict. There is an innate momentum in the concrete example of the proletarian rev ourselves.
capitalist law and capitalist government olution and of the Communist program of In Russia the workingmen and peasants which leads to the administrative, legislative reconstruction discovered between March of 1917 and Nonand judicial expression of czarism.
It was in March 1917 that the Czar was ember of that year that Czarism was nothWe do not argue or appeal against the overthrown. Everywhere the hearts of inen ing of itself, that the falling of the Czar inevitable course of capitalistic czarism. We and women were glad. Long had Czarism made no change in their lives. They learned appeal to the workers to know and to underbeen the symbol of the world darkest and that Czarism could live though the Czar stand.
most ruthless reaction and now this high lived no longer. They learned that all the Of what calibre will the officials of the throne of despotism was gone!
pomp and circumstances of the Imperial United Miner Workers prove themselves?
From August 1914 to March 1917 the war throne was only the hollow symbol of the Perhaps a few among them will develop had dragged its destructive course toward real despotisin which held their lives in out of this experience and out of their inan ever deepening abyss of despair. There bondage. The Lvoil Miliukoif regime came stincts of freedom the same spirit of resistwere phrases about liberties and about the and went, and life was the same. The Kerenance which doomed czarism in Russia and jatherlands, but against the phrases there sky government came, and with it many new which holds the newly won liberties of the was Kaiserism on the one side, and on the phrases of liberty and of peace and of the Russian masses safe today. Perhaps there other, Czarism.
chance to till the soil so that there might be will be another Debs among these officials, Then on the sil: of the Allics cane me more bread for the people. Yet the life oi to give inspiring leadership to those who rican Democracy to take the place of the the masses was the same.
toil in weariness in the dark places under failen Russian Czarism a. the phrases It was the November revolution the the earth.
took on a new liie, the phrases glorifying the Bolshevik triumph which gave to the masNo matter. If these offcials fail the test, killing and maiming of the many millions. ses of Russia, not new phrases, but peace.
The revelations of American Democracy the land, and all power to the workers and if they prove craven under the clear chalwith bayonet in hand, with its conscriptions peasants. actual control of the destiny and lenge, there will be others to say what is of life and conscience, with its iron despotthe wealth of their great country.
in the minds of the half million miners; isin crushing out even the least pretense of November revolution was a victory over the there will be others to voice the passions of their hearts, their longings for more of democratic privilege, with its open scoring reality of Czarism.
the warmth of life which is kindled out of of its own representative bodies in favor And now it is becoming glaringly clear.
of Wall Street super legislators and admin day by day, to the working masses everytheir heavy toil.
istrato s, with its tolerance of such an orgy where, that Cvarism different from And will the Communists be dismayed by oi profiteering as the world had never before British Imperialism and American and the deportations and the raids and the terimagined these revelations dulled the pro French Democracy only in form; that the rorism of the minions of profit?
mise of the war phrases.
reality of Czarism is the same in all count It is the time honored recourse of But the peace would be the compensation! ries where the life and substance of the decadent power. It is another such historical And now we have it the peace of la nation is in the hands of a ruling class bent episode as that of Louis XVI declaring his sailles the peace of glittering bayonets in upon the perpetuation of the profit system, absolute power and the inviolability of the every part of the world. The peace oi thie no matter at what toll of life.
feudal rights before the State General on Adriatic, the peace of Roumanian devastaJune 23rd when the Bastille was about to tion of Hungary, the peace of Chinese spolia There never was a greater irony in all fall on July 14th!
tion by Japan, the peace of the Saar valley history than the performances of American Go on with your petty persecutions if you with its constant challenge to renewed war, Democracy at the time of the celebration of dare. It is within your hands to determine the peace of a Poland given new boundaries the second anniversary of the Russian Soviet the mode of the class conflict in the United which carry the assurance of another world Republic. The White Terror broke loose. States. Deporting and jailing a few hundred war, the peace of brutalities and oppression The page of history is hardly turned upon agitators the teachers of the masses will in Egypt, Ireland and India surpassing any the Czar rule of Russia with its executions only breed blind fury. But the mass life thing out of the old records oí imperialistic of agitators by the hundreds of thousands will have its say!
ruthlessness the peace of a world at war with its countless exiles and imprisonments, The day of the people has arrived! Czarwith the workers and peasants of Russia, and here we see the repetition of this ism is doomed everywhere. Freedom must the peace of the deliberate aim to starve the statesmanship in the United States upon prevail everywhere. The freedom of Comwomen and children of Soviet Russia so that the resistance of the heroic Red Army the anniversary of Russian freedom! munism, of a society rid of profit oppression, will be broken.
We do not appeal for free speech. It is of a society of freely co operating workers!
The phrases of the war and of the peace folly. Have we not seen our courts at work The answer of the Communists to the these past two years? Do we not know that White Terror: Long live the Social RevoNow it is said: Let us waste no more the class rule of the bourgeoisie outlaws lution! On to the Federated Soviet Repubthe revolutionary working class?
11. of the World. The Was are heard no more.