January 3rd, 1920.
THE COMMUNIST Pago Seven COMMUNIST DEFENSE.
To make the defense of the thousands An APPEAL to The Partys more effecties communist Defensie COMMUNIST be opened soon. One in New York MEMBERSHIP meer. The addresses of both offices wili After You ve Read This, ACT THE STORM CENTRE of the Communist fight in the United soever.
THE COMMUNIST PARTY of arrested members of the Communist Liemands That You Act Now.
Committees have been organized in various cities. Two Main Defense Offices and one in Chicago. The first will be in charge of Com. Ruthenberg and the later in.
soon be made public and all defense funds, Liberty bonds, correspondence relating to the defe. ise of our comrades etc. should be forwarded to one of the two offices. Special attention is called Not only is the attack upon the New York members fully as to the fact, that the defense of our comferocious as the White Terror in Cleveland, but through the agency rades will be attended to independently af the Lusk Committee and its Extraordinary Grand Jury the attack from all other organizations.
Organis niade national in scope.
izations such as the Socialist Party that By reason of former membership of the National Left Wing Council, are collecting money under the pretense which had its headquarters in New York during the two months of its existof Communist Defense have nothing ence, the Executive Secretary, Editor, Asociate Editor and one other member to do with our Defense Committees whatof the Executive Committee of the Communist Party have been indicted. There Contributions should therefore are two indictments, cach covering a publication in THE REVOLUTIONARY be made directly to: Communist DeAGE, the first publication being of the Left Wing Manifesto, the second of an fense Committees the only ones authorarticle by Buchurin. Each indictment consists of three countr, thus making ized to collect funds for Communist DeEIX separate charges.
fense.
At this time Comrades Ruthenberg and Ferguron he Commun! Party, together with two former members of the Left Wing Council who are now members of the Communist Labor Party, Benjamin w and Ja: es Lubin, Erery Communist organization, every are under arrest on these charges Communist Party member should become a unit in the organization for the distribuThe intervention of several persons, not bers of the pity, tion of party literature and incrcase the has made possible the release of Comrades athralarg and knowledge of the party principles by placering books and pamphlets in the hands of the guson on bail, cach at 15, 000.
workers. To publish and distribute this It is most likely that Comrade Ballam of fon will Iso be ex ied literature is one of the great functions of our organization, for as knowledge and unto New York on the same charles. tho. siate of Massederstanding increases among our members chusetts also appears anxious to provide Curcade. With prison ledging.
and the masses, our power growL The preliminaries before he Specia: Ter e; reme Court indicate These Are Ready that not the least courtesy will be grid to the dance, and c: ry possible THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUJimitation will be put upon the dele. ants to coniunx, TION IN RUSSIA.
The prosecution is brought under an old New York law, enacted 1902, By LENIN and TROTZKY.
making Criminal Anarchy punishable by ten years imprisonment.
Edited by Fraina.
Criminal Anarchy is defined as the everthrow of the government by force Paper, 450 Pages.
Gr violence or other unlawful means. Obviously this law was intended to Single copies. 00 copies or more, ench. 65 cover terrorism and assassination, as its language plainly indicales. It does Cloth: not cover the mass action advocated by the Communist Party in its present Single copies 50 program, nor is there anything in the Left Wing Manifesto or in the Bucharin or more, each 00 This hook contains the story of the Rus article which could be twisted into such a construction cacept on the general sian revolution as told by Lenin and Trotzky logic of bwafting the Dolsheviks.
in their article written as the events took place.
This trial is being rushed, and it will come in on the wave of sentiment whipped up by the New York papers in connection with the THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION IN recent cleportations of anarchists. It will require an exceptionally able GERMANY.
defense, in spite of the weakness of the charges. to overcome all the By LOLIS FRAINA.
handicaps under which our comrades go to trial.
Single copies. 15 CONVICTIONS IN THE NEW YORK CISES, SOME OF WHICH ARE 10 copies. 25 MERELY CHARGES OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE COMUNIST PARTY, 25 or more, cach. 10 WILL MEAN AN END OF OPEN COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA IN THE REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM Is this issue of The Communist UNITED STATES. EVEN THOUGH THE COMMUNIST PARTIES OF By LOUIS FRAIXA.
MONARCHICAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES HAVE AN IMI ORTANT Single copies.
koek to press, it OPEN POLITICAL ACTIVITY, in Italy, Bulgaria, in all the Balkan and Slavic is learned that 00 25 copies stales; in England, France, tle Scandinavian countries, Central Asia, etc.
the National or 00 Fifty or more, each. 30 fices of the ComTHE CONDITION HERE WILL CORRESPOND TO RUSSIA UNDER THE Manifesto, program, Constitution of munist Party of ZARS AND TO THE PRESENT CONDITIONS IN JAPAN.
America have THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED the Communist Party and Report to been raided and STATES CANNOT BE THUS DESTROYED, BUT ITS AC the International.
man coinmun TIVITIES WILL BE LIMITED TO THOSE WHO ARE READY 10 i4s arrested. The AND ABLE TO GIVE UP EVERYTHING FOR IT. FAMILY, 00 offices have been 70 FRIENDS, FREEDOM. This ray be inevitable but it secni3 200 or more, each. 06 closed by the ord. worth while for an organization bused on education and agitation 10 Ten thousandi cupica of Cuis pelle!
cí dasperate fight for the open forum.
have already been sold. The title senk for itselt turney Hoyne.
If the defense of our open propaganda is to prove futile it is Send order and remittance to no less a test of our membership that we make a strong showing 1219 Blue Island Ave.
Chicago, III.
Keep All Contribefore we finally admit that we cannot propagandize Communi:m butiony ntil No.
openly. The membership must supply the funds for the propaganda tried To Do For.
involved in the defense.
SECRETARY BIKER is ordering maward Them. There Ix No Time to The Socialist Party and the have made a record of Manding by chine guns to fight the reds This is what ose in the Work their indicted and imprisoned members, and in this at least they have HR we call Malnne Gun Democracy.
of Getting Ready in the past aided by the present members of the Communist Party. UNTIL to Aid in the De211E TO COMES FOR THE ABSOLITE ADMISSION THAT THERE WHAT WILI. the secretary do, when the fence of the conCAN BE NO PROPAGANDA OF COMMUNISM IN THE UNITED STATES raden Who Are soldiers will refuse to shoot their brothers?
EXCEPT IN SECRET, SUBJECT TO ALL THE HYZARDS OF STY Now in Juil.
SYSTEM, IT IS JIRST OBLIGATION OF THE PARTY MEMBERSH.
It happened in Archangel where Imerican TO AD AS GINECROISLY IS OSSIBLE. NOW, IN THE LEGAL soldiers refused to fight the reds. In the CPIXSE.
beginning of the Russian Revolution of 105 the Cars faithful General Tremos declarol: RESPOND AT ONCE TO DAY with active interest organi. We shall not spare bullets! But goneralo zation work, and REMIT YOUR CONTRIBUTION FOR DE.
Rusia. That is what pocretiny Daher som FENSE BY CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TODAY.
day will have to do for a living led better There is no time to lose. the shovel rearly.
Special DURRSAMA. 50 10 copies Single copies 26 copic: 60 copies.