October 4, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Seven The Party Organization C. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary 1219 Blue Island Avenue, Chicago.
tion LTHOUGH the Executive Committee of the German Language Federation is trying to force the German branches into the Communist Labor Party, they are refusing to f...

coger, Page Six THE COMMUNIST The Plea for Communist Unity was HE Communist Labor Party contin development from a program merely in issued the call for the Communist Convenues its meaningless pleading for criticism of the Socialist Party to a pro tion, it was only the National Left Wing Communist...

October 4, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Five Mightier American Militarism FEW months ago a bill was intro with the assistance of the commander in Lieut. Colonel was enough for every 210, duced in the Senate concerning the chief. The commander in chief superin 000 soldiers; now for every 7, 000. Now re...

Page Four THE COMMUNIST October 4, 1919 To the Workers of the World Declaration of the Communist Internation if the German imperialists had been the HE governments which began the al Against the Versailles Peace. victors they would have been as unmerciwar of plunder five years ago are ful to the ...

THE the proletariat and the development of pro.
letarian organs of state power.
The proletarian revolution is a process, C appropriWM UNI1 Boycott the Elections!
Page Thres HE Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party of New York City, in acArbitration cord with the plan to capture the and requiri...

Page Two THE COMMUNIST October 4, 1919 The Communist particularly and among the proletariat Co. All this during a time when Wilson generally National Organ, Communist Party This tendency of mass revolt in the was speaking of universal liberty and disLOUIS FRAINA, Editor unions is one of the most ...

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Five Cents Vol. I, No. CHICAGO, ILL. OCTOBER 4, 1919 The Steel Strike HE strike of the steel workers is a and among workers the most oppressed been mobilized against the strike, and behind it all lurks the army.
revolt ag...

Page Sixteen THE COMMUNIST September 27, 1919 What the War Was About If anyone in the United States or the Hungary after the downfall of the House duke Joseph, of the House of Hapsburg, Allied countries labored under the delu of Hapsburg resigned in favor of the on the throne. Had there been with...

September 27, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Fifteen The Massacre at Hammond were a AMMOND, Indiana, can now be added By WICKS.
The corporation owned paper of Hamto the long and ever increasing list mond and also the daily press of Chicago of towns the mention of which conAs soon as the police arrived u...

September 27, 1919 Page Fourteen THE COMMUNIST shall restrict its activities to the territory it represents.
Sec. member who desires to transfer his membership to another branch shall secure transferal card from the financial secretary of his branch. No branch shall receive a member from another ...

September 27, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Thirteen The Party Constitution Sec. I. Name and Purpose Adopted and Issued by the Convention of the be receipted for an initiation stamp furnished by See. The name of this organization shall be Communist Party the National Organization. The fifty cents shall...

THE Page Twelve COMMUNIST September 27, 1919 your convention. We are, however, desirous Communist Party membership which cast 74. Out of this total of 74 there were over of uiting all the forces of Communism into the overwhelming bulk of these votes. 50 from States where the membership was one so...

THE COMMUNIST Page Eleven September 27, 1919 mation of Capitalism into Communism. the Joint Call. Obviously our Convention is of knowledge the experiences of the war Between these groups stood the waver bound by the call which brought it into and revolutions.
existence.
Immediately after the Russ...

September 27, 1919 Page Ten THE COMMUNIST The Communist Party and Communist Labor Party T HIERE are no doubt many who will ram of immediate severance from the Social Ruthenberg that the first order of busi.
ist Party and a call for a convention on Sep ness be the consideration of unity with the f...

September 27, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Nine The Program of the Party The Communist Party is the conscious ex All ar? Issued by the Convention of the the party shall have actual contact with the pression of the class struggle of the workers Communist Party workers and mobilize them for action again...

September 27, 1919 Page Eight THE COMMUNIST activity of unorganized workers in the basie industry, its initial form is the mass strike as the moderate Socialist conception of the old order, it performs the positive task of gradual growing into Socialism.
constructing the new. Together with the of...

THE September 27, 1919 COMMUNIST Page Seven since Russia was economically an undevel. Socialist Party required simply the oppor ge in the sense that its objective is political, oped country, it was premature to make a tunity to develop a revolutionary proletarian overthrow of the political organi...

September 27, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Six The Communist Party Manifesto old The world is on the verge of a new era. Adopted and Issued by the Convention of the slavery and power, of oppression and de.
Cammunist Party struction.
Europe is in revolt. The masses of Asia are It was simple, but disast...

September 27, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Five members of the Communist Party from con tively, on the adoption of said Manifesto and formity with American conditions and party tributing political or economic articles to Program and as not accepting nominations circumstances. Comrade Fraina was also p...

THE September 27, 1919 COMMUNIST Page Four The Communist Party Convention T By Ferguson the bolting delegates; also the election of HERE probably never was a gathering Ruhenberg and Ferguson on that committee.
of working class representatives in minority group of the Left Wing Confer.
The inter p...

September 27, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Three T on Tactical Problems Ohio Locals should continue their mun The Socialist Party icipal campaigns under the name of SociN the revolutionary reconstruction of the alist Party. The adoption of the new name HE struggle about which party shall American Soci...

September 27, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Chaos?
Page Two T The Communist for democracy the chief concern of the Peace Conference has been to crush revol.
OMENT has been made concerning utionary Russia, in order to assure the perthe chaos that prevailed in Chicago National Organ, Communist Party manence o...

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CHICAGO, ILL. SEPTEMBER 27, 1919 Five Cents The Call to Action HE Communist Party is now a fact. It The American proletariat is restless. Its Capitalism, weakens the workers develop a issues its challenge to Capi...

August 80, 1919.
THE COMMUNIST Page Eight The Hireling Who Failed THE INVISIBLE CLUB Siberia, or the putting to death of men, The move we anticipated two weeks from Chicago to Salt Lake City. This strategic women and children who are suspected move is explained ns norinal actback to ago on the pa...

Aurust 80, 1919.
THE COMMUNIST Page Seven Pacifism or Marxism?
In these turbulent times, when the Reply to Scott Nearing whole civilized world seethes with revoconception. Even the most superficial lution, it is but natural that there should bility, assisted by the Popes. In his exobserver of the...