August 9, 1919 Page Two THE COMMUNIST Imprisoned by the Allies sent to the prison for war prisoners at Our readers are already acquainted with the Two Letters horrors which the Russian war prisoners have to Casino. Here about 7, 000 Russians were live through in France. We are printing parts of a...

THE COMMUNIST Page Three August 9, 1919 An Open Letter to Workingmen Comrades: By Sylvia Pankhurst Government succeed in crushing the The evidence that comes to us from Workers Republics, and if we fail to Russia cannot be disregarded. Reports British workers hold, the key to the sit take the dir...

1319 Pago Four THE COMMUNIST THE LION AND THE LAMB sonant sentence but it is nevertheless untrue.
THE COMMUNIST Might shall make right the law of the world this was OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA one of the beautiful phrases President Wilson concocted for DENNIS BATT, Editor the...

August 9, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Five of civilization. As we freed Cuba in the name of that same BULLETINS civilization and in the interests of the Havemeyer sugar trust. If the ruling clique of the nation does plunge us into a After hearing the request of a representative of the Nawar with Japa...

August 9, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Six Russian Socialist Federation, at its meting on August 31st, The District Executive Committee of the Chicago District, donated one hundred dollars to the Organization Fund of the Communist Party.
City in June, in condemning the old Socialist Party: and be it f...

August 9, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Seven Continued from Page first charge is that the Socialists of Michigan sought to get into the limelight by being the first to call for a Communist Party. Now the truth is that the members of the Emergency Convention in Detroit sought to avoid that very thing.
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August 9, 1910 Page Eight THE COMMUNIST cause of the hatred for our country, such as Latvia, in ord four fifths of not only the city, tempt at forceful invasion, and country on the part of the im er to restore the feudal baron but also the rural population, in this it counts not so much on perial...

The Communist Official Paper of the Communist Party of America Vol. No. Chicago, II. Saturday, August 16, 1919 Five Cents Lesson from Russia By WICKS Since November 7, 1917, innumerable journalists, prosti ment. Most American workers know only too well from sad tuted to capitalism, have devoted t...

From War Plays to Jazz August 16, 1910 Pure to THE COMMUNIST ing jazz number appeals only to old women. And the hootchie kootchie danes formerly exhibited only in questionable It was Karl Marx who declared that positive factor thus far in capitalism side shows is now wriggled in the lead.
the pre...

August 10, 1910 THE COMMUNIST Page Three Official Organization Bulletin To all Locals, Branches and State Organizations: Where there are two or more branches in a given loDear Comrades: cality, these branches shall call a joint meeting and elect their Many locals and groups have already answered ...

Pago Four August 16, 1919 THE COMMUNIST THE COMMUNIST on all fronts, but within Russia the transportation system has OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA been wonderfully improved, living conditions have been great DENNIS BATT.
ly bettered and are constantly improving. Revolutionary R...

August 16, 1010 THE COMMUNIST Page This ization are of the menshevik point of view and do not wish to enter into the decisive battle with the capitalistic class of place has he given to the world a better picture of himselt a disappointment to all but the socialists. And in no other their own cou...

August 16, 1919 Pago SLX THE COMMUNIST THE COMMUNIST (Continued from pag. 3)
The Communist will be the official paper of the new BULLETINS party, and all locals should actively assist in increasing its circulation. Individual members should send in their subscriptions, so that they may at all tim...

August 16, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Beren August 80th convention called by the National Council of the Left Wing. b) We concur in the call issued by the National OrganizaCOMMUNIQUES tion Committee of the Communist Party for a convention in Chicago September 1st. Signed) LOONIN, Secretary.
The Finn...

August 16, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Pere Eight The High Cost of Living Capitaliste About to solve the Whole Problem has already come to a head in several European countries, At last we may begin to breathe easy. No need now to with serious results to the governments concerned. In Italy worry unduly abo...

The Communist Official Paper of the Communist Party of America Vol. I, No. Chicago, Saturday, August 23, 1919 Five Cents Nationalizing the the Railroads Glenn Plumb, a Chicago lawyer the shipper pays for transportation, un ternational character. The incorporaand counsel for the organized railway ...

THE COMMUNIST Page Two Communist Organizaton By Alexander Stoklitsky revolutionary organization. By the word centralization the Under the pressure of sharp criticism and finally the bourgeois conceives of all forces united in the hands of complete realization of the fact that the old Socialist Pa...

August 23, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Face hurco Call for a National Convention for the Purpose of Organizing the Communist Party of America After considerable negotiations seeking to slimmate the differences existing between the Communist elements of the Left Wing, as repreitalism. In et countries where...

August 23, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Four issue; recognizing at all times the characteristic development cepts the Council form of organization oy its expression over of all capitalistic nations.
a continued period of time. Applying our declarations of payty principle to the (d) To propagandize the...

August 23, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Page Five the Communist Party, instead of cap To the comrades of the East and of The September 1st convention of the turing the old Socialist Party.
the Pacific Northwest, with whom have communist Party will be the most moThe old party is not worth capturing. been as...

Editor THE COMMUNIST have seen the trend of the Allied interference. That is posTHE COMMUNIST sible. But when we consider this and at the same time rememOFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA ber the aid that the United States is giving to that other monarchist, Kolchak, we are reminded...

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. unemp...

Page Eight THE COMMUNIST August 23, 1919 Capitalizing Debs Imprisonment To aid in sending a prominent individ Throughout the entire war that alleged tactics have been vile they are now im.
ual in the revolutionary movement to a socialist publication besmirched and tra measurably infamous, as at t...

August 23, 1919 THE COMMUNIST Pege Nine States, and of the world, up to 1917 was served by the democrats, everything vital in of a hesitating, compromising, reformist form of police repression. Then a new society them, and leave them nothing but the repulsive stern reality of a proletarian test o...

August 23, 1919 Pare Tan THE COMMUNIST ist system. This spreading of knowledge aims to destroy that power first and then must be the first consideration of the 60 begin the building process.
cialist, as the class struggle must be a Karl, Marx, at the close of his book, conscious struggle and the ...