Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1919 — MANIFESTO BY BEDS [ARTICLE]

MANIFESTO BY BEDS

Department of Justice Publishes Seized Literature. Would , Destroy Organized Government qpd Slay All Prominent Officials and Demolish Prisons. Washington, Not. IL—Copies of the manifesto of the anarchists and communists, seized by department of justice agents at New York, were given out by Attorney General Palmer to show the public that the objective <rf the anarchists is the overthrow of the government The manifesto is entitled “Novamirsky,** and was published by the “Federation of Unions of Russi . n Workers of the United States and Canada,’* at New York this year. Extracts showing Its violent revolutionary character follow: “Communism in the economic field must inevitably be crowned with anarchy In the field of politics. Therefore, along with complete destruction of private ownership, must go complete destruction of the state. The state is unnecessary, because with the extermination of classes, its, principal function will cease, the preservation of the dominion of one class. The destruction of the state principal work In the formations of - the new society. . . . Dofrn with the

state I Long live anarchy I “What must we do, the vanguard of the proletariat? We must conscientiously hasten the elementary movement of the struggle of the working class; we must convert small strikes into general ones, and convert the latter into an armed revolt of the laboring masses against capital and the state. “At the time of this revolt we must at the first favorable opportunity proceed with gn immediate seizure of all means of production and all articles of consumption, and make the working class the masters in fact of all genertfl wealth. “At the same time we must mercilessly destroy all remains of governmental authority find class domination, liberating the prisoners, demolishing prisons and police offices, destroy all legal papers pertaining to private ownership of property; all field fences and boundaries and burn all certificates of Indebtedness —in a word, we must take care that everything is wiped from the earth and that is a reminder of the right to private ownership of property; to blow up barracks, gendarmes and police administration, shoot the most prominent military and police officers, must be the Important concern of the revolting working people. In the work of destruction we must be merciless.”