Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 319, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1920 — EXPOSE PLOTS OF REBELLION [ARTICLE]

EXPOSE PLOTS OF REBELLION

Shown That Reds Sought Rule X o f Soviets Over the Mation. CONVICTED BY OWN WORDS American Communist Party is an Integra! Part of the Russian Bolshevik!—lt Advocates the Overthrow of U. 8. Government Washington, Jan. s.—The department of justice revealed a plot by Which the radiea 1 leaders, targets of the nation-wide raids, planned to overthrow the American government and seize control of the country. Evidence In the bands of the authorities, they said, proved that the groundwork for the revolution had been laid. Everything in representative government —the authority of the nation, the rights of property, and the idea of labor unionism included—was to be swept aside, and “rule of the proletariat” substituted. The-Communist party and the Communist Labor party were to be the foundations on which would be reared a government of the soviet. These bodies were directly under control and direction of the Russian soviet. Seek to Destroy Unions.

The first step was to be the disruption of union labor as it now exists, and the seizure of power by the radicals. Then were to follow the general strikes, and the attempt to overthrow the government of the United States. “We maintain that the class struggle is essentially a political one red document says; “that is, a struggle by the proletariat to conquer the capitalist state, whether its form be monarch!al or Democratic-Re-publican, and to replace it by. a governmental structure adequately adapted to the communist transformation. “The most important meang.of capturing state power for the workers is the action of the masses, proceeding from the places where the workers are gathered together—in the shops and factories. The use of the political machinery of the capitalist state Is only secondary. The working class must organize and train itself for the capture of state power.” In the briefs by the department of justice with the bureau of Immigration, asking the deportation of the radical leaders, it is charged that manifestoes of the communist party and the Communist Labor party prove these facts: “The Communist party Is the outgrowth of the left wing of the Socialist party of America. “It is an Integral part of the first congress of the Communist International which was formed by the bol'sheviki. “Through its history as the left wing the party constantly followed the doctrines of mass action and the advocacy of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Openly Advocate Force. “The first congress of the Communist International directly advocated the overthrow of all the governments of the world by force and violence through mass action. “The Communist party of America, in its manifesto and program officially adopted at its convention in Chicago, held September 1, 1919, advocated the overthrow of the government of the United States by force and violence. “Bach and every member of the Communist party of America pledged himself knowingly to the tactics enunciated In the manifesto of the Communnlst International.* “The Communist party of America, through the propaganda being actively carried on at the present time, is advocating the overthrow of the government of this country by force and violence."