Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1919 — SOCIALISTS PLAN BRITISH REVOLT [ARTICLE]

SOCIALISTS PLAN BRITISH REVOLT

Soviet Rule in Great Britain Is Secret Plot of Trotzky. BOLSHEVISM HUS CHICAGO I Alderman Kennedy, a Socialist, introduces Resolution in City Council Proposing Soviet Government to Rule City—ls Howled Down. London, March 14.—Under secret lnatructions from Leon Trotzky, the bolBbevist war minister, and the International Anarchists society, the socialist labor party of Britain will meet in London Sunday to plan a revolution In Great Britain to abolish the entire capitalistic syntem of production and distribution and exchange, the Daily Express says it learns from an absolutely authoritative source. Plan Soviet Councils. The plan Is to form -oldlcrs and workmen's committees after the Russian soviet fashion, to manage the industries of the country, with district councils and “a republic of federated communes with a proletarian dictatorship." Nationalization of women also is’ on the party's program but is reserved for action “later." Meanwhile a cwnntry-wfifb agitation fk- to be launched for the discontinuance of the dispatch of British and American soldiers to Russia. The London police, fully informed of the plans; refuse to sliow their band before the movement takes concrete form, the Express says. Bolshevism irr Chicago:

Chicago, March 14.—A4dermaa John Kennedy. Socialist, of the Twenty-sev-enth ward, created a big sensation in the city council when be proposed a resolution which woulfJ In effect give Chicago a soviet government. “Every business, tradfc, professional, vocational or labor organization ih- existence for over a year, with a pst<t-rrp membership of 5,000, shall have- the right to elect one alderman to the council, with rights equal to those of any council 1 member,” he- suggested l . A howl <it “bolsjjeviki” met his proposal and a-fflood of questions followed. motion came- as a sequel to milder measures proposed by conservative members of the council. Alderman Clark's motion for a 50-ward (instead of a 35-ward city-carried,’. 35 I to 22.