BOLSHEVISM IN UNITED STATES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 144, 13 March 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM IN UNITED STATES

i INTRIGUING TO SPLIT TIP THE LABOUR FEDERATION. the United States. Government officials • (says tho "Christian. Science Monitor") i have learned that a Bolshevist Soviet has been organised in New York. The 801-_ i sheviki aim first, it is.reported, to get* i recruits in the American Federation of ■ Labour, the' purpose _ being, if possible, ■ to disrupt that organisation.' It may ba [ eaid in this connection that the officials , of the American Federation of Labour r are thoroughly awake to" the dangers of . this menace, and there, is no effort to i belittle the gravity of the situation. [ There are a' number of .factors which j officials take into account in forming their estimate of • the situation touching '■ this question. : The first one is that no .. conditions must be permitted to develop , in this.crisis in this..country, when the nation ia the chief support of harmonii ous democracy, which will dobact from f the country's power to render its full measure of assistance to the world in the j reconstruction period now dawning. They , realise that every movement which tends towards disorder and defiance of law is a j movemont against the nation's function I of helpfulness nt this ■ time, In this . class are the I.AV.W. organisation and the activities of the Woman's Party in defying law and order here. | The 1.W.W., whose members are looked to as the near allies of the Bolsheviki, [ have been .quiet recently, but the organisation manifests indications of again ; becoming act'ive. In the near North- • west the I.WAV. loggers and lumbermen formed a union between themselves and : the Socialists under the name of Loyal 1 Legion, under which they have been re- ' ceiving war wages in the spruce camps. • Bint now that the war is over-the Lovo.l r Legion will disappear and the lAV.W. 3 organisation will return to their former 9 practices of destruction. Persons familiar with, labour conditions take, the view that the most effec- . tive, and really the-only method, for the . .defeat of Bolshevism in . the United j ! States is to remove cause for discontent. I n American Federation .of Labour officials r are proceeding on the theory that the . unionising of labour and the general apt plication of the practice of collective 1 bargaining will serve, more effectively , to . remove discontent than any othor , agency that may be employed. The position is taken that the employers of lab- . our everywhere by uniting with Labour ■„ to the extent of permitting-organisation . arid collective bargaining will help in , removing the food on which Bolshevism j feeds, but Labour cannot do it alone.