THE BOLSHEVIK PLOT IN AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 42, 13 November 1919, Page 5

THE BOLSHEVIK PLOT IN AMERICA

MORE ABOUT THE RAIDS

LARHIN, THE IRISH AGITATOR, AMONGST THE ANARCHISTS

PROOFS OF COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY By Telegraph-Press Associalion-Copyright New York, November 9. Seven hundred policemen and Stale and Federal agents raided 73 Radical headquarters in the metropolis, and arrested 500 persons and seized tons of literature. Thoso orresle.l included "Jim" Lat» kin, tho Irish agitator. The majority of those arrested are charged with criminal anarchy. Senator Lusk, who had charge of tho raids in Hip cily, stales: "We established tin; fiic! (hat tbe Communist I'arly in the United States had received substantial contributions hero and abroad. The Communist movement, however, started in Germany, and not in Russia. Tt has been comidetely determined that the Rμ! Government in Russia establish-ed-live hundred Radicals, whom Gennaniy shipped from Switzerland to Russia. These ware organised into Red Guards, and given many Russian securities." Later it was announced that although more than a thousand Radicals were arrested in New York only 3.) were detained anil charged with criminal an-archy.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [.Tames Larkiu was the .secretary of thn Trish Transport Workers' Onion, and sprang into prominence as a strike leader in Dublin in 101 S. Asi-ertin;; that the workers were ill-paid, and I hat one-third of the population of Dublin lived in i;in?le-room tenements, Larkiji started a -Irike on the Syndicalist principle, and Dublin whs sonn in the throes of a Labour war. He loft Kn<rlaiul to tour tliß United States in August, 1911. In 11)17 lie decided lo visit Auslnilia, but tho authorities announced that ho ivould not be allowed to land. Tim New Zealand Government also declared that he would be refused permission to land here.]

A BLOODTHIRSTY DOCUMENT. Washington. November fl. The Department of Justice has nub.lished a. docunieiil', approved by tho Federation of the. Union of Russian Workers in the United States, which is fiitlipviiij* flu; liiidic.il movements. Tho document says liie proletariat must eonvert small strikes into general ones, and those into armed revolt of the labouring masses against Capital. The workers must immediately seize all the means of production, and all article-; of consumption, and make the workins classes masters of all irPnpral wealth. They must mercilessly destroy all Hint remains of governmental authority ami class domination, liberate the prisoners, demolish the prisons and police offices, destroy ' all le<;al papers pertaining to orivate ownership of property, and all field fences and boundaries, and all certificates of indebtedness. They must shoot nrominent police and military officers, and must establish city communes, which will later combine with an International Federation of Com-munes.—Aus.-N.7i. Cable Assn.