BOLSHEVISM IN AMERICA.

Evening Star, Issue 16993, 15 March 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM IN AMERICA.

WASHINGTON, March 10. Air J R lama: Solicitor-General, stated before the Senate Propaganda Committee that the .bolßhe\iks, and Anarchists were perfecting an amalgamation of forces m tne hj inted States, u -th the object of overthrowing tae bovcrm cent by means of a bloody revolution, an--. replacing it 'with a Bolshevik lepub.uPropaganda on a tremendous scale «a= C °T^ U 'supreme Cour have sustained _ the conviction of Eugene Debs four times Socialist candidate lor the 1 residency on a charge of inciting to sedition and or the utterance of disloyal speech. Inc Sentence of 10 years has been confirmed. INTRIGUING TO SPLIT UP THE LABOR FEDERATION. The United States Government officials (gays the ‘Christian Science Monitor ) Lave learned that a iet ms been organised in New lork. Elm "° ' iheviM aim first, it is reported, to get recruits in the American Federation ot Labor, the purpose being, if possible, to disrupt that organisation. It may be said in this connection that the officials ot the American Federation of Labor are thoroughly awake to the dangers of this menace, and there is no effort to belittle the gravity of the situation.. There are a number ot factors which 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 is the chief support of harmonious democracy, which will detract from the country ? power to render its full measure of assistance to the world

in tho reconstruction period now dawning. They realise that every movement which tends towards disorder and defiance of law is a movement against the nation's function of helpfulness at ? this time. In this class are the I.W.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 Mliea of the Bolsheviki. have been quiet recently, but the organisation manifests indications of again becoming active. In the near North-west the I.W.W. loggers and lumbermen formed a union between themselves and the Socialists under the name of Loyal Legion, under which they have been receiving war wages in the spruce camps. But now that the war is over the Loyal Legion will disappear and the I.W.W. organisation will return to their former practices of destruction. Persons familiar with labor conditions take the view that the most effective, and really the only method for the defeat of Bolshevism in the United States is to remove cause for discontent. American Federation of Labor officials are proceeding on the theory that the unionising of labor and the general application of the practice of collective bargaining will serve more effectively to remove discontent than any other agency that may be employed. The position is taken that the employers of labor everywhere, by uniting with labor to tho extent of permitting organisation and collective bargaining, will help in removing the food on which Bolshevism feeds; but Labor cannot do it alone.