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The Red Conspiracy

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JOSEPH J. MERETO

This book proves the existence of the Red Peril. We publish it to warn America. We ask the help of every loyal American, organization and institution to put "The Red Conspiracy" in every home, school and library in the land. Price, cloth bound, $2.15 postpaid; in paper, $1.10 postpaid. Chapters of the book and parts of chapters can also be supplied in pamphlet and leaflet form for wide distribution. Write us for particulars. The National Historical Society 37 West 39th Street, New York Copyright

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INTRODUCTION

As a mark of sincere gratitude for all that he owes to his Country from birth, the author of "The Red Conspiracy" hereby dedicates his work to his fellow-countrymen, trusting that it will prove a bulwark of defense for our Star-Spangled Banner and constitutional form of government, now so violently assailed by disloyal American citizens, as well as by Marxian rebels from abroad who have deceived many of the uneducated or trained them in ways of evil. While "The Red Conspiracy" will appeal strong

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CHAPTER II

Introduced from Europe, 13 ; Workingmen's Party, 13 ; Socialist Labor Party, 13 ; Socialist Democracy of America, 13 ; Socialist Party of America, 13 ; Socialist Periodicals, 14 ; Socialist Party Strife and Bossism, 14 ; The Internatonal, 16 ; The First International, 16 ; The Second International, 16 ; International Socialist Bureau, 17 ; American Socialists and the International, 17 ; The Berne Conference, 18 ; The Third (Moscow) International, 18 ; Debs and American Socialists Recognized by L

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CHAPTER III

Revolution Camouflaged as Evolution, 23 ; "Yellows," "Reds," "Rights" and "Lefts," 23 ; Origin of the Left Wing, 24 ; Revolutionary Principles of the Left Wing, 24 ; Sympathy with Russian Bolshevism, 25 ; Industrial Unionism Advocated, 26 ; Mass Action and Strikes the Prelude to Armed Rebellion, 26 ; "Moderate" Socialism Rejected by American Revolutionists, 28 ; To Overthrow the United States Government, 30 ; Text of Call to Moscow International, 31 ; American Socialist Party for "Industrial Uni

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CHAPTER IV

Rowdies at Socialist Meetings, 35 ; Revolution in America "at Hand," 36 ; "Existence of the Party at Stake," 37 ; "The Steering Committee," 38 ; Hillquit Says Left Wing is Not "Too Radical," 40 ; "Friendly Separation," 41 ; The Left Wing Gets More "Dictatorship" Than It Wants, 42 ; The Rights Expel and Suspend Tens of Thousands, 42 ; The Socialists' "Immortal" Executive Committee, 42 ; Manifesto of the Third (Moscow) International, 45 ....

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CHAPTER V

Left Wing Conference, 52 ; Left Wingers Split, 52 ; Call for a Communist Convention, 53 ; Too Many Would-Be Lenines and Trotzkys, 54 ; The "Firing Squad," 55 ; National Emergency Convention, 55 ; Who Called the "Cops"? 57 ; A Convention on Each Floor, 57 ; The Communist and Communist Labor Parties Organize, 57 ; Their Principles, 58 ; "Reds" No Worse Than "Yellows," 58 ; Bolshevism of the Socialist Party, 59 ; Utterances at the Emergency Conference, 60 ; Revolutionary Character of the Socialist

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CHAPTER VI

Socialist Office-holding is Not Socialism, 77, 85 ; Collective Ownership, 80 ; I. W. W. Point of View, 80 ; Socialism Explained Diversely by Its Leaders, 80 ; Hillquit's Notion, 81 ; Debs' Demand, 81 ; American Socialists to "Capture the Government," 82 ; Analysis of Collective Ownership, 82 ; All Women to Work, 84 ; Atheism and Free-Love, 85 ; Poetry from the "Call," 86 ; Don't Judge Socialism by Reform Planks in Platforms, 87 ; Socialists Attack Their Own Social Reform Program, 89 ; Unpatrioti

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CHAPTER VII

Herron's Socialist Day Dream, 94 ; Communist Experiments in Russia and Hungary, 94 ; Socialism in Yucatan, 96 ; "Zapata, Great Socialist Leader of Southern Mexico," 97 ; Act of the Second: "Zapata, a Tyrant, Who Played a Huge Joke on 100,000 Confiding Workers Whom He Exploited," 101 ; Socialist Experiment in Russia, 103 ....

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CHAPTER VIII

A "Dangerous" Organization, 105 ; Its Origin, 105 ; Industrial Unionism Explained, 106 ; Organization by Industries, 107 ; I. W. W. Preamble, 107 ; Revolutionary Aims, 108 ; Conceptions of Right and Wrong, 108 ; Violent Tactics, 100 ; Revolution by Means of the "General Strike," 109 ; "Government Will Disappear," 110 ; Remuneration for Work and the "Man-Day," 111 ; Doctrine and Examples of Sabotage, 111 ....

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CHAPTER IX

I. W. W. Trials and Socialist Support, 114 ; Revolutionary Threats, 115 ; Plotting Against the United States, 116 ; I. W. W. Publications, 116 ; Propaganda Among Foreigners, 117 ; The Paterson Strike, 117 ; The I. W. W. Atheistic and Anti-Religious, 118 ; Arousing the Negro, 119 ; Arousing the Chinese, 120 ; I. W. W. Songs, 120 ; Socialists Favor the I. W. W., 122 ; Pretended Anti-Sabotage Policy of the Socialist Party, 124 ; Gene Debs in Love with Bill Haywood, 126 ; I. W. W. Attitude Toward Bo

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CHAPTER X

Rise of Russian Bolshevists, 138 ; Bolshevist Constitution, 139 ; Land Confiscation in Socialist Russia, 140 ; Peasant Warfare, 141 ; The Russian Soviets, 142 ; "Liberty" in Socialist Russia, 145 ; Justice in Bolsheviki-land, 146 ; Bolshevist Atheism and Religious Persecution, 146 ; Church and State "Separated," 147 ; Michigan Left Wing "Lets the Cat Out of the Bag," 149 ; Education Under Lenine's Government, 151 ....

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CHAPTER XI

The Red Terror, 153 - 5 ; "Take Our Lives But Spare Our Children," 156 ; 500 Butchered in a Night, 157 ; Horrors of Bolshevik Prisons, 158 ; Atrocities and Tortures, 159 ; Petrograd, "City of the Dead," 160 ; 76 Uprisings, 161 ; "Criminal Element" in Office, 161 ; "A Lapse Into Barbarity," 162 ; Nationalization of Women, 163 ; "The Bureau of Free Love," 166 ; Forcible Abolition of Celibacy, 167 ; The "Call" Lauds Bolshevism, 168 ; "S. O. S., An Appeal to Humanity," 169 ; "Every Pore" of Russia's

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CHAPTER XII

Spartacides of Germany, 177 ; Origin of Name, 177 ; Violent Principles, 177 ; Rowdies and Ruffians Approved by American Socialists, 177 ; Spartacan Terrorism, 178 ; Communists of Bavaria, 178 ; Terrorism in Munich, 179 ; The Peasants Rise While the Communists Plunder, 179 ; American Socialists Allied With the Scum of Bavaria, 179 ; Communists of Hungary, 180 ; Free-Lovers, 180 ; Churches Converted Into Music Halls, 180 ; Budapest Painted Red, 180 ; American Socialists Lined Up With European Thug

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CHAPTER XIII

Pink Booklet "About Russia," 182 ; Lenine Tells Why Bolshevism Requires "A World Revolution," 183 ; American Socialists "Greet" Bolshevist "Ambassador," 184 ; Poem on Liebknecht, 185 ; The "Call" Endorses Communism, Bolshevism and Spartacism, 186 ; Hillquit Hails Foreign Radicals, 188 ; American Socialist Papers Are Bolshevist, 188 - 93 ; Debs a "Bolshevik" and "Flaming Revolutionist," 194 ....

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CHAPTER XIV

Socialist Riots, 196 ; Trouble at Gary, 197 ; Haywood Says Socialists are Conspirators Against U. S. Government, 199 ; Jack London on the International "Fighting Organization," 200 ; Berger Says Socialists "Must Shoot," 201 ; "Blow Open the Vaults of the Banks," 202 ; Haywood and Bohn Say the Socialist "Does Not Hesitate to Break" the Laws, 203 ; "I am Law Abiding Under Protest," Says Debs, "and Bide My Time," 203 ; Scott Nearing "Wants War," 205 ....

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CHAPTER XV

Socialists Against Patriotism, 207 ; American Flag Scouted, 207 ; "Honor the Uniform? No, Spit on It," 208 ; The "Call" Derides Our Soldiers Returning from France, 208 ; "I Spit Upon Your Flag! I Loathe the Stars and Stripes! To Hell With Your Flag! Down With the Stars and Stripes! Run Up the Red Flag!" 210 ; Debs Attacks the American Flag, 210 ....

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CHAPTER XVI

I. W. W. Conspirators, 213 ; "The Future of Socialism Lies in the General Strike, Armed Insurrection and Forcible Overthrow of All Existing Social Conditions," 213 ; Left Wing Socialists by Strikes and Industrial Unions to Establish "the Dictatorship of the Proletariat," 215 ; Government Raids, 215 ; Communist Parties for Overthrow of Government, 215 - 219 ; Socialist Party More Dangerous Than the Communists, 219 - 221 ; American Socialists Part of the "Invisible Empire," 222 - 4 ; Secret Resign

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CHAPTER XVII

Socialist Chaos and Anarchy, 268 ; Discontent in the Socialist State, 269 ; Perils of Confiscation, 270 - 2 ; Liberty Bonds and Insurance, 273 ; Unworkable Labor Schemes, 273 - 7 ; Forcing Women to Work, 277 ; Political Corruption, 277 ; Quarrels Over Religion and Free-Love, 278 ; Lincoln Eyre Reveals Socialism's Economic Failure in Russia, 279 - 91 ; "Lenine and Trotzky More Absolute Than Any Czar," 281 ; Starvation and Disease, 282 - 3 ; Military Confiscation of Russian Labor, 283 - 8 ; Lenine

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CHAPTER XVIII

Ingersoll Argument Refuted, 293 ; Economic Determinism, 293 ; Atheism of European Socialists, 294 - 5 ; "There Must Be War Between Socialism and the Church," 296 ; Socialists "All more or Less Avowed Atheists," 297 ; "No Man Can Be Consistently Both a Socialist and a Christian," 298 ; Socialism Persecutes Religion in Yucatan, 298 ....

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CHAPTER XIX

Socialism Turns Ministers Into Atheists, 301 - 2 ; Spargo Says Socialism Cannot Tolerate Religious Schools, 302 ; Anti-Religious Poems in "Call," 303 ; The "Call" Has "No Use" for "Christ," 304 ; "Religion Spells Death to Socialism," as Socialism "Does to Religion," 305 ; "Socialism Logical Only When It Denies the Existence of God," 306 ; "Christmas Is a Crime," 307 ; Blasphemous Socialist Catechism for Children, 308 ; A Socialist Says "Socialism Is Anti-Christ," 309 ; Hypocrisy of Hillquit, Ber

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CHAPTER XX

Socialist Books Advocate Free-Love, 317 ; Socialists Dodge the Truth by Arguments About Prostitution, 318 - 19 ; The "Call's" Poem on "The Harlot," 320 ; Socialist Advocates of Free-Love, 320 - 2 ; Victor Berger's Milwaukee Company Sells Free-Love Literature, 322 ; Free-Love Stuff Sold by Kerr and Company and the National Office of the Socialist Party, 323 - 9 ....

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CHAPTER XXI

The "Call," chief Organ of the Socialist Party in New York, An Obscene Vehicle of Propaganda for Race-Suicide, Teaching "All Within Its Polluting Reach to Violate One of the Laws of the State of New York," 330 - 41 ....

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CHAPTER XXII

Organizing Activity of Socialists, 342 ; Dues-Paying Members, Locals and Branches, 342 ; 400 Socialist Periodicals in the United States, 343 ; Use of Books and Leaflets, 344 ; Financial Support by Rich Radicals, 345 ; Red Propaganda to Proselytize Labor and Promote Strikes, 346 ; Effect on the American Federation of Labor, 347 ; I. W. W.'s "Boring from Within," 348 ; William R. Foster, An I. W. W., Leads the A. F. of L. Steel Strike, 348 - 9 ....

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CHAPTER XXIII

Socialist Sunday Schools, 350 ; "Catch Them Young," 351 ; Lesson 24 from the "Socialist Primer," 352 ; Socialist Propaganda Among School Children by Townley's Non-Partisan League, 353 ; The Teachers' Union of New York City, 354 ; The Inter-Collegiate Socialist Society, 355 ; Radical College Professors, 356 ; The Rand School, 357 ; Socialist Propaganda Among Immigrants, 358 ; Socialist Naturalization Bureau, 359 ; The Red Curse Among Women, 359 ; Among Soldiers and Sailors, 360 ; Socialist Cartoo

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CHAPTER XXIV

Must Socialism Be Good Because Something Else Is Bad? 363 ; Socialist Party Platform Planks Unreliable, 365 ; Socialists Disagree on Land Ownership, 365 - 8 ; Government Ownership of Public Utilities Is Not Socialism, 369 ; Double-Faced Socialists, 370 ; The Burden of Proof Rests on the Socialist, 371 ; The "Lunatic" Sophistry, 372 ; Sophistry That Labor Earns All Wealth, 373 ; Vote-Getting by Advocating Popular Schemes, 375 ; Latest Dodge of Red Organizations to Hide from Prosecution by Changin

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CHAPTER XXV

High Time to Fight the Reds, 377 ; Read and Circulate Anti-Socialist Literature, 378 ; Warn Our School Children, 379 ; Quiz the Soap-Box Orators, 380 ; Expel Socialist School Teachers, 380 ; Tasks for the National Government, 381 ; Oppose Socialism in a Nation-Wide Campaign of Education, 382 . Convention of the Socialist Party of the United States, May 8-14, 1920. Modern Socialism may be said to date from the year 1848 when Marx and Engels published their "Communist Manifesto," a pamphlet that h

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SOCIALISM IN OTHER LANDS

In Bavaria the anti-war sentiment spread rapidly, fostered by the efforts of Kurt Eisner. King Ludwig abdicated the throne on November 16, 1918, and Eisner took up the reins of power, forming a Socialist government. After a few weeks Eisner broke with the Ebert-Scheidemann government of Berlin, and soon after was assassinated. Not long after this the Bavarian communists imposed the Soviet form of government on the country, much to the dislike of many of the inhabitants, especially those living o

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GROWTH OF SOCIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES

"If then these office-holders continue to show the tendency towards bossism so common in the past, the Socialist Party will soon become an office-holders' machine, little different in character from the machine by which Gompers controls the Federation of Labor, or Murphy, Tammany Hall.... "The only possible way to avoid a split so openly and shamelessly advocated by some of the opportunist leaders of our party--Berger even threatened it in the last National Convention--is to have the system of p

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THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA DEVELOPS A LEFT WING

In order clearly to understand the big fight that has disrupted the Socialist Party, further explanations of the principles of the Left Wing are necessary. "The Revolutionary Age," from which the above quotation was taken, was first published in Boston, its editor being Louis C. Fraina. In the summer of 1919 it combined with "The Communist," of New York City, and, still maintaining its former name, became the national organ of the Left Wing of the Socialist Party. In the article just quoted refe

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THE FREE-FOR-ALL FIGHT BETWEEN THE RIGHT AND LEFT WINGS

In April, 1919, the New York State Committee of the Socialist Party, by a vote of 24 against 17, resolved that it was "definitely opposed to the organization calling itself the Left Wing section of the Socialist Party, and to any group within the party organized for the same or similar purpose;" and it instructed "its executive committee to revoke the charter of any local affiliated with any such organization or that permits its subdivision or members to be affiliated." "The Call," April 23, 191

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BIRTH OF THE COMMUNIST AND COMMUNIST-LABOR PARTIES

The national organ of the Communist Party was "The Communist" of Chicago. In its issue of August 23, 1919, it thus criticises the Socialist Party: "The majority of the readers of 'The Communist' are familiar with the form of organization of the old Socialist Party, with its state autonomy and its bureaucratic officialdom. Every state is practically organized as an Independent Socialist party. 'Official socialism' of Milwaukee is entirely different from 6 'official socialism' in Ohio, both in reg

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SOCIALISM IN THEORY

According to Morris Hillquit in "Everybody's," October, 1913, page 487: "The Socialist program advocates a reorganization of the existing industrial system on the basis of collective or national ownership of the social tools. It demands that the control of the machinery of wealth creation be taken from the individual capitalists and placed in the hands of the nation, to be organized and operated for the benefit of the whole people." Hillquit, in his various articles, has, of course, like many ot

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SOCIALISM IN PRACTICE

The February, 1918, issue of the "International Socialist Review," Chicago, was suppressed by the authorities of the United States government, and, as a consequence, it is probable that not very many copies are in circulation. The author of "The Red Conspiracy," however, has in his possession a copy of this edition, in which there is a very interesting article, beginning on page 414, entitled, "Your Dream Come True." "A Land of practical Socialism in active operation. "Nearly 4,000,000 people wi

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THE I. W. W.

"Industrial unionism arises out of and is modeled after modern capitalism. Unlike trade unionism, it is not born of the capitalism of fifty years ago. Industrial unionism recognizes that capitalism is not only interindustrial, so to speak, but also international. That just as it binds industries together by means of machine processes and financial investments, so also does capitalism tend to bind nations together. Industrial unionism follows the same trend. It, too, is not only interindustrial b

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INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD IN ACTION

On September 5, 1917, the I. W. W. headquarters, 1001 West Madison street, Chicago, and the Socialist headquarters were raided by the United States authorities. On March 10, 1919, Solicitor General Lamar of the Post Office Department submitted a memorandum to the Senate propaganda committee stating that the I. W. W., anarchists, socialists and others were "perfecting an amalgamation with one object--the overthrow of the government of the United States by means of a bloody revolution and the esta

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BOLSHEVIST RULE IN RUSSIA

"For the purpose of realizing the socialization of land, all private property in land is abolished, and the entire land is declared to be national property and is to be apportioned among husbandmen without any compensation to the former owners, in the measure of each one's ability to till it. "All forests, treasures of the earth, and waters of general public utility, all implements whether animate or inanimate, model farms and agricultural enterprises are declared to be national property. "As a

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RUSSIA RED WITH BLOOD AND BLACK WITH CRIME

From the September 18, 1918, edition of the "Northern Commune" we learn that in Perm, in retaliation for the assassination of Uritzky and for the attempt on Lenine, fifty hostages from among the bourgeois classes and the White Guards were shot. "Struggling Russia," March 22, 1919, supplies us with other details of Bolshevist rifle rule: "We know a great deal about the terror in Petrograd, and considerably less about Moscow. The reason is plain. We find the curtain dropped on the activities of th

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EUROPEAN SPARTACIDES AND COMMUNISTS

The Spartacides made a practice of terrorizing German newspapers into supporting them. In the early part of 1919, they tried to prevent the Constituent Assembly from coming together, and later on engineered many a revolt in the various cities of Germany. Since their leaders, the fiery Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, were assassinated, the orderly elements of the German people have succeeded more and more in weakening the power and influence of the Spartacans. Kurt Eisner, of Bavaria, after t

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THE BOLSHEVISM OF AMERICAN SOCIALISTS

The plan is for Socialists in countries outside of Russia to be helped in their revolts against their governments by their Bolshevist comrades. In the "Labor Scrap Book," published by Chas. H. Kerr and Co., there is a long article by Nicholas Lenine, the Russian dictator. Several quotations are here given: "Russia's revolution is not a domestic revolution, but essentially a world revolution.... "The Bolsheviki follow a consistent policy. They realized long ago that the revolution, though primari

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VIOLENCE, BLOODSHED AND ARMED REBELLION

On Sunday, May 4, 1919, serious trouble with the Socialist-Bolshevist element of Gary, Indiana, was narrowly averted. The account, as published in the "Chicago Tribune" on the next day, reads in part as follows: "There was no 'Red' parade in Gary yesterday.... "Fifty policemen, wearing revolvers on their belts and reinforced by a special shotgun squad of sixteen, a company of state militia, thirty deputy sheriffs, a group of secret service men from Chicago and hundreds of citizen volunteers, pre

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PATRIOTISM RIDICULED AND DESPISED

On May 6, 1919, millions of New Yorkers enthusiastically welcomed the 77th Division of our soldier boys on their return home from the battle-fields of Europe. Glowing descriptions of the celebration appeared in nearly all the papers of the Metropolis. A contemptible account, however, was published the next day in "The Call," showing the scornful spirit of the Socialists toward the millions of American troops who made so many sacrifices for their country in the late war. The article in "The Call"

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THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST OUR COUNTRY

During the year 1919 a very excellent example of how the One Big Union tried to develop a strike into a rebellion was given in Winnipeg, Canada. Some time previously we had in our own country an example in the great strike at Seattle, Washington. Cases of sabotage, murder and arson are but minor activities of the I. W. W., and mere circumstances to aid in bringing about the contemplated rebellion. Government raids in recent years, and the seizure of hundreds of tons of inflammatory literature, f

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SOCIALISM A PERIL TO WORKINGMEN

In the midst of embarrassments like these the inexperienced Marxian agitators must attempt to solve ten thousand times ten thousand problems which require skill in the extreme and years of careful thought. Would not this result in widespread discontent? Or would the citizens of the United States, who just before the dawn of Socialism had been taught by Debs and his crew to find fault with everything under the sun, suddenly learn patience and remain as meek as lambs merely because the Socialists

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THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST RELIGION ABROAD

Frederick Engels, one of the renowned founders of modern Socialism, taught that "nowadays in our evolutionary conception of the universe, there is absolutely no room for either a Creator or a ruler." ("Socialism, Utopian and Scientific," by Frederick Engels, page 17 of the Introduction to the 1901 edition in English--New York Labor News Co.) Wilhelm Liebknecht, who until shortly before his death in 1900 was one of the foremost leaders of the Socialist Party in Germany, addressing the Halle Conve

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THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST RELIGION IN AMERICA

John Spargo, a former Socialist of considerable renown in the United States, and until recently very popular with the party, speaking of education in "Socialism, A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles," touches upon the question of parochial schools in the Marxian commonwealth: "Whether the Socialist regime could tolerate the existence of elementary schools other than its own, such as privately conducted kindergartens and schools, religious schools, and so on, is questionable. Prob

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THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE FAMILY

Again, Debs and his followers, by having a separate party for workingmen, are dividing the laboring class against itself, knowing full well that millions upon millions of decent, honest workingmen will never join them. And since Socialists are making unjust and impossible demands, and injecting into labor organizations radical leaders who cause general distrust and fear, labor cannot succeed in its battles against the abuses of capitalism nearly as well as it would if all were united. Hence, bec

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THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE RACE

The editorial comment then goes on to say: "Four of these letters we answered personally, stating the impossibility of imparting this information under our present laws. But when letters continued to come, we felt that any subject that indeed meant everything in the world to the wives of the working class, was entitled to publicity in these columns. "These women ought to know exactly what the laws are that make the giving of this terribly needed information--A Felony. And so we print below the F

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SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION AND "BORING IN"

Another way in which they have distinguished themselves for their activity is by the immense number of books, novels and pamphlets they have written, large numbers of which are in circulation throughout our country and are rapidly undermining the very foundations of our National Government. As these works are found in abundance and are available to all classes of persons in public libraries, our country's library system is supplying its enemies with well-stocked arsenals wherein weapons are kept

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ENLISTING RECRUITS FOR THE CONSPIRACY

"If you want or expect men and women to be good and intelligent voters at the age of 21, then something most vital must be done with them before they reach that age. From 5 to 21, that's a long road. That's the impressionable period. That's the time at which the people are prepared to become good Socialists or good opponents of Socialism. And the latter quite as readily as the former.... "Catch them young! That's it. But how? In lots of ways. Get them coming our way. Let them lose their fear of

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EXPERTS IN THE ART OF DECEPTION

It is not unfrequently that we hear Socialists appealing to this or that plank of their party platform as proof sufficient that their organization favors or opposes a certain policy. An argument of this sort should have very little weight with careful thinking men, once their attention has been called to the fact that the Socialists have been proven guilty of a base lie by stating in their 1908 platform that the party is not concerned with matters of religious belief. But even if the revolutioni

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THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE REDS

Business men and persons of wealth should not only urge their friends to read anti-Socialist works that have appealed to themselves, but should show their patriotism and generosity by extensively purchasing anti-Socialist literature, whether in the form of books, pamphlets or leaflets, to be sent to public libraries, clubs, high schools, colleges and universities, and reading-rooms, and placed within easy reach of their employes and customers. The workingmen of our country, to whom the Socialist

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THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES, MAY 8-14, 1920

The radical minority in the Socialist Party formerly comprised the Left Wing members who later on became Communists and Communist Laborites. J. Louis Engdahl of Chicago at present leads a new Left Wing radical minority within the Party. The American public may at times be gullible, but hardly sufficiently so as to believe in the sincerity of Hillquit and Victor L. Berger, who filled the air at the Convention with phrases of moderation and disclaim of treason and revolution, following their gentl

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TRANSCRIBER NOTES

1. Changed "Bolshevissm" to "Bolshevism". 2. Changed "Bolhevist" to "Bolshevist". 3. Changed "Forence" to "Florence". 4. Changed "circulaton" to "circulation". 5. Changed "constitutent" to "constituent". 6. Changed "form" to "from". 7. Changed "Ukrainains" to "Ukrainians". 8. Changed "renumeration" to "remuneration". 9. Changed "Procedings" to "Proceedings". 10. Changed "chidren" to "children". 11. Changed "futhermore" to "furthermore". 12. Changed "inauguarate" to "inaugurate". 13. Changed "Kni

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