The Union Daily Times

Plot to Bring About Revolution
New York, Sept. 15.--"No greater victory short of the overthrow of the Federal government could be won by the Communists in this country than to bring about recognition of the Soviet regime in Russia by this government," it is declared in the last article of a series of six in which the United Mine Workers of America seeks to prove that a plot is afoot to bring about a revolution in this country and Canada, and establish a dictatorship of the Communist International from Moscow.

In this document it also is alleged that "the demand for the release of political prisoners confined in Federal and state prisons is a phase of the revolutionary movement that goes hand in hand with the demand for recognition of the Soviet Republic."

It is charged further that the nub of the Communist movement on the American continent "is an outgrowth of, and, to a certain extent, a continuation of the German espionage system here during the war."

Says the author of the articles:

"A recognized government is entitled to a consulate in every city, and a consular staff may be as large as desired and may do about what it wants to do. The first thing the Soviets might be expected to do in the United States, if accorded recognition, would be to establish 'consulates' in all the leading cities. The 'underground' revolutionary organization centered around the Communist Party of America would then be able to come to the surface and start its work with renewed impetus.

"With the diplomatic doors open to them the Soviets could bring in men and money as they desired. While the possibility of their overthrowing the American government is not to be conceded, one of the major lines of defense against them would be removed; they would be afforded unlimited opportunities for revolutionary work, and energies that are sorely needed for constructive effort in America would be dissipated in fighting the serpent in the house.

"Deportations of alien Communists would be halted and the 'Red' agents of Moscow, when arrested in this country, could demand the protection of the consulates' and diplomatic emissaries of the Communist International."

The German espionage system which Communists in America are alleged to have taken over is described as an organization recruited by agents of the Kaiser from among the malcontents and disloyalists of the United States.

"Large numbers of anarchists, syndicalists, agitators, would-be revolutionists, enemies of the government and individuals who had been convicted of crime, were enlisted in this service" An underground as well as a surface organization is said to have been established.

After the flow of German money for maintenance of the espionage system was stopped during the war and the Soviet regime gained control of Russia, the German workers in America are said to have offered their services to Lenin and Trotsky. They "held out the prospect that with proper cultivation the revolutionary units already existing in the United States could quickly mobilize the labor unions and trade unionists for an armed uprising, with seizure and overthrow of the government and the establishment of a Soviet dictatorship."

"Today the Bolshevik organization in America is better systematized more coordinated and has a larger range of activities than it ever had before. These activities are expanding in scope. The Communist organization is real and effective and, from a skeleton organization created by the Germans, has multiplied many times in strength and scope of action until today it has ramifications that reach into virtually every labor union, every industry, every community and most of the phases of American life."

The Communists are held to be "hopeful of controlling the next convention of the American Federation of Labor in October, and are carefully working now to control a majority of the delegates that attend it. They are hopeful that a nation-wide strike of the coal miners will take place next April which will afford them the opportunity to attempt again the seizure of the union through revolutionary methods, as they attempted in the strike of 1922."

William Z. Foster, head of the Trade Union Educational League, is alleged to have declared at a Communist meeting at Pittsburgh last June that the one-big-union idea already had been adopted by 13 state federations of labor and that federations in other states gave promise of doing likewise.

Names of the 45 major Communist organizations in the United States and Canada are changed frequently, says the writer of the article. It is set forth as Lenin's idea that "when the stigma of Communism is definitely attached to a surface' organization, it should be merged into a new group.

Finally, the United Mine Workers charges that:

"More than $1,000,000 for the Communist movement was raised in this country under the guise of Russian famine relief. This money was deposited in banks in New York and Chicago in the name of relief committees and eventually found its way, after passing through various other bank accounts, into the hands of the real Communist emissaries in the United States."