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* BOLSHEVIK W
i) WHAT THEY
BE SE a lone -
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(OPPOSE
e Minister.
-diate Socizlism With Strength to Establish a
ational as Guarantee of Peace to World,”
loa questions of tacties. The “Tame |official organization in the country
| Socialists’ claim to pe moderate and | must be run by Councils of Deputies.
| opportunist in their policy. But when The Bolsheviks demand that the
lit comes to a test the “Tame Social-| Constituent Assembly be eatied. Tool
lists’’ almost always meekly follow the | Assembly’s real funetion is
Capitalist and Imperialist lead.
= -— i
crease the power of the ie of
‘the Menshevik proglaim they want | Deputies and to organize and to arm |
a genuinely Socialist State, but they | the toiling masses,
add that Russia must have patience The Bolshevik party is determined
in realizing that aim. They declared | to abolish the standing army. It de-
jmmediately after the revolution that | mands that in the meantime every
the Socialists alone ¢€ould not rule|ofiicer shall be elected directly by
Russia; therefore the capitalistic|the goldiers. The soldiers, through
| government of Prince Lvoff, and t he {their committees, will supervise and
jmose or less capitalistic government | control the actions and orders of all
oo
nst All Form of Annexations by Capitalistic Governments”
olsheviki Overthrew Other Russian
nce to People’s Demands.
Parties by Firm Ad-
Proletariat to Sup
e so-called Bourgeoisie, or | ing mass.
and educated classes on | | cret treaties. They opposed the pub-
and the Social-Democrats | lication of the treaties of spoliation jar chy and to offer the throne to C
ke the toiling masses on made between the ex-Czar Nicholas
That view is untrue. IZus- | and his European allies. © They dread
a light being let into ihe dark places
us Scion of opposition te of capitalistic international intrigue.
ists, Militarists and Bour- With one important limitation, they |
great part of our Social- [are annexationists. They oppose
party does not represent | seizures of territory by the brigand
While professing Social-
ping to keep in touch with | | capitalists of Germany. But they
lar party. that is, the | want a to maintain in subjec-
t-he riod “nd 8
Russian party which is
ising in its opposition to | people should immediately take pos-
} national and economical {session of banks, industrial monop-
b is the Bolshevik party.
rstand why the Bolshevik!
cnly progressive element | | Reacijonaries. From their capitalis-
nne must know: what Rus- |
There are four]
ed Russian parties; ard |
1 “The Four Factors of
jes—the Land-Owners.
s a party of exireme re-|
who stand to the right]
stitutional-Democratic or |
hostly large land-owners,
o retrograde members ot |
inue to he the real au-|
. heart they want the re- | shocked when it is classed with the |
' the Romanoff dynasty, | Reactionaries.
e afraid to express that | claims, are a handful of autocratists, |
By Nicholas l.enine,
from statements by Lenine.)
real jagainst the Bolsheviks’ demand for
the victory of the Bolshe- [the abolition of the official class. |
t over the opposing ele-| Their motive here is plain. They be-
h Tepresenl, in undiluted | long to that class, and their kinsmen
Capitalism, recruit that class.
Vvilliam the Second aud the brigand
the non-Russian races who were
= p 1 3 of Nicholas’s despotism; and
Imperialism | they would like Ber if ‘victorious, to
‘annex all she ca
The re demand’ that the
gloss, and other great aggregations of
| capital is naturally opposed by the
tic and landowning standpoint this
view is inevitable.
Such in brief is the platform of the
most conservative of Russia’s four
| parties, which T call the Reaction-
jaries.
Liberals—Party of the Cadets.
The second political factor of Rus-
sia ig “Liberal.” The Liberal party
| consists of the Cadets, of which the
| world hears so much (that is, the so-
caled “Party of Popular Freedom”);
lit consists also to a certain extent of
/, [the Moscow “Industrial Group,” of
» (the National-Demoecrats, and in gen-
I leral of the jpropertied “Inteligent- |
¢ siya.”
This element of Russia is always |
| Pan- Russion fanatics and Jew-bait-|
tioparies stand for the | ers, whom the honest Liberals regard |
Russia's standing |
ey stand for the Tesur- | parties, though separately organized |
They are and in the past inimical, have been |
with horror. Ia reality these two;
The Reactionaries, it!
er 's bi
«
ig a
Bg pe eet
6 a
plant Standing Army in Republic; Lands
be Confiscated and 200,000,000 People to Be Brought Under
ncit Government.
Bolshevik Dictator and Prime Minister of Russia.
blated by the former Petrograd correspondent of the New York American, John Crozier Long,
cemented hy the revolution into one
party. Their programmes are the
same. In nearly all the questions |
tahove mentioned the Liberals agree
| with the Reactionaries. One super-
and Exploitation of the | ‘The Reactionaries stand for the! ficial diiference is in the question:
ven Russians—those who!war. Their motives is that they and!
BiLhe trend of evenis—imag-! {their families profit from war, and | March revolution the first important | © ack the'co Ct of the Coun annexation is to annihilate capitalis-
ere is clear-cut opposition |that war causes disunion. in the toil-| act of the Liberals, under Professor | nse
They are in favor of se- | Miliukoft and the ex-War Minister | cils of Deputies.
| Gutchkoft, was to proclaim for mon- |
zar |
{monarchy or republic? After the
| Nicholas's brother, Michael.” Only!
when they saw that Russia would |
‘pot tolerate Czarism in any form |
‘they declared themselves Republi-!
leans,
On the question of political power
{the Liberals agree with the React-
ionaries with the differences that;
instead of demanding a Czarist or
miiitary dictatorship, they w ant PoOW-
er to remain i mthe hands of the caD-
italists.
After the revolution the Liberals |
pression of the peopie’s will. They
tricd to delay the convoking of the |
Constituent Assembly. All “that re-
who are the backbone of the Cadets
and other ‘‘Liberal’ narties could do!
—was done in order to delay the|
Constitueny Assembly.
On the war issue, the Liberals are!
at heart quite as predatory as the
Reactionaries, but they try to de-!
ceive the masses by claiming that!
Russia is Lighting for Russia’s liber-
ties and that she aims at dethroning
the despot Willian the Second. They
gorge the conquests which she has |
made, but they stand with equal res- |
olution for keeping Germany's con-
quered ‘colonies.
{want to save the proprietors’ land.
| Shingarieif, their former Minister of |
| Finances, expropriated all the lands |
{belonging to the Czar and to the
| grand dukes, but he threw up his
hands in horror when asked to ex-|
i propriate land belonging to the noble
| proprietors.
{ On the grea; question of a Social-
{ ist-International, which is the one
{means of abolishing war and realiz-
- — ing a fraternal union of nations, the
7 Far
Liver Pills
A Remedy That § |
Maices Life §
Worth Liviog 3
F
Genuine beara figeanee
i
«Tame Socialist” Party.
i
and working men, petty tra
{large capitalists, and
ther of real but gullible
{ who have been cat
3 | Liberals are insincere. They profess |
ito stand for the International, buat
j demand that the Sceialists who. con-
| trol the International shall be “Tame
ocialists’” who stand in line obed-}
overnments An International on |
uch a basis is an absurdity. To prove |
's
i.
{den tly with the present capitalistic
|g
Ss
i their insinc
| belligerent States, although this is
j the first and indispensable step to-|
“| ward an Tanternational.
| “Tame Socialists’—the Menshevik.
t The third Tactor in Russia, and the
| factor w Ss
i “Socialist,
sipce it jca
That is the
| Menshevik, or Moderate Socialist,
| Party. In its class composition this
| party is not Socialis; at all. 1t does
not represent the toiling masses; it
| represents fairly prosperous peasants
small and
geois net.
n Effective In-|
|visional governme
Rerensky.
and compromised om the question of
army and police. a hinted that| .. it the best, official will get about
&
! : the same salary as the best working
lof Russia's standing army was pre-
| mature, and they
jing that this was
{settle that questio Ly
| sheviks, they prof
| officers should be £4
did all they could to preveng an ex-
actionary professors and tiwpors:)
stand for forcing Germany to dis-
On the subject of land ownership, |
| Russia’s Liberals are insincere. They |
erity the Liberals oppose!
{ fraternizatigu between soldiers of the
s itself |
is hardest for real Soc-
4! ialisis to tackle and defeat, is the
of Kerensky must be lefy in power | officers, high and low, and they will
while the real Socialist Parliament, | dismiss their officers without any ap-
. s {that is, the Council "of Workmen's peal. No soldier will obey any officer | cording to a dispatch from the Petro-
Is Aim of Russia's»? Soldiers’ Deputies, remained out-| except the officer so elected.
Iside, and was alloyed merely to “ad-| gpuesia Needs Armed Proletariat.
Ttussia wants neither standing
Soc lalists” professed . to believe that|,..,v nor police. It needs an armed
| vise” the Government. The “Tame
Jit the councils a ed all DOWEr |. .,jctariat. Its programme should
anarchy would result; and they lye to arm immediately and univer-
(therefore ois former Pro-| qui the people, so that a great
* of Lwoff and |, jjitia may be formed. The eapita-
listic employer will be obliged to pay
e Constituent
Socialists” also
fter day they
ly and urged its
in the matter of
Assembly, the “Tame
compromised. Day.
discussed the Assem
vice in the militia.
up their minds, a they were one
main reason why itgffonvocation was
postponed. *
The “Tame Socialists
’
vacillated
the
such a drastic change as the abolition
man
fused to abolish
immediately the offi@ial ciass, declar-
2 dly the time to
. Like the Bol-
: dd that all army
feted by the com-
mon soldiers, but they hesitated on
| the vital question whether or not the
| soldiers had a, right to dismiss their
| officers. They demanded that before
dismissing officers. the soldiers
ments which wage such wars.
tic governments.
Fooled by the
The ‘“Tame Social
Phesigtist
ave supported a
{war waged by frail
| the type of Profe
| Alexand er Gutchk
to be against seer!
oe but they wer
| publication of t
| protesed and™hont!
| they are against an’
| stood for compromise with the capi- |ihrones.
| talisy governments which, they pro-
| claimed, would generously ‘“‘under-
| take” to renounce all annexations.
The “Tame Socialists” opposed the
immediate settlemnent of the land
| question. They agree with the Bol-
|B evik demand for the handing over
fof banks and industries to the peo-
| p1 e; bug they insist that this plan
ats must not be realized ‘premature-
Sor Miliukoff and |gajser Wilhelm.
Peasants Must Get Land.’
“he “Tame Socialists’ stand for
| fraternization . betiween enemy
| troops; but of course they doubt This
|» hether fraternization is at present
“advisable.” They support the great
idea of a Socialist International; but
[they oscillate backward and forward
{ between ‘‘Patriotism’; of a National-
ist type and genuine, Bolshevik In-
|ternationalism. In the name of Soc-
ialistic unity they would constitute
| their International from all elements,
|including patriots of the type of the
militant socialist Sc¢heidemann in
Germany and the equally militant
| socialist Plekhanoff in Russia.
| Belsheviks—Jnow What They Want
capitalistic industries.
Against these three parties of]
| Aristocrats, Bourgeois Militarists and
self-deceiving “Socialist” 'weaklings,
stand tne Bolsheviks, with an uncom-
promising programme and an uncom-
promising policy. Alone the Bolshe-
viks know what they want and have |
the power to get it.
What are the Bolsheviks, and what |
{do they want? The Bolsheviks are |
a communistic party representing |
| first the day laborers; secondly, all |
such workmen ag are, as Russians |
say, ‘Soznatelniye,’”” that is, such as|
have a full class and political con-
sciousness; and, finally, the landless |
or nearly landless peasants.
‘(hese classes stand for imme diate |
ialism. Their notion of Socialism |
the peoples.
© Workmen's, Soldiers’ and Peas-|
of Workmen soldi Is and 8-1ily. The ‘““Tame Socialists”
118’ Deputies. They are against ev-
ary form f monarchy and every 13 :
ery ierm Se : c # y policy is feebleness and compromise
n t politica ver except such | :
of a Dower pL mv and it resembles rose water.
; reposes in the hands of the Coun- |
cils of Deputies. They are against all
governments of the type of the gov-
flag “i
3 4 B® | of the International Revolution
crnments o Lveff and {erensky. Vo: 7
on as Voi a £3. | which is soon to come.—N. Y. Amer-| }
They intend to prepare our two hun-|. |
Tid : (ican.
sians for govern- 2 ol Cts
neils of Deputies. WANTED
division of print
= Bolshevik Goverment
Based on Rea Fores
|
BRITON FINDS PETROGRAD MORE
ORDERLY THAN FOR MONTHS |
i
|
WAL, STREET PLN
10 ROB WORRERS
AT
rokl dd h i faced by] Reductions ini wages and wide-
jers etic an ecisive, though fa | spread unemploymeny are being pre-
noisy opposition from the privileged | dicied as after-the-war certainties by
classes, who are doing al they can to | New York bankers and corporation
check it by sabotage and libel, ac- | dealers.
| One reason why Wall Street bank-
London, Jan. 1.—The Bolshevik |
government is extremely efficient, en-
| grad correspondent of the Daily | | ers are Urging a campaign for thrift
| | among wage-earners is their desire
News. | that the workers shall be fi:aadially
The correspondent who has just able to endure the wage reductions
returned to Pertograd after a lengthy on, which they are counting the mo-
vy
more orderly than for some months |
The people may not like the Bolshe- |
visit in England. says ihe city is | ment the war stops.
To prevent the most disastrous in-
before the Bolsheviki took ‘control. | dustrial depression in our generation,
many far-sighted men in the United
his workers during their days of ser-
The State must aboiish entirely the
3 _- offivial class and official ranks as they
necassity, but they re could make now exist. In the new Russian State
n
The Bolshevik programme is ab-
The Bolsheviks are against all
to accept any declaration against an-
= express the people’s will; and on this
sts” professed to | noine it is the duty of us Bolsheviks. B of their present earnings against a
be 2s much ii lly War | to enlighten and warn the masses. Higa {0 Place oP Women bad future. If the wage-earners can ’
as the Bolsheviks.§ But they were| On the quéstion of monarchy in : :
‘fooled by the capitalists and imper-| (he world generally the Bolsheviks
| ialistic; and since ¥ revolution they | yapudiate the “Tame Socialist” pol-
purely imperialistic | jcy of being contented for the time
imperialists of | posing with the dethronement of
The Bolsheviks The problem which concerns the | without revolting. According to
They professed | proclaim that the Revolution cannot placement of women in positions held | this line of reasoning, every penny
predatory treat- | amord to wait: and they do mot be-|>Y Wen released for war service assayed by the wage-earners during the
Lalso againsy the ljjeva in waiting Revolutionaries, :
treaties. They | Therefore in 211 countries, without |S made idle through industrial ploying interests after the war. Ev-
bp believed that|,iy exceptions, all sovereigns: must | H3RESS W ill be. simplified by a new ery dollar the iwage-earner can
Nation, but they | pe jmmediately driven from their plan now being put into effect by the from his savings can be subtracted
Labor Department. This plan in-! froin the amount of his pay- check. »
On the land question the Bolshe-
viks accept no compromise. All the
land must be immediately confiscated
and handed over to the peasants.
Food production must be immediate-
ly increased and the soldiers must be
better fed. ~The Couneils of Work-
men’s Deputies, the (Councils of Dele-
gatos of Banking Employes and oth- bill
3 er democratic organizations must
prepare for the immediate union of
all banks into a single State bank.
step shall be followed by es-
tabiishing control by the Councils of
Workmen's Deputies over all other
{only such men can establish a really
{effective International which will
| guarantee peace and eoncord between
The four parties of Russia are as
| dist inctly different from one another
as are four colors. I should give each
of ithe parties a color which indicates
{its essential character. The Reac-
| Hong ‘ies should have a black flag.
| They are the real “Black Hundred”
party. The Liberals should have a
: ellow flag; for that is the color of
in a republic ruled by the Councils | 3 who serve Capitalism yoluntar-
pink. The “Tame Socialists” ¥ Rois)
{
The Bolsheyik flag is red. Red is]
the real Socialist color, the emblem
viki, he declares, but they obey them |£ States and England are insisting that
with startling alacrity and the Gov-|ODDOTtunity on the land be opeued to
ernment, for the first time since the | | the millions of returning soldiers and
revolution, is based on real force. | munition workers who will find them-
The Constituent Assembly, the cor- | | selves out of employment when peace
respondent hears, will meet as soon | comes.
iis Deople wi Siseenly Slat he oWD |as delegates from the Ukraine arrive, | In Wall Street the coming indus-
officials: and it will directly dismiss
perhaps in ten days. Ile asserts that |trial | depression is today being
ig mw Se Bolan whatever is the decision. of the as- | planned for amd discussed in the most
cot ao « 4 De R i as 1|SeMDLy as constituted a¢ present it jmatter-ot-fact ‘way. Says the finan-
got high salapies. hn huss, * will not alter the essential direction | cial editor of the New York Evening
of Russian policy, although it might | Post:
by weakening the government at | “If workers, by investment in gov-
home, weaken it dn its dealings with | eTRInent bonds, do not become used
the Germans. to higher living, it will be less diffi-
solutely opposed to imperialistic}, = omit to turn out the Bol-| cult to get them to consent to a re-
wars and to all capitalistic govern-
1
shevik government by force would |duction in wages when that is made
resiit only in anarchy favorable to |ingevitable by peace. What is more
the Germans, says the correspondent, | important, the workers will have
forms of annexation, and they refuse | ,, 4,44 not believe that such force | saved something, which will enable
is available. He writes enthusiastic-| them better to bridge over any in-
uexztion made by a capitalise gov. ally about Leon Trotzky, the Bolshe- | terval of unemployment which may
ernment. The only way to force cap-
italistic governments to renounce
vik foreign minister, wifo told him | come during the period of readjust-
tha; the war would be decided py | ment.” :
social rather than by pres- |
sure. |
Prepare for Future.
A capitalistic government cannot In~other words, Wall Street wants
the workers to insure themselves out
be induced to go without “luxuries”
(such as meat, eggs, milk and. sug-
ii { § dl i istries during the war, then after. the
; | war they may submi; to wage re-
ti unemployment—anything
well as the placement ‘of wage earn- war will be saved to bankers and em-
cludes the transfer of the United |
States Employment Service from the
Bureau of Immigration to the Offige
of the Secretary of l.abor and will
also centralize the work of the var-
ious employment bureaus throughout
the country. In addition to $250,000
placed in the hands of the Secretary
of Labor for war emergency employ-
ment work by the urgent deficiency
|, a further sum has been made
available by President Wilson from
his $100,000,000 appropriation to
carry on the service pending further
action by Congress.
Organized labor knows there is a
betier way. It is fasi coming to a
realization that the only hope for the
workers is to remove the underlying
causes of low wages and unemploy-
ment. And the greatest of these is
the privilege of*owning the means of
wealth production and distribution
and vsing the mere fact of ownership
as a means of extorting tribute.
of the products of labor as after the
war. Food, clothing, better and more
houses, will be sorely needed. And
they will not be forthcoming because
Appointed Assistant Manager. the bankers and landowners will find
Significant of the Importance of it more profitable to hold the natural
The Bolshevik International is an|vamen in industry is the appoint- |resources, and the plants which de-
entirely different International from |ment of Miss Hilda Muhlhauser as |DPend ‘upon these resources for raw
that of the “Tame Socialists.” It will | assistant manager of the mewly or-| Materials, idle and out of use, until
be organized from and manned by|ganized Employment Service of the [they can be sure of big profits over
real Revolutionaries and real Prole-| Department of Labor. For the last and above the cost of producing.
tarigns. Only these can put a stop|10 vears Miss Muhlhauser has devot-
to hideous and criminal massacres of |ed her time and energy to all the |sumer’'s League of “Ohio, the Wo-
the vations, and only these are capa- | phases of the employment problem, man’s Suffrage Association, and the
ble of delivering the human race making intensive studies as well as
from the oppression of capitalists. It|Dractical investigations. She is iden- | New York. She is vice president of
lis such men as the German socialist | tified with many organizations, being | the American Association of Public
v1 Liebknecht, who is today lang-|a member of the Board of the Con- Moyne Bureaus.
| uishing in a German prison—men
who iutrepidly oppose their own cap-
italistic governments, their own JUST KIDS —The Annual Decision.
Bouygeoisie and their own Tame So-
|cialist Patriots and Nationalists—
Woman’s City Club of Cleveland and
By Ad Carfer
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