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Show UNDER THE BAN. These arc unsatisfactory times for (Ihp professional agitator, industrial rami political. Tlio American Federation Federa-tion of Labor has set the seal of its condemnation on the extremists; it has ordered a housecleaning and proposes to rid itself of the undesirable apostles of reformation via the bomb.; the national na-tional executive committee of the socialist so-cialist party has cancelled- the charters char-ters of a number of "left wing" or extreme radical organizations, whereat .there is a howl from the Bolshevist, element in that party, which' has called 'a meeting for Chicago in August to do-. Pennine what shall be done in the " premises; more raids are taking place 'in various cities and evidence is being be-ing unearthed which will he made use of when certain proponents of tlio"new social order based upon sabotage and assassinations are called to account in The courts. Finally, the Winnipeg strike, which was to have been the be: ilinning of the "one big union" plan of converting the North American continent con-tinent into a system of soviet e.xpcri-anents, e.xpcri-anents, lias exploded, following the (somewhat delayed but none the less effective course taken by the dominion do-minion authorities. The sympathy strikes called in Vancouver- and several sev-eral other Canadian communities have been called off. 1 President Lee, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, is quoted by Leslie's Les-lie's Weekly as follows: There are labor organizations that seek refuce under the banner of labor la-bor unionism that properly have no right to claim affiliation "with labor organization and in proof of this is their readiness to raise the red flag of anarchy at every opportunity. Wo do not subscribe to any propaganda that proposes a policy of destruction .o find in a common basis of misery ; ts expected hopes for reconstruction. e have not lost faith in our government govern-ment nor in onr fellowmen; we know that we have in our keeping the continuity con-tinuity of our government, the perpetuation per-petuation of our common welfare, and we believe that it is not necessary to transplant anarchy, or an autocratic government by a few self-selected rulers to preside over the destinies of a free-born American people. Tho very nssumpt ion of power or autocracy established by those who have superseded super-seded former governments gives truth to the assertion that whatever changes of this kind have been made, one autocracy au-tocracy has succeeded in which the last condition of the people was worse than the first, and the very fact that a few assume to control the welfare and the destinies of the many sets at naught all of their pretenses to a common com-mon rule by the common people for the common people, Tho position taken by the Federation Federa-tion of Labor indicates the inherent soundness and loyalty of the organ-' organ-' ized workingmen of the X'nited States. That the federation would, at. the first opportunity, deejare its opposition" of !:.' t rem i:ni never as doubted. Otio'r national em veil t ions of union labor men, notably the rail brotherhood g.'L hering in Louver, have taken the Name patriotic course. Srill o-licr na-jfional na-jfional meetings rprf'S'-nta-ive of Ameri'-n interests and manhood, sii'di as tho great liotary international in Halt Lake, recorded its repudia' ion of HoUliovistn and revolutionary movements move-ments of iviirit'.'S er character. The activities of the radi'-als have served to .stir. the substantia! elements in the nation to a sense of the danger underlying the propaganda imported from abroad. An aroused national patriotism will meet this menace and beat it into the dust. |