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Show WORKERS DIVIDED. Tho action of the United Mino Workers' Work-ers' convention in Cleveland in denying . membership in that labor organisation to anyone identified with the I. TV. W. and kindred radical croups, the "One Big Union" propaganda and proponents propo-nents of sovietism in whatever guise, speaks volumes for the sober judgment of tho mine workers and their levelheaded level-headed leadership. The other day emphatic em-phatic disapproval was given by the American Legion members in Salt Lake lo the movement for sovietism championed cham-pioned by the Utah Federation of Labor La-bor in open disregard for the stand taken by the national organization at its Atlantic City convention. That Bolshevism is now an existing institution in this country may be accepted ac-cepted as a fact, disguised as it may bo under the name of the Workingclas3 union and other- misleading titles. The Communist party recently organized in Chicago offers a fair example of the extremes to which these so-called leaders lead-ers of labor are proceeding. The Communist Com-munist party actually belongs to the same group of international socialists as the Bolshevists of Russia. It proposes pro-poses to place a ticket in tho field next year and wage its campaign on the single plank platform the "domination "domina-tion of the working class and the abolition abo-lition of capitalism." These extremists frankly admit that they are bent on tho overthrow of the present system of government in the United States. A leading radical newspaper news-paper recently ridiculed the term "na-triotic "na-triotic fathers" as applied to the f ratn-ers ratn-ers of the constitution of this nation. It charged that the founders of the republic re-public were more concerned with selfish self-ish interests than with popular interests in-terests in writing the constitution of the country. Even the moderate socialists so-cialists propose a revolutionary program. pro-gram. They would have the government govern-ment take over the cable systems and all shipping, telegraphs and telephones. The mine3 are to bo socialized. With the moderate socialists the program stops there. But with the radicals it goes on to the absorption and nationalizing nation-alizing of the farms, factories and all other productive facilities; the distribution distri-bution and disposition of all products; in short, the abolishment of all private property and its confiscation by tho government, and the establishment of a socialized state in which the government govern-ment shall own all property and control con-trol and regulate ti.e lives of tho people. peo-ple. This program contemplates not only the abandonment of the constitution constitu-tion but of the very fundamental principle prin-ciple of government which tho Unite 1 States represents. To all thig extremism the elements represented by tho propagandists of social so-cial upheaval in favor of the proletariat prole-tariat are committed openly and tin-blushingly. tin-blushingly. If there ever was a time when Americans Bhould unhesitatingly rcrel attacks upon the constitution of the United States, from whatever rpirir-ter rpirir-ter they may come, that time has arrived. ar-rived. If there ever existed conditions requiring a firm stand against nay rur-rendcr rur-rendcr of constitutional powers now enjoyed by the people of the republic those conditions exist at this time. When even the public, service is tainted by bolshevism, as wiinoss the discreditable discred-itable attitude of the Boston police, the necessity for taking stock of the national na-tional patriotism is illustrated with striking feiree. |