Communism; Industrial Workers of the World; Socialism
"The principal exponent of this party, who appears here in the dual
capacity of witness in chief and counsel in chief, is the
international secretary for America of the International Socialist
Bureau."
To complete our information concerning the Moscow International, we add
here some details concerning its Executive Committee, and the right of
representation on it enjoyed by the affiliated "Parties" in other lands
than Russia, including, no doubt, the Socialist Party of America.
Trachtenberg's Labor Year Book, 1919-1920, in its article, "The Moscow
International Communist Conference" (held at Moscow, March 2-6, 1919),
says, page 312:
"The Conference ... perfected the organization of the new
International and entrusted the direction of the work to an
Executive Committee consisting of one representative from the
Communist parties of the more important countries. The parties in
Russia, Germany, German-Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Sweden and
the Balkan Federation, were directed to send members to the
Executive Committee. Parties which have declared their adherence to
the new International will be given seats in the Executive
Committee, pending the arrival of delegates from other countries.
The members of the Committee from the country in which the
Executive Committee has its seat [Russia] were empowered to plan
the work of the new organization. The Executive Committee was
authorized to elect a bureau consisting of five members to do the
actual work of the Committee."
Has the Socialist Party of America contributed its Executive
Committeeman to this revolutionary machine? Even so, the orders, or
"suggestions," evidently come from the Bolshevist Bureau of Five who "do
the actual work of the Committee." Are these the Russian power that,
according to correspondence found in a raid of the Lusk Committee, has
already appointed Eugene V. Debs to reign over us "as 'Proletarian
Dictator' of the United States" as soon as the plotted revolution is
pulled off in this country? (See "The National Civic Federation Review"
for July 30, 1919.) Are these the power, too, according to report, that
induced the Italian Socialists and Syndicalists to postpone their
proposed revolution to a more convenient season? And was this to give
Soviet Russia a chance to put through a temporary peace or truce with
Europe to stave off "economic catastrophe?" If so, the twitching
revolutionaries in other lands must evidently train their toes to dance
at Moscow's convenience.
Meanwhile, under the International, the diabolical work of getting the
immoral elements ready for violence goes on in every land, including the
United States.
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