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...vital need of force in swinging the balance of power from the side of capital to the side of labor is clearly and plausibly argued. That organs, such as Parliament and the press, which have as their chief aim the continued existence of the state of society in which they had their origin, can be used as effective weapons by those who plan the overthrow of that state of society is a proposition of doubtful validity at best. The aim of communism is not to reconstruct, not to build on the old foundations, but to sweep away all that...
Louis F. Post, late Assistant Secretary of Labor, spoke last night in the Trophy Room of the Union on "An Inside View of the Deportations" sketching the events which led up to and the history of the deportations...
...Under the law of 1918," he declared, "it was made a deportable offense to belong to any society which discussed or advocated the overthrow of the government by force or violence" and the Department of Labor was commissioned to carry...
...Russian gold, but until the Kronstadt matter was finally settled. Yet in the critical condition of home affairs a very good reason may be found. As was recently brought out in a discussion in the New York Evening Post, three recent by-elections out of four have gone to Labor or to the Liberals, and one, at Woolwich, was saved for the Coalition by resumed, there can be no possible harm in signing the agreement and pleasing Labor. True, the Commons may turn down the agreement, the Kronstadt, uprising may be successful, or the courts may rule the compact worthless...
...Lloyd George, as Minister of Munitions, asked the trade unions of Great Britain, who, contrary to our condition dominated the metal trades, to agree with the Government that for the period of the war they would abandon their restrictions, work with non-unionists and admit a dilution of female labor. In other words, Great Britain, as a matter of public policy, sought the establishment of an open shop as the only means of meeting the requirements of national defense...