arners, who, like other wage-earners, are
eager to improve their circumstances. Policemen will vote the
Socialist ticket when they realize that the Socialists in office
will insist upon their receiving more pay, more leisure, more sick
and old age benefits, more privileges.... Adopt constructive
resolutions demanding that constables be paid higher wages, that
they be granted shorter hours, that they be given more days off
each week, that they be exempted from paying part of their wages
into the superannuation fund, that they be accorded the right of
combination, that a more generous system of sick benefits be drawn
up, that they have the right of appeal against dismissal and abuse
to a representative committee of citizens."
The revolutionists are leaving nothing undone in their extraordinary
efforts to gain recruits for the overthrow of our National Government.
This is evidenced by the appearance in their papers of articles like the
following, entitled, "The Pure Water Problem," which was published in
"The Call," April 30, 1912:
"As a political organization, the Socialist Party must address
itself to every question that interests the electorate. And in each
case it must offer the public a carefully thought out solution
instead of mere generalities and hackneyed phrases. Otherwise it
will not succeed in winning the confidence of the majority of
voters. Now almost every city in America is confronted with a pure
water and sewage disposal problem.... If the Socialist Party steps
into the arena with clear-cut proposals that deal in a radical,
constructive and common sense way with this problem, it will not
only help to secure pure drinking water for citizens, but it will
break down considerable prejudice against the Socialist movement,
and cause people to study the more revolutionary features of our
own official platform."
Information comes to us that on account of recent Government raids the
Red organizations are assuming a variety of aliases. The Communist Party
has taken the innocuous title of "The International Publishing Company,"
alias "The International League of Defense." The I. W. W. operates under
any local name which comes handy. Individual Reds often spread their
doctrines, and incite workingmen to take part in outlaw strikes, while
professing to be members of no radical organization.
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