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8Jew Trades Link With World RevolutionariesOnly 600,000 Communists in Russia; More Than 300,000 in Two Jewish Trade Unions Alone. The Kehillah a “Clearing House”THERE are more Bolsheviks in the United States than there are in Soviet Russia. Their aim is the same and their racial character is the same. If they are not able to do here what they have done there, it is because of the greater dissemination of information, the higher degree ot intelligence and the wider diffusion of the agencies of governmental authority, than obtains in unhappy Russia.The power house of Bolshevik influence and propaganda in the United States is in the Jewish trade unions which, almost without exception, adhere to a Bolshevik program for their respective industries and for the country as a whole.This fact is proving most embarrassing to the Jewish leaders at the present moment. It is bad enough that Russian Bolshevism should be so predominantly Jewish, but to confront the same situation in the United States, is a double burden of which Jewish leaders do not know how to dispose.Yet it is difficult to see how the International Jew can be absolved either irom the necessity of being confronted with it, or from the necessity of bearing sole responsibility for it. Russian Bolshevism came out of the East Side of New York where it was fostered by the encouragement—the religious, moral and financial encouragement—of Jewish leaders. Leon Trotsky (Braunstein) was an East Sider. Whether he was a member oi the New York Kehill?h is not known. But the forces which fostered what he stood for centered in the Kehillah, and both the Kehillah and its associated American Jewish Committee were interested in the work he set out to do, namely, the overthrow of an established government, one of the allies of the United States in the recent war. Russian Bolshevism was helped to its objective by Jewish gold from the United States. And now that it is found to be numerically much stronger in the United States than it is in Russia, the fact causes no little embarrassment.Denial is useless, for the thing is too blatant and has advertised itself too long. What amazes the student of the Jewish Question in the United States is the stupidity which permitted. Jewish Bolshevism to flaunt itself -o openly during the past few years. The only explanation that seems at all adequate is that the Jews never dreamed that the American people would become sufficiently awake to challenge them. The present widespread exposure of Jewish tactics in the United States has doubtless come as a surprise to the Jewish leaders, and this cannot be accounted for otherwise than that they thought they had gained too strong a grip on the American mind to make a challenge possible.Judges Try to Cover BolshevismIT REMAINS to be seen whether the Jewish leaden shall be able to control the Frankenstein'that theirfalse policies have created.Following exactly the program which the Jewish leaders approved for Russia, the organized Jews of New York are exhibiting a zeal and a directness which Jewish leaders would like to curb for the present, if we are to judge from some of the complaints that the Bolshevik Jews are making.Benjamin Schlcssinger. president of the International Garment \\ orkers L nion, whose membership numbers 150,(XX. and which is a part of the New York Kehillah, is one of the complainants. His union, of course, is not the regular American labor union formed for the betterment of working conditions and w’ages; it is a revolutionary union for the complete change of the social system, involving also a change of government. In an interview printed in the Jewish Forward of April 8, Schlcssinger complains against the manner in which Jewish judges have recently come to interfere with Jewish strikes:“‘And Jewish judges come to their assistance. They issue injunctions; and it is said that they do it to save the Jewish name, so that it shall not be said that ’“all Jews are Bolshevists.” So the injunctions become a Jewish affair ....“ ‘We have a gigantic wide-branched Kehillah in New York. In all corners, Jews! All over, what you see and what you hear—Jews. And, of course, also dress; politicians and greater ones.’“But only we may say this. And I understand Schlcssinger .... Schlessinger explains it this way: Several reasons are given why judges like (here a Jewish judge is named) twist the law .... The real purpose is to break our strike .... But, then, after all. there is a reason, a Jewish reason. He wants to demonstrate to the American community, he claims, that not all Jews are Bolshevists.1*This excerpt shows several things: that only “we“ may say certain things : that Jewish authority is trying to cover the blemish of Bolshevism; and that thisis done in order to demonstrate to “the American community a certain desirable thing. The Jewish community, it is presumed, is not so easily impressed. The Kehillah is apparently trying to call in its kites but they have apparently flown too high in the rarefied atmosphere of revolutionism.Another big union which makes part of the New York Kehillah is the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, whose membership is about 20(1.000. It is officered by Russian Jews whose pronounced Bolshevik utterances have been widely reported in the Jewish press of New York, until plain and unprivileged Americans have wondered how far treason to the United States Government could go on our own soil.Their Master Trotsky’s VoiceSIDNEY HILLMAN, the president, is one of the most radical Socialists in the United States—so radical that he would probably spurn the name of Socialist as ordinarily used. He is a Sovietist. He is so far advanced that to him the regular type of American labor union is a scab union.” The purpose of the American labor union ilt; stated to be the improvement of the workers’ condition in industry and the establishment of their industrial rights, whereas the object of Hillman’s union is the overthrow of industry and its com-munization in the hands of the radical element. That is to say, Russia over again. Hillman was born in Russia. He personally knows most of the Bolshevik Jews now ruining that great land.The secretary of the Amalgamated is Joseph Schloss-berg, also born in Russia. Schlossberg has a very free gift of words. One oi his promises to his Jewish followers, publicly made at Madison Square Garden, is this:The clothing industry is ours. We are not going to permit the employer to determine where his factory shall be. or how many hours we shall work.”Abraham Shiplacoff, a Socialist member of the New York board of aldermen, and next to Sidney Hillman in command of the Amalgamated, is also a free speaker, as the following excerpt will show:“Wc are going to move heaven and earth to educate our people that they and they alone arethe owners of industry. The workers of Russiahave found it out, God bless them!“If I knew old Sammy Gompcrs knew as much as that. I would tell you to go and do what the workers did in Turine. Ten thousand of them marched to the factory with music and a flag, and they opened the doors and went to work and said, ‘To hell with the owners of the factory.’ Everybody knows it is war. We are going to control the industry.”Always the omission, of course, that the factories so spectacularly captured, cease to run soon after. The Hillmans and the Schlossbcrgs and the Shiplacoffs are heroic figures on the platform, but in manufacturing the common commodities*of life and making both ends meet so that the consumer may be served and the producer rewarded, they have been the most tragic failures. The workers of Russia have found it out, God help them 1”As a matter of fact, besides the I. W. W., the Amalgamated is the only organization which not only preaches Bolshevism but actually practices it—all in the United States, and all apparently in perfect consistency with its membership in the Kehillah and under the officership of the high gentlemen of the American Jewish Committee. The Amalgamated actually does run the industry which has mulcted such a heavy tax from the American public since 1914.Not a Native American in AUTHEY tell the factory manager where the factory is to be located.They have a minimum wage of $12 a day, independent of skill or production.They enforce that rule, that an employe who has worked for two weeks has thereafter a job for life. No improved machinery can be introduced withoutthe union’s permission.The employer cannot hire even a cartage firm that the union has not first approved.The employer cannot withdraw from business unless he goes into bankruptcy, else the whole force of the union and its allies will be marshaled against him and his. He must inform the union of all his plans in advance.This, of course, is part of the endowment of Trotsky to the East Side. He did great missionary work there while waiting to go across and take theCaar's place. Even to this day in the Jew-controlledtheaters that crowd Broadway, the picture of Trot U brings wild delirious cheering, while the portrait*!! the President of the United States is hissed. \ t vorite stage scene is the Star of David high over *11 flags. The recent debate between Senators King France, said to have been organized with the ass ance of two rabbis, developed into such an outrageous] anti-American pro-Soviet demonstration, that prudr intervened to prevent a vote. Recently when pr0.Jc* ish Germans endeavored to stir up trouble by holdi a great mass meeting to protest the alleged “Blad horror on the Rhine, the audience was packed with Jews. Not that they love Germany more, but they |0Vc any regular government less. While a few day.s later at a great American meeting, the Jews of New York according to the testimony of incredulous observer were most conspicuous by their absence.Now, the Jewish leaders must admit that the Jewish Question does not consist in American citizens uncovering these facts and helping other American citizens to become aware of them; the Jewish Question inhere; in the facts themselves and in Jewish responsibility for the facts. If it is “anti-Semitism” to say that Bolshevism in the United States is Jewish, so be it; but to unprejudiced minds it will look very like Americanism.There is not a single, solitary American-born citizen serving as officer or director of those great unions which form part of the New York Kehillah. These men have not the faintest idea of what America stands for. They are not here to become Americanized, but to change America to their own model. In this they have the articulated support of most of the Jewish rabbis who have been very keen to explain that Amp. ieanication docs nut at all mean tv hat the American means by it.America will have become what these people want it to be when America is sovietized with Jewish radicals in control, and that is the objective toward which they are working now.The other officers of the Amalgamated are Jacob Petowsky, secretary, who is a Russian Jew, and J. B. Salutsky, who is also a Russian Jew and 'National Director of the Educational Department, which meaib that he is the propagandist of the union in the United States.Statistics on 2,000 Jewish LeadersREGARDING the assertion that the great radical unions are not officered by native-born citizens (the statement has been made that Russian Jews do not usually complete their citizenship but stop short at the “declaration of intention), there is some interesting material in a study of 2,000 presidents of Jewish organizations in New York City.Of this number, 1,054 were born in Russia. 536 in Austro-Hungary, 90 in Rumania, 64 in Germany and four in Palestine. These countries produced 89.1 pc cent of Jewish leaders in New York.Of this number, 531 entered the country between the ages of 14 and 21, and 977 entered over the ag of 21.Of this number, 1,270 are still under 50 years of age.These figures include all organizations from synagogues to trade unions.How far they have bee’lt; Americanized, or wish to be, can only be judged by the policies and activities o. the organizations which they direct.The big Jewish labor organizations are the direct offspring of the Jewish Socialist Bund of Russia. B is due to the propaganda of the Bund in the Unite States that the united Hebrew trades have gone over to the ranks of radicalism. Bundists swarmed to the United States after the abortive revolution of 190o a which time they failed to put Bolshevism over in Rus* sia, and these Bundists gave their time to the Bo shevizing of the Hebrew Trade Unions in this country. An Agitation Bureau was formed which Pr°P^r**c radical Socialism through the medium of the Yiddis language, which is one of the official languages ot t e New York Kehillah, made so by the demands ot t c Kehiilah's overwhelming radical constituency.The Bundists incorporated in 1905 in New York organization known as The Workmen’s Circle n “swelled the ranks of the Jewish trade unions, to quo the Kehiilah's Register. After a brief attempt to P[0,\ gate Socialism without reference to the Jewish «ue tion, it was given up, and in 1913 a resolution w adopted declaring that the whole purpose of the w was Jewish. This is attributed, in the Kehillah reco to the spread of “the idea of Jewish nationalism-Now, care would have to be exercised to avoid confusion between the Hebrew labor unions, ra !ca they are, and the avowed communistic bodies, if “ *
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