THE WORLD AT THE CROSS ROADS Had
not been for this
it
alliance,
Hungary
surely would have collapsed under the combined pressure of its own internal Bolshevism and the
external aggression of international labor.
The alarming
aspect of the labor situation is not so much caused by the world throughout the mere fact that a limited group of workers in
every
country
Party;
it
tion of
all
may
be,
is
has
the
joined
Communist
rather the result of the consolida-
radical elements,
whatever their label
around the banner of Sovietism which
expression of the general tendency of social dissolution and industrial anarchy. The
is
I.
the
W. W. movement
in the
United States
in
many
ways differs from pure communism. Both the program of the I. W. W.'s and their tactics are at variance with the latest currents of communist theory and practice; and yet in spite of the Talmudic dogmatism of the I. W. W. movement,
it
has undeniably responded to the the Third Internationale. In a
pressure of recent statement issued
by the General Execu-
Board of the Philadelphia ization, the following was stated tive
I.
W. W.
organ-
:
"We pledge ourselves and our organization to help overthrow capitalism and everything that stands for capitalism. We appeal to the work361