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Patent Office) RED EFFORTS TO WIN OUR BIGGEST LABOR UNION NCE MORE THE CURTAIN RISES on a Russian plot to seize the reins of government on this continent. plan to make а "red" Copyrighted by Clinedinst, Washington, D. C. League, and the Friends of Soviet Russia." They get their instructions, it seems, from the president of the Communist International at Moscow. The miners' investigators assert that this Communist movement to capture control of the unions and the American Federa BOLSHEVIKI NOT WANTED 66 tion of Labor has been under way for five years, and that "three times in three years the Bolshevik leaders at Moscow have attempted armed insurrection and revolution in the United States" -in the steel strike of 1919, in the "outlaw" switchmen's strike of 1920, and in the railroad and coal strikes of 1922. The report sounds the following warning: "The Communist movement in the next twelve months will be conducted along more intensive lines than it has at any time in the past. 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