fShe VoL L No.8 New York, Saturday, June 7, 1919 Price 5 cenb Forty Thousand Expelled by Seven , Tke folwwi.n~ is tM fiut 0/ .nJeral article. hands 0/ theM airedoTl is 10 be pl.at.:etl d&e aIiN describing the Party crisis, and tlu! auJ.ocrlllic GC­ pro~rtr of tM Socialisl Partr, including d&e ,.,. tWru of the Right Wing members of the NatioTllll Call for a National Conference of ~adguo.rtm bui.U1iry; upon which '1O,{)OO 1uu beD Ex.(?cutiVf1 Committee at it, recent historic muting the Left Wing paid. T'~1e aiTecto" CtuUtOt be recolled by tie in It is written and issued by Comrade. Chicago. Call lor a Natiorud Confereru:t 01 t~ ~/t rinB .Partr members, cannot be removed by tM Natio_ L. E. Kauer/elcl and Alfred Wagenknecht, member, 01 tM American Socuuut Party. iuued by Local E=cutive Comm~e. and only cetJJe being _v.­ 0/ the Natioruil Eucutive Committu, and Loui.t 80J'oo, (Low C. Fraina, Secretary); Loc.1l Ck~· to" if tMir Locals upel them from ~,"p ill C. Fraina. land, (c. E. RuthmberB, Secretary); and t~ ~/t Party. trios 5utum 0/ 1M Socuuut Party 01 NnlJ York tM IOLATING every principle of fair play and Cilr. (Afa.Wnili.an Co~n, SecreUlry). When we remember that most of the Wilful Seven, as candidatef! for re-election to the National square dealing and disregarding e\'ery con· Tbe international lituation and the crisia ill the V American Socialist Pany; the aahotage the pany Executive Committee and to the olice of Intema­ stitutional provision to the contrary, the h'J.Te8UCracy hao practi.ed on the emergency national tional Delegates, Irnew themselves defeated and National Executive Conunittee, at its session in con.enlior; the N. E. aligning our party ":;itb the c.. realizt'd that the ollicial machinery of the party WIll Chicago, Mav 24 10 30th, expelled the state organ· Aocial·palnolB at Berne, witb tbe Congreu of the about to p!l.S8 into the hands of the Left Wing, the ization of the Socialist Party in Michigan, con· Great Betra yal; the necef>8ity of reconstructing our policy in accord with reVOIU1!Onary e.enlB,-al1 this, revolutionary element. these efforts to retain e«m. IItituting nearly 6,000 members, without a trial; and more, make!! it nece6SarY that the re>olutionary trol becomlO doubly despicable; for then they ani suspended the Russian, Lithuanian, Polish, Lettish., forces in the Socialist Party get to,ether for counael clearly shown to he brazen attempts to defy the Hungarian, L'krainean and South Slavic edera· and action. F will of the Party membership. tion~ of the Parly, constituting more than 30,000 This call ia Iherefore iaaued, for the holding of a But thel!e desperate tactics must not be coll!ltrUed n;embers and-worst of all, and let it be said to National Conference of the uft Wing ef the Ameri· can Socialist Pany, to d16clIM: alont' as a frantic effort of defeated officiall to ~ their everlasting shame-are autocratically holding 1.-The crisi. in th~ pany, and action thereon; the tain their johs. This ill part and parcel of the c0n­ up the national referendums for the election of a conqUe!!1 of th~ pany for the pany, for revolutionary troversy upon principles and tactics in the Social­ new )';ational Executive Committee, International Socialiam. ir;t Party. It is the IItruggle between the Right Delegates, International Secretary, and upon the 2.-The 1'\~... Inlernational; w... e and meam to Wing and the Left Wing, between moderate petty question of the Emergency National Convention. pr~Tent the party aligning itself "'itb the klnlerna· tional:' of the .ocial·patIiots, of the Ebert·Scheide­ bourlleois and revolutionary proletariaD ~ever before in the history of the Socialist Party mann gangster&, and the wavering centr~; afliliation Socialism. hHe Party ofbcials dared 1'0 outrageously to violate wiLh th~ BoW.e>jk·Sparucan Communist Interna· The "moderates" on the National Executive Com­ Party principles. A wilful group of seven memo tional alone. mitt~ ~how no realization of the problemA' of the ber5 out of a total National Executive Committee 3.-The formulation of • declaration of principlee International Revolution. They do Dot Bee the need member5hip of fifteen, ten of whom attended the and purp00;e8 of a naLional 1C0pe of ~ Left \ring of the American Socialist Pany. of reconstructing the Party policy in accord with meeting, usurped power which the constitution d~ the experience gained by our comrade!! in Europe. not grant them, and which the Socialist Party memo 4.-Formin« ~me son of a national council or hureau of the uft Wing for propaganda, eecurinc or, at any r.te, do not act tOward that end. brrship never intended any servants of the Party of infonnation and spreading information. The crisis ill IICrious. It affects the future of » to have. This wilf ul group of &even did not, how. 5.-To expreu and draw tOl(ether the re"folutionary cialism and the proletariat in A.meriCL We are ever, act as servants of the Partv-but as dictators forcco in the pany; to conoider otber meana of fur· confident that revolutionary Socialism will COD­ and tyrant.~ to defeat the expres~d will of the memo theo-ing the C8uae of revolutionary Socialiam. qUl.i the Parry. It wiU prevail deepite the ~ bership and to perpetuate themselves in office. This call ia iseued to localJ of the SocWat Party, branch"" aDd Left Wing grouptl within the party. of the Wilful Seven. Let no comrade feel d»­ This is the Cl ;sis. In these frantic eA" orts of the The Iellt of admi.sion, prov~ionalJy, will be acupt· official bureaucracy of the Socialist Party to heartened. )';0 one member should quit the Party. anc~ of the Mani/e!!lo of the uft Wina of the So­ In fact, every should won: with might maintain itself in power, we see the final attempt of cialiSI Part)· of Gruter New York. member and bourgeois reformism to cru!'oh revolutionary Social. uft Wing locm are invited to eend delegatee of· main to get members and build, build, build. W. i5m in the United States. This crisis affects the in· flcially. '\\ bere a local officially rdu.ee to p.rtici. know the game of the "moderates." They waul the pate, hranchee or minority groupa in the party .c­ Left Wing to desert the Party, )~ the Party ma­ tegrity and future of the Socialist Party; if our cepting tbe principle!! of the Left Wina ahould Rnd Party ill whole.heartedly and une.quivocally to stand chinery and property in the hand!! of the autocrldL delegates. They will he disappointed in this. Every radical for a Sociali&m lI'hich will not compromise, which ReprellCntation--one delegate for "el'"f 500 memo willllol fail in times of test, then every Party memo be.... No local or group .bould eend more than four Socialist ".i11 stick to the end, working night and day for the reinstatemetlt of the nearly 40,000 mem­ ber must rebuke this unscrupulous aelion, and mIlS! ddegate&. Locals or minority group. witb 1_ than take a stand in Impport of the nearly 40,000 com­ .500 m~mberr are entitled to one delegate. bers the Wilful Seven bave levered from the Party• The conference will be held atanina Saturday, Insist that th.. referendum votes upon the elec­ rades arbitrarily depri'/ed of Part}' membershjp for JUD~ 21, in N..,.. Yorlr. City Each delegate will be their fidelity to the principles of true International taxed $25 for a central fund, out of which will b(, tion of a new National Executive Committee be Socialism. paid the expenaee of all delegat ... counted and made public. Insist that the expulaiOll The objects of the autocratic eeven are as plain as ~/I lTi~ Local. and Branche!, Gel! Send com· of Michigan and the federatioDl! shall Dot prevail. daylight. Like a tidal ... ave, the demand for the nuru;ituions to Mtuimi.lUzn Cohen, 43 II" est 29th St .. Second the referendum motiODl! to revene the .. N etll York City. tactics and rrinciples of the kind of Socialism which of the Wilful Seven, acts unconstitutional and oa&­ stand" true to the working class at all times, has rageous. Rally to the Left Wing, comradea, for to I!wept the Party. The thousands of comrades who betrayal and defeat of the working class, and that the Left "Wing belongs the future of Socialism. "'ere sincerely "ttempting to convince Party mtml­ only the Socialism of Liebknecht and Lenin had The slogan of the "moderates" i5-'"Split the bers that a mOle revolutionary kind of Socialism within it the potentialiti~ of success and victory. Party for moderate petty bourgeoill Socialism." ',. was D~e6sary, were known as the "Left Wing". It was to "rescue" the party from this Left Wing slogan of the Left Wing is-"Conquer aud unite the This Left Wing in nur pll.ty understood clearly faction., to clean out 01 it all who stood bravely Party for revolutionary Sociallim, fur the Comm ... that the Scheidemann brand uf Socialism means the against pure and simple reformism, that the IIeVeIl ist International." National Executiye Committee dictators threw 40,. II N. Y. State Left Wing 000 memhers out of the Party. Oeveland Protesb Through caucuses held outside of regular ees­ N~ York, May gIlt, 1919. lIions, the following methods of aelion were adopt­ lr. • dt'Jllperat.e attempt tG Pft'"!Bl the IAft 'Vi'l-. Dear Comradt: ed by the autocratic Seven. of ~ Socialiat Pan), from caJllIIriDI the Natioul . In Yiew of recmt happenings ill Local, State aDd EXe<'utive Committee of the Party the aiItiJII Ex· Nat;<>nnl Party afJaln, the detaila of which you ha~ 1. Not yet knowing how the referendum for the ecutive Committee, whoee term of o5ce expinI • heard bv thi. time. we believe the time is ripe for a election of a new Nlltion~1 Executive Committee the end of June, baa arbitrarily expdIed the ..aile IOrt of :~ntativ .. Atale orlUlniz.ation of the ufl Wing Micbipn Itate orpnjDtioll u- the Party. in Nrw York State. The "tale Executive Committee would result, they decided to revoke the charter of hu begun the ... me tact;c.. 011 a state acale which the Socialillt Party of Michigan, &eDsing that the Thia ac:tiou expeJlin, 6000 --.. m- the Loral New York haa heen practieing on a local members in Michigan would vote oV«>Twhelmingly Pmy ..... taltm without aiTiq the Miehipa _ 8Cllle; that is, the re-organization and expulsion oi againllt members of the Wilful Seven running for r&de!! a heariDa or .. oppcll"llllily 10 tId_ .... uft Wing locale. In order that ,,-e m.v counter Ihi. ..,},... blow it would be .dyiaable for all Local Mcretarifs, re-election in the Michigan dim-icL or orranizen or rt'r~lItivee elected by Left Wine Loeal Cuyahop r-aty ..-,dy Wtieted .. 2. A few dsys later, having found out that ~ amendment to ffJlriDcI the ICtioD of the ...._ LecaJa. 10 pllJ'licipnte in luch a conference, 10 meet flpite the expuillion of Michigan the radical and draw up a plan of e&mpaign of education and candi· Evny local which ..... for fan- aad ~ organization 10 that we may keep our memberahip dates for election to the National Executive Com· Within the pUty MOuld .ad their eacIot II .' ., intact and capl UTe the Pany organization whcre1'er would win out. the Wilful Seven decided to hold up the foUo,"-- raoolutiea .. Ute ...-.1 ...: poMihle. Wher~ that ia Unpoeaible, due tt) the aabo- the entire national referendum upon the electioa. 18jte of oIIicer.holden; 'we may hue to take Itepa to .....,..,. build up uft Wing organiz.atiooa within the Party. 3. In lIolother c;aucos the Wilful Sena came to All thie of coune ia .ub jeet to the action talteD ~ concluion' that after all, the coming NMional ItpoLYID. B,. tile jcUt ---. of ...... by the National u~t ~ing Conference on June 211t. Convention would apeak its mind against thse au­ of Local Cuyabc.p Coaaty. ~ UI ~ But 1(e cannot wait until then, working aepu. tocratic IICtII. and wOll;d endorae Left. Wing of l,821111e11lheB >n aood .aa..u.a f. tbe,.... 1918, .tel,. and Q,ieorg.nized. WE Mt;ST ACI' NOW. Social. thai we initiale the followiAt IDOtioD, to 1Ie.-bmlt­ Can you hring thia matier up before your Local, iam. And therefore the luspensioD of 40,000 Dl'!lIJ1. ted to rdereDdam of the Party ~ Ia die or, if the time ie too abort, come ),ounelI, or 8eIId ben in leven foreign federationa was decided uC UDited Stat.. aoJDel)M in your place. 10 • ltate c:onferuce of Left these aeven federations having IUpported ra . Wina Local" on Sunda-r afternoon at 2 o·cl.xlt, JIUM 8th. .1 Wellington HOlel. A.llia.ny, N. Y. Socialiam in the P:.rty. Trustina you .ill be praenr. 4. Feeling that d~pite tbeIe auspenaioDl the Left Youn fratenWly, Wing might still findiuelf in the majority at the lU.xni11lll' CoIW'!. National Convention-in feet, confMaiq that it Esecutin Secretary Local en.. N..- Yan. would-they then }d'oceeded to form a cor~atioD. CuL IIAcaI...... ,... Left Win, SectioD. the majority directon of which ani Soclaliata of I the MIlW" atamp as the Wilful Scmm; aDd ill 1M z The New York Communilt

6M New York longer. hers of ;;he Right Wing who arparently dean to The statement clOIleS with a declaration concern­ have their names kept 8eCret, covertly hint that ing the necessity of renewed organization and there is to be an Americanization of the Socialilt COMMUNIST propaganda, to profit by .. the protest, difconteolt Party, and that the Bolshevik elements are to be and smouldering revolt" engendered by the reo eliminated. of SectioD, Official Or.aD the Left Win, actionary polic:es of th~ ruling class and its gov­ T~ Tribu~, tell. how it learned at Tbe Soc:ialiat Party ernment But thill is a general statement It leaves Pf'!Ople's House that "It ill the demand of Owned aDd CoDtrolled by Local it to be inferred that all the discontented eiements the Party leaders and the Right Wing aa a whole. Greater New York in the cou'ltry must be brought into the Party; that the American Socialist movement be let free to nowhere does it mention the working claaa 8a the Ediwr develop in accordance with American Cf>nditiona, • only class' with which the Socialist movement is with Americall reality and American psychology." WUOSN MA.. Au-1NI> • Associate Ediwr concerned. Just aa when Walling, Bohn, Ruuell, Stok.., MAXIUIUAN COHEN • Buswu Manager Six months ago the N. E. C. would not have Spargo et al left the Party they used the prevailins Editorial BOGTd dreamed of mouthing such re\'Olutionary phrase­ psychology to incite the people against the mov& ology. It i~ now doing so only becp-use the rank N. I. HOURWlcH M. ZUCKER ment, so today the Right Wing is attempting to 1UIe and file of the Party is determined upon winning the rage worked up by the capitalist preas againat B. D. WOLFE J. WlLENKlN the American Socialist movement to r,evolutionary the foreigners to discredit the Left Wing. But Socialism. But no one can talk the language with­ Publi.bed Every Week. they are misrepresenting the American M'.Clion of (lut meaning it, or at least understanding it. And the Party. All through the country the SocialiM by this time the Party member~hip knows enough Party is swinging to the Left, irrespective of na­ SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Year ______•______$3.00 to distinguish between phrases and f8Ct8. tionality. Just as the Socialist Party haa been a composite of all the natiolJalities in the I:ountry, 80 6 Months ______1.50 Deporting the Aliena the Left Wing is composed of all the nationalitiea 3 Months ______.75 in the Party. The Americana are not behind the HE !\ationa.l Executive Commillee has hlltt­ others. We _of the Left Wing are not concerned Single CopUs, 5 Cenls tened to obey Hillquit's call for a split in the ""ith the natiol',,!ity of the membership, nor do we T Socialist Party by the arbitrary suspension of consider that nationality is one of the issues now Bundle Orders of 10 or over, 30 Cents a Copy. seven Language Federations, approximating EoOme being fought. Americans under~taI)d Socialil6In 81 "3 Weat 29th Street • • • New York City 30,000 members, or one·third tll" t:lItilt~ lUt:mkr­ ""ell as any other nationality, and in the nature of ship uf the Party. This action is taken without' any things it is Americans who will dominate the S0.­ notice and 110 hearin; has been held to decide on cialist movement in America; otherwise the future the facts in the case. The chief "crime" of \\hich of the movement in this country would be very Phrases and Facta these federations were guilty, according to the h:p.ck indeed. Blit hi the past many AmeriC8DJi who N Friday, Mav 30th, after expelling some forty· hald story emanating from the National Office in mistook Socialism to be a return to the ideals of thousand memhers from the Socialist Partv Chicago, was "an organized systematic attempt to Jeffer~onian democracy wandered into the SocialiM O becau..e they helieveli in Bol,hevi;m, the N;­ carry pending referelJdums in the interest of the Party, and naturally these will remain wn.q, the tional Executive Committee wound up the proceeJ· Left Wing". In other words the N'. E. C. puni~l.cs Right Wing, and will ultimately swing it into a fu­ ture Liberal, or if they become radical, Lahor in~ with a U!'tatement on Part~- policies" issued to , the Language F ederatiom for agitating for their the world, which i,. a mixture of lies and hypocrisy ide'!:', ju~t as the capitalist courts punish Socialists Party. for the loss of l5uch as these we have no in about equal proportions. Thi!' statement con· for propagating their philosophy. regrets. Their place is not in the Socialist move­ demns the Peace Treaty of Paris, declares its EUp' \Ve are informed that this action was taken after ment and the Fooner this is made clear the better port of S('viet Rus,ia and Communist Hungary, nearly two days had been gh'en to the matter, and fOT both them and the movement. The American working cl8.S8 must be the back· protest~ against intervention. "repudiates" the that it followed the consideration of a "mass of bone of the Socialist Party, and we of the Left are Berne Conference. and !!Ges on record as being in documentary material accumulated in the National indifferent as to ""hether the member!! of that favor oCindu~trial unioni~m im-tead of craft union· Office". V;'~ can imagine the howl about "democ­ ism. From this it would appear that the i\ational racv" which wonld go out from this same office if class are direct descendants of the Pilgrim fathers Executive Committee had adopted Left Wing prin. the District Attorney announced that after consid· or are the latest immigrants from the outside world. Socialism is not a matter of nationality; it is thelle ciple!O--ulltil one analyzes the document. ering a mas.. of docuJTIcntary material for nearly very "leaders" who encouraged the division of the The statement begins with the declaration that two days he had decided to indict the N. E: c.! Party into federations for their own political ends, "the Socialist Party at a\l t~ consistently and Surely thcre are enough "famou~" lawyers on the uncompr(lmi~ingh 'opposed ",'ar." But we 'know N. E. C. to know that this method-where the prose­ ""ho are now endeavoring to discriminate againlt these verv Federations. The Socialist Party in the that many of our Party ·'Ieaders."' including the So­ cutor, judge and jury are one amI the same, and future will be a party of the workers in America, cialist Congres~man, were at times in fal'or of the where the defendant is not e\'en appris«-d of the and no divisions will btl n~sary, save perhaps an war-Uto sa,'e Rw:,sia." for example. f act that he is under charges, much less given a occasional language branch where the non-English· ··It suppor15 wholeheartedly the Soviet Republic hearing-is not in accord even ""itl! the bourgeois speaking members will be taught English and then of Russia and the communi~t go\ernment of Hun· conception of "justice". It is claimed that Stilson turned O\'er to function directly in the movement. gary, and yigorow;ly prote!-ts against intervention, of the Lithuanian Federation, appt'.ared and acted etc." But it oppose!' just as ",,'holehe:lrtedly" any for the whole seven groups, but even the most gulli­ wndency toward Bolshevism or Communi!m in the ble will find it hlird to believe that on !luch an im­ The Capitalist Preaa and the United 'States, and expels all Bo!shevists or Com· portant question the seven federations would munists, stigmatizing them a~ '"anarchists." agree to only one representative, and particularly Party Criaia "In GerllJany, Austria and countries similarly a representative of one of the numerically smaller LL the capitalist papen are devoting a ~ situated, i15 ~ympathies are with the more advanced groups, to state their respective CASeS. A deal of space to the fight in the SocialiM Party. Sociali"t group." (in America it expels such The whole matter stands revealed as a shameless for instance, last Sunday the New York TribUM groups fr,)m the Party I ,-"in their efforu to force piece of bureaunatic high·handedness and, in view had a twoo(;olumn story headed, drolly enough, "'S0- their gOtJernmenls into a more radical and immedi­ of the way in which the vote for the new Executive cialist Party Seeks to Purge Itself of Reds"_ ale realization of the Socialist program." This is Committee is 6\\inging to the Left, an elevl7lth· One of the grievances of the Right Wingen hour attempt of t~e old committee to perpetuate either a verbal trick to deceive the Party rank and against the Left Wing is that we are alleged to haft file, or it betrays the real incapacity of the National it!.eif in office. If the rank and file of the Socialist "carried the Party fight outside the Party", and Executive Committee to understand the situation Party coudones this action, then w~ can congratu­ confided our wrongs to the general public. in Germany, and the Social Revolution in general. late the !.'even Federations Oli being removed from During the pa!!t few weeks our editorial olice and The Spartacides and Communists are not making the cOlltarrunation of a Party which is disgracing headquarters have been besieged by reporters frem efforts "to force their governments" into anything; the name of Sooialism, and is attempting to drag the great prostitute newspapers. beseeching WI to they are altempting to get cortlrol 0/ the govern­ the Ifloyement down to the level of the w0rst element in American machine politics. "give them a story" on the Party situation. This ments. we have repeatedly refu~ to do, because we con· "It realizes the necessity of re-organizing the In itself the action of the N. E. C. is enough for­ sider it none of the public'lI husiness what goes on e.er, to condemn its perpetrators, and the weak Socialist International along more harmonious and internally in the Party. However, when we refuse chauvinism of t},e excuses it puts forward for that radical lines. The Socialist Party of the United to comment on Party affaire, the reporters invaria· States not committed to the Berne Conference, action merely adds to the offense. "It has been is bly say, "Well, I suppote we'll have to go ue to which has shown itself retrograde on many vital charged" says The Call, "that the Party hu been the Rand School and get it from Ger~ or Lee. points, and totally devoid of creative force." But helpless and defenseless in this compaign of mis­ also "it is not affiliated with 1M Communist Con­ representation owing to the irwbi.liJy 0/ English. From the stories in the papers, this is evidently what the reporteT3 have done. story gress of Moscou'." Certainly not! The rank and speaking members to read t~ various language The TribUM above referred to gives the Right Wing argumaota file won't stand for the Berne Conference, to which, publicalioTl.$ and reply". Thus the Party ha~ been nevertheless, the !\. E. C. made a determined at· helpless because the English-speaking members did in detail, inclading all the ridiculous and provoca­ tempt to "commh" us. But again, the Moscow not know it was being attacked and therefore could tive accusations- that the Left Wing is compoeed of Congress is "dangerous"--so we'd better wait for not reply. The foreign-speaking members, we sup­ "anarchists", that it is out "to UIIe violence", aDd that it "expects the Revolution tomorrow." It COD­ a "harmonious" International. pO!oe, are -incapable of judging fact.! for theIMelves "In the field of domestic policies," the Socialist and are completely at the mercy of "corrupt foreign tains, moreover, .. good deal of intimate ~:r. Party is utterly opposed to the reactionary A. F. writers" because forsooth nc. English-speaking which is ~vidently being whispered between lea· of L leadership. In vague terms, the N. E. C, hopes comrade stepped forward and ~ them right. Poor, en" when they meet. For uample, the Itat""""'f for "the industrialization of all national and inter· ignorant foreigners, no wonder the National Secur­ that the "party leaden fear that the Italian Fdden­ national unions." Not a word for the unskilled it)' League despises you! tion may have to be expelled, as it ia begUm"" to and the unorganized. Complete silence aboUt the When tIle American GovemJlM!Dt began .to de­ show signa of 'Left·wiDgiam'." I. W. W_ port alien agitators T~ Call put a little picture of The extent to which TAe Tnbuae is ia the oonfi· "Certain abUlleS have crept into IIOme Locals of the Statue of Liherty on the froot p~uch 81 denee of the Right Win! may be judA'!'d from the the Party, due to an over-valuation of the import­ Mr. Hearst puts little Americlw flags in hie paper-. following parBBJ"aph: ance of practical ,?olitics"; but on the other hand, and began to sob ah-jut "democracy"; but now tHat "The expelled foreign federatiqna, eccordiaa to "the political actj"ltie! of American Socialism must the Nillional Executive Committee decidea to de­ euch leaden as Morria Hillquit, Julilll Gerber, Al­ neither be abandoned or emasculated." Whatever port the foreigne~ from the Socialist Party, T~ gernon Lee, George Goebel and Adolph Genn... that may mean. We presume that this is an Call reveala its true sentim~ w !t.. headline over have long been a /lOre .pot OD the Soclalilt IDOft­ unqualified endorsement of the Party Congressional the story. "N. E. C. Suspend. Defiant Group. of ment in Ame:rica. • • Platform for 1918, which does Dot apply to Foreign Born," it ahrieka, IItreMing the fa that .. "What may he good in Rauia. 1118)' be ftf')' bad "certain Locals," but to the ""hole Party. This is these groups are aliens, and implying that foreign in the United States,' they uy_ 'And we reMIlt the the kind of thing which has destroyed the Socialist born groups will only be tolerated if they are not attempt of P

VL America.. . • . I haft alway. prided 1II,.elf _ Itriat by the City Council of Minneapolis ~aWlllN So­ obedience to laWI, eTeD wbeD I do Dot liko them. . • • cialiw, T'J""1HE foundation of the Socialist Party of .Amel-. "Tbe American Socialiata were op~ 10 oar CDtry 1. ica PTflved that Socialism had become accli· iDto the war, but 80 l>'eTe maDy Repuhlicana aud Demo­ But after all it is not th_ eumplea of the failure matiud. Born of Populism, Greenbacllim, cnu iD and out of Congrea . . of Socialist oflicial- no office which forma the most and Trade L"nionism, it was grafted on to a Socialist "Th~ Ameriun Socialiau held to the wiee coUDad of damning demonstration of the failure of old-etyle Ceorj!e WUhlDgtOn, Tbomaa Jdiel'5OD, Jamea Monroe and tradition "'ho~ ..... oft important ancestor had been Aloraham wncoln-to kttp out oC European trouhlea. • • Sociaiit't political action. The War intensified and the teachingl! of Ferdinand Lasalle, imported into ~fh&t it the I'eUOn why we demanded le6ialatioD do­ brought out the real Dature of political power and this country shortly after the Ci"il War. It Wid priviDg any citizen or corporation oC all proliu from the contro\. For example, in C85eI! where the Socialilts domiilated by the prevailingArnerican belief that the aa1e of 'War lapplies for the Ameriun !oVernmeDt. in oflice actually tried to follow Socialist principlel, ballot controlled the State, and that the SUsie could ~Many Republicana and Democrau belieTed and Kid capitalist action was swift and mercileaa. In Min­ the NlIle. . . • . neapolis, for instance, Mayor Van Lear having mao be conquered for the working class by the ballot. "Now Socialiam it 00( BokbeTiam. At the lwginning it was still rt·yolutionary-that is ~Socinliam is the wllective owneraiJip of the meana of nifested a mild hospitality toward free speech, the to ~y, it aimed at the capture of political power. exial production and dittribution_lUle Bolshevism. aa State government promptly took away his police far u 1 undeJ1ltaDd it, is Commuru.m comhiDed with IYD- power artd governed the city throu~ the State Coe. AC hand it IIIHI a nati,'e economic organization of diulism. . . . . ' the workers--ihe American Federation of ,Labor­ ~The Communiau walll 10 prodnce and cotl.tume iD com· cil of National DefeIl8e, which wall composed of the already grown powerful. Irutead of trying to cro­ mono .. representatives of big busiDe&6. Mayor Hoan. S0- ate a rival labor organizlltion, it realized that this "Socialism, boweTer, .aub to control only productm cialist Mayor of Milwaukee, W8l! completely divested capital-not all pro~rty. A Socialist commonwealth will was impossible, and set out to capture for Socialism uf his power 88 a city executive by the b\Jllinesa in. not do away with the indi,-idual oWIlCIllhip of property, the or ganlUl1lOn already existing. but only with U.e individual ownerahip of aocially necea­ terests of WiBconsin acting through the Governor In all respects, therefore, the Socialist P~ was aa.ry capital. and Council, of National Defense. In Cleveland apparently equipped to enter the political struggle "CoIWDuru.m denis iDdrndual ownerahip of all prop­ two Socialists were elected to the City Council; erty. one was disbarred, because a woman reported that willI the capitalist class for power. And this it pro­ "The Bolahevisu di.6courage p.uiilllDentary action. They ceeded to do at once, with results which justified its p~fer direct action and the dictatorohip of the proletariat. twelve months before he had been heard to say that belief that at last the combination had been discov· "The &I.h.evists want to break entirely with the pUl he did not believe in the Red Crosa-and the other tred by which Socialism could be made attractive and atart anew. The Socialiata ~o not believe that a com. Councilman "i85 expelled becau.se he belonged 10 plete break it either pouible or desirable. , . . . the same political Party OJ hu colkague. Victor to American workmen. "If we are to ~main a politically free peeple the iDevita. The first national campaign-that of 1~ ble outcr.me Iilust be that th~ people mull taLe pol8ea16ion Berger ran for United States Senate in Wisconsin tAbulated 87,8U votes for the Socialist Party. collectIvely of the .ucial mealUl of production and distrihu. in th(: Spring of 1918. In order to prevent him Debs, ".. ho was very popular with llle workers bo­ tion-and use them for the nation .. a wbolC>-&lld that it from taking his seat, the busines!! intereata of his c.alled Socialism. State and of the country at large aecured his in­ cause of his acti,ities in the American Railway "The mea,uree that the SocialiSb will take-mUllt cloee­ Union, made a series of spectacular campaigns for Iy COllnect "'it h the pre.;ent Hstem .nd evolve from it. dictment in the Federal CourU, on charges much the Presidency. culminating in 1912 with the coun· wThe Sociali,t. believe lhal everything that io ncceasary less grave than those upou whir.h many Socialista tr)'·wide tour of the "Red Special," when the Party for the life of the natjon--for the enjoyment of everybody had already been acquitted. Berger then ran for "'ithin the nation--tbe nation io 10 o,,'n and manage ....• the House of Repret'entatives. 1nis was the signal rolled up almost a million yotes. And this last "Evervthing that i. nN:""""'ry for the life and develop­ c.ampaign '" as carried on in the face of Roosp.velt"s ment of the at.te--the ~Ilte io t(' own and manage..... for still further indictments. He was elected by dramatic crusade ior "wcial ju~tice:' ""herein the HEnTything that i. nect:668T}' for the liIe and deTelop­ an oVeTll'heiming vot~and another indictment waa Progressive Party had incorporated many of the ment oi the city-lhe c.ity io to own and manage..... clapped upon him; and after the armistice had been "Everythir,1t that the iDdividual can own and manage liigneo, Berger was tried and convicted, and Mm· pl~ from the Socialist platform. beat-the indiyidual ill to own and manage Then- will be At the F>ame time the Socialists in various parts of plenty of enterpriaca left for the initiative of the indio tenced to twenty years in jail. the country elected se,'era! members of State Legis­ ri:lual." At the height of f!'e Socialist Party', career, in latares, city aldermen and administrati"e officials. Thi6 is nothing but State Capitalism in its most 1912, more than nine hundred votes were cast for The most 'Etriking exampl~ of Socialist political complete form. !ltr. Ht'.:tIst will cheerfully endorse its Presidential candidate-about one·filkenlh of aucces!' was in the City of Milwaukee, where Ber· it. In it there is not a word to indicate that the pro. the entire tlote COJt lor President,and one.$U:tAol the ger was elected Alderman·at·Large. and finally Emil letariat must control the State, and that it must, as ballots cwt lor Woodrow Wilson, I.h.e. winning am­ Seidel was elected \la)'or, with a large proportion Marx points out, break down the capitalist State dUlak. Roughly, the Democratic and Republican of the Cit), Council composed of Socialists, F or Ii apparatu~ and re·build anew the entire machinery electorate was represented in Congres!! proportion­ time, indeed, Milwaukee WiiS looked up to by of government and of production. There is very ally to their Presidential vote; but the Progressivee American Socialists as a 8hining example 01 what little difference between this ideal and the indus­ -the Party of the rebel small property ownen-­ Socialist political acti0;; could do-just as, hdure trial organization of Imperial Germany before the WIUI not represented. in proportion to its vote; and the war, Germany dominated the International bo­ war. the Socialists, u-ith one·fifteeruh of All I.h.e ballou, cause of its powerful party organization and its Meyer London's career in Congress began Httle got one Congreuman, although on the face of it millions of votes. better. In a speech ~upporting the Jones bill giving they were entitled to about thirty. True, many The real emergence of Socialism upon the hretla citizenship to the Porto Ricans, London threateneq Congressional Districts had no elections in 1912; of the political fight, however, did not oa:ur until that if Congress de!lied the ballot to these people it but this does nol alter the C86e0tial truth of this 1910, when \ictor Berger was elected Member of would be placing in their hands "the bomb of the statement. J.:; Europe the development of .uch the House of Representatives for the Fifth Wiscon· revolutioni~t and the 'assassin's knife." Imm~ political 6trength by any party would ha~ im. sin District, and for the first time a representatiYe dialely the House ""as in an uproar; the members mediately &howed in the legi6)ative body; this is of the Party of the working-class took his seat in !tern h' threatened tnat they would discipline the true even in Germany, in spite of restrictions to the Congress of the United States, the highest law· Socia liM Congresmlan unle5S he withdrew his re­ the franchise. But in America it can be readily making h<>dy. He sat for two terms; and then, marks, 110 Socialist Congre5Sman Meyer London seen that, although political democracy more or after a lapse of two years, Meyer London of New apologized and au his words. less accurately reflects the comparati~ strength of York succeeded him as Representative, to be fol· From that tim~ on, outside of a few speeches con. the bolU'geois parties, it operates to block the ado­ lowed again in 1918 by the re-election of Berger. cerning the housing 6ituation in the District of Co­ quate representation of all cl .... OODt.eDdinf5 with the great capitalilta for State control. It is not necessary here to go into the record of lumbia and ,other minor matters of that sort, Con. Victor Berger as firs; C:mgressional Representative gresSIna.l London remained silent. On the resolu. Why is this so? Why is it that in Europe the of the working class Party. His first act was to tion declarin~ war 011 (;errnany, he voted "nay". On poiiticai Socialist movement was able to develop cast his vote for a substitute to the direct election the military appropriation, however, he did not vote. great strength in the legislative bodiea, and exer. of Senators. His maiden speech contained Dot one Finally, the fearful pres!!ure engendered by the cise an important influence on the Governments? -ringle reference either to the Socialist International "'ar, and the savage patriotic persecution in the This TeIIults from the fact that nowhere in the or to the interest of the working-class as such; it Congress beat dOl\'D his half·hearted resistance; so world is the copilalut clG.u w uron!i:r or~anizetl was a purely reformist criticism of the capitalist that in 1918 he was the Congressman selected to de· and $0 firmly inlrenched OJ in Arru:rica. In America, 8bte. The mo!t salient feature of his tenure of liver an address of eulogy commemorating the third from the first, the capitalist ci_ controlled the oftlce was the introductior. of mild social reform leg· anniversary of Italy's entrance into the war! State, and there WILS DO other cIa. in eociety ex. islation, of which his Old Age Pension bill is char· Taken to task by his comrades in New York for cept the working clasa.. In Europe the capitalilt acteristic. For ~xample, the pension was to accrue his chauvinistic utterances, Comrade 'London de­ class had to fight againM the remnants of the feudal anly after the worker's sixtieth yea.r-and it is a cl8.Yed that although born a foreigner, he had been class. Almost up to the weat War, in some parta well-known fact that the average life of an Ameri· made in America, and he would be true to his of Europe there WILS a dual revolution 80iDg 011: can industrial worker is forty years. It was to be country; furthermore, he added that he was re­ the capitalista were miring with the dying feodal denied to anyone convicted of a "felony"--even spomible to all his conMituenL-and that these system to gain coDtrol of the State, and the mills such a "felony" as that of which Victor Berger now constituents were not only Sociali5t!! (working men) proletariat was 31so beginning to battle for power. Both feudal cl_ and capitalists WIed the working stands convicted by the capitalist courts. It WILS to but all t~ peopk of hU district. The disastroU8 be denied to anyone, no matter how old, who had records of SocialitIbJ elected to oflice are endless. claaa l.o"8imt each other, and thus the Sociali.b bo­ came 811 important factor between the two CIJDo 811 income of six dollars per week. And finally, all Mayor Seidel of Milwaukee appointed IIlOOY non· Uunnaturalized aliens", which compO!le the vll8t Socialists to posts in the city administration, and tending class·factioDi. And thus, abo"" aU, the Dl!!;!)r-!ty of the most exploited section of the Amer· when criticized, declared that he repreaented all tho capitalists were compell.ed to ~ in two direc­ ice working cla.ss, were barred. people-not merely the Socialist p.arty. Mayor tions at 01lCe, and in the 111118DwbiJe, to P COD­ Add to this Berger's opposition to Woman Suf· Lunn of Schenectady did the same thing; wheo ceBlions to the working clue ~jn nmrn 101' ita aid frage, on the ground that women were largely dom· taken to task for his un·Socialistic behavior, the against the feudal IY*JIL inated by reli~on, and would therefore strengthen Mayor proudly TeIIigoed frcm the Sociali!t Party.:­ Ia America. ho~, there .... DO feudal claat the reactionary political forces; and later, his ad· b\lt remained Mayor, and afterward became one of to divert the capitalists from their WID' agaiDlt _ vocacy of Intervention ill Mexico; and we have a the chief pro-War Democratic Congressmeo. wo~ clasa.. More than)h,at, the ballot euahled picture of a man in some respects less revolutionary Mayor Van Lear of Minneapolis. after electipD to the American capitaliat -cl .. to blind the worbn than the bourgeois Jeffersonian Liherala. ,,&ice of an anti·War program, joined Samuel Gom­ with inU8iona of "democncy" rWtil they had per_ In full consciousness of the desperate lituatioD pen' Alliance for Labor And Democracy, which waa fected their hold upon the thrau of the nptablic. in which Victor Berger now finds himself, and in formed by the reactionanea of the American Fed· For the last decade the hiItor; of the ~ full respect to his courage, 1 do not wish to mia· eration of Labor to IlUppOrt the War; and when Socialia Party haa &boWD • coatiDuoua _deucy quote Berger or misstate his position. I shall thero­ the Non·Partisan League put up • Candidate in • to draw away from the proletariat. 'Ihe po~ of fore quote extracts from his recent pamphlet, "Open local election, Mayor Van Lear made a public "boring from within" in the American FeUentioD Letter Addressed to His Culleagues in Congress", speech in favor of this candidate, although a can· of Labor reaulted in the rirtual capn.re of the in order iliat he may 6peak for himlelf: didate of his own Party waa runniIJg. His laat act Party, for~ Ii period, by the FederatioD--9'hich by "1 am _ of the fOllJldc:n of tbe Soc:ialiIl pany of in olice waa to ref DIe to yeto • Red FIB! law paaaed that time had become • definitely ~ The New York Communist I Left V/ing Notes

THE Left Wing organiution hall decided to sup­ winding up by BIlking whether the Branch waDteII -- port the following nominee and uk.s all revo­ The New York COItlMUl'nST depench upG~ to ruin hia career. Bat the Left Wins it bani­ lutionarv Socialists to do·like"iae: volunteer workers for its distribution through.• hearted and proceeded to carry the day. For EucuJive SecrelDry of Load NetIJ Yorl: out the city. RuineJ caceers strew the path. where the Lef.. Maximilian CoMfI.. Each week'e iMue is ready for distribution havetrocL • • • on Thunday afternoon. • • • Notice to All Branches of Locala New York, Come to the headquarters, 43 West 29th Central Branch of Local Patonon, N. J.. the King., Queena, Richmond, Aatoria aDd Broas. Street, Thursday, and get your bun die. largest branch in the city, hall joined the un Wizl8, N ow is the time to get the truth across. Local Paterson W811 not given any hallom for the At a meeting of thf.j City Committee held on the Make the Left 'Wing campaign among the referendum h)te for National Executive Committee members.. 5th day of May, it was decided to call a City Con­ rank and file I! huge success by putting a "ention, and that the basis of representatioa shall COMML'NIST each week, in the bands of every he: party member. "One delegate for every 50 members in Our motto is:-10,OOO CoJOruNlSTS in good standing or major fraction thereof; Greater ~ew York! that branche~ shall elect delegates direct­ [The Telescope ly." I SOCIALIST PARTY OF KENTUCKY-LOCAL You ere therefore ra!llestec:l to send out a call to HIGHLA..~D PARK the branches instructi~g thell! to d"Ct delegates to To THE NEW You: CoJlJlt:I<15T: E understand that Morris HiUquit 8811 that the convention on JJe hasiJ decided by the City pJ:Sou.:nm<. it is IlOt the Foreign F ederatioDl who are to COOl!l1ittee. Whereas, the Stale Committee of the Socialist Party of W blame, but the economic organizatioDB of The Convt'tltion wII! bi! held on June 14th and New York bas put a rpferendum to "ote in the 8tate, which the foreign workers.. if carried, will ex~l tbe Left Wing Sociali&u of that alate 15th, at Queens County Labor Lyceum, Cypress f rom the Sociali51 Party, aDd • • • Avenue, Ridp;ewood, L I. The order of business Whereas, the Exec:utin Committee of Local New York, Our Left Wing Secret Service infOtIM DI that at will be as follow!!: unwilling 10 await the oUlcome of the aIore6aid referen· the last mee.ti;;;g of the Local New York Executive Comolidation of Locals into a Greater City Local_ dum, i. no .. preparinjZ 10 ··r~-organiu" all branches of that Local, aaid reorganization meaning the expelling of all Committee a motion to suspend the publication of Taking action on Party Ownenhip of Press. memben of aaid branchel! who 4dhere 10 the Left Wing. The Socialist "'as only lost by a small margin. Ap­ Taking action on the Left Wing. and parently there are some Right Wingen who are Taking up the question of reorganization of Whereu, we regard the above action. at a mean and occasionally visited with gleams of sanity. branches of Local l'iew Y orl. cowardly attempt on the part of the Right Wing lind the Centrists to prevenl Ibe defeal of the afore-mentionerl New • Send the names of the delegates elected and the Y or I.. State Referendum, • • branche~ they repr~nt to the 5eCretary at the Therefore be it ReIIOl .. ed: The fiIdt editorial in the last issue of TM So­ Queen~ Labor Lyceum, Myrtle and Cypress Ave­ ThaI w~, Local Highland Park. in ~iAl seuioD, May cialist begins: "The Socialist hall justified. ill exist­ nues, Ridgewood, L I. 24th, 1'Il9. do hereby rlpr.,.. our condemnation of the ence." Is this a reply to the motion to .u.speod aforementioned mean and cowardly action of the Execu· • • • ti\-e Committee of Local New \ ork. aDd do bereby notify publication? At the last meeting of the Left Wing CIIUCUIl of the State Committee of the Socialist Party of New York • • • the Central Committee, Local Bronx, Benj. Gitlow, and all othe" whu may be cr.nnected with thi! dastardly We notice that Hillquit's billet d~ to the Left plot 1<> disrupt the Par:y; that in ca~ r\ational Referen· H. Bourg-in, A. Winick, Dr. Glouherman 8!ld Roman Wing ha~ undergone a change in title since it ap­ dum B. carrie&, .. e .

"Regular Party Channels"

AS a few glaring examples of the @lloa;!lCY with individuals and others IUbstituted. The Local Sec· going to count or conaider the vote of any BraJdl which our Party machine works, i L-...., L':' .:ite you retary "reported" practically to the same effect. It or Local which appeared k) him to be fraudllleat.. the fullowing: I am a member of the 5th A. D. is to be noted that neither the State Secretary nor Subsequently I had been informed Ly several of BronL Local Bronx r.ubmitted to its member· th~ Local Secretary had ever before appeared at "prominent" memhen of Local Broux, that all ship a resolution to afliliate with the Left Wing th" Branches to "report," and that the evident intent those Branches in which the votes OD the Left Wing Section and a resolution by cOl!nter-Te5Qlutionist!i of these "reports" was to prejudice the member· J"flIlOlution predominated over the votell on the Right (I had almost luitten counter·revolutionists). At ship against the "Left Wing" at the very moment Wing resl)lution, would be ".diaorganUed" and "re­ the last meeting of the 5th A. D., which was held on when they were about to vote on the Left Wing organized" &0 u to include DODe but '1oyal" mem· May 27th, discus!;ion and voting on thale two reso· resolution. 1'10 questions, however, were permitted ben. lutions was the special order of business. The to be asked of either the State OT Local Secretaries, Last night. when I ap~ at the Local head­ Branch had decided that Branch memben and after making their so-called reports, they do­ quarters to attend the HRight Wing C8ucaa" in be given preference in the matter of dis· parted their several ways. response to their invitation, I IOUght confirmation cussion, and that outsiders would only be The next day the State Secretary called me up of the fact that those Branchea where the Left WiD! permitted to take the floor after the last Branch on the wire and asked me 'how the vote Hood on rClOlution carried • majority would be diIaolftd member who wished to discuss '\hill matter the Left Wing resolution; inddentally he was inter· and ro-organized, from the Local Secretary. She had spoken. At about 10 P. M. Comrade Cook, the .ested to find out how our Branch took his revela­ ateted that she believed· that to he the fa..::t, bat State Secretary, Comrade Anna Stem, the Local tions of "fraud" and "forgery." I explained to referred me to the State Secretary. Thia mornins Secretary and a half dozen or more Right Wingen him that as far as I was concerned, his evideDCC did I called up the State Secretary OD the phone and entered our club rooms. Comrade Cook stated to not impress me at all; that anyone f IlDliliar with informed him that I had been referred to him for the chairman that he had a very important report Party affairs knows or should have blown that the information; that our Branch meets tonight. and to make which would he lIupplemented by the foreign language Branches ~nerally vote as a unit. that before _handin, in our ballob we wanted to Executive Secretary of the Local. We stopped the and that. being illiterate, the Secretary or lOme know whether we would he penalised {eX voting discussion and gave him the il~r. After stating other literate member generally marb aIld .igna on a referendUDi luhmitted to us, not in-eccordmce hi. intention tu be fair to both sides in the matter, the ballots for them. He confessed that he was with the wishea or de&iree of the powers that he. be produced certain ballots of Left Wing Branches ignorant of this fact, bUl that when he had ahown He refu.ed to definitely Itale hie poaitioo Of the on the National Referendums, which he claimed leveral of the ballots which appeared to him to be poaition of lhe state olice in the matter. and re­ were fraudulent, the evidence being that leveral suspicious to "promine.lt Socialists," they immedi· ferred me to the Local Secretary. However, /a.a of them were in the handwriting of the &ame in· ately yeUf.d "fraud" and "forgery." He admiued JI4Ud hi.a opinion to be u.a. 41 B,ancA llllou -iM­ divirlual, that certain foreign language Branches to me ,/uu he fwd no' invest.igakd !I sin~le mspici­ ity Iuul tioUd in /IWOT oj u.. Le/, Win« raolwioa had voted en bloc for -certain candidatea, and that ous CQJ'- to a.scuwin whe,he, v, Iwl ,he,e waa reGlly '"'"It be awol ... certain ballots had votee croued out for certai.-l "/,guJ" or "/o"ery," but ~lflll he WU Dot Juao S. 1919. Bau ao.u.. The New York Communilt 7 Proletarian Dictatorship " NE of the most frequent critjcismA directed by phuized.. n.e Seattle workers, after they had reuon. They retlll1Nld to work eo there tbou1d lie DObocIr tied up the city, diiICovered that a human com­ to interfere with the atriken., who .. yet Iw:I COIIIDIitted 110 O. the Right Wingers against the Communist overt acta of du.order. In l'.alpry the DWI. an beiIII pO!lition assumed by the Left Wing (and this munity cannot be tied up. The workers must be distributed by "oJw"~n., the r~ poMal fORe MYiDJ exactly parallels the European Social.patrjo~' criti­ fed, the sick must be attended, the dead buried, quit. Volunteer fire depa:rtmellb an sPnn.m1 up throup cism of Bol~hevi5m), is that the Left Wing repudi. • refuse removed, and lights, water and such public the Wesl to tale the pl::eee of the .mkiq firaDen. ADd rll th~~ "trikee. f"Vp.u th~ I1f the Gcmnmeat ~ ates Democracy and !'tands for Dictatorship--Pro· needs supplied. Mureover, the city must be policed. are .ympathelic strikea. letarian Dictatonhip, it is true, but still, Dictator· The Strike Committee thU!!\ found itself "licens· "The banks of Winnipef; have doeecl their II-. a-._ fhip. The bad Bolshe\;,iki, ,,·ho are pictured in the ing" certain industries and services to operate, in they cannot do bu~ineM wilh ,!he mail a.ad telesraph Ien'iceI bourgeois pr~s and the corridors of the Rand order'that, primarily, the It'or/ring class should not disrupted. 'AI the Fort Carry HoteJ.' Ia,. • correapolldeat; .~UD('T. The restaurant and hotel employees being 'meal! are sen-ed only lo women ad dWdreD,.'- perhapl School as ad\ocating disembowelment. mayhem and by gracioua permiuion of the Strike Coaumttee.. In eon­ the fuppression of nil o·.1r "hard·won liberties," also on strike, the Committee e;-tabli~hed its own aequ~nce of the desire of some atriken to let eomethiaa are described a~ endoning the Dictatorship of the restaurant5. In order to safel,ruard lives lUlU goods 10 eaL the Strike Commiuee 1P"8IIteci • permit to Ineral reslaurants in Winnipq to kup open. It aIeo permjueII PIoletariat out of ~heer devilishness. of the workers, a proletarian police wa~ establ~hed. aom~ bakerietl to reo~ on conditiOll that ther p&.Ced th-. Soc:ali!m is a science. Marx foCientifically In Winnipel!: and Toronto today the same con­ ..elves under itl jwisciictioD. prol'ed that Capitalism generated within itself. the dition is observable. The General Strike, by "Our own 1aWl may be dift'erent from th.e eI Caaada. forces which would de.c;troy it; and tLat it also g~n· paralyzing industry, paralyzes government. The Certeinly the .anctiry of the maila "ould DOt be iDterferecl Strike Committeo are forced to rule the cities, to wilh wit bout chiJ war. But n thinp .tand, the DominiOll erated the ciass.antap-onisms which wuuld unite the is faceQ wilb a problem which iu laWl _ powerleaa to "exempt" certain indu~tries and St'n'ices in order worker~ to rise again,t it. and finally to overthrow av.. rt. Th", IInu5e of Common. will debate the qtle8ti0ll it. He also predicted tlJat .:bring the transition to provide for f"lementary human need~; they must today. Surdy BOrn" ""8)" muat be found by "hid! • JDeD80eIl period between Capitalism and Socialism, the work· polict! the cities themselves. Willy-nilly, this "pro. Government may find • ".poD ... ilil which to Itrike back ing class would be the ruling class; and, to make duction for Ul!e and not for profit" is undertaken for and ....I!" itaelf." "rom this editorial may be gleaned a hint of wlw his me:ming perfectly clear, he went on to sa~' that the benefit of the workers. It di~places the capi. would happen to such strHLerS in the United States. this working c1a5s rule of society in transition tal ist gO\'ernment which operated for the benefit If there are no laws to interfere with peaceable "cannot be allYlhillg eiSf! but the dicuuorship o/IM of tlle bourgeoisie. It proves that the capitalist government j~ incapable of acting for the benefit strikers, the American go\-emment would pus them.. proletariat." If there ",,'ere no riuts to provoke mlUl88ClCS, the There are very few SocialiHs today \\ho do not of the "orking cla~.; Lut what is more important, American capitalist class, and iu Pre&l;, would cr&­ see that Capitali~m is approaching its doom with it shows up in glaring colors the .. Iass-character of tremendou5 fpced; that the forces generated within capitalist government, "hit:h in time of labor ate them-as it has in other 5trike8 we know of. the sy~tem have, under the intensifying pressure troubles al"'aYF ac~ al' the agent of the bourgeoisie At present the Canadian Government does not of "ar, finlilly hurst it Ilsunder. Abo, the "ery again~t the working c1a!'o~. and must be replaced by 6eCm to know what to do. But depend upon it, the desperation with which Capitalism :Jllempts to reo a \\ orking cla.'s go\ernment of a peculiar !Lorking capitalist government will find a ",·ay. It will SUI!' con;;truct the ~hatlered world, reveals it in all its cia", character "hene\'er the working class becomes pend its own constitutional guaranlee6, it wili abol. nal.ed c1ass-character as the Dictatorship of thp. the ruling c11i~~, as it is today on a small scalI! in ish its own democratic political machinery. It wiU Bour!!eoi~ie. This, with gigantic ~tridC!', is awaken. lIome Canadian cities. either yield the (at present) moderate demands of ing aud uniting the working c1a~s, and ~harpening And here another of MI'IX'6 predictions is proven Canadian labor-and then emasculate its conoe&­ its cla~~ con!oCic,usne>-s to the point of action for the correct.. Tlli" ~v,"CTnmCt't (Of the worker50 "cannot sions-or it will find a ,,'ay of applying foTOe which Ol.erthrOW of Capital~m. So are the main points be allJlhing else but the dictalor~hip of the pro­ will break the &trike. of Marx's the.-is proven true. letariat." And still another, demonstrateu't;) all Then the workers of Canada-and we hope, of the We American Socialists ha\'e had so lillIe to do ,,·ho have eyes to !!Ce, that "the "ork ing class can­ t:l,~~"! ~~,,~~~-'::iIl learn the final leuoa ,,·hich "'ilh ~haping the course of working class action, not fimply laid hold of the caJ)italist state ma­ proletarian re\'oIutioDli 'all tea...-b, IWl • .JUch MIU'X lhat we find ourselves taken unaware bv such chinen' and U!.e it for its own ends." f ormu lated : demonstrations of working class ma!'>5 actio; as the An enitorial in the Neac l'ork Times of Monday, "If the proielllrial during iu cor&le_ with u..e boar. strikes in Seattle, and the general strike in Canada. hne 2d, E'ums up the situation from the ClIpi. geoisie is compelW, by the force 0/ ~, After all. these strikes, which began a5 demands for talist point of viev.': to organize it.self as D dIU,; if, by m«mI 0/ II rev0- immediate and temporary aims, del'e1oped a 1"e\·0- CA!'e lie Jim Larkin, Dr. Morris Zucker. Kiqs.Queeu Pic:nic workers' proble"" tmJ III tke MI1M Unw lorewT "" Joseph Brodsky, Chairman. an eM to tke class "~k. Auspices 8th A D., Socialist Party. on COME IN MASSES! Scaday, June 8th, 1.1., Grand Pic-Nic at S ...... y, JaDe Ilia, 1.1. Gerken's Cypress Hilla Park, CypNU To celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of Avenue, L. •. the Esthonian Socialist weekly, LEFT WING PICNIC TlCkeb 15e in a~ 2Oc: at the pte. U.n... Sunday, August 24th, 1919, Take Myrtle Avoenlle "L" to Wyckoff to be held at Eastern Boulevard Park, at Avenue and transfer to Cypress Hills car. Westchester, Fort Schuyler (former Hoff­ man Park). HOFFMAN'S PARK, Gate open at 10 A. M. Eastern Boulevard and Fort Sehayler Tickeb: In adYaaee, Z5c:; at tile pte .. Road, Westchester, BI"OIlS, N. Y. Oriental Dances by Miss Katayama and Troupe. Other attractions to· be announced later. The Communist Book Department A Red Picnic-A Great Time-For a Red Cause. Men, Women and Children of Th€ Communill !lib .11 members of the Left Wing to order literature· tbrouP oar .. the Working Class. Come and enjoy Book Department From time to time we shall pubJieb boob aad pamphleD of iaQJor ..... to yourselves I revolutionary Socialists. Picnic starts 10 A M. A New Lett. to the Work.. ., £.ope .... A--. •• Artanged by the Left Win~ Members of By N. Leaia the Bronx. Admisuon, 3Sc. Price, 5 ceIlta. Bundles, 10 to 100, S~ ...... LotI of more tIwa 100, ...... nIeL ..- ...... By N. l.-ia. HELP THE lst A. D. REFURNISH Price, 10 ceatL U-cn., 7~ OIIIIL ITS HEADQUARTERS wTHEN the furniture was stolen from T_ Dap .....t Sbook ... W ...... W the headquarters of the ht A. D. John Reed'. Story of the Bolsberik Revolutioa. Aatopaph EditiGa. Special Price to Comrade. who order throash TJu CoMKlOOlT '0 th~ tntmbus found themselves confront­ Book DEt-, , ed with the talk of rebuilding, reorgan­ 1,. Pre"".",..': izing and at the lame time continuing their propaganda_ A Year 01 ProJetariMa DietatonIttip. •••• wm me baD... Comndea- .... 08ici.1 Report of the RUilian Soviet Governmeot OD all Aetivitiel ad Acbie ...... of One Dollar each to help maintain thia the ProletariaD Republic from November 7th, 1917, to December, 1918. About 40(\ vitally pec".U7 OI'pIliaaticm? pages. Paper cover. Address All Communications to Price'I. Special RGa for qvaatitiel. HARRY M. WINITSKY. 5eDcI all --. to B-_" GitJow, I!an,i_ M...... r'- eo.n... • .,. a w. 29da 8t., llOH-,-Snet New York City. •• The New York Commaaid The Pin k Terror VI. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare in the lit A. D.

.. A"d lo it came to paJ$ that the bellies 0/ 1M The Chief High Proletarian turned the pagee were present Mitchell Loeb, leat1er of the raid; IraTLlgressofl were pinched wuh hunger." . of his book. "There is the 1st A. D.," he &aid. Leventhal, Miller and Needleman-the only three "But I've already sent letters out calling for a Right Wingers in the lilt A. D.-and two utter rJ"HE Plunderbund of Local New York u!'JCutive re.organization meeting tomorrow, Thunday, May strangers, who came along hecauae they ~ew how Committee stared at one another in consterna- 1. 29th. We can't take action until we &ee how the to use bra!!! knuckles. An Alderman being DCICCII­ tion. What had they done? True, they had Branch heha\'es, I have hopes that most of the ury, Charney VIadu we called in for advice. accomplished their ambition, the Socialist Party in members ,,;Il be with us ••••" About 8 A. M. they approachednumbcr 180 Local i\ew York was purged-nine-tenths of the ·'0 pooh!" resvonded the Congressman's hench­ Henry Street, and making deaf.and-dwnh eignals members had been expelled or suspended, and al· man. "Don't get sentimental. The rank and file to Scheidemann's former coachman, who wu pre. most every Branch had been roorganized out of is all Left Wing, and must be expelled, if we're ent w;th Ii movbg van, they stole up the steps of existence. going to have a decent Party. Don't worry chout the lst A. D. headquarters. But, they sliddenly di~overed, they had killed them." At a concerted signal they burllt in at the tlide the goose that laid the golder. I"~g!! 1'\0 more memo Now up spake Alderman Caiman, who, As the door. The House Chairman, Comrade Furman, bcr!>--no more dues stamps! r~o more dues stamps Pioneer Furniture-Snatcher of the Socialist Party, who happened to be in the hall, manifested a mild -no more soft job~! 1'\0 more Hranches--no more was li~tencd to with great reepee! upon this subject. objection to the proceedings. Mitchell Loeb seized ".ell-paid lectures for the Inner Circle! No more "The police force is very busy gathering evidence him by the throat, and said that if he made any 0b­ membenhip-and the Party "leJiders" would have against the Left W ingers for the District Attorney," jection, he would be black.jacked. Loeb still fur­ to make a living out of the Labor Party 1 Of he said. "And I would prefer that we do not dis· ther intimidated the Bouse Chairman by threaten­ course the Semi-Comrades didn't mind tluu; bnt turb them_" ing to "call the cops and have him locked up." after all. the LaLor Pany was a bird in the bush, "It is not necessarY," remarked the Pwfessor of Then they began to carry off the furniture. and there would be competition for the j-

IE first Lettish Party was organized at a lie­ in Russia formed one united party. The Lettish So­ situation in our provincea. At pretent the Social cret meeting in Riga on June 7, 1904. The cial Democratic Party accepted the invitation to Democracy of Lettonia is an integral party of the T delegate;, to this meeting were sent by differ· send fraternal delegates with instructions to work Communist Party of RWlSia and it now called the ent Sociali"t groups and represented about 2,500 out Vlans for joining the Social Democratic Party Communist Party of Lettonia. secretly organized members in different_parts of the of Russia. During its fifteen yean of eristence the Com­ Baltic Provinces. The new party was named the At the third congress of the Lettish Social Demo­ mClilist Party of Lettonia he p88lled through two Lettish Social Democratic Labor Party. cratic Lahor Partv it was unanimouslv decided to revolutions. In the first revolution of 1905, al· As is expr~sed in the name Lettish, the Party "'as join the Social Ikmocratic Labor Party of Russia. though the Party was only a year old., we were more organized on a national basis. At that time the Immediately aft"!rwards all the other Social Demo­ successful in the actual revolutionary fight than question of national organization was one of the cratic groups working in Lettonia joined our Party any other organization. most debated questions among the Socialists of an,d we re-formed it on a territorial basis under The strong mass movement was in full control Russia_ The Je\\;sh Socialist Party, "Bund", split the new name of The Social Democracv of Lettonill. iII our provinces under the undivided leadership away from the Social Democratic Labor Party of In its program the Social Democrac'y of Lettonia of .the Party. 4J'e did not organize Soviets at that Rus"ia b~ause its "national principle"was not reo differed from the general party only in one import· time as was done in Petrograd., Moscow and many spected bv all the other groups. The Bolsheviki as ant point-the so