DIFFERING OPINIONS ON THE DECLARATION

...in the Toledo Auto-Lite -strike) was to defy it en masse...

...RotJischild, who wrote the article which appears in the same issue of the Nation, under the caption, "The Intelligent Traveler...

...Will this iocument alienate the workers and farmers of America from our party...

...When it is submitted to the party membership in a referendum vote, we can give our answer to the threats of war and fascism by endorsing it by an even greater majority than it received jn the convention...

...At the same time the New York State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, at a special meeting unanimously repudiated the Declaration of Principles, disapproved the action of the few New York delegates who voted for it and for a resolution attacking the American Federation of Labor, and appealed to the membership to rally to the support of the demo"rally to the support of the (demoSocialist Party is founded...

...After the opposition had oltn beaten back on two importane votes, the trade union resolution and the report on international relations, the element coming from the newly organized sections united with the Wisconsin delegation to secure the passage of the Declaration of Principles...

...Hendin announced...

...Invitations for the, Eastern Conference on June 84 Wei being sent to Socialists in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Michigan, and Ohio...

...Hendin described the Declaration adopted at the convention as the climax of an attempt to bring the Socialist Party to the acceptance of a Communist progiam...

...Louis Hendin, 1 Union Square, New York City...

...Conference of Party Members to Be Held—Roewer Chairman By Mara Lewis Leas than 48 hours after New York State delegates to the Detroit convention returned home, machinery for a nation-wide campaign to defeat the Declaration of Principles adopted at the convention and submitted for a referendum vote of the party membership, had been set in motion...

...Goebel of New Jersey heading the list of vice-chairman, to be supplemented as other states are enlisted, the move of resentment which followed the adoption of what these Socialists regard as a pseudo-Communist declaration spread from state to state...

...Rothschild lists courses offered by German universities, including "a number of courses which are frankly summaries of the point of view of the National Socialists on politics, economics and philosophy...

...On the contrary, it will be the end only of that reformist policy which led to abject surrender in Germany and to belated resistance in Austria, and to a misplaced faith in capitalist "democracy" in both countries...

...Louis Hendin to be the executive director of the fl-v* prepared for distribution in every state of the Union a leaflet setting forth the grounds on which the fight will be based...

...When we remember what happened recently at Toledo, Minneapolis, and dozens of other cities...

...The-meeting place will be announced next week...

...It observes editorially in last weeks issue: "Now that the left wing hps seized the Socialist Party, what will it do with it...

...It seeks to anticipate a situation which is bound to occur and thus prepare the members before hand in the most effective way of dealing with the situation...

...The Declaration has been criticized as illegal, because it means the party may be called upon to defend individuals who blow up munitions plants during a year...

...A "LIBERAL" VIEW By Ben Blumenberg Our venerable "liberal" contemporary, the Nation, is perturbed...

...Our most effective answer to war will be to resist it en masse...

...It is expected that other state committees, meeting soon, will take similar action, helping to increase the tidal wave bv which it is believed by many leading Socialists the Declaration will be overwhelmed...

...We have often found that the most effective answer to a strike injunction (e.g...

...lit around with a copy of the Constitution of the U. S. in our hands to make sure everything we do is perfectly legal and respectable, from a bourgeois viewpoint, when :he class which set up these standirds of legality and respectability Forget all about them in their oppression of the masses...

...An executive Committee of Fourteen was chosen to take charge of preliminary organization work, after Louis Waldman and Dr...

...A conference on Friday evening, June 8, brought together those who could be reached on short notice...

...No real Marxist party can trim its sails to abide wholly within the laws of a capitalist state...

...As a guide at a time when capitalism is on its last legs, when dying capitalism will not hesitate to establish fascism in a last desperate effort to subjugate the workers and when itnernational war, the direct outgrowth of capitalism, is an ever present menace to the masses, I believe the document adopted at Detroit is realistic, workable and admirable...

...Differing Opinions on the Declaration Views of Comrades Who Favor the Declaration PAYORS DECLARATION By Paul Porter The new Declaration of Principles will not be, as some comrades have said, the end of the Socialist Party...

...May it be suggested that the funds, if any, be given to Mr...

...in the rear...

...The national office of the drive will be located at 1 Union Square New York City...

...As letters poured into Socialist )fflces protesting against "the departure from Socialist principles," leaders of the movement set up a National Committee for the Preservation of the Socialist Party called »n eastern conference of party members to meet in Philadelphia Sunday morning, June 24, engaged i national headquarters from which the drive will be directed, named Dr...

...To do so would be to involve us in a step by step retreat, as capitalism becomes more reactionary under the pressure of its own crisis, until the logical end would be a capitulation like that of the German Social Democratic leaders, of whom Oscar Ameringer has said "might have made a revolution if they could have obtained a police permit for It" Would the opponents of this Declaration ask us to abide by a law forbidding strikes should such ¦1>e adopted by the Roosevelt Government...

...The demand for immediate, vigorous, and nation-wide action wat Initiated as soon as the last of the New 'York State delegate...

...The new Declaration is hot radical enough but it is a decisive step toward revolutionary Socialism...

...reached New York...

...A speaker's bureau was set up to' supply locals and branches with prominent speakers who will analyze the declaration, point out how it commits the Socialist Party to a nonSocialist position and to appeal to the membership to cast an overwhelming vote for the defeat of the resolution...

...when we remember the militancy of the farmers during the holiday strike, their penny auctions, etc., one begins to wonder if this Declaration isn't a little conservative...

...Those desiring to assist the work of the committee are asked to communicate with Dr...

...Who will get the party funds and the party property and how...

...Are we going to be the vanguard of the masses or will we follow alone...

...With George E. Roewer of Maaachusetts as national chairman, and Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport, Conn., James H. Maurer, several times Socialist candidate for Vice-President, Emma Henry, State Secretary of Indiana, Louis Waldman, New York state chairman, Edward F. Catsidy, prominent trade unionist, and George ~H...

...What are we going to do if the U. S. is involved in another war...

...REALISTIC AND WORKABLE By Phillip B. Freer There are certain parts of the Declaration of Principles which seem confusing but the thing oi real importance is the guide to action...

...Other conferences lor the Middle West and West will be held in the near future, Dr...

...This article, together with recent ads in the Nation in which readers were urged to visit Germany and "see a nation in the making," merit the prize of the vari-colored shirt for the periodical that has done the most to promote "liberal" thought and "broadmindedness...