GERMANS OUT OF WORKERS PARTY
GERMANS OUT OF WORKERS PARTY IT THE recent national convention of the Workers' party the delegates, although divided into two bitter factions, united in support of a resolution expelling...
...Iromediately following th* opening address by President Wil|i*m 8*lsu, the convention psassd resolutions of solidarity with th* 70,000 striking Belgian mstal werktrt, condemning war snd militarism is connection with tht troubles In Morocco snd expressing sympathy with th* Chiatta workers in their struggle for frsedom...
...The majority of the buresu, consisting of the undersigned member* and Comrade Lore, rejected th* resolution because it contained misrepresentation and in part even direct falsifications of facts, "A» honest working-men we could not approve statements or charges known, through our » own experiences, to be false and prompted by dishonest motives...
...Tht cntnmitt**, of cours*, declined th* contribution, as it* acceptance could hsv* entailed s re»l tacrine* on th* Comrade, but h* can rest sfsured that of greater valu* than any financial contribution he might hsv* msds wss ths inspiration his loyslty snd devotion hsv* b**n to his comrtdta So long •* our movtmtnt enlists in iti itrvie* msn liks this, ws nttd not despair...
...Th* undersigned herewith announce their withdrawal from the Workers' Party ef America...
...In Sweden, thirtyfive years ago, s young msn, although threatened with tubsreulosis, was giving sll his time snd energy to the fledgling Soeislist movement in thst rour.try...
...to «Itabllih • ltgst rast period ef seven deys per year, with j»«y, fa* sll werken...
...The convtntion also deposed A. kali, editor of the Finnish organ of th* Workers' party...
...This last happening, intimately as it may affect as personally, is but oa* out of an entire chain of happenings which gradually brought us to the conclusion that the Worker*' party of America, with it* present tactics and leaderahip, is getting daily furth,swsy from its aim of becoming ti.* •wskener and lesder of thi American proletariat in its struggi* against cspitslism...
...An incresis In annusi dues par member to ths national ergseU sa tl on from ?O te TO centime* (shout iti «enti) wai mad* p*r* m*n*nt, A resolution en hsllvys urgsd th* Ex se u ti ve te usa *v*ry means in its power, with ths sid ef th* Socialist Deputisi in Pirliiment...
...Eventually he cam* to th* United States...
...t* ITT...
...For thia we were immediately removed from the» Bureau of the German Language Group to which we wer* elected by the membership of th* German Group of the Workers' party...
...As soon si his hsslth permitted, he plunged sn*w into th* struggi* and with one other Comrade established as s fourpage weekly the greet Swedish Socialist daily which ha* heen ?uch s potent factor in th* Party'* success...
...charge* which were brought «gaines him...
...No epic poem relates deeds of greater courage or nobler self socriftc* than 1* contained in th* untold tale of th* Jimmy Higgins**—obscure, scarce noticed, unrewarded — who have given the Cause th* full measure of their devotion...
...The Workers' Party Convention, last Sunday, endorsed the resolution of the Parity Commission on Loreism and with it approved our automatic suspension trom the German Language Group Bureau...
...of .the proletarian struggi* can better, and- with more •ueceea, Work far hi* ideal* outside then inside ths Workers' psrty, "Moreover, we were strengthened ia our conviction by th* convention of th* Workers' party in the *xpulsion of Comrade Lor* bet ause he dared to refute calmly, and with facts, la the columns ef tbs New York Volk»*rtur.g...
...aid ef sll unions in ess* of n**d was adopted by the twenty-fourth Convention of the Belgian Trade Unioni' Federa, tien, held ia Brussels...
...He becomes a sort of second grade member...
...Belgi*** fer Os» Strik* Fend The principi* of mating a ungi* big strike fund for th...
...Signed) 1. BACH...
...Hs c:mnot now work as actively for the Psrty si in ti* past Am' it trouble* him...
...It remains to I.* seen what the Finns will do...
...In future, anyone holding our views is debarred from any office in th* Workers' party and no opportunity is allowed him to promulgate his views...
...MID SCHULER, HENRY WINTER, L. T. WOLF, OTTO UNDER* Socialism's Strength THE strength of the Socialist movement lies not alone in its firm economic and historic foundations, but in the unselfish devotion and service of ita adherents...
...He wss one of ths small group, including Brsnting, 1st* Pr*mi*r of Sweden, which laid th* found* tions of th* great Socialist movement there Tirelessly he collected fund* for the People's House in Stockholm and on ths dsy the building wss to be dedicated auffffered s hemorrhage of th* lungs on its steps...
...Th* following is a translation of th* statement of the reasons why tha Germans withdraw from th* Workers' party...
...vitat, 'her* is naturaelly ae place far us ia such a party...
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...He feel* that he li not doing his bit, snd recently th* members of a Psrty committee wer* deeply touched by thi* Comrade's offering a substanti*: financial contribution in lieu of ? • per sonai servie** h* wished to render but could not...
...Never fully mastering the language, although proficient in its use, he hss not bien able to take as prominent s part in th* movement here as in, his nstiv* Jpnd, but in his branch, on county committees- snd on State committeas, wherever he eeuld serve th* Psrty he hs* don* so willingly and w*U...
...We believe it to be beneath our dignity to retain such kind of membership...
...Now h* is no longtr young and st present not in ths best ef health...
...I "If we exsmine this chain of mistakes snd blunders we ssa that it has been impossibit for us to d« any practise) mark ia th* Work**' party, thus explaining why the idea ws* forced upon us that s fighter in th* caus...
...In the issue of the Volkszeitung of September 2 appears a statement of the withdrawal of the German members of the executive from the Workers' party...
...88» OS Jsn...
...Thii means thst ths German Feneration itself is out of th* party...
...i "The Buresu of the German Language Group of th* Workers' party had before it for consideration th* resolution of the "Parity Commission" on the so-called "Loreism...
...I*er*t*ry C Mar Uns, in reporting s dselin* ia msmb*rship from 895,000 on Jsn...
...July I5-2T, snd th* Executive Committ** is te work eut • detailed plan far tub* missies to th* nsxt convention...
...The political view* of Cosando Lor* as* also our own...
...If Lars is expelled from th* Workers' party for aia politics...
...GERMANS OUT OF WORKERS PARTY IT THE recent national convention of the Workers' party the delegates, although divided into two bitter factions, united in support of a resolution expelling Ludwig Lore, editor of the New York Volkszeitung, German organ of the party...
Vol. 2 • September 1925 • No. 36
