United labor bulletin., 1911-07-13
STATE DEPARTMENT.
A. H. FIoaten, State Secretary, 1880 Mon
roe ST., Denver.


The following is copied from the
Weekly Bulletin of the Nationalist So
cialist party, dated at Chicago, July l,
1911:
Comrade Jas. p. Larsen, secretary OF
Local Cook County Qll.) reports that at
special meeting of the Cook county
delegate committee, held Sunday, June
25th, the following motion was passed:
That the secretary be instructed to
notify the national office of the Socialist
party to remove the name of the Chris
tian Socialist from the list of Socialist
papers in the National Bulletin
Comrade ]. o. Dental, state secretary
of Illinois, reports action taken by Local
Cook county as follows:
"Reverend Edward Ellis Car Expelled
from the Socialist Party.
ITO the Members and Locals of the So
cialist Party, Comrades:
The Socialist party of Cook county,
Illinois, represented by its delegate COM
mittee at a meeting held June 25th, 1911,
expelled from its membership the Reyer-
end Edward Ellis Car, by vote of 51 for
expulsion and 21 against.
This action was taken in response to
charges made by the Seventh Ward
branch in the city of Chicago, Comrades
Mabel Hudson and Lena Morrow Lewis.
The charges of the Seventh ward are as
follows:
Chicago, ILL.,, Apuril 20, 1911.
ITO the Delegate Committee of the So
cialist Party of Local Cook County,
Comrades:
The Seventh ward branch of the So
cialist party of Cook county hereby pre-
fers charges against Rev. Edward Ellis
Carr for conduct unbecoming Socialist
In support hereof we charge Rev. e.
E. Carr with publishing under dates OF
October 1st and October 18th. 1910. and
January 26th April 9Th, April 18th and
April Goth, 1911, in privately owned
paper, called the Christian Socialist"
scandalous matter (Which, upon inyesti-
cation, has been shown to be unsus-
tained), calculated to defame the charac-
ter of members and officers of the Social
ist party and to disrupt the party organ
iZation.
I'VE further charge that the publica-
ton of this matter in the Christian So
cialist" has been used by enemies of the
Socialist party to discourage prospective
members from joining the Socialist party
and to disrupt the party organization
"In view of the seriousness of these
/ charges we recommend that Il. Il. Carr
be placed on trial by your body, and fur
| ther recommend that the trial be con-
Quoted evenings and Sundays so that
members VINO wish to attend may nave
an opportunity to do SO.
"Fraternally submitted,
"(Signed) JOHN G. FLORA,
chairman,
"(Signed) CARL KRAUS,
Secretary
Seventh Ward Branch Of the Socialist
| Party of Cook County"
These charges, together with the ones
preferred by Comrades Hudson and
Lewis, the substance of which is en-
braced in the charges of the Seventh
ward. and added thereto the charge of
malicious slander, we're referred to the
grievance committee which met in eight
evening and one afternoon sessions
During these sessions the entire matter
of Mr. Carr's charges, and also the
charges made against him were taken up.
| 1t was found that Mr.. Carr had made
charges against members and officials of
the Socialist party in a privately-owned
paper called the Christian Socialist
These charges were found to be entirely
false and misleading. and the substance
of the charges by Mr.. Carr was that the
national secretary of the Socialist party
and also organizers and employees OF the
party advocated and practiced free love
and were also drunkards. While using
careful language and employing modify
Ing words such as '1f these things are
So and when conditions became such.