The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-29
PARTY MEMBERS VIOLATE
ORGANIZATION PLEDGE
LOCAL MARX OF SEATTLE
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Genuine rebel women stand side by
side with men in the working-class
battle line but stand OH their own
feet and scorn to use the names of
husbands for the sake of adding I'M
earned prestige to what they NAV
have to say. This throwback upon
bourgeois attitudes could only be ex-
pected in one who could write such
an article as lately appeared in The
New Review under the eminent name
of Mrs. Charles Edward Russell and
one can almost hear her calling her
| self lady by way of distinction!
The matter is here, however, that
she denies the class struggle, repudi-
ates the doctrine and moves to aban-
don all use Of the phrase in party de-
clarations. She writes from the party
viewpoint and it is therefore presum-
ed that she is a party member in
which event there should be on file
somewhere party application caro-
signed by her in which she expressly
declares her recognition of the class
struggle as the very foundation upon
which the Socialist party is reared
With true leisure class agility she
seeks to disarm opposition by antici-
pating in derisive fashion the charge
of party treason" In our view it is
not merely that but further that it is
matter of deception and false pre-
tense. She either Ensembles now
or stultified herself at the time of
joining the party.
There are others. At the Olalla,
Wash, Socialist Encampment, Mr..
Glen e. Hoover, Seattle lawyer,
made like attack upon Socialist fun
damentals. Pertinent to the date but
not to the occasion he declared 1t as
his belief that the American revolu-
ton did not spring from economic or
material conditions, but rather glori-
fled the capitalists Hancock and
Washington as disinterested heroes
and saviors. He ridicu1ed the determ-
inistic philosophy and the materialist
conception of history, and from this it
would follow that he likewise takes no
stock in the class struggle doctrine,
although a party member by virtue of
a signed statement to the contrary in
his application card. To our way of
thinking, without these fundamentals
there exists no distinct justification
for Socialist party and that in fact
what we have supposed to be his
toric movement is a myth Moreover
it occurs to us that those who have
the hardihood to repudiate and re-
nounce the very declarations upon
which they secured the privilege of
membership in the first place should
have the decency voluntarily to take
themselves out of the party, rather
than like the Arabs camel, seeking
shelter for it's head, then rising to
destroy the habitation offering that
hospitality
That our party constitutions do not
provide for expulsion in such cases
can be explained only by the fact that
it has never occurred to any of us
that there could be such duplicity.
Local Marx of Seattle at a recent
meeting attempts to provide for such
contingencies by moving an amend
ment to the effect that party members
expressing views contrary to their.
own statements in their applications
shall be dealt with in the manner pro-
vided for party treason. All locals
interested are requested to respond
promptly with overwhelming seconds.
LALLA ROGERS,
Secretary.
1888 Lakeside Ave, Seattle.