The Bismarck tribune., 1919-04-12
y, s. SOCIALISTS
NOT UNITED ON
B0LSHE POLICY
Feds Form Communist League
and Seize Control Of Ma
ti0nal Organization
ELECTION COMING SOON
Members Now Voting on Ma
tiOnal Committeeman and
international Delegates
ELECTION COMING SOON
BY CARL SANDBURG
N. f. A. Staff Correspondent.


Chicago.-The national Socialist
party is split two ways. The Rig mt
and the Left are graphing in the
bitterest contest they have engaged
in. 1t is admitted on all sides that the
advance of the Bolshevik and Sparta
can movements in Europe has given
new hope to the "Reds" as the Bolshe-
visit wing is sometimes called. They
refer to the Right as the "Yellows.'
Control of the national Socialist
party machinery is in the hands of the
Right wing. The latest attacks of the
"Reds" are aimed at taking over the
party machinery.
The Reds have perfected an inside
organization they call the Communist
Propaganda league. Its announced
purposes are to capture the Socialist
party and make it an instrument of
Bolshevik and Spartacan aims for the
achievement of a proletarian revolu-
ton in the United States. Among their
publications which have started the
past year are the Communist, the Pro-
letarian, the Revolutionary Age, the
Glass Struggle.
Socialist local branches over the
country are ablaze with talk about tao
tics and whether the Communists are
the true interpreters of the father of
international socialism, Karl Marx.
ELECTION is ON IN
SOCIALIST RANKS.
Socialist party members are now
voting on national committee men,
bers and international delegates, Vic
tor Berger, while waiting the day he
must 60 to Leavenworth. to begin serv-
ing 20-year sentence for violation OF
the espionage act, is under fierce at
tack by the Communist Socialists,
whose official organ says Berger's
election and the domination of the
party by men of his principles would
exclude the American Socialist party
from the new internationale being or
ganized under leadership of the Rus
sian Bolsheviks. 1n@ -,,
"A vote for Berger is vote of pity
ing contempt for our Bolshevik and
Spartacan comrades" says the Com
inunist. "a vote for Berger is vote
atjprovmg7hist repeated and uncalled-
for condemnation Of the l. W., con-
demnation persistently offered to
prove Berger's own eminent respecta-
bility. A vote for Berger is vote
for the International of German Ma
jority Socialism"
DECLARE BERGER IN
AFLIANCE WITH EBERT. ~.a
;3l2An array of evidence and argument
is then produced to show that Berger
is in league with the Ebert Scheide-
man group in Germany and is opposed
to the American group corresponding
to the followers Of Karl Liebknecht
and Rosa Luxembourg in Germany.
The Reds are calling for a national
convention to be held this spring. The
Yellows say the convention would cost
too much, throw the party in debt, and
can just as we'll be held next year
when presidential candidates are to be
named In argument against the con.
vention, Adolph Germer, national sec
retary, wrote the national executive
committee a letter containing this re-
markable confession:
'In view of the hysteria created by
the war fans, doubt whether we at
the present possess the proper judi
cial balance to weigh the world situa-
ton in the light Of calm elaboration
and formulate practical policy and
program Of action. am not sure that
we are sufficiently devoid Of the pas
sions and prejudice requisite to
thoughtfully consider the world prob
lens. There is a tendency in the
party that, if unchecked, will head us
toward the same costly experience of
ultra a-impossibilism and anarehism
from which the Socialist movement
gone by