New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
Circle No. 5 of Young Peo-
pies Socialist League Is
Told What an Awful Place
United States Really Is
They're Ripe for Action
Cot Some OH Train Friday,
but Not Kind Sought; Girl
of IL Discusses Free Love

Circle No. of the Young Peoples
Socialist League looked like o Wild
West show when it met at 222 Fifth
Street on Saturday night to hear Eliza
beth Gurley Flynn speak with fiery
Irish eloquence and I. W. W. vigor on
The Aliens in America"
The young people of No. wear their
colors unashamediy. The girl organizer
Of the circle had red silk kerchef
knotted cowboy fashion around her
neck. The otnv- girls and poys sported
them, too, and when the "Red Flag"
was sung with all the pseudo solemnity
tnat usually marks this performance
red kerchiefs were waved all over the
ROOM
The "Yipsels" were seething with in
dignation over the "wretched bour-
geoisio attack" made upon them the day
before on their way home from the
Palisades. where they had been for an
outing. They all were talking about it,
and one Of the girls told the story to
Tribune reporter.
Tragedy of Red Kerchiefs
I'll WOuldH nave Deen so strange If
we had been attacked on the way out"
she said. because we were singing rev
olutionary songs at the top Of our
voices IN the train, and people scowled
or grlnned at us as they felt inclined.
On the way home we were too tired to
besnoisy. AS we neared Grand Central
Station we were sitting quietly playing
games, when some of the people on the
train, including q man in khaki, at
tackled us. | suppose they saw our red
handkerchefs. We're not bit afraid
TO carry them around, but it is just
like waving q red flag before wild
bull to display them in public.
swell, they picketed the doors of
the train at the station and punched
the boys as we were going out and
called 'Bolsheviki!' after US No, they
didn't touch the girls, but they hustled
us.all out and ragged us as we went"
This did not serve to put the red
kerchiefs out of business, however,
They worked overtime at the Flynn
meeting and appeared to be continual
source Of JOY to their owners.
No. 5 Wants Action
No. 5 had lively, entertaining meet
ing. There is nothing dead about the
"yirsels' Of No. 5. They are out for
aenon. AT present their chief concern
is whether they ought to be "rights"
or .."lefts" or whether hey ought to
ignore the petty squabbles of the
Socialist party and concentrate on
their own pressing affairs
4 dishterested Socialist in the audi
erce adv sed them to stick with the
revolutionists. There was really neither
':right' nor cleft he said. There were
only two classes -revolutionsts and
capitalists.
q g predicted that the next war would
be q chemical war. America would have
such a supply of certain kinds of chem
icals on iIand that she would have 10
start & way to use them up. After this
commentary on his native country
he happens to be Ame lean born-the
speaker proceeded to tell the "Yipsels"
that 81 he met German to-day he
would go up and shake his hand and
feel toward him as brother. But he
doesn't want to shake the hands of
lots of Americans - oh. mol Society
has treated him too badly for that
broken his back and tried to crush him
and done lots of other unpleasant things
From Mental Vacuum Cleaner
Then the lady of Irish fire and I. W.
w. doctrines got up, and although she
declared her mentality resembled the
state. of "a vacuum cleaner as a result
Of q hard days work at the Call"
bazaar, she managed to say good deal
before she got through with the alien
question.
Altogether she showed up the United
States Of America as being an un-
speakable place to live in-such an
awful place, indeed, that the aliens
were only too glad t. be deported
Their chief kick was that they had to
DE kept FOR such long time on Ellis
Island, looking at the Stars and Stripes
and eating rotten food. Why, it was
just like ancient Rome-civilizatio
rested on the bent backs of the poor,
down trodden people; only in the
United States the alien happened to
be the under dog.
s aFeudalism and tyranny and miltar-
1871 and every form. of oppression ram
pant in the Old World had nothing on
tie u. S. A, Miss Flynn insisted. She
turned with longing eyes to the com
ms overthrow. Every revolution in
Europe struck a responsive chord in
tbs country, she said. The Russian
IN America, now that his country was
liberated from the yoke OF czardom,
vas, beginning to wonder what freedom
felt Ike. The Hungarian, too The
Infection was spreading. The time
va coming-ah, yes, it was coming.
Xiss Flynn waved her arms and flashed
her piercing eyes on her eager young
audience.
he took the boys and girls into her
confidence, told them that they were