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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
The Different
Young Man
By Harry Godfrey

1--WE manager of the feature film concern
gestured generously toward a spacious
chair. The Diffident Young Man permitted
himself to sink into its leather depths.
information" the manager repeated af-
fably. Eyes, stree. We just exude informa-
ton. Tell you all about any of our stars.
Is it'-
mo, none of them" the Diffdent Young
Man protested. otis Ibsen's Ghosts We
heard new film version is being produced 1"
Tho managerial hands waved depre-
catingly.
"lbsen's Ghosts? Sorry, but l don't
know anything about it, Our comnanv
doesn't use Characterization titles
any more Now, perhaps the Thrills Feat
ure Corporation, across the hall"--
The Thrills manager was briskly face
tious.
" Ibsens Ghosts'7" he murmured. "You
don't seriously suppose we'd try to put over
more than one ghost Of one man. do vou7 7
don't know what sort of "a screen character
this lbsen is Ibsen's Ghosts! Who wrote
1t, any way?"
Man was shrewdy appraised az Il theatre
manager
"lbsens Ghosts? No; that scenario was
written for us. but we rejected it. Didn't
come up to our standard. Fact IL. the pub
lies getting tired of spook plays But il
you're keen on 'em and want a corking re-
lease, let me show you Tho Phantom En-
gineer' Thatll pull EN- right out OF their
seats. Talk about melodramal Man, we
paid 5000 for that scenario!"
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The only thing that may ultimately
break down the Bolshevik government
IS the complete stagnation of the coun-
try. They are using up the old trains
and steamships without supplying new
ones. There is no production, no man
ufacturc worth speaking Of Unless the
Bolsheviki change theird attitude in this
direction and begin to produce as we'll
as consume they may die a slow death.
My informant said that details with
regard to the fate of the royal family,
which for long time were withheld,
were made public recently. The Car,
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Feeding on
New Hopes

All this revolutionary sentiment n.
Left Wing hopes to gather in. The rnft
Wing says of its proposals: "These ara
not the immediate demands co,nnr;ssd
IN the social reform planks now in thu
PLATFORM OF our party; they are not
compromise with the capitalist state
but imply a revolutionary struggle
against that state and against canita,-
Ism, the conquest of power by the pro-
letarat through Revolutionary mass ac-
ton. They imply the new soviet state
OF the organized producers, the diets
torship of the proletariat; they are ma.
limlnary revolutionary measures for the
appropriation of capital and the intro.
duction Of communist socialism"
The cleavage between the Left Wins
and the "moderates' is deprecated BY
the moderates themselves. But the Left
Wing has left no doubt about its exist
ence. In Michigan last February the
Socialist party in a convention com
pletely dominated by the insurgent
group passed resolutions stating that
inc nat1onal executive committee of thu
Socialist party had demonstrated ats
incapacity to formulate a sound Socialist
position" The resolutions repudiated
the national executives action in send
ing delegates to the "yellow interna-
tlonal recently held at Berne, Switzer
land An amendment to the constitu-
ton Of tho Michigan State Socialist
party read as follows:
ANY member, local or branch of
local advocating legislative reforms or
supporting organizations formed for the
purpose of advocating such reforms
shall be expelled from the Socialist
party. The state executive committee
is authorized to revoke the charter
any local that does not conform to tbs
amendment"
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future wars and for the destruction Of
the causes Of war"
The Left Wing are carrying opposi-
ton to the political state step further,
to the point where they advocate de-
struction of the political state in order
that proletariat controlled organization
may be substituted. Where the "moder-
ate Socialists" as the Left Wing calls
those in control of the party machinery
favor repeal of the espionage act, agita-
ton in favor of the release Of political
prisoners-emphasis on political action,
in short-the Left Wing are for concen-
trating on the destruction of the politi-
cal state. Although the moderate So
cialists subscribe to revolutionary doc
trine, the emphasis Of the Left Wing Is
moro pronounced and definite on revolu-
tionary action. They are known vari-
ously as "cxtremists," "impossibilists'
and "hell-raisers" in more conservative
ranks.
In some Of its aspects the threatened
division Of the Socialist party is not un-
like that by which the present party
came into existence from factions Of the
Socialist Labor party some eighteen
years ago. At that time the leaders Of
the Socialist Labor party, under Daniel
De Leon, found themselves in opposition
to the organized labor groups Of the
time-the American Federation of Labor
and the Knights Of Labor. They pro-
ceeded to establish the Socialist Trade
and Labor Alliance, which was to be-
trade union auxiliary Of the Socialist
Labor party.
Largely because Of its hostility or in
difference to existing labor organlza-
tions, the Socialist Labor party was
found unsatisfactory by group, among
whom were Eugene Debs, Victor Berger,
Jesse G. Fox, Seymour Stedman and
Frederic Heath. They formed the Social
Democratic party Of America, which
finally succeeded in amalgamating with
a wing of the Socialist Labor party, and
in 1901 the Socialist party came into
being.
The Socialist Trade and Labor ALI
ance, which was founded by De Leon
and his associates, became the predeces-
sor of the present I. w. w. III organized
as the early body was, it still was based
on the conception of industrial unionsm,
organization Of all the men in an in
dustry, as opposed to the craft organ
ization of the American Federation of
Labor. 1t is this form of unionism which
the Left Wing group of the Socialist
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the proletariat, under the impact of
which new forms of industrial organza-
ton and struggle, new ideology, were
being developed, met the open hostility
or lack of understanding of socialism,"
The present leaders of the Socialist
party Fraina Identifies with ebert,
David, Scheidemann & Co. in Germany.
with petty bourgeois majority social
ISM everywhere They have not devel-
oped' he says, "a realistic revolutionary
policy-a policy that is instinct in the
struggles of the proetariat-a policy
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party are especially stressing now. The
moderate Socialists have not much SYM
pathy with the Gompers regime in the
American Federation Of Labor and they
have Endorsed industrial unionsm in
their national platform, but to the actual
practitioners of industrial unionism, the
l. w. w., the Left Wing are closer than
are the moderates.
''In no other large nation is the labor
movement as reactionary as in the United
States" writes Louis Fraina, leader Of
the Boston section of the Left Wing ON
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no other nation is organized Socialism as
loose as purposcless, as petty bourgeois
as in the United States"
Then Traina proceeds to an indict-
ment involving both the Socialist party
and labor. If labor has been reactionary
Socialism has been Indifferent to such
lnsurgencies as have shown themselves
Referring to demonstrations like that Of
the Western Federation of Miners twenty
years ago and to the I. w. W. at present,
he says:
"All these great instructive revolts of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
'Anything Short of Revolution Is Cast
Aside by This New
Group
By Herbert J. seligmann

1NHE Socialist party is threatened
with revolution in its own ranks.
Wearied with the "moderate''
=, policy Of it's leaders, a faction
Railing itself the LEFT Wing" is attempt
g to capture the party machinery. It's
Pensors lean to direct action, the politi-
strike, as one Of the means Of bring
about the Socialist commonwealth.
hey denounce all compromise, all at
empts at reform, in their platforms and
nlanifestoes. Anything short Of COM
plete revolution is betrayal Of socialism,
in their belief. To attain their ends
they indorse the activities Of the I. w.
W., so far as they &C; but in the words
Of. the Left Wing leaders, "even the
w. w. is becoming conservative"
Whether the Socialist party is to be
SWING to this extreme position, whether
the present instruction in the party is
to remain revolt or become revolu-
ton, will for some time, perhaps only
short time, hang In the balance. Mean
while, the Left Wing have already capt
ured the Socialist organization Of the
State of Michigan, have on test regis
tered strong minority Of the votes in
80
party of New York County and are in
control in Boston. They have an organi-
zation in Philadelphia. They arc repre-
scented by two aggressive publications,
"Tbe Revolutionary Age" weekly pub
lished in Boston, and "The Proletarian,"
published monthly in Detroit.
They are forcing the issue against the
national executive committee Of the So
cialist party by demanding an emer-
gency national convention, at which they
expect to make a show Of power.
Whether or not the Socialist party calls
this convention, the Left Wing intends
calling convention of its own. To back
the campaign in New York City they in
tend having their own publication here.
This implies that they will attempt to
dominate the party machinery and take
over the official party organ, "The Call"
IT may be that "The Revolutionary Age"
is to be brought to New York City from
Boston, or that new periodical will be
established here.
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Ten Square Feet
Per Person

"My informant described conditions in
closed. Kuznetski Most, which was one
of the streets, is to-day deserted.
Everything is nationalized and the gov
eminent keeps only few stores open
and articles in these stores can be pur-
chased only by card. All signs have been
taken down as there is no need to adj
vertise ones business any more. The
government owns everything and does
not need to ADVERTISE The people have
become remarkably Indifferent to every
thing that goes on about them. They
think only of the next meal and warm
room. In the matter of rooms the Boil
sheviki have instituted reforms which
have won them many friends from
among the lowest strata, the lumpen-
proletariat. They have issued an order
allowing ten square feet of space per
person. With this rule in operation they
entered the best homes in Moscow and
measured the space Of the home. In
nearly every case the homes of wealthy
families were found to have two or three
times the space the Bolsheyiki allotted.
All such homes we're redivided, and fam
lilies from the slums we're promptly
lodged In the same apartments, a slight
partition being hastily constructed be-
tween them. Some Of the wealthy fam
lilies gave up their homes altogether and
left the city, but those that could not
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AT the
Crossroads

1t has apparently been the function
OF the Left Wing to bring the Socialist
party to the parting of the ways. The
present assure is the second to occur
asa result of the war and the problems
which the war raised. The first widened
into the secession of a group which found
1t impossible to go with the Socialist
party in it's irreconcilable opposition to
this country's entrance into the war. That
group, in which Spargo, Stokes, Walling,
Russell and Slobodin were leading, or, as
the party claimed, isolated figures, put
nationalism and patriotism above inter
nstionalism. They rebeled especially
against the majority report of the COM
mittee on war and militarism at st.
Louis in 1917, which on it's adoption be-
came known as the est Louis Resolu-
ton"
That report, it will be recalled, said
war was instigated by the predatory
capitalists in the United States, who
boast of the enormous profit of seven
billion dollars from the manufacture and
sale of munitions and war supplies" and
further said that "the war Of the United
States against Germany cannot be justi-
fed even on the plea that it is war in
defence of American rights or American
honor" eve brand the declaration of
war by our government as crime
against the people of the United States
and against the nations of the world"
said the report at another point. an
all modern history there has been no
war more unjustifable than the war in
which we are about to engage"
The resolution declared for "contin-
uous, active and public opposition to
the war" "unyielding opposition to all
proposed legislation for military or in
dustrial conscription," and, in addition
to resistance TO press censorship and
restrictions on the freedom Of commune
ton, urged widespread educational
propaganda to enlightcn the masses as
70 the true relation between capitalism
and war, and TO rouse and organize
them for action, not only against present
war evils. but for the prevention of
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"Even the |. W. w. Is Becoming
~ q.
Conservative" Say the
Radicals

able to arouse, lntegrate and direct the
revolutionary energy Of the proletariat !"
In SO far, therefore, as the l. W..
W. represents revolutionary elements,
teaches that the present organization of
society must be entirely destroyed to
make way for control by the workers,
the Left Wing indorse the l, W. W. In
the approaching era of industrial dis
turbance, according to Fraina, the So
cialist party should embark on cam
paign "to move the masses" The CAM
paign should "get the workers to march
out Of the plants, go to other plants and
pull out other workers, broaden the scope
Of this industrial action into mass action
Only the aggressive action of the
industrial proletariat can prevent the
government from putting over its re-
dictionary plans"
These strikes are to be used to ode
velop in the proletariat the consciousness
of revolutionary mass action, to develop
the concept and practice Of political
strikes, to make it realize that
when it wants to act It's action should
develop out Of the MILL mine and fac
tory. Our political action should become
part and parcel Of this mass action,
should promote the aggressive industrial
struggle. To broaden a strike into a
demonstration, to develop out of these
revolutionary mass action against CAPT
talsm and the state-that is the policy
Of revolutionary socialism, that is the
policy which will transform the coming
period Of strikes definitely into the
period of revolutionary action, preparing
the mass action of the revolution"
The leaders Of the Socialist party, by
reason Of their alienation from the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor as we'll as from
the /. W. w., have not been in position
to initiate any such programme as
Fraina and the Left Wing stand for.
The membership Of union men in the
Socialist party heretofore has been a
limited one, except in groups like the
United Hebrew Trades and the Western
Federation Of Miners. The leaders Of
the Socialist party have been, as one of
their own "moderate' critics put it,
"long on theory and resolutionizing and
painfully short on action and revolu-
tionizing."
Unlike the I. W. w, the Left Wing
do not stop short at industrial union
ism. They are for industrial organiza-
ton akin to the soviet government of
Russia. The manifesto of the New York
section Of the Left Wing, which is in it's
essentials Endorsed by the Left Wing
elsewhere, urges the organization Of
workmens councils, "workmens control
Of industry, to be exercised by the in
dustrial organizations Industrial unions
or soviets) Of the workers and the in
dustrial vote, as against government
ownership or state control of Industry"
reputation Of national debts and ex-
preparation of large organizations Of
capital.
The hostility of this section of the
Socialist party toward the present lead
ership was heightened, no doubt, by the
action taken in 1912, when the Socialist
party constitution was amended and
provision inserted expelling from the
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party all who professed belief in ear.
tage. Although the amendment wa,
dropped in 1914, on the ground ths.
the party did not wish to condition ~
interfere with the programmes ~
labor organizations, it made an irrecon
cilable breach with the l. W. W, agains,
which it was directed, and with larcs
sections of floating revolutionary sent;
ment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
An Emergency
Convention

AS against these aggressive measures
OF the Left Wing, the moderate group
reply that as no Socialists have ever
been taken into the Cabinet or accented
government Office there is no conser-
vatlve wing of the party, and the entire
party, or 80 per cent of it, is to be
regarded as Left Wing. The leaders
of the Left Wing retort that if the party
is Left Wing it is not properly repre-
sented in it's officers. To this end they
are calling for an emergency national
convention of the party.
1t should be said of the Left Wing
that the Lettish branches furnish its
main strength in Boston, and the Rus
SLAMS are its strength in Michigan.
In New York City the Socialist
local, at 43 West Twenty-ninth Street,
which takes in the Third, Fifth and
Tenth Assembly districts, is the centre
OF the Left Wing activity. It is of this
local that John Reed, Rose Pastor Stokes
and Jim Larkin are members, and among
the English speaking locals of the party
1t is undoubtedly the foremost in Left
wing agitation. Another Left Wing
local is that in the Eighth Assembly dis
trlct, IN lower Second Avenue
Officially the New York County CEN
trai committee of the Socialist party has
condemned the Left Wing for its fac
tlonallsm and characterized it as "an
organization whose sole activity is hav-
ing no other effect than to divide and
dlsslpate our strength and forces" The
resolution, which was submitted to all
branches in Manhattan, stated it to be
the sentiment of the executive that
there is no room within our party for
another organization parallel to the or
ganzation of the party proper; that we
strongly disapprove of it; that the diver
sion to faction of the work and Of the
funds and energies that belong to the
party as a whole is menace to the in
tegrity of our party"
But however deeply the creation of a
new and parallel organization is de-
plored by Socialist party members, many
of the rank and file sympathze with its
extreme stand. "a Left Wing is de-
sIrable, but Left Wing section is sui
cidal," is the way Evans Clark put
it in letter to "The Call" And a letter
signed by Scott Nearing, Mr.. Clark,
Moses Oppenheimer, Louis p. Lochncr,
Ludwig Lore, Walter NJ. Cook, Benjamin
Glassberg and several others stated that
1.-THE time has come for the party TO re-
state its principles and reformulate its
tactics"
Eight principles are proposed in the
letter, closely following the programme
laid down by the Left Wing. They in
clude abolition of all social reform
panks, agitation exclusively for the
overthrow Of capitalism, propaganda for
revolutionary unionism, call for a spe-
cial national convention of the party,
and refusal to participate in conferences
with moderate Socialists" and social
patriots"
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has yet seen, and that it is only the
attitude of the capitalist world which
isolated Russia, and refuses to deal with
her, that makes the initial stages of Boil
shevism so difficult
"The Bolsheviks assure their followers
that world revolution is coming, and
that then Russia isolation will end.
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the Czarina and their children, according
to these details, were all executed at the
same time. With few exceptions, such
as the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholai-
vlch, most of the members of the royal
family have been killed off,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
he Left Wing Revolts Against the Socialist,
The Manifesto of the Left Wing

o. u rNeY r bcasof
OF ea eLetv Wing ednNn
w hq2 hfrucr nsfrue Boston
g Revuton Az" dh
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as l nmdo boNe h raloHe
The Cordova daily times., 1919-12-04
DECEMBER 4, 1919
THE LABOR OUTLOOK

Although present labor difficulties in the United States have broken out just at the time when industry other wise would have accomplished the diff ficult adjustment from war produc- tion to peace prosperity with a most gratifying ease, the National Bank of Commerce in New York believes that the strikes now in progress will pass away through their sheer multiplicity. In it's general market letter in the November issue of Commerce Monthly the bank says:
 Two factors in the situation offer hope for an adjustment by means which may yet serve to avoid any se- rious shock to the industrial and busi- ness community The first of these, paradoxical as it may seem, is the very multiplicity of strikes. When a strike occurs in a single industry, both labor and capital outside the zone of disturbance in the main escape the direct evils which result, although they suffer indirectly. When strikes become general, however, labor and capital at once become a part of the ill-defined group known as the public, and while those involved in any given dispute may not suffer to the full the results of their own differences, they become victims of the struggle going on between other similar groups. The present situation can not do other wise than lead to a realization of this fact and this discovery ought to prove conducive to a spirit of conciliation.
 "The other factor which offers hope is the demand for commodities of all classes, which continues unabated. This is certain to smitulate produc- ton, even in the face of great difficult ties.
 While the weight of these factors can not be determined, they suggest that however trying the situation ap- pears, the industrial and financial or ganization of the country will pass through it without serious harm, ad- justment finally being accomplished in piecemeal fashion rather than by widespread changes of fundamental character"
The Cordova daily times., 1919-12-04
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS

Better get your coal under cover It has been known to snow in this dis trict.-Hyder Miner.
 It is going to be long, cold winter for the miner who is too proud to work.-Seward Gateway.
 The Northland is wonderful topsy- turvv country. A man at Carcross has purchased blankets to cover ms hogs, while editors are forced to shlVer nights or cover with friend wife's old skirts neverything. Miner.
 The papers say that Big Bill Hart, a two-gun man of the screen, IS com ing north next year to go out through the Kodiak bear country. It would De well not to give this fact too much mo- toriety. for if those Kodiak bears should find out about Bills contem- plated VlSlt they hlSh' '1 '
 tall uncut. Bill is terror-on tue screen.-Douglas News.
 Ketchikan is paving the way, aiding and abetting the anarchists ot the world. It is raising a crowd Of healthy young Bolsheviki and permitting the nrinciples of communism, class hatred and lawlessness to be planted Ill their young hearts-boys from seven to seventeen years old. That is big charge to make, yet the unmistakable' uncontrovertible evidence is there to prove it. To show conclusively that mothers and fathers of Ketchikan are deliberately permitting, even lending aid, to a crowd of l. w. w. in instilling
The Cordova daily times., 1919-12-04

in the minds of the youngsteres class hatred and lack of respect for their government.-Ket Chronicle.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-12-04

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