New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Left Wing Has Manifesto
Adopted in Queens That
Pledges Aid to Russian
and German Extremists
Gaining Control of Party
Referendum Through Nation
Expected to Place Power
of Body in Their Hands

The so-called Left Wing of the So
cialist party is constantly pressing
forward toward complete capture of
the Socialist party machinery. Its
latest victory was won in Queens
County, where at meeting in the
Queens County Labor Lyceum yester-
day the manifesto of the Left Wing was
adopted, pledging cooperation with the
Russian Bolsheviki and German Sparta
cides and the adoption of their
methods.
1t was admitted by officials of the
Socialist party at the party's headquar-
ters, East Fifteenth Street, that the
Left Wing might obtain control in the
party's central committee, which, as the
chief organ of the party, lays down the
rules and methods of organization and
agitation
Gaining in Other Cities
Similar progress is being made by
the Left Wing in other cities Phila-
delphia, Boston, Detroit, Cleveland and
other centres are already in its grip.
The referendum election now under
way in the Socialist party for members
of the national executive committee,
it is believed, will result in the election
of a majority of Left Wing members,
which will give the radicals absolute
control of the national machinery of
the movement.
Following is the resolution adopted
by the Queens County Socialists:
Whereas, we desire to place ouv-
selves clearly on record for, ard
openly and actively align ourselves
with, the revolutionary proletari..t
the world over. as at present ex-
pressed by the policies and tactics Of
the communist party of Russia Dol
shevikD, the Communist Labor party
of Germany (Spartacans), and other
parties in harmony with them; be it
"Resolved, That we pledge both
financial and moral support to the
Left Wing propaganda, working. to
the end that the national organiza-
tion conforms with the policies Of
this programmes; and be it further
Resolved. That local Queens will
not countenance or compromise with
any halfway measures, but that the
change in policies and tactics must
be complete, even if it necessitates
the severance of relations with those
constituting the Right"
Reorganization Advocated
In their manifesto calling upon the
Socialist party to change its pro-
gramme, the Left Wingers say:
ION the basis of the class struggle,
then, the Socialist party of America
must reorganize itself, must prepare to
come to grips with the master class
during the difficult period of capitalist
readjustment now going on. This it
can do only by teaching the working
class the truth about present day con-
ditions; it must preach revolutionary
industrial unionism and urge all work
ers to organize into industrial unions,
the only form of labor organization
which can cope with the great modern
aggregations Of capital"
According to latest figures there are
n not -, more than 5000 paying members
of the Socialist party in greater New
York. If the Left Wing should gain
control, Socialists familiar with the
situation said yesterday, they would
command the support of not more than
b5 or 80 per cent of the membership.
The Socialist vote in The last Mayor
atty election was 149, 900. This vote,
however, IS acknowledged even by the
Socialists to be forced and unrepre-
sentative, as it consisted in the main of
elements who flocked to the banner of
Morris Hillquit, the Socialist candi-
date, on his antiwar appeal. 1t is con-
sidered doubtful whether the Social
its would poll as many as $4,000
votes in this city to-day.
Anarchist Bodies Smaller
The membership of the anarchist
and |. w. W. organizations in the city
is even smaller than that of the Social
ist party. According to Federal author
tiles there are not more than 1000
paying members of the I. w. w. in this
city and not more than $4,000 real
I. w. w. men in the whole country.
The, anarchists, Federal officials say,
have hardly any organizations at all.
At best, the most violent. of them
maintain small conspiratory organi-
cations, the membership of which is
numerically insignificant.
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