The New York herald., 1920-12-02
MOSCOW CASTS OUT
ALL U. s. SOCIALISTS
Milk and Water and Traitors
to the Revolution, Is Com
munist Verdict.
N. Y. LEADERS FLAYED
Document Refusing American
Plea for Membership Re-
published Here.
N. Y. LEADERS FLAYED

The Socialist party OF the United
States. it's leaders and all Its works.
have been repudiated by the central
body OF all the Communists--the Third
International-which calls itself the
General Staff of the World Revolution"
and bawls forth it's hair raising decrees
from Moscow.
Expelled from Congress and the New
York Legislature upon the accusation OF
disl,yalty to the United States. the So
cialisss are now denied admission to the
International on the ground that they
are not true Socialists at ALL but milk
and water bourgeoisie, traitors TO their
class, faithless to the revolution, patriots
yes. indeed, Nose wv even charges them
with being patriots, the last word or
Soviet scorn.
The Communists' refusal TO admit the
American Socialists to their membership
Is contained in remarkable document
appearing In the Russian Press Revteto
for October. 1920. a Communist organ
printed In English in Russia or on the
border and intended for circulation in
English speaking countries. The docu-
ment Is now reprinted here by the So
cialist daily the New York Call
Morris Hillquit and Agernon Lee,
who are savagely denounced in the docu-
ment, expressed last night their belief
that II was official, and, II not actually
adopted by the Congress OF the Third
International which met in Moscow In
the summer and fall, represents the
views of that body.
The American socialists are scored for
having favored in their statement OF
principles the accomplishment OF social
ism through securing majority In Con-
gress and each state Legislature. This
proves, the decree Of the Moscow Reds
says, the definite abandonment or So
cialist pretensions and the entrance CT
the American Socialists into the ranks
of the bourgeois reform parties" 1t Is
called "a childish and antiquated concep-
ton" Of the Socialist task.
N. Y. Convention Attacked.
The New York convention is described
as having been dominated by centrist
and reactionary elements-"by the yell
low 'reformist politicians Hillquit. Lee.
StedSlan, O'Neal. Block, Panken: by the
100 per cent Americans Meyer Lon
don, Solomon; by the State Socialists
and inverted patriot. Victor Berger; by
Cannon and Salts (Soltis), Karlin and
Berlin (Berlyn), all of whom have no
place in party affiliated to the COM
munist International"
Even the Extreme Lefts of the New
York convention, regarded as horribly
radical by their comrades. share in the
denunciation, including l.. Louis Eng
dahl of Chicago. who was beaten by
Hillquit in the fight over resolutions ;
William H. kruse, Samuel II. Holland
and Tucker. "In all the convention not
one Communist voice was heard" sobs
the voice of Moscow.
1.-The Socialist Aldermen of New
York. who voted for the Liberty Loan.
who voted for money to erect the Vic-
tory Arch" continues the document re-
produced in the Call; 'the Socialist
Congressman. Meyer London. who con-
graduated the King of Italy upon his
birthday who voted for the war credits
the Socialist legislators at Albany, who
declared publicly against Communism
the Socialist" District Attorney OF Mil
waukee who imprisoned workingmen for
breaking up religious meeting; the
Socialist officials who called in the Chi
cago police to expel the Communists
from the 1919 convention-all these
comrades are still members of the So
cialist party of the United States; in
fact, they controlled the May conven-
tfou