The Washington herald., 1920-12-03

RADICALLABOR
| BITTEREST FOE
Socialists and Syndicalists
WEurope Are United
In Their Hostility.
FIND FOUR OBJECTIONS
Poland, Russia. Germany
And Raw Materials Are
Aggravating Questions.
FIND FOUR OBJECTIONS
ny BURNET HERSHEY.
Special cabls Dispatch 10
Ths waAhingtea Herald.

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GENEVA, Dec. 2.-European So
cialism has declared war on the
league of nations. There Is every
evidence that the skepticism of la
Dor toward the league is giving
place to hostility in the face OF
assertions by labor leaders that
there have been too many deviations
from the original ideas Of the
league to convince the Socialists Of
the world of it's sincerity.
The opposition to the league be-
comes more pronounced as the as
sembly continues it's debate, the
burden of the antagonism> coming
from Central Europe. Italy and
Scandinavia. The radical press of
Europe readily shows the principal
objections of the Socialists to the
league, which the assembly meeting
is held to accentuate twenty fold.
These objections divide themselves
into two classifications, general and
specific.
Only Two Socialists.
The most general is that in the
league assembly representing forty
one nations only two Socialists, and
wild ones at that, have been identi-
ned. The Socialist papers claim that
is an inexcusable crime In these
days of labor ascendancy the world
over and only proves that the league
Is close corporation of govern
ments." Throughout Italy, for ex-
ample. the Socialist press has dubbed
the league with a sobriquet which
is translatable into the middle class
internationale."
OF the specific objections at least
four are distinctly manifest and in
the order of. their Importance are:
First. the failure of the league to
admit Russia. Both to talk with
Socialists here and read the Socialist
press one would conclude that no
more serious international crime
had ever been committed than the
exclusion Of Russia and the smaller
avstates from the league. This is
TYPICAL Of Socialist comment:
The league of nations has now
dennitely destroyed any shadow of
a right to its splendid work. BY
It's refusal to admit RUSSIA it has
nnally stultifled all its pretentions
to international authority. Its last
record has been black enough. This
Is the end. Labor will continue
building up its own internationaIe,"
German Rejection Anxers.
Second, the rejection of Germany
while other enemy countries are to
pc admitted. The Scandinavian
socialists are especially furious
over this decision and in Sweden
grave threats are pronounced
against NJ. Branting, the Socialist
FORMER premier. who is reported to
nave supported the French view
point regarding Germany's exclu-
sion. socialists who oppose in this
way the realization of the funda-
mental idea of the league of nations
oesmirch the Socialist movement"
says swedish Socialist organ,
Third, the reluctance of the pro-
oucing nations to divide their raw
materials with the poor, bankrupt
states. The vituperative outburst
Oh the socialists that greeted Can
adas categorical declaration against
such interference by the league is
particularly marked in Italy. ItaI-
ian labor has been given the inn
preston that the league is dom
mated by a selfish capitalistic ring
that in the end will prove ITSELF
TO be rather confused by a costly
blum and vulgar comedy"
Angry, Too, About Poland.
Fourth, nothing that George
Barnes may do in the assembly to
force the council into confession of
It's useiessness in the Polish Russian
and Poiish-Lithuanian disputes will
increase the contempt and distrust
OF European labor for the league
for not having forced Poland to
Withdraw its armies within its le-
gal frontiers.
Poland, in the eyes Of European
Socialism, is the aggressor in each
case, the recalcitrant who should
be dealt with summarily.
The council of the league must
tackle the unenviable task of CIV
ing. an answer to the protestation
against the decision granting Po-
land possession Of the right bank
Of the Vistula addressed to IL by the
International Federation of Syndi-
calists, one of the most powerful
labor organizations in the world,
Among other objections Socialists
find with the work of the league
may be cited the alleged failure of
the assembly to find an immediate
and efficacious method to bring
about universal disarmament, its
tendency to appeal to, force and "ac-
cept the leadership Of the legions of
France and Britain" and finally the
assembly's Transformation into a
mutual insurance society of the
victors-a chamber for the airing of
nationalist ambitions and imperfal-
list rivalries"