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MAJORITY Would
EXPEL SOCIALIST;
New York Assemb|ymen R:p2:I
Organization DiSloyal.
RAP PARTIES OF kLIEF.S
Enactment of a Law is Advocated to
Prevent Any Organization Which
Admits Foreigners From Having a
Place on Ballot.

Albany, March Charges of I'M
fitness against the Ave Soc as. meln-
bers IF tie New York assembly, ui$
Wa tmam Angus Clae>SenS, Char. eS
Solori,.n, Samuel \. Dewitt and Sam
uel Osr--haye been sustained By Il ma
jority of the assembly Judiciary com
miitey
Til 5 is shown i'll a 2O,00J-WOrd re-
port submitted to he legislature. 1t
Says their seats should be declared
vacant
Enactment of a law is advGc ted to
prevenr any organization which ,-dlni
aliens to its membership from Occu-
pying the position of political party
Oh The official ballot of the state.
Action on the reports will be made
a special order of bus ness III the as
sembIy today. II is expected the final
vote will be taken tomorrow.
While no concerted action has been
taken by hose opposed to expulsion Of
the Soc alists, the majority leader,
Simon l.. Adler, Monroe, and Assem-
ILdI ucUuOI6 I(bUStN cit, Nassau
will speak and vote against it.
The Socialist assemblymen, the find
ings say, ARE not Obed.e TO the con-
stitutfOn and laws of the United Mates
and the state of New York, nor deSir-
Gus of the welfare of he country, nol
in hearty accord and sympathy with
IFS government and Institutions
The report, signed by seven mem
hers of the committee, mentions the
fact the party's constitution provide
''any Socialist elected 80 in Office WL0
shall in any way vote 20 appropriate
moneys for military or naval purpose
or war shall be expelled from til
party"
The report reviews parts of the evi-
dence heard during the recent twenty
four day rial, purport:ng to show the
Socialist party opposed prosecution of
The war; opposed leg Station FOR indus
trial and military CONSUMPTION pledg-
ed its members TO work for the repeal
If the CONSUMPTION law; advised re
sstance to conscription of life anC
ii
debts
Louis NJ Martin, Oneida, chairman
If the committee, presided. at the trial
md headed the signers Of the report.
Referring to the statement some
1000 Socialists had been arrested fOH
heir activities, the report says:
ut was impossible 20 give express
sion to or act upon the true doctrines
If the Socialist party during the war
without running afoul of the criminal
law
THE Socialist party of America is
not loyal American organization or
political party, disgraced ocoas onally
by the traitorous act or declaration of
a member, but is a disloyal org lniza
ton, composed exclusively of perpetu
al traitors. Therefore, the act of
member of that party in subscribing
10 the constitutional oath of office to
support the constitution of the Cnitel
States and the constitution of the
safe of New York, should be utterly
disregarded, as patiently sham and 4
mere cloak for treacferr."
Two Repuhl ems # the Commi tee
William w. Pellet, New York. and
Theodore Stitt, Brooklyn gned a re-
port expressing the belief the Social
lists were entitled TO retain their
seats.
Two Democratic meml ers of the
committee, Maurice Bloch and William
s. Evans, New York, hold members Of
the assembly cannot unStat The So
cialists without violating Their own
Oaths Of office.
Liberty involves the right to think
wrong" says Assemblyman Bloch in
his report.