Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-05-11

it was stated tonight.
The convention finally voted to con-
stitute itself a committee of the whole
to consider the platform Tuesday.
Will Nominate Thursday.
convention set Thursday afternoon for
the nomination of candidates for presi-
dent and vice president. Eugene Y.
Debs. now serving ten years for viola
ton Of the espionage law. already has
been proclaimed the partys probable
candidate for president.
The convention voted to send tele-
gram of greeting to the striking miners
of Kansas.
The Hillquit platform includes the
followoinx declarations of principles
over which the principal fight is being
waged:
The Socialist party of the United
States demands that the country and its
wealth be redeemed from the control of
private interests and turned over to the
people to be administered for the equal
benefit of all.
Propass to Reorsanixs U. s.
''Ihe Socialist party desires the work
ers of America to take the economic and
political power from the capitalist class.
'.The Socialist party. when in political
control. proposes to reorganize the gov
ernment in form and substance so as to
change it from a tool of repression into
an instrument of social and industrial
service.
'"rhe Socialist transformation cannot
be successfully accomplished by political
victories alone.
Down Our Throats7 He Asks.
J. Louis Engdahl. Samuel H. Holland
and William f.. krause. all Of Chicago.
the last two under sentence for viola
ton of the wartime espionage act
captained the radical element phalaux
today. When the >lillqu1t platform was
submitted with the motion that it be ad
opted. Holland gained the floor amid a
Il don't like this platform at ALL he
cried. 1T contains nothing but nice
phrases. We haze had no opportunity to
consider it. Yet Hillquit has the audacity
to move its adoption. What are they
trying to do: Throw it down our
HiIlquit Apologies for Platform.
Hillquit. given the floor when the
previous question was asked for. stated
he was following ordinary parliamentary
procedure in moving the adoption of his
program. thus opening the
way for debate on it. He said the
programs Of the Independent Socialist
parties of Germany. France. Italy and
Russia had been studied. with resultant
until the tentative platform
submitted had been brought down to its
prO,ent size and shape ito meet the
needs Of America in 1920
Engdahl in replying to Hillouit.
declared the platform bore mo resemb-
lance at all to the program OF our
comrades in Germany and Russia
''The Socialist party does not inter
fere in the internal affairs of labor
unions. but supports them in all their
struggles. In order. however. that such
Of efficiency and success. the Socialists
favor the closest organic cooperation OF |
all unions as one organized working class
body.
THE Socialist party promises to make
life fuller and nobler and happier by
removing the sorded factor OF economic
dependence of woman on man.
''The Socialist party adheres strictly
TO the principle Of complete separation
Of state and church. |
''The Socialist party seeks to attain |
It's end by orderly and constitutional
Violence is not the weapon OF
Socialism but Of the short sighted meth |
DDS of the ruling classes. The Socialists |
depend upon education and organization |
If the masses.
''rhe intellectual and spiritual domina- |
ions of the privileged classes has been |
80 strong that they have succeeded in |
their credulous fellow cih- |
zens, that, they, the spoilers Of Ameri- |
"a. are the only true Americans.
THE Socialists emphatically reject |
his fraudulent notion of patriotism"