Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-28

| own internal policies without inteffer-
! ence from any other section of the
working class movement OF tho world.
| What we conccde to them wc claim
for ourselves. Every resolution adopt
ed by our party implies or claims this
right for the American movement"
| ENGLAND-Leaders of British La
bor party and Trades Union congress.
in appeal to Socialist and Communist
parties OF the world. urged efforts to
"reconstitute the Internationale on a
sectional basis"
| ITALY - Executive committee Of
Italian Socialist party voted to adhere
to lnternationale principles and ap-
pcaled to Lenine for aid, but he
warned them they must first eliminate
the reformist or conservat>e element.
GERMANY-Indepe~1 Socialists.
at a conference VI Halle in October.
voted to adhere to the Third Interna-
tionale program, tho vote being 237
to 1856. Great disorder marked the ses-
sion and a number Of delegates bolted
the conference. A month previously
Independent Socialist. at convention
in Berlin won't on record against Boil
shevism.
FRANCE-socialists split into three
factions following convention at Tours
on December 90 at which a motion by
the left wing to join the Third Inter
rationale without reservations re-
ccived SOS votes, winning by a large
majority. The center and right groups
oppose the elimination OF conservative
leaders.
4 SPAIN-Socialist congress voted in
favor of the Bolshevist program last
June. but no definite action was taken
until September, when Marcelino Do
mingo and his followers pledged ad-
hcrence to Lenine and his rule of the
proletariat
SWITZERLAND - Executive com
mittce of the Swiss Socialist party
refused allegiance to the Ionine pro-
gram. The party approved the COM
mittee's stand, but a split followed
over the question OF joining tho Third
Intcrnationalc.
CHILE-A Socialist party rcfercn-
DUN resulted in majority of Socialists
registering their approval of the Mos
cow dictatorship. bu. a small minority
opposes adherence to Lenine.
ARGENTINA-Deleg to tho Ma
tional Socialist convention on January
10, by a vote In the ratio of three to
one, rejected a proposal to accept Le-
ninos terms and decided not to scnd
envovs to Russia to study sovictsm.
SWEDEN-Extreme Socialists and
laoorites favor world revolution. In
dependent Socialists in 1919 voted to
join the Third Internationale.
NORWAY - Resolutions advocating
creation of revolutionary regime
based on tho soviet system were
HdS5eu at inc idSt SOCIALIST COuETeSS
Scandinavion Workers congress in
session at Copenhagen, however, by a
vote of 3S5 to Is. rejected tho Nor
weGian SOCIALIST proposal to enter the
Moscow Internationale and denounced
what 1t characterized as Lenine's
"barbaric terrorist regime"
HOLLAND-Dutch Socialists In con-
ference on october 81 decided to defer
action on the Lenine ultimatum.
BELG1UM-Socialists rejected the
ovcrtures or Third Internationale lead
ers and declared their purpose of pre-
serving independence of action.
AUSTRIA-Extreme Socialists. after
accepting membership in the Third In
ternationale, broke of relations with
Moscow on November S, tho Social
Democrats passing resolutions con-
demning tho Leninc-Trotzky regime as
designed to disrupt trade unionism."
MEXICO-"Communi congress of
tho Mexican proletariat" in Mexico
City on September 10 ended in disorder
when plans were started for the or
ganization of tho Fourth Information
ale. Bolshevism previously had been
Endorsed by some of the speakers.
Radicalism Is reported spreading In
Yucatan, where property OF opponents
of Bolshevism has been dynamited.
The Baltic states went on record
against sovietism when the Social
Democratic congress at Riga on De-
cember 1920 rejected adherence to the
Moscow program by a large majority.
While the Socialists of Strasburg voted
adherence to Lenine. the French agri-
cultural federation announced it would
expel all those who pledged allegiance
to him.
No official expression of opinion on
the Lenine ultimatum has so far been
made by Socialist or Communist bod.