Arizona republican., 1921-03-09
SOCIALIST PARTY. CONVENTION WILL .BE HELD JUNE 25
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NEW YORK, March S-Sub5ects rel eyant to the future of Socialist party were discussed by it's national execu- tive committee today, and were em- bodied in a report to be published as the official agenda of the next national convention in Detroit beginning June 25.
 A statement issued by the commit tee declared that the important mat ters of the preliminary order of bus1- ness were four alternative definitions of relations of the socialist party to\ the internationale; two alternative defini- tions of political action and a motion to replace the prohibition against vot- ing military appropriations in the party's constitution"
 The committee also pledged the party and it's members ito hearty support of the organized working class in it's struggle against the attempt to de- stroy the labor unions"
 Motions defining a number of sub jects in the right of the communist international were presented" the statement said. fin every case, the test following the Moscow theses almost literally. Such subjects as the Soviet form of organization, the Soviet meth cd of achieving power, the dictatorship of the proletariat mass action, democ- racy, parliamentary action and the po- litical strike, were presented by ad- herents of the Moscow organization and alternatives presented by other party organizations.
 In virtually every case, the issue is drawn between a dependence on the support of the majority for ultimate l Socfalistic victory, and a distruSt o1 democratic forms and methods. The issue will be debated and determined for the Socialist party by the delegates to be elected presumably on the basis of their stand upon the agenda sub- jects.
 Tn addition to the agenda," the | statement continued. the committed adopted resolution bitterly protesting against the Ford anti-semitic cam | paign, the Ku Klux anti-negro cam paign and the anti-Japanese campaign as moves intended to incite race hatred and to divert workers into mutually l hostile camps"
 Resolutlons also were adopted en- dorsing the efforts of the socialists O Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisct to establish daily socialist papers" |. The committee attacked the "opeI shop" which 1t characterized the opei road to destruction for the organized | wrkers."
 Like all wars in modern history the statement said, the world war has been followed by ruthless orgy of re action on the part of the ruling classes | confident of their control of mercen ary press, of their influence and powe at the state capitols and at Washing ton, the exploiters of labor are seek ing to conscript the workers for privat employers. taking for their model tn Kansas Industrial court act. Tn courts have also generally registere' the will of the ruling classes by hand ing down decisions against the work CTS
 "All this is followed by the greates drive in our history for the complet destruction of the labor organizations The open shop drive is mass action ol the part of the capitalist class to abol ish the last vestige of control by tn
 workers over shop conditions and ren
 der workers dependent upon the whir
 of the exploiting classes. This allege
 American plan is the profiteering in terests translated into patriotism a attempt to capitalize the flag and mak . 1t pay dividends to the exp1oiters c
 labor"