Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-06-27
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Convention Seized Will,
Homicidal Mania, De-
clares Morris Hillquit.

Red Terror lnseparable.
Must Be Had to Put
Over Revolt Says King
Detroit. June 26.-Seized with what
Morris Hillquit described as ''homi
cidal MANIA" the Social National con.
vention Sunday killed three resolu
tions which sought, in varying terms
to define dictatorship by the prole
tariat" as a part of Socialist policy
and then overwhelmed two others
which asserted that the Dictatorship
is not at this time an issue, at a ses-
sion which lasted for three and hall
hours in a sweltering hall, ended with
all reference to working class dicta-
ton barred from the party policy.
The fight against inclusion of the
dictatorship was waged by Morris
Hillquit. Victor Berger, Algernon Lee
and Cameron King, Of California.
They branded it is inseparably linked
in American minds with the red
terror in Russia and declared it was
useless to fix a policy which never
would be called into play.
Terror Essential, Assertion.
'.Why dictate in 1921 what our
grandchildren shall do in 1892" Ber-
ger asked, while King declared the
red terror is inseparable from die
tatorship Of the proletariat- You
have got to have the terror to put
it over" =
]. Louis Engdahl and William F..
Kruse. left wing communists from
Chicago, offered two resolutions as
sertinp the rights of the working
classes to set up a dictatorship to in
sure the success Of Socialist revolu'
ton and the duty not to permit any
thing to stand in the way OF their
duty, they being the ruling class"
N. Y. Delegation Splits.
One resolution received only four
votes, and the second eight.
Hillquit offered substitute which
defined the dictatorship as 'the poll
tical rule of the working class in the
period of transition from the capital
list system to the socialist ORDER" and
added:
1T is not necessarily associated
with a restraint of the political rights
Of opponents or with violence or
terror
The New York delegation split and
Delegates Orr and Solomon both
urged the death of all the proposals.
I'VE have tried to pour holy water
over the term dictatorship of the pro-
letariat." Orr said. 1--WE have tried
to make it kosher. The soviets will
laugh at us if we adopt this resolu-
ton. The communists will laugh. We
will be the laughing stock of the
world"
The Hillquit plan was defeated, 1S
to 20.
Berger Raps Communists.
j. w. Richman, Of Washington, said
the dictatorship of the proletariat is
the spectacle of an IAN insignificant
silly" and offered counter resolu-
ton which declared that I'VE Go not
consider the question of such i'm
pOrtance at this time to go on record
for or against it
Both sides attacked his plan and his
was the only vote cast for it. Cameron
King offered a motion declaring that
the movement in the United States is
not sufficiently advanced at this time
to make decision. He got two votes
for it.
The fight was enlivened when Victor
Berger attacked the communists within
the party and both kruse and Eng
dahl replied.
Rain browns Rising.
THE Communists issued circulars in
Milwaukee last April advising the
workers not to vote because the revo
luton was coming May L." Berger said.
''They were going to rise in all their
grandeur and overthrow the existing
order. And on May 1, it rained.
HCn. thav 10, Int
and set the date for May 6. And on
May 6 a policeman arrested two of
them for throwing handbills on the
street in violation of city ordinance
and the revolution never has taken |
place!
"Engdahl and Kruse, the exponents
of communism, do not belong to the |
proletariat. They are in the "salariat
living off the money received from the .
Socialist party. Engdahl has fastened |
himself on our party where he doesn'r |
belong. I am willing for him to have
a Communist party and write all the
nice red articles he wants to but I do
not want him to sabotage our party
from within. and that is what he is
trying to do"
Two and Half internationaIe.
In an impassioned reply. Engdah;
declared the two and half inrerna
tionale of Vienna which had been held
up rs model to conservative socialists"
had adopted the dictatorship Of the
proletariat as part of it's policy "If
you are afraid of the two and a half','
he said, 'then adopt the King motion,
form a new second internationale and
build up another organization that vii!
betray socialism when the crisis comes.
.'As for the Communists, we will
fight for our rights, we will fight for
pur working class rule; we will fight
FOR the freedom of our prisoners but
We will not fight for them as 100 per
rent Americans. We will fight for
them only under the red flaR Of inter
national socialist