Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-06-24
SOCIALISTS To
DISCUSS UNION
WITH RUSSIANS
International Relations And
Affiliation With Soviets
to be Leading Questions

national relations of the socialist
party and the disputed question Of
utilization with the Russian Soviets
VIII be the paramount problems when
the socialist national convention
opens in Northwestern High School
Saturday. The executive committee
meets here tomorrow to complete the
convention plans.
The radical left wing has prepared
to make its stand on motion for
complete acceptance of the conditions
laid down by Moscow for utilization
of American socialists with the Third
International, but conservative party
leaders predict the extremists will
muster more than five of the conyen-
tlon nifty votes on this motion.
Demand Submission
Moscow's terms, 81 in all, include
abandonment of the party name in
favor of Communist Party of Amer.
ica,' expulsion Of Morris Hillquit. of
New York, who is d convention dele
gate, and all other moderates and
"petty-bourgeoise' elements; and alb
solute submission of the Communist
International Congress at Moscow.
Three other motions relating to in
ternatlonal affiliations have been in
Guided in the convention agenda. One
seeks to reopen negotiations with the
russians in hope of more favorable
terms. 1t is opposed by Otto Bran
ste;ter, national secretary. Morris
Hillqujt and other moderates as a
q nf
proposes affiliation with the recently
formed International Working Union
of Socialist Parties, organized at
Vienna by the British Labor union.
the Longuet faction in France, Swiss
and Austrian socialists, German indie
pendents and various Balkan factions.
The conservatives are expected to
support either this resolution or a
fourth, which says:
Revolutionary Terms
The Socialist Party of the United
States considers that it's paramount
duty is to build a powerful, revolu-
tionary, Socialist organization in this
country. Until this task is ac-
complished it is resolved to re.
main without international affilia-
ton"
n second fight is expected to break
over resolution authorizing the ma
tional executive committee to expel
all socialists endorsing the Third
(CommunisU international, or advo-
eating utilization Herewith"
l.. Louis Engdahl. editor of the
Chicago Socialist" and one of the
left wing delegates of the convention.
recently issued a statement attacking
this resolution which. he said, is spon-
sored by Otto Branstetter, the nation
al secretary. "For,tw years now the
party officialdom has been busy ex-
polling and driving out of the party
those comrades who have taken a
stand with the Third International"
Engdahl said. yet the desire for
affiliation with the International is
still alive among what remains of the
party's dwindling ranks"
Branstetter, in reply, denies that
any member had bedn expelled since
the communist split of two years ago.
when $4,000 socialists were thrown
out
THE justification for the resolution
and for its adoption and enforce
ment. Branstatter said. lis found in
the proclamation of The Communist
international refusing our application
for affiliation, which contains the fol-
lowing:
Socialists, Reds, at Outs
WORKERS: Leave the Ameri-
can Socialist Party. 1t is your enemy
and ours. Already in America there
is IA revolutionary party, the United
Communist Party, the American sec
ton of the 'Communs International.
These are our true comrades. Thou
sands of them have suffered for the
Revolution. This is the party of the
revolutionary working class. Join
the United Communist Party"
The conservatives, have another
resolution defining political action by
the socialists as participation in
elections for public office and prac-
teal legislative and administrative
work. while the left wing will pre-
sent an alternative motion which de-
lines political action as any organic
Ell, concerted endeavOr on the part
ut the working class 10 influence the
processes of government"
The two factions are also Opposed
ON the question of the soviet system.
Thc lett wing will move its cvcptual
adoption IN America, while the Bran
s'etter group sponsors Il motion
which says:
The Socialist Party is opposed to
the establishment of Soviet form
OF government IN the United States
because it is system of delegated
power which deprivcs the working
class of any direct voice in the cleo
ton OF responsible public officials"
a motion ON immigration favors
free movement of immigrants, except
when artificially stimulated for the
purpose of flooding the labor market
or of breaking strikes"
Tho C.npCputinn l., ,,xno.tCJ Ia la Of