The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-27
H|LLQU|T CHARGES
 HOM|C|DAL MANIA
All Reference to Working Class Dictation Is Bscred
 From Party Policy
By Associated Press

cluAl mania, the soclAllst' natonal convention today killed three resolu- tions which sought in varying terms to define dictatorship. by the prole- tariat" as a part of a socialist pol icy and then overwhelmed two others which asserted the dictatorship is not at this time an issue. A session which lasted for three and a half hours in a sweltering hall ended with all reference to working class dictaiton barred from the party pol- icy.
 The fight against inclusion of the dictatorship was waged by Norris Hillquit, Victor Berger, Algernon Lee and Cameron King of California. They branded 1t as inseparably linked In American minds with the red ter TOT in Russia and declared 1t was useless to fix R policy which never would be called into play unless in some distant future a socialist revo- lution takes place.
 Why dictate in 1921 what our grandchildren shall do Tn 19S0," Fer ger asked. while King declared The terror is inseparable from dictator ship of the proletariat. You have got to have the terror to put it over"
 J. LoWs Engdahl and William F. Kruse, left wing communists from Chicago, offered two resolutions as- serting the rights of the working classes to set up a dictatorship to insure the success of a socialist revo- lution and the duty mot to permit anything to stand In the way of their being the ruling class" One solution received only four votes and the sec ond eight.
 Hillquit offered a substitute which defined the dictatorship as the po- litical rule of the working class in the period of transition from the capitalist system to socialist order" and added:
 Tt is not necessarily associated with restraint of the Fpoliticar 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. We have tried to pour holy water over the term dictatorship of the proletariat, Orr said. We have tried to make 1t kosher. The sovfets will laugh at us If we adopt this resolution. The communists will laugh. We will be the laughing stock of the world,"' The. .HiIIquit plan was defeated IS to 20.
 J. W. Richnan of Washington. U. C., said the spectacle of "an .insiE- nlflcant bunch of 10000 talking about the dictatorship of the proletariat is sily," and offered a counter reso- lution which declared that we do not consider the question of suffi- cient importance to go on record for or against it."
 cameron King offered a motion de- caring the movement in the United states IS not sufficiently advanced at thls time to make a decision" He got two votes for. it.
 Revolution FIuked
 me right was enlivened when Vie tor befSer attacked the communists wi'nih the party and both Kruse and Eheaani replied the communists is- sued circulars in Milwaukee lasr April advising the workers not fo vote because the revolution was cora ing May l., Berger said They were going to rise in all their grandeur and overthrow the existing order And on May l 1t rained. So they postponed the revolution and set the date for May $. And on May s . policeman arrested two of them for throwing handbills on the street in violation of a city ordinance and tho
 
 "Engdahl and Kruse, ~'the expon- ents of communism, do not belong to the proletariat. They are in the 'salariat' living off tho money re- ceived from the socialist party. Eng dahl has fastened himself on our party where he doesn't belong. I am willing for him to have a communist party and write all the nice 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."
 In an impassioned reply, Engdahl declared the two and a halr' inter national of Vienna which had been held up as q model of conservative socialism" had adopted tho, dictator- ship of tho proletariat as part of fits policy.
 If you arc afraid of the two and & half,"' he said, then adopt tho king motion, form a new second .n- ternational and build up another organization that will betray social- ism when the crisis comes.
 'As for the communists, we will fight for our rights, we will fight for working class rule. we will fight for tho freedom of our prisoners, but we will not fight for them as 100 per cent Americans. We will fight for them only under tho red flag of in ternational socialism" 4t
 Tomorrow the convention will take up the questions of political and gen eral strikes and the attitude of the party toward organized labor.