Omaha daily bee., 1921-09-19
Socialist
Officials
Quit Party
Leaders Pledge Aid to Effort
For Establishment of Soviet
Republic in United
States.
To Join Internationale

Chicago Tribune-Omah Bee Leased Wire.
New York, Sept. lS.-pledging
themselves ito aid in the effort to
establish a socialist soviet republic
in the United States" with "uncon.
ditional afliliation with the third ill.,
ternationale' group OF highly
placed officials have resigned from
tie socialist party, it was learned
yesterday.
"The committee for the third in
terna,ionale." as the seeding social.
lists styled themselves, no longer see
why they should remain within tn,
socialist party and their withdrawal,
they predict. means its early col.
lapse, having already declined from
a party Of $4,000 to less than 5000.
The committee, in an article en-
titled Farewell tc .he Socialis.
Party! An Appeal to its Remaining
Members published in its official
organ, "The Workers Council" calls
upon "all the true socialists to
leave it in order to organize and pre-
pare for a conference to be called,
probably in November, where def.
mite plans will be worked cut and
the foundation laid for an American
section OF the third internationale." !"
To Choose New Name.
The name OF the new communist
party about to be formed will be
chosen at the conference and in the
meantime the movement will be
known as "the workers council OF
the United States OF America"
Among those who signed the
withdrawal statement from the So
cialist party are the following:
]. Louis Engdahl OF Chicago, for
five years editor OF the official So
cialist publication, The American
Socialist; Alexander Trachtenberg,
long identified with the Rand school;
Moissayre Jolgin, well-known writer
on Russia, author OF "The Soul of
the Russian Revolution" and other
works; Benjamin Glassberg, for
many years active in the work of
the Rand school; Rese Weiss, law
yer of New York, associated with
Charles Recht of counsel for the
soviet government; H. L. Flanagan,
a prominent southern socialist; Stev-
en- Bircher. organizer OF the Anal
gamated Metal Workers; George
Wishnack, former manager Of the
joint board of the cloak makers rn-
ion; Paul p. Glazer of Indiana, coun-
sci for the steel crickers; c. w.
Carkendall, West Virginia; Charles
Kolarik, Bohemian socialist fedora
ton; M. Balm, Jewish socialist fed
Grafton; Morris Backall, NJ. Baum
stein, Louis r. Heron, Ralph Hen
derson, Henry Z. Wickwire. Hyman
Schneid and Alexander Carlin.
Left Wing Members.
The signers of the statement were
the minority or left wing delegates
to the last national convention OF the
party in Detroit and the 1920 con-
vention in New York. The work of
organization is in the hands Of Mr..
Engdahl, secretary.
"The movement is without any im-
portance." declared Morris Hillquit,
leader OF the conservative or right
wing of the socialist party in the
United States, in commenting on the
appeal. 1T will not affect the So
cialist party in any way. The So
called committee for the third inter
rationale consists of rather small
group in the socialist party who, as
matter of fact, are not really So
cialists, but communists.
"Their effort was to win over a
large part of the socialists of this
country to their views. In that they
utterly failed. They now withdraw
as they should have done some time
ago and their effort to remodel the
socialist party in the United States
is doomed to failure. The vast ma
jority of the socialists in the United
States stand with the socialist party
and with the socialist movement of
the world as distinct from the COM
munist movement