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2 THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE July 5, 1919 gigantic armies and the building of huge navies new party on September 1, if all delegates to Even while they bend to affix their signatuthe Emergency Party Convention on August res their armies leap at the throats of the new Combined with The New York Communist 30 are not seated. Will National Secretaory republics they, themselves, have called into NATIONAL ORGAN of the LEFT Germer expel the Party in Ohio?
being in the name of liberty; while their navies WING SECTION, SOCIALIST PARTY The Left Wing does not recognize these exdraw tighter the starvation knot round and pulsions. Our procedure is this: strangling workers and peasants of Russia and LOUIS FRAINA, Editor EADMONN MACALPINE, Managing Editor All state and local organizations of the So Hungary. While they speak of democracy and freedom, they starve three nations and prepare cialist Party (whether expelled or suspended)
to set against the people of Russia the repreOwned and Controlled by the Left Wing must elect their delegates to the Emergency entative of the Czarism these people have Section of the Socialist Party Convention. Not to do this is to abandon the overthrown.
NATIONAL COUNCIL struggle in the Party, to surrender to the Peace is signed, but war is raging.
John Ballam Ruthenberg bureaucracy.
The representatives of Capitalism have Max Cohen Benjamin Gitlow These delegates, with their credentials, will proved themselves incapable of settling the James Larkin Ferguson appear at the Party Convention as if no ex problems confronting society. They have Bertram Wolfe pulsions or suspensions had been perpetrated: proved incapable of settling the problems that Ferguson, National Secretary If they are seated (through a Left Wing ma confront themselves. Even the authors of this Issued Weekly. Gitlow, Business Manager. the party on a Communist basis.
ority within) we shall proceed to reorganize peace are unable to protect themselves from nach other. The representatives of Capitalism 5c. a copy. Six months, 50. One year, 00.
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If they are not scated, all Left Wing delega from the vanquished peoples have equally tes will secede, and organize a new Communist proved themselves incapable. Before the Party.
stronger Capitalism they bow in humiliation, This s the procedure decided upon by the and plant the feet of the conquerors still more National Left Wing Conference. Any act that firmly upon the necks of their peoples.
Reaction Dominant finterferes with this procedure strikes directly There is only one answer to the peace of at the Left Wing, and revolutionary Socialism.
Versailles. Russia and Hungary have given it Expulsions. Let them expel. Our task is in clear and unequivocal tones. Only where HE American Government, under the conTHE to secure the revolutionary masses in the So he broad masses of the people have taken the trol of Capitalism, is apparently bent on cialist Party. At Chicago, the Left Wing may power in their own hands is the might of the revealing all the depths of its reactionary char not secure control of the official party. What conquerors impotent. Before the revolutionary acter.
of it. Again: our task is to secure the revoluworkers and peasants, the cajolery of diploWhile the capitalist press lavishes its praise tionary masses in the Socialist Party for a macy and the threats of armed might are alike helpless.
upon the Peace and particularly upon the Party of Communist Socialism. liberating mission of the government of the Capitalist Imperialism, by its peace of United States the acts of the government and violence, is bankrupt, is dragging society into The Peace the words of the conscious representatives of chaos. Like a beacon light the revolutionary American Capitalism reveal the purpose to imsoviet republics point the way to world securpose, reaction and conquer world power for WITH all the pomp and ceremony of the ity. Society stands at the parting of the ways our Imperialism.
Medieval conquerors, the great de. to revolutionary Socialism and security, to The Senate brutally speaks of America mocracies have dictated their peace terms to Capitalist Imperialism and disaster.
interests. Open scorn answers the old slo the vanquished. No detail that would reveal gans about making the world safe for demo the true nature of the peace was lacking. The Correction cracy. Ideals have served their purpose old barbaric forms were strictly adhered to, power is now the only ideal.
even to the final humiliation of the vanquished. Publication Unavoidably Delayed. Financiers while the political liberators All the great words, all the heroic phrases, Editor REVOLUTIONARY AGE. pose are quietly but systematically mobili all the high idealism all vanished and the sceIn your issue of May 17, you printed a zing their forces for the conquest of world ne revealed only the age long spirit Woe to letter (address not indicated) in which Herpower and the suppression of the proletariat. the vanquished. Never did feudal knight man Shuster makes it appear as if, although Finance Capital determines the action of the enforce his will upon a beleagured garrison a member of the he had received Peace Conference and of American diplomacy. with sterner disregard for the humanities. no assistance either from the Chicago headThe infamous assault upon the liberty of never were the forces of disease and famine quarters of the organization or from the New Soviet representative Martens is followed by more implacably invoked. Starve or surren York Defense Committee of the an insolent, brutal answer of the American der said the barbaric lord of old. Starve or We have been instructed by the membership government to Soviet Commissaire Chicherin gn said the great democracies.
of the New York branch of the to protest against the violation of Marten rights.
This proceeds together with ruthless attacks claimed to the world!
So the Germans signed, and peace is pro request you to correct the erroneous impression you have helped to create by printing upon Socialist organizations by means of law Shuster letter without first ascertaining the and legislatures, and the foul slanders of the peace that is merely an armstice, merely a facts.
gutter.
halt until the new antagonisms, with which the On receipt of the letter Shuster mentions Through all this looms the sinister menace.
treaty is replete, develop and then new wars.
of intervention in Mexico to aggrandize Ame peace that is the final proclamation to the having sent to Louis Ratnofsky on Feb. 4, the Defense Committee directed a Boston rican capital peoples of the world that capitalism knows lawyer to call on Shuster, and also made arReaction is dominant necessarily dominant.
naught of peace, that Imperialism must batten It is the characteristic of Capitalism. The offion continual war. Peace that condemns manrangements for his release on bond, but he wrote back that it was too cold and that he cial of accepts reaction. The official kind to incessant bloodshed unless the world preferred to remain where he was.
Socialist Party promotes reaction by its miseproletariat intervenes, and sweeps away society, Furthermore, while Shuster was on Ellis rable compromising policy. But labor thinks, that so arrogantly proclaims its bankruptcy. Island last winter, he shared in the jait comand prepares to act. Out of reaction issues the After five years of war, of the mobilization forts and other assistance. given regularly to forces for the militant class struggle against of the world for destruction, of the concentra the deportees by the New York Defense Comcapitalism.
tion of the entire energies of three fourths of mittee. Besides this, since his transfer to the the world peoples on the work of feeding the Boston Immigration Station, the secretary of Another Expulsion flames of international hatreds; after six the Boston Defense Committee, William Aromonths of diplomatic intrigue, of the fencing noff, who makes his headquarters in your buildTHE National Executive Committee of off the greatest minds of bourgois society, ing, has been in frequent touch with him.
We ask you to publish this rectification of the Socialist Party has expelled the So solemnly proclaimed to the thunder of the guns Shuster misstatements, and take this opporcialist Party of Massachusetts, comprising abo of the twenty two wars raging throughout the tunity to recommend that, in future cases of ut 6, 000 members. The basis for this is the world, and the sinister preparations of all this sort, out of fairness to your readers as acceptance of the Left Wing Manifesto and for the wars that are developing out of the well as to those directly concerned, you inProgram by the State Convention.
antagonisms of the treaty that heralds peace. vestigate the facts before you print an er parte Simultaneously, comes the news that the Even while the statesmen in Paris sign statement.
State Convention of the Socialist Party of the treaty their colleagues in their respective NEW YORK DEFENSE COMMITTEE, Ohio, by a vote of 47 to 7, has adopted the Left parliaments lay new plans for the raising of Per James Doyle, Secretary.