The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1934, Page 6

_ publican Defense Corps, the Schutzbund. The Social- oon Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1934 Daily .QWorker ENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL: “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC. Street, New York, N. ¥ Te! ALgonguin 4-7954 New BY THE 30 East 13th They Cannot Blot Out The Stain of Betrayal With Blood of the Austrian Workers! < ie SOCIALIST LEADERS are striving to blot out 2 in of their betrayals ¥ the blood t working class of their Germany ssue statements pretending admiration for the heroic Austrian workers. They ca: natur- ally, do otherwise at thi: with the working class of the world inspired by the dauntless struggles: the Austrian proletariat on the barricades n01 e, of But the leader of the Austrian Socialist Party, Otto Bauer, at this very moment ders the work- ers of Austria, and apologizes for their armed strug- gies by declaring “I arranged for them to be told [to the Linz workers] that if we in Vienna could submit patient- Jy to a search for arms in the Party headquarters, they must do the same. Apparently the message ar- rived too late.” And this “hero” of Social-Democracy, whom the Socialist leaders of this country still hold up to the workers as a great “fighter” against Fascism, etc., etc. also revealed in his eagerness to apologize to the bourgeoisie for the armed struggles of the Austrian proletariat: “We offered to make the greatest concessions that a democratic and socialistic Party ever made We let Dollfuss know that if he would only pass a bill through Parliament we would accept a measure anthorizing the government to rule BY DECREE WITHOUT PARLIAMENT FOR TWO YEARS ch is the unashamed confession of the Aus- trian Socialist leaders, Otto Bauer. He offered Doll- fuss a Fascist government if only he was permitted to take part in it! This Is What Is Meant by Social-Fascism So it was not due to the fighting spirit of the leaders of Austrian Social-Democracy that the Aus- trian workers took arms against Fascism. It was in Spite of, and inst the express wishes and orders of that leadership that they took the road of armed struggle against Fascism. But it is @ fact of the profoundest significance for the American working class that the leaders of the American Socialist Party are making fundamentally | the same apologies for the Austrian armed uprising as the Austrian Socialist leaders do. Norman Thomas and the Sccialist New Leader, of course are not chary of words thusiasm,” ete., etc., for the Austrian proletaria But they, too, like Otto Bauer, STRIVE TO CAN- CEL THE REVOLUTIONARY LESSONS of this up- ising, by apologizing for and deprecating the glorious armed battles of the Austrian workers. The. Socialist New Leader in its leading editorial this week apologizes to bourgeois “public opiniori”: “They have not resorted to physical conflict as a free choice They have been patient...” it pleads in extenuation of the uprising. And Norman Thomas, leading American exponent of the same “peaceful road to Socialism” by which Otto Bauer led t of Fascism, declares in the New Leader this week: “The Socialists did not proveke the battle. It was forced upon them by the ever-increasing repres- Sions of the Dollfuss dictatorship...” What does Norman Thomas mean here by “pro- Voking” the battle? Is not here the clearest admis- sion that the Socialist Jeaders never had the slightest intentions of ever leading the Austrian workers in grmed struggle against Fascism, that they made not the slightest preparations for this struggle? That, on the contrary, they actively crippled the resistance of the Austrian workers by a systematic policy of offer- ing°one “concession” after another to Dollfuss? What does the New Leader mean by a “free choice,” or Norman Thomas by “provoking”? What id he expect the Austrian workers to do—continue be- ing “patient” in obedience-to the orders of their lead- ers? If the Austrian workers had obeyed their leader ‘Otto Bauer, if his message had not “arrived too late,” if they continued to be “patient under a search for arms,” as Otto Bauer urged them, then the Austrian workers could not have taken the road of revolution- ary struggle. The New Leader continues its unwitting revela- tions of Social-Democratic treachery: “They have at times yielded reluctantly to avoid civil war. Every concession had only invited further encroachments upon the rights of the masses...” It was the Austrian Socialist leaders who urged the workers to surrender step by step the precious advances that they had won in the revolution im- mediately after the war. It was the Socialist leadars who. urged them to submit to wage cuts, slashes in unemployment relief. And most damnable of all, it Was, the Socialist leaders who agreed to the “conces- Sion”, of disarming and disbanding the sole armed defense of the Socialist workers, the Schutzbund, sim- Ply becarze the Heimwehr leaders and Dollft Guested it, and t! “wished to avoid civil war’! But is there anyone who cannot now see that it Was precisely these “concessions,” forced upon the So- Cialist workers by their treacherous leaders, which Strengthened the Fascists step by step, and finally per- mitted them to deliver the final blow of open Fascist dictatorship? Says Norman Thomas: “Fortunately the workers were well prepared.” But were they? Norman Thomas tries to conceal | the fact that the workers of Austria launched into the battle, despite the fact that they had been SYS- ‘TICALLY DISARMED BY THE SOCIAL- MOCRATIC LEADERS! ~~ But no words of his can ever wash away the his- worie fact that last July the Socialist leaders, the Otto Ss, the Mayor Steltz, and others, agreed to let Dolifuss disarm the Socialist armed defense, the Re- of 4st leaders, no doubt, agreed to make this little “con- ession” only “in order to avoid civil war.” _ But thousands of Socialist men and women and “even children have already paid in blood for this little ssion” of the Socialist leaders! Phe whole policy of the Soctalist Jeaders all over ‘hs’ World is precisely summed up in this betrayal tactic—to surrender the w rs to the capitalists, to the bourge “to avoid c! war.” fo accept every @itaek of the capitalist rulers “to avoid civil war.” Wot to prepere the working class for the inevitable, he Austrian workers into the trap | Open class struggle for power, for the overthrow of the W = Le ned in Germany is j t happened in Austria In the face of the open, unabashed revelations by the Socialist leaders of Austria and America, that the heroic armed uprising of the Austrian work- ers was not of their choosing or their planning, how can they seek to cover their own treacheries with the glory of the Austrian proletariat? It was not because they followed their leaders, but because they trampled on the orders of the Otto Bauers and the Deutsches, that the Austrian proletariat reached the heights of revolutionary heroism that they did! And they had arms, not because of the leader- ship of the Otto Bauers, but because they secretly disobeyed the leadership and instructions of their Socialist leaders! t mean 7 ine working class to such “Socia as Otto Bauer, followers of Baver as Norman Thomas, who make * to “avoid civil w: capitalist democracy offers them a road to Socialism,” that they, therefore, do re for armed overthrow of the capi- ip and the setting up of a Soviet he dictatorship of the proletariat? What ally mean? It means that with such leadership, the working class is going into battie against its class enemy with representatives of the class enemy actually “guiding” the working class! This is the lesson of Germany, and it is the lesson of Austria. ya are Socialist workers anxious for the United Front, but who reproach us for being “too sharp” in our criticism of the Socialist leaders. But would we be true to our revolutionary duty to the working class if we did not expose as sharply as we know the terrible road on to which the Socialist leaders are taking the workers? This ers t “peaceful not x talist does it Norman Thomas, for example, in this week's New | Leader declares: “One cannot help speculating on how different might have been the fate of Europe if the German ising class, including both Socialists and the mmunists, had offered as heroic resistance to Fascism as our Austrian comrades.” is Norman Thomas driving at in this on”? He is striving to conceal both the real why the German working class did not take the road of armed struggle against Fascism, and the reason the Austrian workers did. The workers of Germany surrendered without taking to armed struggle. Why? Because the ma- jority of the German working class was still under the paralyzing influence of the Social-Democratic leaders, the Welses, the Stampfers, etc, “To resist now would be like shooting into the air,” the leading Socialist paper, the “Vorwaerts,” told the German workers with true Social-Fascist poison, when | the menace of Hitler became an actuality in January, 1933. “Any one making such a proposal now is a pro- voecateur,” the Socialist paper replied to the offer of the Communis; Party, the THIRD in one year, for an immediate general strike against Hitler. That is how the German workers were paralyzed and betrayed into the hands of Fascism. Why did not the Communist Party of Germany call for armed struggle? Because to have done so would have been an enormous crime against the wo.k- ing class and the revolution. Because the Commu- nists did not have the majority of the German work- ers behind them, because of the terrible influence of the German Social-Fascists upon the majority of the German workers. But the Austrian workers had learned the lessons of the German Sociai-Democratic treachery. They, too, like Norman Thomas, began to “speculate,” and they saw themselves headed for the same Fascist coup into which the Socialist leaders had trapped their fellow workers in Germany, and they made a decision! They would no longer heed the Otto Bauers and the Deutsches, who told them to “sub- mit patiently to a search for arms” by the Fascists! And they, together with many leaders of the S. PB. locals who beionged to the workers, took the road of armed struggle, the only road that can ever lead to the overthrow of capitalism! That they refused to repeat the example of Ger- man Socialist leaders—that they trampled on the or- ders of their leaders—this is the eternal glory of the Austrian proletariat! If instead of a Social-Democratic leadership, the Austrian and German working class had followed Communist leadership, would the result have been different? Why does not Norman Thomas “speculate” on this question? Because the epoch-making example of the Soviet Union has already given him his answer! in this country, how does Norman Thomas pro- pose to fight against Fascism, how does he propose to help the Austrian working class? By leading the working class on precisely the same road by which Otto Bauer and Otto Wels trapped the Austrian and German workers! They appealed to Hindenburg and Dollfuss. He appeals to the reactionary organizer of the anti-Soviet inter- vention Matthew Woll. He appeals to the leading agent of American Wall Street monopoly capital, Roosevelt! He appeals to LaGuardia, whose police clubbed anti-Fascist workers demonstrating before the Austrian Consulate, Like Otto Bauer, Norman Thomas called upon the American workers to make concessions by not strik- ing against the N.R.A. He hailed the reactionary, strike-breaking N.R.A. codes as offering a “peaceful path to Socialism,” in the same way that Wels and Bauer hailed the offensive of the German and Au- strian bourgeoisie as “pieces of Socialism.” He urges them, in other words, to follow in the same fatal path of the German and Austrian Socialist Party leaders, the path which has cost the European working class such costly sacrifices! But the working class of Austria has already taken @ long stride toward breaking away from the bondage of the Social-Fascist theories of the Bauers, etc. They have already learned much from their experience of armed struggle against Fascism, They are becoming steeled, they are “talking the language of Bolshevism” to the Fascist rulers. Austrian Fascism will not succeed in long hold- ing the Austrian proletariat down. Fascism is the last desperate stand of the capitalist class, unable to rule any longer except by naked force. The Aus- trian working class will soon crush Fascism, and it will succeed in the measure that it continues the road of revolutionary struggle, in the measure that it continues to solidify the growing United Front welded on the barricades in the measure that it ac- cepts Bolshevik leadership, Austrian capitalism resorts to open Fascist terrorism because it is terri- fied at the spectre of proletarian revolution! Here in America, the burning need is not the United Front with the Wolls, with the Greens, not in the treacherous appeals of the Socialist leaders to the capitalist agents, to Roosevelt, etc. but in the United Front of struggle of the working class, welded in daily struggle against capitalist exploitation. Forward to the United Front of the working class against Fascism! Forward to the revolutionary strug- gle for the overthrow of capitalism! Forward to the proletarian dictatorship, to Soviet Power! who preach to the | Hit Austrian Terror Many Groups Take Part in United Front Solidarity Actions Held In Many Cities All Over the U. S. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20- ed front demonstration against Dolifuss government’s murder of rs, called by the Com- | , was held yesterday at} ation. | espite the refusal of metropolitan | police to grant a permit, the work- | with banners denounc- | murder of workers and ex- | the solidarity of the Ameri- | ‘orkers with the heroic Austrian | The demonstration received report of from various organizations, including the Young Peoples the ers gathere ig the jthe Com: Pai the Younr | | Communist ue, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the In- | ter ional Labor Defense, the nst League Again War and Fascism |and the Five Star Youth Club. | The White House authorities were |forced to grant a permit for the |demonstration of the workers to demonstrate even without a police | permit. Workers picketed the Aus- trian legation while the delegation presented its protest and demanded that the protest be published in the | demonstration concluded with the singing of the Internationale. | Plans have been made to cail a city- wide mass meeting on Friday. + Ser as 2,000 Protest in Philadelphia | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 20.— Two thousand workers stood about in the slush of Raeburn Plaza yester- | day and enthusiastically cheered | speakers scoring the war activity of | the Rocsevelt government, and call- ing for solidarity with the Austrian workers, This was at a united front mass | meeting participated in by the Phila- | delphia League Against War and Fascism, International League for | Peace and Freedom, the Communist | |Party, Trade Union Unity League, |International Labor Defense,| | Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and other | Smaller groups, | Mrs. Olmstead, of the WILLFPF., | pointed out that the government was busily increasing its war appropria- tions in spite of figures showing that | the 16,000,000 men killed in the last war, that the cost of killing them | | deprived their widows and orphans | | of schools and hospitals, and plunged | the workers of the world into unem- | ployment and misery. | Frank Hellman, of the Communist |Party, drew cheers when he traced | the career of betrayals of the Ger- {man and Ausrian workers by the |Jeaders of their Socialist parties, and | when he called on the workers of all | political parties to join together to | | Prepare to resist fascist moves of |the government and, when the time | comes, to take the offensive not only jin demanding relief of their miser- | able conditions, but in wresting them |from the bosses’ representatives in | the government. Katherine Nonamacher, of the League Against War and Fascism, | put resolutions to the meeting, which | Were to be sent to the President, the | | Pennsylvania Senators, and the | Philadelphia delegation in the House jof Representatives, demanding the cessation of war approvriations, the transference of war funds for Un- employment Insrance; the cancella- tion of all contracts for battleships, airplanes, submarines, etc.; immedi- ate abolition of ROTC. CM.T.C., and CCC. and immediate with- | drawal of American troops from all foreign lands and waters. A resolution to send a telegram to the Austrian Ambassador protesting the slaughtering of Austrian workers, passed by a resounding yolume of “ayes.” eae | . Cops Break Up Worcester Rally WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 20—The demonstration called by the Commu- nist Party here in defense of the Aus‘rian workers and against Roose- velt’s war preparations was broken up on Saturday shortly after 3 pm., when about 200 workers’ gathered to listen to the speakers. The Communist Party organizer |and two workers were’ arrested when they rose to speak. Large numbers of police were sent to the Common, supposedly to “prevent clashes be- tween Nazis and Communists.” This was the official story published in the local bosses’ sheet, “The Wor- |cester Telegram.” Not until Satur- day morning did the arrangements committee for the meeting get word as to whether they would be granted a permit. City officials kept passing the buck to each other, hoping thereby to discourage the protest meet from taking place, | Preparations for another demon- stration are already under way, to protest the attacks of the fascist city officials. It is to be held at the Com- mons on Sa‘urday, Feb, 24, at 3 p.m. Hundreds of workers are exvected to attend to express their indignation and protest against the Fascist mur- derers of the Austrian workers and against the local Fascists who are trying to imitate their kind in other countries, * 6 900 Protest In Baltimore BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 20—Four hundred workers took part in an open-air demonstration on Saturday . |ers participated in another meeting | las* Hall, in spite of a raging snow storm, | protesting the bloody Dollfuss mur- | ders in Austria, and the actions of the Socialist Party leadership. The Socialist Party here refused to join in a united front protest. Speakers at, last night’s meeting were William Horwate, of the Communist |Party; Powers, of the Steel and | Metal Workers’ Industrial Union; | Baker of the Marine Workers’ Indus- | trial Union; Patterson of the Young Communist League and Benson of the International Labor Defense. committee elected | Socialist League, | | and over 500 seamen and steel work-! night at the Polish-American” at Capitol Embassy | HE CANNOT STOP IT! —By Burck Appeals for Re 6 On February 2, four Communists who had been in the prison of the Nazi secret police for some weeks were murdered in Berlin. One was John Scheer, member of the Poli- tical Bureau of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of Germany. The others were Rudolf Schwarz, Eugen Schoenhaar, and Erich Steinfurt, Communist acti- vists. John Scheer was the husband of Anne Maria Schultz, former sec- retary of Exnst Torgler, who at that moment was in Chicago on a nation-wide speaking tour, organ- izing the anti-tascist front in America, Below we print the statement and appeal of Comrade Schultz, a statement and an appeal whieh breathes with the courage, devo- tion, and fighting resolution of the best leaders of the international working class.Editor, “On a tour for the Worli Commit- tee Against War and Fascism, I re- ceived on February 2, in Chicago the news, through a telegram of the Ber- lin correspondent of the ‘Chicago Tribune’ that my husband and Com- rade John Martin Scheer, together with three other comrades had been ‘shot while attemtping to escape’ by Hitler bandits. Just today, on Feb- ruary 9, my husband would have been 38 years old. except be one of the leading Com- munists who, with his whole heart, with all the loye and activity of which he was capable as the son of @ worker, fought for the abolition of the biggest of all injustices in the world, for the wiping out of exploita- tion of man by man. “He was a Communisi, a leader especially of the workers of Ham- burg. His whole life was devoted “My husband did notaing wrong, ! doubled Anne Schultz, Widow of ‘Slain Communist Hero, © completely to the service of the cause of Communism, the struggle against war and for peace, “We Shall Redouble Efforts” “Hitler's executioners murdered | rades. Innocent blood has been shed. But the dead of the proletariat ac- cuse, and we who are still alive, shall redouble our efforts, in order to revenge our comrades. many thousands of comrades in the fascist dungeons. Daily the press brings news of the murder of rev- | olutionary working men and women | who courageously and daringly con- tinue the struggle against Hitler | fascism despite. threatening death, | I am only one of the many thousands of widows, and my son is only one of many thousands of children whom Kautsky Peaceful in Vienna; ‘‘No Interest in Politics,” Says Wife VIENNA, Feb. Kautsky, the leading theoretici: of the Socialist International, revisionist of Marxism, and bitter hater of the Soviet Union, is living unmolested in his home in Vienna. Although he wrote'a few months ago a venomous pamphlet attack- ing the Communist Party of Ger- many, his wife declared he “had taken no interest in politics for a tong time,” in explaining why. she did not expect his arrest along with other Austrian socialist lerd- ers. him as they did so many other com-/ “Every day I read and hear about | the bestial tortures committed against | Hitler's murderers robbed of their comrade and father. Call to Women, Mothers “My call is addressed particularly to the millions of women and moth- ers who, like myself are fighting with | all their heart against war and fas- | cism, in order to help overthrow Hit- ler fascism and to help make Ger- many a country of peace, a Soviet country. “We women of the revolutionary proletariat are not only the mothers of our children and the wives of our husbands—no, a thousand times no, we are right in the ranks of the millions all over the world who are fighting for socialism, for the dic- tatorship of the proletariat which alone assures peace. “Women and mothers of the toiling masses! “Honor with me the memory of my comrade John Scheer, honor it with me, you millions of exploited and suppressed, by joining by the millions the anti-fascist front, by joining the revolutionary struggle. | “For Soviet Germany” | “Let us follow the gigantic example of our Russian sisters and brothers, | who through their October won for | themselves the country of freedom | and peace, the country of socialism “Sacrifices must be made—but vic- tory is certain! “Long live the revolutionary anti- fascist United Front! | “Long live the struggle for the overthrow of Hitler Germany! “Long live the struggle for a Soviet Germany which alone can guarantee us peace and freedom, happiness and | Prosperity! | “Women and mothers of the world | proletariat, show on International ‘Women’s Day that you are right in the fighting ranks, for Freedom and Socialism!” (Signed) Anne M. Schultz-Scheer, Chicago, February 9, 1934. ‘Three Killed as U.S. Opens War Against Porte Rico Strike | Winship Out to Smash truggle Against oline SAN JUAN. Porto Rico, Feb. 20.— General Blanton Winship, Governor of Porto Rico, and the N, R. A. offi- cials from Washington have ordere¢ |@ reign of terré gainst Porto Rican on s‘rike against the high cost o gasoline. “3 Two are reported killed, 15 injured and 500 jailed at Mayaguez when police, under orders of Winship, at- tacked strike pickets. | Governor Winship yesterday con- gratulated a policeman who cracked the head of a picket leader when the pickets attemp‘ed to stop the car of Harry L. Mall, of the Washington Veterans’ Bureau. Porto Rico, where the Socialist Party has great influence, has a |lewer wage-scale even than Cuba, | while prices are 3 per cent higher |than in New York. The American sugar companies have seized every | foot of fertile ground for sugar-cane, so that even vegetables have to be imported from the United States, at monopoly rates in U. S. ships, Al- most all transpor‘ation is by motor, so that the exorbitant price of gaso- line affects everyone in the islan¢ British Jobless Congress Opens in London Friday LONDON, Feb. 20—Several hun- ‘dred students of Oxford marched with red banners, singing revolution- ary. songs, to meet a contingent of the British hunger marchers, twelve columns of whom are converging on London from every part of the United Kingdom. ‘They will meet in an unemploy~ ment congress in London Friday and Saturday, to protest against the new unemployment bill which introduces forced labor on a wholesale scale, and to unite on a program of strug~ gle against police terror and for re- Hef and social insurance. Premier MacDonald, ex-Socialist, who has issued a series of vicious at- tacks.on the hunger marchers, has not yet answered whether he will receive a delegation of the march- ers. The marchers will also seek to have a delegation appear in the House of Commons. Belgian Socialists Seal Allegiance to Slave-Master King BRUSSELS, Feb. 20—The Social- ist Party of Belgum, of which Emile Vandervelde, chairman of the Second International, is one of the leaders, sealed its allegiance to the blackest reactionary elements of the Belgian ruling class in an official decision to mourn the dead king and wel- come Leopold III, his successor. The four Communist members of the Chamber of Deputies walked out when a groveling resolution of de- votion to the slave-owning royal house was introduced and unani- mously voted by the Socialist and other deputies. Meanwhile, the French government has expressed grave anxiety that young Leopold is more than friendly to the German Nazis. Lynwood, Southgate and Long Beach Locals Expelled By HARRY HARPER LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb 20.— Tenaciously determined to effect a united front between the Socialist Party of California and District No. 13 of the Communist Party, more than thirty delegates to the State Convention of the Socialist Party, which convened here Saturday and Sunday, Feb, 10-11, walked out of the convention holl Saturday after- noon and reconvened at Common- wealth House, former Socialist head- quarters, where they set up a rival state organization and unanimously voted for a united front with the Communist Party. Observers familiar with the S.P. declared that this is the first time since the split of 1919 that any con- vention of the party has shown any signs of life or any interest in the fundamental issues confronting any party claiming to be dedicated to the working class and its struggles. Officials Vote Down Unity The split climaxes a bitter in- ternal fight in the California 8. P., dating back to the middle of Nov- ember when, in answer to a letter from the Communist Party asking for a united front on five points of struggle, the State Executive Com- mittee of the S. P. voted it down almets menimorsly. Harold J. Ashe, State Secretary and State Executive Committeeman, | the lone member voting for an un- qualified and immediate united front without referring it to the NEC. and the International, was removed as state secretary shortly thereafter because he “was out of ‘ermony” with the 5.E.C. ‘Then, through action in his own branch, Ashe was ordered to trial sesh SNE lie intceacaMadieRs Ie. sesion at eit on charges of disruption and slan- dering of national and state lead- ers and was kept suspended for more than two months to prevent him from going to the state con- vention as a delegate from his branch. The branch secretary, in preferring the charges, indiscretly revealed that party leaders were afraid of the revelations Ashe might ~ake if he ever got on the conven- tion floor. Maneuver Against Unity Meantime, the S.EC. revoked without hearing and without ad- yance notification the charters of three locals, Lynwood, Southgate [and Long Beach, thus at one stroke preventing these three militant ocals from sending deiegates to the con- vention who would vote for a united front. % When the convention opened, preventing these three militant locals that half of the’ militants were un- able to vote. “Militants” Unite With Right Wing Throughout these fficin!ls voted solidly with their al- leged the it-wingers. not quite, impossible, for members of the Rank and File Committee side. When at 3 o'clock in the after- noon a letter was handed to the charman, W. Scott Lewis, from the Communist Party, asking for @ hearing of a committee from the protest of right-wing and pseudo Jeft-wing leaders. Only curiosity as to its contents caused enough right- wing delegates to bolt and vote for ee fists were not seated. At once this meant | don From the outset it was almost, if| the nist Party Committee the floor to reiterate their offer of a United Front, previously made to the S. P. E. C. was voted dawn. At this point Samuel Herrick, floor leader for the Rank and File, called for # walk out. Including the unseated delegates more than thirty delegates, repre- senting at least a dozen locals of the Party, left the convention hall, fol- lowed by a majority of the spectators. During noon recess, an order had been issued that no one could enter the hall except red-card members of the Socialist Party, so that in the afternoon only red-card members were in attendance. In view of this fact the walk-out of spectators is significant. Rank and File Invite C. P. So badly demoralized were the re- maining delegates that J. Stitt Wil- son, outstanding Socialist Party mis- Jeader in California, moved that the convention be reorganized, which was 2. Delegates and spectators left the room and congregated in the outer halls singing the International. Reconvening at Commonwealth House, the protesting delegates a appear before them that evening with their proposals for a United Allen and Pat oes prea a ey munist Party an‘ v looking toward a United Front against fas- ‘vote on allowing the Commu-|cism within » few weeks. The com- California Socialist Party Leaders Answer the United Front Demands With Mass Expulsions | Refused to Seat Delegates As ‘‘Militants” Vote With Right Wing mittee meeting was held in the | presence of the convention members. That the rump convention and the organization set up by it is a bona fide militant group and not pseudo militants is indicated by the frankly expresed praise given the Communist Party and their leadership in the workers’ day by day struggles. There can be no question that these So- clalist ‘comrades honestly seek an alliance with the Communist Party and that they are tired and disillu- stoned” by their misleaders. Re- peatedly delegates referred to the action taken at the original conven- tion as the work of “social-fascists.” ary element calling themselves the ~-- Socialist Party,” explained Ashe te the rump convention, “we are ace tually much stronger. In whole sections of the state we have all of the party workers with us, while they have only the posers and so- called prima donna leaders whe toil not neither do they spin. We have at least a dozen local sec- retaries and two conference or fed«