Communism; Industrial Workers of the World; Socialism
"The striking effective leaflet, 'The Great and Growing Fear--No
Work,' is accomplishing a double purpose and is being snapped up
eagerly and distributed by the hundreds of thousands by state and
local organizations and by individual hustlers. Two hundred
thousand copies have been sold and it will shortly go to its third
printing. Orders indicate a million edition of this powerful
leaflet. The Russian Constitution, an article and
thought-compelling cartoons on unemployment, that this leaflet
carries, make it the Socialist literature triumph of the month.
Send for sample copy and order early.
"From the hustling 'Red' town of Hamilton, Ohio, comes an order for
8,000 'Great Fear' leaflets to put the truth about the Russian
Soviet Constitution in the homes of the workers of that community."
"The Eye Opener," the official national organ of the Socialist Party of
America, in its issue of January, 1919, shows its sympathy for the
Spartacans by the following article:
"'You Did Not Die In Vain!'
"American Socialist Party to
"_Liebknecht and Luxembourg_.
"The Socialist Party executive committee has adopted a resolution
on the death of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg, Germany's two
most uncompromising foes of Kaiserism and imperialism. It is as
follows:
"'The National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of the
United States of America, has learned of the deaths of our beloved
comrades, Dr. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg, who are reported
assassinated by the agents of the reactionary forces of Germany,
who are now conspiring to deprive the workers of that country of
the opportunity to establish a free government there.
"'These comrades, always true to the principles of revolutionary
Socialism, in the face of unqualified opposition before, during and
after the great war, commanded the love and admiration of all the
lovers of international liberty, and have, by their incomparable
devotion to this great cause, made their names immortal in the
history of working class liberation.'"
From the "New York Times," November 18, 1918, we learn that the Chicago
Socialists endorsed Bolshevism.
A despatch by the International News Service from Cleveland, Ohio, March
31, 1919, informs us that C.E. Ruthenberg, leading Socialist of that
city, after a meeting of the Cleveland Socialists on March 30, announced
that the members of the party had just voted in favor of the adoption of
the Bolshevik doctrine of Lenine and Trotzky for the further direction
of the Cleveland party and that the action of the members was
practically unanimous.
"The Call," New York, April 3, 1919, gave notice of a pro-Bolshevist
meeting to be held by the Socialists on the following Saturday afternoon
at Park Circle, New York City:
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