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Show LENINE FAILS TO EKUSIJpSR D.EMAND FOR THIRD INTERNA TIONALE CAUSES DECIDED ' SPLIT IN THE RANKS. Conditions mpoiet by Russian a Little Too Radical for the Fol. lowers of Socialists Doctrines In the United States. Now York.-Mcolal Lenlne's ultl-mn ultl-mn u, t the socialists of the world, Ch ng them the "21 conditions" to which they must subscribe before they enn bo received Into the Third or Communist Internationale of Moscow, has met with a widespread. If in many cases negative, response. It Indicates a decided spilt In the rnnki of the socialist party In many countries, Judging by reports from nbroaJ. Lenlne demanded, among other things, that soclnllst organizations must purge themselves of mil modcr-ntcs, modcr-ntcs, defy all national laws, undermine nrmlos, gain control of tho press throw off tho allied "yoke," promote a world economic crisis, condemn any leaguo of nations, nld the soviet government gov-ernment nnd abandon for the blood and firo of "red revolution" all conservative conserva-tive soclnl democratic programs. The nntlonal exccutlvo committee of socialist party of America, In refusing to recommend nfflllatlon, said: "Wo concede to the Itusslnn comrades tho right to formulato their own Internal policies without interference frm any other section of tho working class movement of the world. What we concede to them we claim for ourselves. our-selves. Kvory resolution ndoptcd by our party implies or claims this right for the American movement." In Franco tho socialists split Into three factions following convention nt Tours on December 29, at which n mo-tlon mo-tlon by the Left Wing to Join the Third Internationale without reservations received IL'OS votes, winning by n large majority. The center and right groups oppose the elimination of conservative lenders. In England leaders of British labor party and trades union congress, in appeal to soclnllst nnd communist parties par-ties of world, urged offorttf to "reconstitute "re-constitute the Internutlonalo on a non sectional basis." . |