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Show NEAR ANARCHISTS. The outstanding feature of the Chicago Chi-cago meeting of radicals was that the extremists had so much difficulty in finding a common ground for united political effort that the outcome of the five-day sessions was a split of the delegates dele-gates into three factions, each group forming a new "party." As to radicalism, radi-calism, the outcome is merely a matter of degree. The old-line Socialists took even more advanced ground, the Communist Com-munist Labor party went several steps further, and the Communist party led the others in an extremism which would have to go but little beyond present position to be openly and avowedly anarchistic. The best thing about the Chicago convention con-vention ia the fact that tho radicals broke up into conflicting groups. Originally Orig-inally the Socialist party numbered about 120,000 members. It has dwindled dwin-dled to about one-third that number, and the formation of two additional and even more radical "parties" doubtless will further deplete its membership. mem-bership. The more violent organizations may be able to attract additional support, sup-port, but they are extremely unlikely to prove formidable in any section of the country. As to the platforms put out by the two Communist factions, they are more likely to call for future police activities than contributions from the American workingman, whose loyalty to the red flag, rather than the Stars and Stripes, ia to be made the teat of his right to membership in these openly Bolshevist organizations. |