Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-18 | Page 5 | Socialist Head Outlines Views

Socialist Head Outlines V Views David Karsner has written a little book called Talks with Debs In Terre Haute I Karsner was sent by the Bell Syndicate to write a series of ot articles and InterView Interviews Inter inter- views View with Eug Eugene ne Debs at hIs Ms hom home ji In Indiana shortly after Debs release from I the federal penitentiary at Atlanta Ga where he had served three years of ot a year ten-year sentence for tor violating the es espionage espionage es- es law Debs offense ottense was committed es when he expressed his disapproval of ot the I I world war In which the United States was at the time engaged on the side of ot the allied powers arrayed against the I Imperial German and Austro Hungarian governments The Tl talks are little sidelights S on the character of ot the socialist leader and whether one Is an anarchist an ImperIalist Imperialist Imper Imper- or merely sitting in the benches enches the book Is bound to hold some little Interest S SIt It appears that Debs does not approve of Pr Samuel P. P Gompers president of the American Federation of ot Labor In one interview Mr Mn Debs Is quoted as saying Baying Anybody who stands for tor progress In irs the American labor movement is a bolshevik I in the eyes of Mr Gompers During the war he and co delivered the American labor movement bag and baggage baggage baggage bag bag- gage Into th shambles of or Europe and Into the nets of or the profiteers He was cheek cheel by Jowl with the capitalists and was wag a welcome guest at their festive boards Karsner quotes Debs' Debs views on what would happen if It he were made president of ot the United States what he thinks of present conditions In n Russia what he thinks of ot religion and what he believes the workers arc are ready to understand and act upon today The New York Call I publishers rs New Yo York lc S