Show SOCIALISTS MEET BEET TO AID G GERMANY IS Russell and Walling Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans Flay Congress in Berne By Associated Associated Press PARIS Feb 4 4 The The Berne Socialist conference to which many Socialist bodies In Europe have fan failed to send representatives is the tile outcome of a aGerman aGerman aGerman German plan to help germany retrieve her military defeat and escape the payment of Just indemnities in the be belief belief be- be lief of Charles Edward Russell and William English Va Walling III ng speaking speaking- ng in behalf of the Social-Democratic Social league of the of-the the tho United States Russell and Walling gave out the the followIng following st statement on the subject in the name of the league As delegates of ot our organization we decline to go to to Berne because despite the pretension that the worlds words laboring laboring laboring labor labor- ing classes are represented there its principal movers are those In all countrIes countries countries coun coun- tries who tried to tb cause peace when it would have meant the triumph of imperIalism imperialism imperialism im im- and the ruin of the working I class democracy I We note that the General Federation Federation Federa Federa- I Federa-I tion of Trades Unions of Great Britain has no representative there nor the Italian Socialist party part representing the majority of the Italian Socialists nor northe northe northe I the Belgium Socialist party part nor the American Federation of Labor and that forty Socialists In the French chamber of deputies allowed their delegates dele- dele I gales gates to go only under protest and under the threat that their action would be repudiated unless the group was excluded We Ve also note that third one-third of the delegates are recognized py the Bolshevik viki vik as sympathizers with their doc doe trines We Ve believe that the Berne conference conference conference confer confer- ence is designed by Germany to redeem her tier from military defeat and avoid the payment of a just indemnity by intrigue intrigue In Intrigue in- in and secret diplomacy |