Show VI VICTOR TOH BERGER ER DENOUNCES N f fr r i Socialist Sod Convention H Hits ts a a aSnag a aSnag Snag in Resolution Y V on Russia NEW YORK YORK May The 14 14 The Socialist Party of America at its national con convention convention con con- here today oday voted to reaffirm its allegiance to to the tho third Moscow with reservations in- in eluding that of determining its own na national national national na- na polity By By a vote of 90 gO to 40 It rejected a proposal by J. J Louis Engdahl of Chicago Chica ago a- a go to pledge without reservation Us itsal al allegiance to the third nale I which was attacked during durig the Socialist Social Social- I nin Albany as the tho organization or or- that at the bidding of f Lenine Lenine Len- Len ine Inc and had Issued a call for violent violet worldwide revolution rution I By George R. R Holmes 1 Staff Correspondent o res International News Service NEW TOR YORK YORI May May- 14 Victor H-Victor Victor Berger Berg Berg- cr er r national rational Socialist leader and editor bitterly assailed communism and the soviet form torm of or government today in a minority report submitted the cont con con- t ot the American Socialist party on In th the question of ot affiliation with the Moscow Merger Berber declared declared de de- de- de that Socialism stood opposed to terrorism as a means of or government government govern govern- ment and and that the party arty had pur pursed purged e Itself of communists an and l E r. r I With Joseph JqSeph A A. A of ot D Da Dayton ton O 0 in the chair the tha convention spent the entire m jre day discussing affiliation tho movement mo As a cur cur- raiser the delegates voted to tn in in- He back into membership all com- com UIl t is and other radicals e expelled during the split a t year ear ago on thel tie the l Lasis asis 1 or of new mcm membership t l THREE REPORTS A r lh The committee on affiliations Sub sTub ubI itt T fl ta a n majority and two t I reports The majority report advocate advocat dt or fJ rii b by the followers favored ff n of the American Socialists h Moscow hel 01 or third le with lh reservations The provision was ws written l tl n into their report leport that no su such h h formulae as dictatorship of ot the proletariat pro pro- o in the from of ot a soviet oviet be exacted as a condition of ot affiliation The first minority report submitted V 1 e v William TJ TI Quirk and J T Lewis T I. wl wll Rn I I dahl of ot Chicago favored affiliation without any reservation BERGER ALONE Berger save gave ave In a a. second minority re report report report re- re port of ot which he was the only signer 1 He entirety entirely opposed the affiliation 1 affiliation r I d do dd not net agree with the th theories orles or or practices of or the Russian or orth orthe the th communist in any oth other r country he ho said There it is a deep I and nd constantly widening wid wid- ening gulf between communism omm and Socialism In every country And we In I America should not deny that f fact d. d The Socialists of the world always i have stood for collective ownership of means of production and distribution but ut never ver for equal l distribution and common consumption of ot all products as Lenine and his friends tried to enforce In n their re regime ime Socialism will always alwa's be opposed to the complete elimination of ot I democracy demoe- demoe racy tacy to the disfranchisement of ot all non noir elements to the die dle- ft pf the communist J party and to terrorism m as ana a means mea of ot government its s pr practiced d b by the tho th pT present S nt rulers of ot Russia yc present I i |