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Show perccntually, are more democrats and republicans than there are socialists. soc-ialists. Just look at the Federatio: of Labor. Even the leaders of th. Federation are mostly democrats So ajain: Why call them "sociahV. strikers", why not rather call them "republican strikers", or "democratic "democra-tic strikers?" It would be just a: ;ood and just as far from uncamou flawed truth. STRIKES Answer to Mr. L. A. Hollenbeck's Article By John O. Watters. Again I have to take issue with in article written by my esteemea friend L. A. Hollenbeck and pub-ished pub-ished recently in the Duchesne Re-:ord. Re-:ord. Mr. Hollenbeck seems to be ;rying to camouflage the subject. His statement that the socialist pa ;y has gone over to the extreme .ving of socialism, led by foreigners, md that Bolshevists and anarchists xrc in the saddle, is a gross misstatement. misstate-ment. We can refer to the same :onvention our friend is referring :o, that one held in Chicago, September Sept-ember 4, and can state from authoritative author-itative sources that this convention revoked the charters of several locals lo-cals of the party, throwing out of ;he party 35,000 members; and this was done for the one reason only, ;hat the locals so disciplined advocated advo-cated Tadicalism, antagonizing the real socialists who adhere strictly to ,he principle of political action and condemn direct action. Concerning going on record as in favor of comrade Eugene V. Debt as presidential candidate, Mr. Hoi . lenbeck, for once, is right that this, was done, but he is wrong again as .o 'favoring Bolshevism and I. W. I W.ism. The convention stated emphatically em-phatically that, while their sympathy sympa-thy was with the soviet government, they have to stand for Americanism above all, and that what is good for Russia is not applicable and most certainly not good for America. The sympathy, however, is justified, according ac-cording even to such authorities as Mr. Thompson and Mr. Robbins who both testified before the senate committee com-mittee after having served in Russia Rus-sia with the American Red Cross for years. They stated that 93 per cent of all the people in Russia are in sympathy with the soviet government. govern-ment. We may quote also ambassador ambas-sador Morris who was sent by president pres-ident Wilson to investigate whether the United States should recognize die Kolchak government. Mr. Morris' Mor-ris' reply to the president was tha' Kolchak had only a handful of followers fol-lowers and it would not be wise to recognize his government. It is true that there is a speech made by Debs in which he came out for the I. W. W., and that he is one of the ' organizers of the I. W. W. But in admitting it, the people must not forget that this speech was made about 20 years ago, before Debs became a socialist. And even in this speech Debs is recommending political action. In this respect, he did not change, only the I. W. W. have changed, by advocating now direct action. The manifesto quoted by friend Hollenbeck, closing with "Down with the fctato", was issued by a radical wing which separated intsclf from the coiv.ilist party and cannot be taken ta-ken a. socialist any more than the progrji'ives cculd be Jaken as re-publicuns re-publicuns after they had seceded from ihe standpatters 'The real socialists do not believe i. "down with the state". To the contrary. They want more state, more even than the republicans ind demo.-n.ts The anarchists do not balicve in government gov-ernment at all; the republicans nnd democrats believe in government as to certain legislative and y:cecutive ' matters; the socialists go farther than that, believing in government also as to certain economic matters. In conclusion we want to ask Mr. Hollenbeck a question: Why does he, in his article, call the strikers strik-ers "the socialist strikers who defied de-fied the proclamation of the presi- ' dent and the order of the Federal Court". To make his answer easier we wish to call his attention to th-fact th-fact that amongst the striking men, |