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Show EXTREMISTS IT SOCIALIST MEET SEEKJ0NT1L "Not Enough Passion or Pep" in Platform to Suit Illinois Illi-nois Delegation. DICTATORSHIP OF LABOR CLASS SOUGHT Start Minority Fight for "Radical "Rad-ical Principles" of World Sovietism J s NEW YORK, May 11. The Socialist Soc-ialist party national convention this afternoon went on record as opposed to the dictatorship of the . proletariat, In voting down an in: ternational Socialist declaration of principles sbumitted by the delegation dele-gation from Illinois. The vote was 103 to 33. Declaring for the 'Ired flag of international Socialism," in the Socialist party of America, J. Louis Engdahl, of Chicago, denounced de-nounced the "conservatism" of the anti-dictatorship program submitted submit-ted by the regular patlform com; - .n'iiWe". .throufjh -Mrris .tfillquist. -r Engdahl amid the cheers of his faction, decried the decorations of the con-vention hall, the American flag, and called for world Socialism Social-ism without equivocation. James O'Neal, of Brooklyn, summed up for the opposition to the Illinois document. He demanded demand-ed revolution by "orderly, constitutional constitu-tional democratic means." NEW YORK. May 11. Demanding j limitations of citizenship and dictatorship dicta-torship of the laboring classes, tho party s national convention iuuuj opened an agressivo . minority fight for tho "radical principles" of International Inter-national sovietism in tho 1920 piut-form. piut-form. Four Chicagoan headed by J. Louis j Engdahl battled to substitute their i program for that given tho convention yesterday by Morris Hillquit ami his platform committee. The keynote of tho Illinois substitute substi-tute platform was sounded in its preamble pre-amble which read: "The Socialist party summons all who believe in this fundamental doctrine doc-trine to preparo for a complete reorganization re-organization of our social system, based upon public ownership of public necessities, upon government by representatives rep-resentatives chosen from occupational I rather than solely from geographical I groups in harmony with our industrial I development, and with citizenship based on service, lhat we may onu forever the exploitation of class by class." "This means the dictatorship of the proletariat," Engdahl said. "It means real, red', radical Socialism such as our comradoa in France, Gormany, Russia and Italy are fighting for." Tho platform Itself as drafted by the Chicagoans resemblo closely that already suggested by the Hillquit forces excepting its Introductory de-I de-I inands. New York won tho election of Algernon Al-gernon Leo to be chairman " of the convention for today, ..Lena Morrow Lewis, of Cincinnati was elected vice chairman. ' , When the question of the adoption of a Socialist platform came up on the floor, Cameron H. King, of San Francisco, moved to refor the Hillquit document to a committee to "put more pep in It." t "This platform," ho said, "lack a vital element. It hasn't enough pas-! pas-! slon In it. It omits certain things j which arc vital issues. The whole I' tone is lifeless and without pep. I bellovo thoro should bo more domestic issues In it." |