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Show I WANT PLATFORM " I HEALJRADIGAL "Dictatorship of Proletariat" Sought By Socialist Delegation NEW YORK, May 10. Declaring for the "dictatorship of the proleta-rlat," proleta-rlat," and a "worklngmen's council in the government," the Illinois dolega-tion dolega-tion to the Socialist national conven-tion conven-tion today announced it intended to fight to make the 1920 platform "gen-1 "gen-1 uinely radical" and representative of real Socialism. Led by J. Louis Engdahl, of Cln-cago, Cln-cago, the Illinois delegates declared H "too conservative" the Socialist j)lat- form outlined at yesterday's mass 1 meeting in Madison Square Garden. H The party convention reconvened to- H day to begin a -week's activities that H will include adoption of a party plat- H form, nomination of candidates for H ' president and vice president of the 1, United States and "modification" of the party constitution. H Irving St. John Tucker, an Illinois H delegate, was elected chairman for the H day. Tucker is out on bail pending H appeal from a twenty-year federal sen- H tence for violation of the espionage H Cameron H. King of California was B chosen vice chairman. H For Prisoners' Release. H A committee of five to confer in H Washington on Friday and Saturday H with Attorney General Palmer and H Secretary Tumulty in an effort to ob- H tain amnesty for .political prisoners H was appointed by the convention to- H It is planned to have the committee H report back to the convention and to H state a mass meeting in Washington which will ho made a part of the con- H ventioru Sessions will be adjourned H here today and reconvened in the na- tional capital Saturday night. H The convention Instructed its com- H mittee to call on Secretary of War H Baker on behalf of conscientious ob- H jectors who are now serving terms in H federal prisons, H The tentative parly platform ?ub- H mitted by the platform committee, H headed by Mr Hillquit, included rec- H ommendations for adoption of a one H big union idea. H One Big Union. H "In their great struggle for emanci- H nation the working classes of Amer- H lea must present to their masters one H solid front, industrially as well as po-litically," po-litically," said the report. The point in its program under the H heading "foreign relations" included H the following demands: "Cancellation of all restrictions and Hl extension of the largest possible H credit, raw materials and machinery H to the stricken nations of Europe; H dissolution of the league of nations H, and creation of international parlla- H mentary of democratical elected rep- r reaentatlves of all nations in the H world; recognition and trade with ao- Hl viet Russia, and recognition of the H independence of Ireland and the wlth- H drawal of governmental protection of H American capital and property H Repressive legislation H Under the head of "political," it H was recommended that the party de- H mand repeal of the espionage law H and other repressive leglislation; re- H lease of al political prisoners; repeal H of the arbitrary power to deport H ! aliens by administrative order, ab-V ab-V rogative of the power of the court Hi to enjoin workers from striking; clcc-H clcc-H tion and recall of federal judges; dl- H rect popular election and the recall H1 of the president and vice president of the United Slates; equal and un-H un-H restricted suffrage 'in fact as well as in law," and constitutional amend-H amend-H ment to remove all obstacles to indus- H trial and social reform Yceonstruc- H tion, Including Socialist party aims Oother demands included the So-H So-H cializatlon of basic industries and en-Hl en-Hl forcement by congress of the four- tcenth amendment to the constitution, j insurging the vote, with full civil, po-H po-H litical. Industrial and educational H rights to the negro' in the south. H First Ileal Clash H The first real clash came when Mr. B Hillquit moved adoption of the pro- posed platform and declared ratlfi-1 ratlfi-1 cation of its prinlciples. H Louis J. Engdahl. of Illinois, im- mediately moved to amend tna motion so that it be rof erred to the rcsom-1 rcsom-1 tion committee with six additional B members to be elected. H Municipal Court Justice Jacob Jan- H ken offered another amendment that H the document go before the conven-H conven-H tion -as a committee of the .whole. He adopted the convention as a whole will be obliged to act upon them. Mr. Hillquit opposed referring :he matter to a now committee on the grounds that " there would be neither rhyme, dignity nor Justice in so doing." do-ing." Q The document wm prepared, he added, after a careful survey of the points of Interest of the program of International German Socialist party, the Socialist of Prance and Italy ajid the communists of Russia. "Unless you have reasonable grounds to object," added Mr. Hillquit, Hill-quit, "you are not radicals, but obstructionists." ob-structionists." The Hillquit forces succeeded in defeating de-feating their opponents on the question ques-tion of submitting the platform and' declaration of principles to a new committee and it was decided to have the entire convention as a committee of the whole handle tho subject to-, to-, morrow. nn |