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Show oo SOCIALISTS TO OUTLINECOURSE NEW YmRK. March 9. BubJebtS relevant to the future socialist party were dhKuaaed by its national executive execu-tive committee Tuesday and were embodies em-bodies In a report to be published jim as official agenda of the next national convention In Detroit beginning June 1 A statement issued b the commit- lee declared thnt the Important matters mat-ters of the preliminary order of busl- nCS ' Were "four alternative motions defining relations of the socialist party to the international, two alternative definitions of political action and a motion to replace the prohibition against voting military appropriations In the party s constitution. The committee also pledged the party and Its members, "to hearty support sup-port of the organized working class In Its Struggle against the attempt to destroy de-stroy the labor unions" "lotions defining a number of sub-leCtS sub-leCtS in the richt of the communist International In-ternational were presented." the state, ment said, in every case, the test following fol-lowing the .Moscow "theses." almost literally 'Such subjects as the soviet form of organization. th soviet method meth-od of achieving power, the dictatorship of the proletariat, mass action, democracy, democ-racy, parliamentary action and the po-lltn po-lltn .il strike wen- by adher ents, .if tbe .Moscow organization and alternatives presented by other party organizations. PROl ESI KAIIAJ I I . I I UK I In virtually every case, the Issue is drawn between a dependence on the BUPpbri of the majority for ultimate socialist victory, and a distrust of democratic dem-ocratic forms and methods. The issues will be debated and determined for the so, la list party by the delegates to be elected presumably on the basis of their stand upon the agenda subjects "In addition to the agenda," the report continued, "the committee adopted a resolution bitterly protesting against the Ford antf-aemltlc campaign, the Ku Klux anti-negro campaign and the anti-Japanese campaign, as moves Intended In-tended to incite race hatred and to divide div-ide workers into mutually hostile i nip '. "Resolutions also were adopted in- dorsing the effort6 of the socialists of Chicago, St LouiS and San Kranelsco to establish dally socialist papers." The committee attacked the "open shop," which is characterized "the open road to destruction for the organized or-ganized workers.' "OPI SHOP" CONDEMNED "Jlke all wars in modern hlstorv, " the statement said, " the world war has been followed by a ruthless Orgy of reaction on the part of the ruling classes. Confident of their control of a mercenary press, of their Influence i and power at the state Capitols and at Washington, the exploiters of labor are seeking to conscript the workers for private employers, taking for their model the Kansas Industrial court ... L The courts have also generally registered regis-tered i to- will of the ruling classes by handing down decisions against the workers. "All this is followed by the '!.. iir-t drive In our history for th mplete destruction of ihe labor organizations. I The "open shop drive Is mass action' on the part of Ihe capitalist class to1 nhnlkl. th.. tail lectin... r the workers over shop conditions and render workers depi ndent upon the; whim of -the exploiting classes. Thlsj alleged 'American plan' Is the profiteering prof-iteering Interests translated into pa-! trlotlsm." an uttcmpt to capitalize the I Hag and make it pay dividends to the! exploiters of labor." |