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Show SOCIALIST PARTY REPLIES TO RUSS CRUELTY STORY CHICAGO, Jan. 13. 'The publicity dparthient of tho National Socialist I party. Issued a statement about the activities ac-tivities of ML Schwartz, the American I Socialist Of Ban Francisco, who has I arrived itt Berlin after imprisonment in Moscow, which said: I "M Schwartz, whose storv w.cs cajoled ca-joled from Berlin, denouncing the sov- let government of Russia, was not a! representative of the SocloliSl party Of America us stated In the dispatch. thS SOClnlUlt party has elected live ln-Iternntlonal ln-Iternntlonal delegates, Algernon Lee, James O'Neal, Joseph Cohen, Mrs Vlc-jtor Vlc-jtor L. Borger and A. L Trachtenberg, I to go to Russia as the representatives j of tho party, to study conditions, to bring greetings of the American Socialists Social-ists to the Russian S'lrlalLsts and to j report back to the American Social-: .lata and working people on Russian j 'conditions These delegates have ae-j ae-j cured puasports and they will sal) shortly. "There has been no other delegation i sent to Russia by the Socialist party and no Individual member of the Par ty who may have gone tn Russia, hud ah credentials as a representative' I "Mr. Schwartz is u member of the) I Socialist party who went to Russia UPon his own initiative, ond for hisi own private purpose His opinion ofi conditions in that country ae his own I Opinions snd have the weight of hlsl opinions nothing oist When the delegataes selected by the Socialist party organisation return from Russia the party will of filially Issue a rc-i rc-i port." |