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of the Volkszeitung, who, at the
meeting, "explained his position,"
repudiate a single anti-Party utterance of his supporters; and when the
further circumstances are taken into
account that the Volkszeitung has
been suppressing information damaging to Haverhillism; that it has
editorially disclaimed knowledge of
the information necessary to refute
the absurd excuses given by the
Haverhillites for their Armory record; that it is, editorially, making
convulsive efforts to suppress the
fact that it was the S. T. and L. A.
that conducted the Allegheny strike,
and that, but for the existence of the
S. T. and L. A., the proletarian up-
flaring in this case would have been
captured and led into the ground by
the pure and simple fakers, and
would have been lost to the movement as usual; that (very much like
the Haverhillites, who also throw in,
somewhere in a corner of their taxation stuff, phrases about the abolition of the wage system and the necessity of voting only for their party) the Volkszeitung is publishing,
editorially, genuine "reform" small-
traders' sentiments on taxation, all
in opposition, not only to a healthy,
aggressive Socialist movement, but
in direct opposition to the Party's
officially expressed attitude as set
forth in its municipal program —
when all this is taken into account,
the fact stands indisputable that
THE VOLKSZEITUNG' PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION HAS
LOST CASTE, AND IS NOW
DRIFTING INTO OPEN HOSTILITY TO THE PARTY.
Well and wittily did a comrade
strike off the situation on that evening of March 23. The yearly election for the editor of the Volkszeit
ung coming up in the- order of business after the above votes, the comrade nominated JUSTUS SCHWAB
as the most appropriate man for the
office, under the circumstances.
We imagine we hear at this stage
the cry of surprise: "What, Justus
Schwab, that lager-beer Anarchist,
that notorious enemy of the Party,
that clown of the labor movement,
is HE too a member of the Volkszeitung Publishing Association?"
Yes, and not only he but a number
of others of more or less equal
kidney. Among the members, for
instance, is Ernest Bohm, who formerly rarely attended the meetings,
but now, since he left the Party to
escape expulsion for publishing advertisements of capitalist parties in
the Souvenir of the late lamented
Central Labor Federation, has an
interest in seeking to do the Party
all the mischief he can, and, together with his supporters in guilt,
is always on deck; Philip Bauer and
Sohr, both of whom, in and out of
season, have nothing but slander for
the Party, and oppose it at all turns,
and the latter of whom was told in
his own union by a German fellow
member that, in Germany, he would
be looked upon as a police agent; a
Dr. Hoffman, "Gold-bug Anarchist"; one Filley, all around crazy
Anarchist—all non-members of the
Party, and who knows how many
more. And this brings us to the lessons to be learned.
The Volkszeitung Publishing Association was established by the
Party as a publishing committee of
the Partj7, without which it cannot
live; indeed, its constitution provides that none but members of the
Party are qualified for membership.
But the constitution goes no further.
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