M.P.A. SOCIALISTS

Grey River Argus, 15 January 1925, Page 3

M.P.A. SOCIALISTS

NEW’ I’o hl IK Ah M<->\ 1In a letter to the Scereta'iat <>l th: Labour and Socxtvlist International regretting the unavoidable absence ot Lhe American delegates from the last meeting of flic L.S.I. executive, Morris llillquit, international secretary of the American Socialist Party, makes the following interesting statement about lhe position <»f thc American Socialists in the Presidential election <.aiupaigi) ;— "Wo arc in ihc midst of a very intense campaign for the election oi a President and members of Coiigv?ss. rh<- < .'ilium.ign is of unusual importam tto ih, Socialist movement c f the United States, ;i.;id will very largely determim the future of our movement. For the first time in the politicirl history < i on.’ country all forces of the organised Labour Movement arc united in support of an independent candidate for t'r.c Presidency of thc United States. 'I his includes the Amer.’cari Federation Labour, which lias for the first time broken away from the support c f the Democratic Party, the powerful r.iilwaw Labour organisations not al’iliated with the Federation, and a i umber of other progriMve and radical organisations. "The Socialist Pari\ i b part ol thus political bloc, and a very .niportant factor in thc < .iiu'paiga. A bile u’i-‘ national platform upon which Soi La Follette and Wheeler are mining leaves much to be desired from a >-oc\ilist viewpoint, our hope is that through the daily co-operation le’ween Socialists and organised vork?i's a.rd farmers in the campaign a pcmianent political unity between them '-.HI eventually be established. ‘•ln tiie early part of the coming January a nation-wide convention of ail elements supporting the La Fol-lette-Wheeler ticket will be held for the purpose of taking action on the proposition to form a permanent political party. The action of that convention will very largely depend upon the results which we will attain in this campaign, and upon the degree ot political self-reliance which the Socialists will manage to inspire among the workers. You will thus readily understand that the American Socialists have a tremendous task before them. “Wc hope that, in the near future, the mass of organised American workers will j< > our new International to take their rightful place by their comrades, as a body effectively organised politically as well as economic ally.”