other out-in-the-open enemies of
our Country, evidently believed it wise to throw out a beckoning hand to
all radicals in general, especially to the Red Left Wing Socialists who
left the Party to become Communists and Communist Laborites in the fall
of 1919. At the Convention of May, 1920, the following resolution was
adopted:

"Resolved, that we, the national convention of the Socialist party,
in order to carry into effect this desire for unity, make the
following proposals:

"That any individual, branch, local or state or language federation
that left the party last fall because of tactical differences and
now desires to re-enter on the basis of the Socialist party
platform and constitution, be welcomed to return.

"That where Socialist party locals and other groups of the labor
movement exist side by side in the same locality, we propose the
creation of joint campaign committees for the management of a
working class electoral campaign upon the basis of our platform.

"That after the campaign is over, whenever the situation promises
practical results, steps be taken to confer with representatives of
other factions of the movement with a view to establishing possible
basis for organization unity.

"That a national advisory council of all working class
organizations for the purpose of combatting the reactionary forces
be formed so that wherever possible there be voluntary united
action by all political and economic organizations who take their
stand on the basis of the class struggle."

There was a family fuss over a proposed clause, finally stricken out,
that "due stamps or other evidence of membership in the groups formed by
the split in the party shall be recognized as evidence of good standing"
in the Socialist Party. In this connection, William Kruse of Illinois,
who is far from a Camouflagist, said: "Debs believes that the Communist
and Communist Labor members are as good Socialists as any." The
authorities of our Nation have condemned membership in the Communist
organization as illegal and have proven Debs a criminal. The Socialists
welcome the Communists and Communist Laborites, "whenever the situation
promises practical results" (when the time for "shooting," for "bullets"
rather than "ballots," has arrived?), and the Socialists, Camouflagists
as enthusiastically as their opponents, acclaim Debs the crimina