the revolutionary justice of the
masses."

In the May 1, 1919, issue of "The Call," the May Day Manifesto is made
public by Morris Hillquit, International Secretary of the Socialist
Party of the United States. Only part of it is hereby quoted:

"We send fraternal greetings and vows of whole-hearted sympathy to
the Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia, which is so valiantly
upholding the lofty international proletarian ideals in the face of
the combining military economic and political attacks of
reactionary powers, and in spite of the systematic campaign of
libelous misrepresentation on the part of the lying capitalist
press of the world. We send congratulations and fraternal good
wishes to the workers of Hungary on the establishment of a free
Communistic Workers' Republic, upon the ruins of the predatory
monarchy of their exploiting and land-monopolizing rulers. We
extend the hand of comradeship and solidarity to the revolutionary
Socialists of Germany and Russia, now engaged in a life-and-death
struggle to secure for the working masses of their countries the
full fruit of their victorious revolutions; to the workers of
England in their efforts to wrest the control of the industries
from the parasites in their country, and to the Socialists of
France, Italy and all other countries of Europe in their fights
against their revolutionary governments."

"The New Age," the Socialist paper of Buffalo, April 10, 1919, published
a "Greeting to the Soviet Republic of Hungary":

"The proletariat of Hungary has taken all power in its own hands.
Like a bolt from the blue the workers, soldiers and peasants of
'conquered' Hungary proclaim their intervention in the arena of
world politics--and the diplomats of capitalism are thrown into a
flurry of mingled rage and fear.

"While the wires were still hot with the news of the resignation of
Count Karolyi, president of the provisional government of Hungary,
as a protest against the peace terms of the Paris Conference, came
word of the complete triumph of revolutionary Socialism and the
establishment of the second Soviet Republic in the world.

"With little or no resistance, with no intervening period of
Socialist compromise, the Hungarian Soviet Republic rises to power
and in its initial proclamation ushers in the dictatorsh