s of that country of
the opportunity to establish a free government there.

"'These comrades, always true to the principles of revolutionary
Socialism, in the face of unqualified opposition before, during and
after the great war, commanded the love and admiration of all the
lovers of international liberty, and have, by their incomparable
devotion to this great cause, made their names immortal in the
history of working class liberation.'"

From the "New York Times," November 18, 1918, we learn that the Chicago
Socialists endorsed Bolshevism.

A despatch by the International News Service from Cleveland, Ohio, March
31, 1919, informs us that C.E. Ruthenberg, leading Socialist of that
city, after a meeting of the Cleveland Socialists on March 30, announced
that the members of the party had just voted in favor of the adoption of
the Bolshevik doctrine of Lenine and Trotzky for the further direction
of the Cleveland party and that the action of the members was
practically unanimous.

"The Call," New York, April 3, 1919, gave notice of a pro-Bolshevist
meeting to be held by the Socialists on the following Saturday afternoon
at Park Circle, New York City:

"This is the first of a series that the Socialist Party of Harlem
proposes to hold, inspired by the success of the Debs meeting two
weeks ago at the same place, when 15,000 people attended.

"The assemblage on Saturday, besides demanding that the United
States recognize Soviet Russia, will also give a welcome to the
Soviet Republic of Hungary."

In its issue of April 10, 1919, "The Call" recorded the approval by the
Queen's County, New York, Socialists of the Bolsheviki and Spartacans:

"We desire to clearly place ourselves on record for, and openly and
actively sign ourselves with the revolutionary proletariat the
world over, as at present expressed by the policies and tactics of
the Communist Party of Russia (Bolsheviki), the Communist Labor
Party in Germany (Spartacans) and other parties in harmony with
them."

On May 31, 1919, "The Call" published the declaration of the National
Executive Committee of the party in favor of Bolshevism, Communism and
Spartacism: The Socialist Party of the United States "supports
whole-heartedly the Soviet Republic of Russia and the Communist
government of Hungary.... In Germany, Austria and countries similarly
situated, its sympathies a