The International Socialist Review

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Semi-Annual Report of the National Committee of the Socialist Party. St. Louis, Mo., September 12, 19x12. To the Members of the Socialist Party. Comrades: Your National Committee, in submitting its semi-annual report, deems it wise to confine itself to a statement of the difficulties confronting the party...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Semi-Annual Report of the National Committee of the Socialist Party. St. Louis, Mo., September 12, 19x12. To the Members of the Socialist Party. Comrades: Your National Committee, in submitting its semi-annual report, deems it wise to confine itself to a statement of the difficulties confronting the party in order that the membership, being possessed of the facts, may take appropriate action. While Socialist sentiment has increased throughout the country with marked rapidity, and while many very gratifying changes have taken place in our movement, we must in all candor say that the party organization has not been equal to the opportunities presented thereby. Since the last national convention the movement has been divided into as many parties as there are States, each directed by a state committee proceeding in its own weak fashion and according to its own conception of principles and tactics, with the result that the Socialist party to-day is no stronger than the strongest state organization affiliated. Inscead of being a united party, we are fast becoming a mere federation of Socialist Parties, each of these parties having its territorial limits and jealously guarding against any encroachment upon its domain. Such a condition has led to endless confusion and needless waste of energy and funds. Each state committee is bearing the burden of nursing an infant Socialist Party, and thus doing in each state what the party did on a national scale many years ago. Consequently, regardless of their good intentions, they are unable to properly meet their obligations to the National Organization. In matters of organization and propaganda the desire of most state committees to till their own field makes us appear as an army of truck farmer? instead of the bonanza farmer...