Local 69, Robert Behling, 2123 N. Dupont avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. Local 72, Harry Smith, 617 Lamont street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Local 73, Emil Eisenberg, 915 Rosemore avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. P. O. South Hills Branch. Local 75, Jack Boobar, 1329 Pacific avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. Local 76, Harry Siegel, 34 Russel street, Hartford, Conn. Local 77, Julius Schleider, 438 Newton avenue, Shorewood, Wis. Local 79, Robert E. Barth, 361-29th street, San Francisco, Cal. Local 80, Clara C. Bock, 59 Lexington avenue, Detroit, Mich. Local 81, A. Rogat, 2500 Verde street, Los Angeles, Cal. SUB-SECTION IV SPREAD OF SOCIALISM IN EDUCATED CIRCLES THROUGH PACIFIST, RELIGIOUS, COLLEGIATE SOCIETIES, ETC. Chapter I. Emergency Peace Federation, Chicago, Dec. 19, 1914 March, 1915 971 II. National Peace Federation, March, 1915-December 981 III. Ford Peace Party, Dec. 4, 1915. (Merging into Ford 988 IV. American Neutral Conference Committee, July, 1916- 993 V. Emergency Peace Federation, New York City, Feb. 3, 998 VI. First American Conference for Democracy and Terms 1024 ...... 1051 ments, Dec. 18, 1914, into American Civil Liberties Academic and Scholastic Socialist Activities.... 1077 1105 1112 XI. Socialism and the Churches.. 1122 [967] SUB-SECTION IV SPREAD OF SOCIALISM IN EDUCATED CIRCLES THROUGH PACIFIST, RELIGIOUS, COLLEGIATE SOCIETIES, ETC. INTRODUCTION It is the purpose of the Committee in the succeeding chapters of this section to show the use made by members of the Socialist Party of America and other extreme radicals and revolutionaries of pacifist sentiment among people of education and culture in the United States as a vehicle for the promotion of revolutionary Socialist propaganda. The facts here related are important because they show that these Socialists, playing upon the pacifist sentiment in a large body of sincere persons, were able to organize their energies and to capitalize their prestige for the spread of their doctrines. The group here treated is of particular significance because it is recruited largely from among educators, authors, newspaper writers and the clergy, thus giving entree to the public prints, influencing opinion, and invading public office during the war, also attempting to influence the foreign policy of this country toward Soviet Russia. In dealing with the subject, the Committee has used only original documents which have come into its possession through subpoena of the files of the National Civil Liberties Bureau and other organizations. The Committee does not seek to question the motives of any person or question the patriotism of the persons named, but in all instances allows the documents to speak for themselves. These chapters may, in large measure, tend to explain the sympathetic attitude toward Soviet Russia and to the radical and revolutionary groups in this country which is maintained by numerous periodicals and newspapers, as will more fully be shown in the section of this report dealing with propaganda. [969] |