tyr, in our day of doom!
Hail, fiery heart, receive the victor's crown!
Our heart a charnel house has grown
For our vast dead! Yet we make room
For freedom's slain. Shall not the tomb
Yield heavy harvest where such seed is sown?"
"The Call," April 15, 1919, published the following endorsement of
Hungarian Communism by the New York State Committee of the Socialist
Party:
"Whereas, the working class of Hungary have seized political power
and are using the same for the purpose of socializing industry and
as an instrument for the complete emancipation of labor, therefore
be it
"Resolved, that we, the State Committee of the Socialist Party of
the State of New York, in meeting assembled congratulate the
Socialist movement and the working class of Hungary on the success
of the revolution and on the position that the Hungarian Socialist
Republic has taken in defiance of the capitalist imperialists of
all lands."
In the April 24, 1919, edition of "The Call" we read:
"A new period in the evolution of the social and economic structure
of the world is at hand. A new day for those who toil. A new day
which will mean economic and political liberty based on justice for
those who toil. Some call it revolution. Well, if that be the word,
so be it. And woe be to those who in their blind folly throw
themselves in the way to stop its onward sweep throughout the
civilized world, for they shall be as grass before the sickle!
Hail, all hail, the new day!"
Again, in its issue of April 30, 1919, "The Call" favors the Hungarian
Communist regime of Bela Kun:
"'There is reason to believe,' says a dispatch from Budapest, 'that
the present Hungarian government has been unofficially approached
by the Entente with the suggestion that military invasion might be
arrested if the extremist members were replaced by more moderate
Socialists.' Making all allowance for the unreliability of the
dispatch, it is hard to say which cuts the more contemptible
figure, the Entente or the 'Moderate Socialists.'"
In its 1919 May Day edition, "The Call," under the caption, "All Attacks
on Russian Revolution Have Recoiled," shows its sympathy for Bolshevism
and Spartacism:
"Every attack of world reaction upon Soviet Russia, the center of
the world revolution, has remained fruitless. The internal s
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