re with the more advanced Socialist groups."

In "The Call," May 17, 1919, Martens, the representative in the United
States of the Russian Soviet Government, is quoted as saying:

"Russian workers, whom I represent, acknowledge with gratitude the
sympathy toward the struggles of Soviet Russia evinced by the
Socialist Party of America, as well as by the Socialist Labor
Party, the I. W. W. and other organizations of the working class,
and they return the sympathy without discrimination."

"The Call," March 30, 1919, informs its readers that Cleveland
Socialists were organizing a Workers' and Soldiers' Soviet, and again,
on April 1, 1919, that soviets had been established in Seattle, Portland
and San Francisco. Eugene V. Debs, in an article written by him in "The
Class Struggle," said:

"From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik
and proud of it."

"The Call," April 14, 1919, published Debs' "Last Minute Message to All
New York Socialists":

"As I am about to enter the prison doors, I wish to send to the
Socialists of New York who have loyally stood by me since my first
arrest, this little message of love and cheer. These are pregnant
and promising days. We are all on the threshold of tremendous
changes. The workers of the world are awakening and bestirring
themselves as never before. All the forces that are playing upon
the modern world are making for the overthrow of despotism in all
its forms and for the emancipation of the masses of mankind. I
shall be in prison in the days to come, but my revolutionary spirit
will be abroad, and I shall not be inactive. Let us all, in the
supreme hour, measure up to our full stature and work together as
one for the great cause that means emancipation for us all. Love to
all my Comrades, and all hail to the Revolution.--Eugene Victor
Debs."

From the same issue of "The Call" we learn that Debs, on leaving
Wheeling, West Virginia, for the Moundsville prison, gave the following
statement to David Karsner, staff correspondent: "I enter the prison
doors a flaming revolutionist--my head erect, my spirit untamed, and my
soul unconquered."

A press despatch from Toledo, Ohio, March 31, 1919, describes the
serious socialist riot which took place that afternoon as a protest
against the then impending imprisonment of Debs, the self-styled
"flaming revolutionist