An investigation is shortly to be launched by the Socialist Party’s national executive committee into charges that “anti-Semites and pro-Hitlerites” had captured the Socialist local in South Bend, Ind.
At its recent quarterly convention in Milwaukee, the committee heard a South Bend delegation testify that a secret group had been organized in South Bend to keep the party from becoming “too Jewish.”
This delegation charged that the Indiana State Socialist executive committee had by deceptive means taken away the charter of the previously functioning Socialist local and then recognized a new local that was “anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, nationalistic and unsocialistic.”
Emma Henry, the Indiana State secretary, denied the charges. Nevertheless, the national executive committee here unanimously ordered the Indiana State executive committee to restore the charter of St. Joseph county (in which South Bend is located) and revoke the one irregularly granted to the new local in South Bend.
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