Again we are giving over “eT . = nae _ @@itorial space to reporting the situation inside the Belgian Socialist Party because this information is not generally available, The following report is from a Brussels correspondent and is dated the 20th, of March,
"The struggle inside the Belgian Socialist Party between the right and left wings reached new levels of sharpness when all the socialist dailies in the country published an editorial March 13 signed by party chairman, Leo Collard threatening E,Mandel, editor of the left-wing woekly La Gauche, and E, Glinne, the main spokesman of the left socialists in Parliament, with expulsion, Mandel and Glinne have played a prominent part in the struggle against proposed new antistrike legislation, At a recent emergency congress of the Socialist party, Mandel, in open defiance of party leader Spaak, said that tue tendency he represented would fight to the end against such repressive legislation, On March 16 La Gauche responded to the attack on Mandel and Glinne by publishing an editorial signed by Jacques Yerna, secretary of the important Lioge Trafe Union Federation, Yerna told Collard that if he wanted to expel Mandel and Glinne, he would also have to expel ‘him ‘and the majority of the Walloon trade-union militants." ae
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