I was googling today for Untermann to see if anyone had picked up his comment at a s.p. national meeting c. 1910, so relevant to the immigration debate today - he wanted to curtail immigration - that went something like this: "Karl Marx urged the workers of the world to unite but he didn't tell them all to come to America to do it."

Ernest Untermann, Sr. sent the following letter of resignation on August 10, 1933 to the local Socialist Party Secretary in San Francisco-

" I herewith return the membership card and form letter which you sent to me. Please accept my resignation. I attach no value to being connected with an organization which sends me application blanks and form letters for new members after I have been in this movement for forty years and found myself unable through unemployment to keep up my dues. I helped found the American Socialist party. I was for years a member of its National Exectutive. I was its official candidate for numerous offices, including governor of Idaho and the United States senator for California. I translated its greatest classics and wrote some of its permanent literature. I spoke for the party at thousands of meetings without pay, giving freely of my time, energy and knowledge. I have been an editor of its most famous weeklies, monthlies and dailies. To send me an application blank and such a form letter of invitation after such a life time of service, is not only a poor joke, but shows an incredible stupidity and ineptness. I don't want to belong to an organization whose officials haven't any better sense than that. And I don't believe that an organization led by that type of men has any future. Goodbye."