George Ross Kirkpatrick

“ The employers' supreme problem is successful exploitation of all workers; and therefore the supreme problem for all the workers everywhere is freedom for all workers from exploitation everywhere—first, last, and all the time; and they should beware of any organization that sets workers against workers in the great struggle for freedom.
The Socialist Party opposes the Ku Klux Klan because of its terroristic methods and because of the damaging confusion and conflict it creates among the workers. ”

“ Second—The Klan injects the always irritating issue of religion into the discussions of the workers, setting the Protestant workers against the Catholic workers and the Jewish workers. But here again the supreme question for the workers as workers is, not their religious affiliations and differences, but the industrial freedom of all workers of all religions and all denominations. ”

“ Interference with religious freedom is clearly un-American. The First Amendment to the National Constitution declares:
"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof." ”