 At the League 's Fourth Conference in May 1888 , factional divisions became increasingly apparent between Morris ' anti @-@ parliamentary socialists , the parliamentary socialists , and the anarchists ; the Bloomsbury Branch were expelled for supporting parliamentary action . Under the leadership of Charles Mowbray , the League 's anarchist wing were growing and called on the League to embrace violent action in trying to overthrow the capitalist system . By autumn 1889 the anarchists had taken over the League 's executive committee and Morris was stripped of the editorship of Commonweal in favour of the anarchist Frank Kitz . This alienated Morris from the League , which had also become a financial burden for him ; he had been subsidising its activities with £ 500 a year , a very large sum of money at the time . By the autumn of 1890 , Morris left the Socialist League , with his Hammersmith branch seceding to become the independent Hammersmith Socialist Society in November 1890 . 
