SOCIALISM.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2371, 30 May 1906, Page 2

SOCIALISM.

TELEGRAMS

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyugnf).

THE “YELLOW PARTY.” REVOLUTIONISTS DEFEATED. PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Paris, May 28. M. Pierre Bieky, the apostle of the so-called Yellow party of Socialists, defeated the candidate of the revolutionary Socialists at Brest in the recent election. The new deputy and his party are receiving numerous accessions. They are organising an international congress. According to French newspapers, the Governments of several countries including Germany, Russia, and Spain, have signified their intention of participating. M. Bieky eliminates the destructive and negative elements of Socialism from lus programme, upholding individualism and the diffusion of wealth by giving workmen a share in the industries in which they are employed, thus interesting them in then employers’ prosperity. In France the 1903 Congress at Bordeaux showed that French Socialists are divided into two main groups the Government Socialists and the Revolutionary Socialists, the lattei Icing led by M. Jules Guesde, who declare that Socialism is inconsistent with the opportunism required by participation in the work of Government under existing conditions. In 1904 the Socialist Federation of th* Department of the Seine resolved to exclude M. Milleraml (leader of the Government Socialists). A splir amongst the Radical Socialists group in Parliament followed, sixty-live members of the group forming a nt-v. party which they called the Radical Socialist la*ft. The Socialists of Germany arc known as the Social Democrats. I'h > form the strongest political party in the Empire, and their aim is avowedly to replace the existing capitalistic order of society hv one in which land capital, and all the means of pro duct ion and distributh n a ill be owned and worked by the community lor tiie benefit of all its members.

Ther > is a Socialist party in Spain, led by Senor lglesias, which in 1903 joined hands with the Republicans, and conducted a vigorous revolutionary propaganda.