SOCIALIST CONFERENCE, GERMANY.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12018, 20 August 1907, Page 3

SOCIALIST CONFERENCE, GERMANY.

i Reoeived August .l 9, 9.34 p.m., i i . Berlin,, August 19. Nine hundred delegates Representing twenty-five nationalities, intended the International Socialist Conference at Stuttgart; the United States sending twenty-one, Germany three hundred, Britain one hundred and thirty, including fifty-nine representatives of social democratic federation, thirty-eight Independent Labor Party, sixteen Fabian Society, six Trade Unions, two Labor Par )y; also South Africa and Australia are represented. Heir Bebel, on rising to address the inaugural meeting in Liederhalle, which was draped red, was received with frantic enthusiasm and cheered for fully two minutes. He reviewed the [progress of ; the niovenient. claiming much progress in France, Finla_.d, Austria* Holland, and Switzeralnd. He complimented the English proletariat on a brilliant victory. Though a clever bourgeois Government had taken Mr Burns into the . Cabinet, it has not succeeded in changing the fighting tactics of the workmen's party. Continuing, he said, though tbe number of Sooialist seats in tbe Reichstag bad been reduced, the Party had gained a quarter of a million votes at the last election. So royalty hard failed to ride down social democracy. He rejoiced at the brilliant acquittal of William Haywood from the scandalous prosecution by the capitalist olasses in connection witb the murder of Steuenberg, former Governor of Idaho. He hoped the Sooialist Conference would do better than the Conference, which was destined to bring forth a most ridiculous still-born mouse. Herr Ringer was elected president. The first plenary sitting will be held on Tuesday. A hundred thousand attended a mass meeting in the fields of Gannstalt, a suburb of Stuttgart, which was quite orderly, though the speeches of Bebel, Ringer, James and Ferri inspired immense enthusiasm.