Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1907 — International Socialist Congress. [ARTICLE]

International Socialist Congress.

Eight hundred and eighty-six delegates, representing twenty-five of the leading nations of the world, which constituted the International Congress of Socialists, met for the first time on German soil at Stuttgart. Of these, 300 were from Germany, 130 from England, 00 from France, 80 from Austria, 50 from Russia and smaller delegations from Switzerland, Bohemia, Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, Roumania, Sweden, Holland, the United States, Argentina, South Africa, Australia and Japan. Secretary Van der Velde of the International Socialist Bureau, officiated at the opening of the congress. The opening address was made by Herr Bebel of Germany. He laid stress on the Socialist gaihs during the past year in France and on the fact that for the first time Socialists had been elected to the British Parliament. In his own country, while the number of scats in the Reichstag had been reduced, be pointed out that the Socialist vote had increased a quarter of a million since 1900. He said the number of enrolled members of Socialist syndicates in Germany last year was 1,800,000. He referred to the “scandalous prosecution” of Haywood in America, and expressed satisfaction at his acquittal. Herr Singer presided. An openair mass meeting was attended by 10,000 Socialists. The more important subjects discussed during the week were immigration. the relations of the party to trade unions and the proposal to introduce simultaneously in all parliaments a motion for establishing by law maximum working hours.