ANTI-SOCIALIST UNION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 647, 26 October 1909, Page 5

ANTI-SOCIALIST UNION.

■'■' ■"' .'='■■■''., '•■'•:.■': —s." . ": — ~~ — : *: •' '■•.•''.■'■'''■ H; A SHILLINGS. WANTED;- '-''. , (By TeleEraphi-I'rcM AMocla'llon-Cnpyrieb't.l.' s .'■;.-:;' .(Reo. October 25, i 10.20 a.m.) '■'■' ■. : '■'■:' ..:, : ..Londoh'i October 25.■'.'" ■ The Anti-Socialist .Union'.of, Great Britain is appealing ,to the public to.'subscribe a million Shillings in order;. to extend tho work- of obtaining fair -representation of :working men in •Parliament/,'■■'?'■ ;r ;V:' : ' ;, ;\-'- .'■ ■'' '. ; ''. •;' V-.' : .'.'■' i; ; ;; the ■;union ,and,;;its''. workJ•According- to a ." Daily Mail "writer, ''the Anti-S6cial|st.TJnion: was formed as tho result of a\ conference held ' iiv London, at which the;.various associations, engaged in combating t Socialism ' were - Vepresented. ; .Tho nc(d. of a central Organisation to direct and' co-yrdiriato tho- national; movement'/against Socialism whs recognised, and the associations.represented at the' cohforpneo.. undertook to assist tho'-'central, organisation by ail means in thoir power. After some months spent in -the preliminary work of organisation, , ; ,the --Anti-Socialist • Union is now. taking tho field, and will henceforward combat in all its forms and developments. , '"In view of .tho of Socialism, in this.couiitry, asshown: by' tho fact .that- tho' two leading' Socialist organisations ; now havo nearly'cloven hundred. branches—an'.'inorcaso of more'than three .hundred and fifty branches in "the 'past eighteen months—lt is recognised that the '.Anti-Socialist ; movement,-', to. bo efiectaal, must'.' bo.. organised on a proportionate scale. To this .'end tho Anti-Socialist'Union has made 'arrangements r for ■" a national . propa-i ganda." :■,.-.<■.-■.•■.;■:..;i-'---v'>-:;'•■:'--.•■ -v v ■.> -.; .-,..-.'-'."i •'; The: activities of the Anti-Socialist Union includo tho'establishmeht of a'sohool for with daily training classes;: a publication, de-; partraont,, with' a staff-of writers; aii. intelli-gence:-department to ' gather-;iinforni'a'(jon, and put on record-various utterances ; of the enemy. The chairman is Mr. Claudo Lowther. Other Anti-Socialist societies are tho Industrial Free-:, dom League, the Liberty and Proporty Dofonco League, the British Constitution.Association, the.liondon Municipal. Society,: tho Ai\ti-Social-. jst League, /and ;.the, Anti-Socialist Department, of tho Liboral''Unionist Council. ■'.-!'. - : .'•"' '.