SOCIALISM ONLY HOPE SAY DEAF AND DUMB.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 32, 13 October 1911, Page 18

SOCIALISM ONLY HOPE SAY DEAF AND DUMB.

A political meeting of an extraordinary character was held in Berlin recently Deaf and dumb workers of both sexes assembled in large numbers to devise means for improving their positions. Speeches -were delivered by signs, and. were received with great enthusiasm. The deaf and dumb Avorkers complain that although they fulfil their obligations as well as normal persons, they are being left behind in the race for life, and they ascribe their position to the circumstance that "Junkers still have a 'majority in Parliament." Thoy have come to the conclusion that the Socialist party alone makes a stand for the poor, the oppressed, and tlie unfortunate'; and, after numerous speeches, the meeting passed unanimously a- resolution declaring it to be" the duty of every deaf and dumb person to take an active part in the elections.

Thereupon the Socialist Association of tho Deaf and Dumb was instituted, Avho.se object is to work vigorously for the success of Socialist candidates in the elections, for the Prussian Diet and German. Reichstag.