GERMAN SOCIALISTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8035, 23 January 1906, Page 2

GERMAN SOCIALISTS.

GIIEAT MEETINGS IX BEIiLIN. A TKll'Mnr FOll SOCIALISM. lleeeived 22, 10.5 p.m. Bkumx, January 22. Although Socialists' meetings have been prohibited in Hamburg, Lcipsig, Dresden, and several other cities, the authorities permitted ninety-three meetings at Berlin, which were attended by orer 50,000 persriiis,^ Resolutions were carrieil welcoming the revolutionary successes iu Russia ; sympathising with the victims of autocratic tyranny; protesting against the three class Prussian Electoral System ; demanding universal, eipitil and secret suffrage; condemning the reactionary Russian Diet as a caricature of a real representative assembly. Strong torccs ot cavalry, infantry, and artillery were held ready to support a thousand police, but not the slightest disturbance took place, the unollic'ml workmen's police easily controlling their comrades, who claim a triumph for the Socialist organisation, THE SOCIALIST I'AHTY. A MILLION AXII TIIREICHiITARTEIfS DISFRANCIIISED. GOVEUNING CLASSICS ALARM KH. Received 22, 11.17 p.m. Bi:m,ix, January 22. Several of the lieichstag Deputies protested at the meetings against the injustice of the Prussian electoral scheme, which, they hold, practically disfranchises a million ami threequarters of Social Democratic Electors.

lion' llcliel remarked that though the Sociali.st.-i iiuil .Social lK>morrats llilil 110 occasion n! present to transfer their agitation to the streets, the 'L'vt'iits in Kussia must lie regarded ns disc|uio'.iiig For the governing classes, Tlio grout soi-iat democratic demon-, rsirations passed oil' (|uiotly at Frankfui'l, Ilauovi'i', Kiel, Cologne, l'reslau mill other towns. i