SOCIALISTS IN CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 20 August 1907, Page 3

SOCIALISTS IN CONFERENCE.

IXTJiItXATIONAL GATHERING IX GERMANY. MN'E HUNDRED DELEGATES PRE■SENT.

Received l'Jth, 9.3 i pan,

Berlin, August 19. Nine hundred delegates, representing :5 nationalities, attended the Interna"

tional .Socialist Conference at Stuttgart, the I'nited .Siatcs sending 21, Ueruiauv :!■.«>, liritaiu i:«i, including all representa"Uvea oi' the Social Democratic Federation, 38 of the Independent partv, lo of 1 6c I'abian .Society, six of Trade Unions, two of the Labor yam, also representative* of South Africa and Australia. Herr Bebel, in rising to address the inaugural meeting in the i-iederhalle ,v !" ci> was draped iu red, was received with frantic enthusiasm, and cheered for fully two minutes, lie received the progress of the movement, claiming much progress in l-'ranc-e, l'inlam], Austria, Holland, and Switzerland, and eomplimenlrd the English proletariat on their I In-iiliaut victory. Though a clever hour- I geois (.ioveroiucnl had taken .Mr John ' Hums into the Cabinet, thev had not suerecUeU in changing Hie lighting tactics oi (he workmen's party. Continuing, ho said that, though the number of Socialist seals in the Ucichsiag were reduced, the party had gained a quarter of a million more voles last election, so Royalty had failed to ride down the social democracy. He rejoiced at the brilliant acquittal of William Haywood from the scandalous prosecution by the capitalist classes in connection with Hie murder of Jlr .Sleuenberg, the former (rtjvernor of Idaho, lie expressed the hope that the Socialist Conference would do better than the Hague, which was destined to bring forth a most ridueulous stilllKirn mouse.

Herr Kinger was elected president. The first plenary sittings takes place on Tuesday.

One hundred thousand people attended a mass meeting iu the fields at Canstalt, a suburb of Stuttgart. The gathering I was quite orderly, though the speeches of Heron Rebel and Ringer, Mr James, and M. Ferri inspired immense enthusiasm.