SOCIALISM IN GERMANY.
The annual report which the leaders of the Socialist party in Germany have prepared for publication gives some impressive statistics as to the recent growth of this organisation. At the end of last June the various district organisations had increased their total membership to 970,112—a gain of nearly 16 per cent as compared with the preceding year. As there is nothing to indicate a probability of material decrease in the rate? of growth in the near future, it must, therefore, he expected that the mimher of actually organised Socialists in Germany will soon be considerably in excess of 1,000,000. The number of subscribers to Socialist papers was more than 1,487,000, 'and: the amount of their subscriptions aggregated more than £44,000. The number of Socialist Deputies in various German State Parliaments rose during the, year from thirty-sjx to 224. The report makes the interesting statement that in the recent Reichstag elections the party expended the sum of £40,000.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10713, 4 October 1912, Page 4
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160SOCIALISM IN GERMANY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10713, 4 October 1912, Page 4
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