The Workers Abroad
Khinoy, Mark
The Workers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World By Mark Khinoy Czechoslovakia.—The Social-Democratic Party counts now a dues-paying membership of...
...Thorvald Stauning Socialist Premier of Denmark, and Per A 1 b i n Hansson, Socialist Premier of S w c d en, were the prime movers o f the conference...
...Doth these parties belong to the Socialist International...
...There is a third, "Populist" Socialist Party, that derives its strength from middle class elements and is outside the International...
...A general election took place of shop and factory chairmen, and because the ballot was a more or loss secret one the result was a crushing defeat of the government-sponsored Yellow (Christian) and Black (Fascist) candidate-, and a brilliant victory for the Socialist representatives...
...He has reason to fear, that their present composition—78.8% Socialists to 21.4% of others—may be changed to favor stUfhipre his implacable foes, the Socialists...
...Branting has found successors worthy of him3cl...
...The congress met in Prague, capital of this young Republic, whom Fate made a haven of refuge for thousands of political exiles from Hitlerite Germany and Fascist or semi-Fascist Austria, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Roumania and Poland that encircle her on every side...
...This was brought to light at the J7th congress of the Party three weeks ago...
...Some estimate that almost 90% of all the elected "Factory Chairmen" are Socialists...
...This party In also represented in the coalition government...
...Thorvald August Marfnus Stauning, big bearded descendant of Viking rovers, was born in Copenhagen on October 26, 187:t, the son of a coachwright...
...This little Baltic Republic, with a territory hardly surpassing the combined area of New Hampshire and New Jersey and a population of 1,100,000 or there about, wai for some tlms classed among the best "agrarian republics" of post-war Europe...
...During the Conference the whole Socialist world celebrated Staun-ing's 60th birthday...
...The Norwegian Socialists are at present out of the Labor and Socialist International, but they maintain the friendliest relations with the movement everywhere...
...The democracy does not care to wait until it will be de stroyed, said a Socialist leader in the local Senate...
...The latest reports Indicate that a new government is already on the job and is busy on the promised constitutional changes...
...The Nome-gian party, not reprc-s e n t e d, has just wonamag-n i fi cent election victory and after the Storting meets in January vill probably have a Socialist Premier, thus giving all Scandinavia Socialist governments...
...The Communist unions of Czechoslovakia have just published a belated report of their membership...
...The revolutionary peasants of this formerly Russian province made in the years 1918-1925 a thorough job in "liquidating" all the large estates and dividing the land of the gentry among the landles.s Came the world crisis with its low prices on farm products and brought with it a mental state when men are ready to try anything—ev**» Fascist slavery...
...In the present Cabinet two Socialist parties are represented: the Czechoslovakian Social-Democratic Party ai>^ the German Social-Democratic Party...
...If there is still peace and'progress in Czechoslovakia, it is due to the prevailing democracy...
...From 167,000 it fell to 150,000...
...Jugoslavia.—That a terrorist dictatorship cannot destroy the Socialist faith of workers was once more brought out in the factory elections in the Fascist Kingdom of Jugoslavia...
...The other 36 went 14 to the Yellow Christian unions and 21 to their Nazi brethren...
...Tho other 26% consists of intellectuals (2'/!i'/<), small artisans, farmers and others (16...
...Scandinavian Socialists Build Anti-Fascist Bloc I^ITli iasiisni challenging democracy in all countries, and with Nazi propaganda of race hatred against non-Nordics being pushed in every part of the world, the Socialist parlies of the Countries of the world with the purest Nordic population, the Scandinavian democracies, have recently held a joint conference in Copenhagen to safeguard democracy...
...Emile Vandcrvelde, president of the Labor and Socialist International, wrote in Le Peuple of Brussels: "From Copenhagen to Helsingfors today the Nordic Socialist parties are the solid barrier of democacy against the menace and the growth of Fascism in all its forms...
...Since 1910 he has been a Socialist member of Parliament, and he was Minister without Portfolio 1916-1920, and Premier from 1924 to 1926, and again since 1928...
...The fact that the three principal parties represented likewise speak for the governments of three of the most literate, most democratic and probably the most intelligent nations in the world, and who are, in addition, possessed of the purest Nordic blood, gives point to their defense against Fascism and Nazism...
...Austria.—No wonder the Dollfuss Semi-Fascist government is afraid to permit the legally overdue elections of factory counselors in that sorely tried country...
...There were representatives of the Socialist movement of Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland...
...This report shows that Hitler's accession to power that brought a rush of new members to the Socialist Party and Socialist-controlled unions caused the Communist unions to lose 10% of their membership in one single month—April, 1988...
...Meanwhile it legalised the formerly suppressed Fascist organizations and refused to lift the order outlawing the Serial 1st and Communist societits...
...Esthonia joined the Fascist ring of Europe In October...
...But even here the Free (Socialist) unions elected 25 factory counselors out of a total of 60...
...Another resolution concurred in the action of the Socialist deputies and senators that recorded their votes in favor of the bill outlawing the Nazi party for its advocacy of a violent suppression of democracy...
...The report shows the significant fact that 74% of the Party membership consists of wage earners, 69% manual workers, 11% civil service employees, 4% sslaried employees in private enterprises...
...After a long and exhaustive dlscusiion the convention adopted a number of resolutions on Socialist strategy and tactics in the present crisis...
...Stauning, his pupil, passes his 00th birthday in full physical i.nd intellectual vigor...
...One authorized the continuation of Socialist support of a coalition government with other progressive forces of the country...
...There were 448 regular and 180 fraternal delegates present...
...The purpose of the gathering was to devise methods of erecting barriers against the spread of Fascism and for the defense of democracy...
...These "radical" peasans, or rather their unemployed and unemployable sons, have now adopted, in a popular referendum, a Fascist amendment to the constitution...
...Slovenia seems to be the only district where the lovers of dictatorship showed any strength...
...The first one works among the nine million Czechoslovakians, the second among (fie three million Germans...
...This amendment was previously rejected twice, and now—at tho third ballot—It was adopted by an exceptionally large majority of 420,000 in round figures against 160,000...
...He went to work at 10, and is thoroughly self-educated...
...The Workers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World By Mark Khinoy Czechoslovakia.—The Social-Democratic Party counts now a dues-paying membership of 194,867—an Increase of fort* thousand since its last convention...
...Among the fraternal delegates were a number of representatives of Socialism in other countries, Including the Labor and Socialist International...
...He was a cigarmaker, and editor of the journal of his union, nnd associate editor of Social Deino-kraten, and he has been active in the trade union and Socialist movement all his adult life...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 22
