SOCIALIST UNITY IS ACHIEVED BY CZECH PARTIES
Socialist Unity Is Achieved By Czech Parties AtHer Hewfe fivcwt 8© half of International — Racial Conflicts Was Barrier "DRAOUE.—The Unity Congress of the Socialist Parties In...
...They fear nothing quite so much as to have the American people get it into their heads that they are being robbed on their electric bills...
...The Hamburg Congress could only get over the difficulty raised by the problems of the labor movement in this country by setting up a commission to bring, in the future, these problems nearer to solution...
...And this indicates...
...But the moment has come today, and the fact that it has come marks a consolidation not only df*your movement in Czechoslovakia but a consolidation of the whole international movement...
...And therefore may I conclude my most cordial wishes for your deliberations with the hope that the results of this Congress here in Prague may be such that, when we meet In Brussels on the 5th of August for the Third Congress of the Socialist International, among the successes won during this period since Hamburg—during these last five years—we will be able to say with pride: It was the workingclass of aH nattonsHties to Csecho Slovakia "which contributed to the victory Reckless Financing Another thing the power people do lot want exposed is the reckless financing which has been going on rlnce the advent of super-power a few ohort years ago...
...The opening speeches -were delivered by the President ef the Czech Party, Hampel, and the President of the German Party, Dr...
...A daylight investigation that hit the front page of the newspapers would add fuel to the flames of popular indignation now beginning to burn...
...Many investment bankers have invested m these watered stocks and (t is perilous to have their confidence shaken...
...Samuel Instill of Chicago invaded the Pine Tree state to assume direction of its power, politics and newspapers he paid $140 per share for Maine Central Power common stock which had been sellingit $40 and was not worth that, but t gave him control...
...The political resolution and the manifesto were unanimously adopted with tremendous enthusiasm...
...This great recognition we see confirmed again today...
...They are seeking tb control everything from town councilmen to the United States Supreme Court...
...The main reports on the first item of the agenda, "Political and economic Conditions and the task of the Workingclass," were given by Bechyne and ..Czech...
...Five years have gone b#nd this attempt has succeeded...
...The event had begun by a tableau expressing fraternity between the Czech and German gymnasts to the sound of the "international" and so it closed to the powerful strains of the . "Red Flag' 'and the "International...
...Frank Bohn in the New York Times or his recent pamphlet sent out by Cortelyou's Joint Committee to deceive the American people...
...Cortelyou is a director, $4.80 for 36 kilowatt hours...
...Now this sort of buying has been ?oing cm all over the United States, in little towns and big, by power magnates seeking monopoly in their respective spheres of influence...
...1928, so hopefully begun by this Congress, is in the highest degree a year of campaign...
...But far beyond the borders of CseehoBlovakia today's Congress marks a day of confidence for the International...
...we have again achieved a united organization, and today on this memorable occasion for the workers in Csecho Slovakia, we can recall the fact that among the greatest difficulties we had to overcome in order \ to get this unity, were the problems of the labor movement in Csecho Slovakia...
...Or my table are the proof sheets of a new league bulletin which came ir from the printer as I dictated the last paragraph...
...Ob yes, but Ontario gets cheap domestic service because of the high rates charged industrial power users...
...In the various countries we are faced with Important decisions, but all those decisions which will arise we Shall approach with great confidence...
...Extortionate Rates This frenzied financing—to use an old term—of electric utility securities is all based on the abiUty of the ¦power interests to keep on charging extoritionate rates...
...To have this exposed would impede the progress of this grand crusade of selling "customer-ownership" stocks to common people...
...Untiring efforts had been made towards it, but the opportune moment was long in coming...
...first, to get them...
...The public plant )f Cleveland, which generates by coal as in New York, would have charged dm $2.28 for that bill...
...Down in Birmingham, the Alabama Power Co., water power production, would have charged him $5.05...
...Lukoss, and of the Socialists of {Carpathian Russia, Necas, and also • Chech and a German woman Socialist...
...We see, how against all other opposition, the bourgeoisie of this country has become united in order to move against the working-class, and we see with proud satisfaction that the classconsciousness of the workers of this country is winning through to supremacy and dominance in face of all other difficulties confronting us, that the working-class of this country is determined, united and with closed ranks, to pursue this fight...
...such single menace to democratic government to the United States today as this power combination now hooked up with the street car and gas Interests...
...During these very days, eighty yean ago the Communist Manifesto by Man and Bngels was issued for the first time This Manifesto, which has been a guiding star to us during all these decades, taught us above all that In face of all local interests, national interests, cultural interests, the class-interest would finally be realised as the most powerful force In the whole society...
...Friedrich Adler's speech, in part, follows: "The significance of this Congress for Csecho Slovakia can hardly be measured...
...This commission met there under the Chairmanship of comrade Huysmans, heard every Party, and came to the decision that the moment had not yet arrived for a step forward to be taken...
...You...
...the trend of every state to the entire nation aad of the nation itself...
...Oh yes," says some wise boy whe has read the propaganda articles by Mr...
...In the Presidium there were elected in addition to them the representative of the Polish SodaMnts...
...A New York friend sends me his -;lgctric bill for January...
...He paid the New York Edison Co., of which Mr...
...can see the spread and begin to figure what that means when applied to the whole American nation Store-keepers and hotels and small power users likewise pay extortionate rates to private companies...
...And that is why we got them...
...In Maine last summer a keen observer said "During the first part of the last century the government of Maine was lumber, in the last half it was railroads, today it is water power...
...second, to be able to advertise that municipal ownership is a failure...
...Reaction, which in all European countries has brought about a state of affairs to which the bourgeoisie is again alone to the government...
...Industrial power is much cheaper in the United States than in Ontario...
...For example, up n Maine last summer I learned that Arhen Mr...
...I quote again from this forthcoming bulletin the following table: INDUSTRIAL, POWER, TOTAL, 1926 KWH Sold Revenue Per KWH Entire United States..........35,154,000,000 $1,018,200,000.06 785c Entire Ontario...
...That has been fulfilled...
...I quote: "At Ontario light rates the total American light bill for 1926 including domestic, commercial and street lighting, would have been less by $713,000,000...
...Socialist Unity Is Achieved By Czech Parties AtHer Hewfe fivcwt 8© half of International — Racial Conflicts Was Barrier "DRAOUE.—The Unity Congress of the Socialist Parties In Czechoslovakia, took place hi Prague on She aMh and 39th January...
...Let us for a moment recall the time of the Hamburg Congress, five years ago, when we undertook the attempt to Join together again in one organisation the labor movements of the various countries, so disrupted by the war and the postwar period...
...Is watching these election campaigns with quite other feelings —For it Is evident that after the first blow we experienced to the first five years, the International is now again on the advance ,that we may hope that a leftward development in all the countries of Europe may to this year of 1928 become a fact...
...To be sure, these fancy prices are carried forward into the big mergers and all set up as an "investment" on which the people are required to pay dividends...
...After them there spoke the reppresentative of the Polish Socialists, Stefiek, the representative of the Magyar Socialists, Balla, and the representative of the Ruthenian Socialists, Nimouk...
...638,486,973 12,987,676.01 2209c Hence, at Ontario power rates the American power bill would have been Ie™ °y ........................v...........................«Ml*iM0 x nave nsxea seven other reasons in a hurried cast-up as to why Saint George and the Knights of Power do not want a searchlight thrown into the hack end of their tents but these three will be enough to justify all of the thousands they have spent on this lobby, aU the car-fare personal friends of Senators spent to come here, all the newspaper advertising to choke off publicity and all the rest of it from their point of view...
...They have succeeded the railroads as the biggest economic factor to political control...
...Viewed alone from the political standpoint, there is no...
...Soine'.imcs this stock exceeds the actual physical value of the property on which it is based by five or six or even ten times...
...We have had difficulties, they are plain to the world, they have been published everywhere...
...I may today say quite frankly, even to the German comrades in Csecho Slovakia, who were very pessimistic at that time and thought it would not be possible, that I persistently expressed the opinion to them that what te happening today must come, not through any dictate from above, or from the International, but as it has been so rightly expressed in the speeches of the Presidents, through the pressure of events themselves...
...Friedrich Adlar and Louis de Broukere...
...A special drive has been made to buy up municipal plants...
...In Toronto, vater power production, he would have paid $1.41...
...As representative of the Socialist International there were present Dr...
...The Czech speaker delivered some remarks in German, and the German speaker concluded in Czech...
...in various European countries we are faced with great election battles, in France and Germany, perhaps also in Belgium and Great Britain...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 12
