New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-09
SYMPATHY FROM SOCIALISTS
THE ZURICH CONGRESS REMEMBERS TH1
STRIKING ENGLISH MINERS

MORAL AND MATERIAL SUPPORT FOR THE1@
EIGHTEEN NATIONS NOW REPRESENTED
THE ANARCHIST DIFFICULTY SETTLED.
Zurich Aug. s-The International Socialist Con-
gress continued its session in the Town Hall To-
day Among the business transacted the adj
mission OF delegates who had been unable to reach
Zurich in time for the opening OF the congress.
Eighteen nations represented, the total
number of delegates being 3S5. OF these ninety-twe
are Germans sixty-lve Englishmen and thirty-eishs
Frenchmen. the remainder being made up
Of representatives from nfteen other nations' M
Guiding America.
The question to whether Anarchstic and In.
dependent Socialists should be permitted to sit a.
delegates which led to much excitement and dis.
order In the congress yesterday was brought up
again to-day and 1t finally decided to settle Il
by referring 1t to the Committee on standing
orders.
An Austrian delegate moved the adoption Of
re souton expressing the sympathy of the congress
with the English coal miners now on strike against
the proposed reduction OF 25 per cent In their
wages The resolution passed amid great
cheering and loud acclamations
NJ Vanderweld a delegate from Belgium. sug-
gested that a money collection for the miners %
taken up among the delegates This would be
kind of material sympathy that would aid the
Reniamin Pickard an English delegate. thanked
the congress for It's action. Mr. Plckard; VINO y
member Of the House Of Comme %s;o and v viSs
said that the English miners would De deepy
moved BY tn the ,ss Of q
A collection was then taken up. Inc Eermaa
delegates contributed f25, and those from otnes
has adSPtS1 rule A to apDsSnt
French delegate. presided
The keynote Of the Zurich Congress was given
by "Citzen" Vanderweld when he proposed ana
no ado Dractical measure OF a.
sistance of an international character In favor
of the British miners. Vanderweld is young
man who comes from a Belgian bourgeois
family He Is well educated. and has renounceo
the paternal conservative traditions to embrace
the most advanced ideas of Socialism. He VIII
soon be more powerful among the aboring classes
in Belgium than Volders and Anseelc now are
He is the leader Of the Brussels Federation OF the
Labor party, and was chairman OF the great meet
ing held by that federation in July. 1892. IN st
Michel Hall. vanderwed selected by his
federation to cry out in a stentorian voice at the
last meeting OF the International Congress- Proie-
tarians of the world. let Us unite"
These words were repeated by Liebknecht, whos
with Bebe and Singer. formed the leading trt-
umvirate Of German Socialism at the Marseiiles
Congress last September Lebknecht ended Ms
speech by exclaimng: Long live the International
Revolutionary Democracy He was only an IN.
yited guest at the Marseiles Congress. which rep
resented exclusively the National Labor party Of
France
There is liable to be some confusion in regard to
the innumerable workingpen's congresses. 80 often
held In different cities Of Europe. The local
labor associations have their own meetings -
certain regular periods. There are also National
Congresses composed only OF members belonging
to the associations Of the same country. Finally
International Congress is held every year ale
ways in a different city, and the labor organize.
tons of every land in Europe are invited to at.
tend 1t. 1t is such congress which is In session
now at Zurich. The ultimate aim Of the leaders
is 10 revive the former international Working
mems Association" founded in London In 1869.
but which did not last long after the overthrow
of the Paris Commune But 1t will be some time
before the famous "Internatona' can be recon.
structed. because the Socialist schools and sys-
tens are more numerous than ever and each one
Of them is too anxious for predominance over the
others.