People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-25
INTERNATIONAL.
London, England.

INTERNATIONAL LABOR con-
GRESS.-In accordance with the resolu-
lions passed at the last congress in Zu-
rich, Switzerland, the next International
Labor Congress will be held in London,
England, in 1896 1t is expected that the
Socialist, Trades Union and K. of L. Or
CARNATIONS of all countries of the civil
ICED world will be represented. Address
all communications to NJ. E. Aveling, 7
Grays Sun Square, W. c., London, Eng
land
North Riding, England.
VIGOROUSLY a majority Of 4S So
cialist votes Thomas Snaith has been cleo
ter as representative of the Clifton Di-
vision to the North Riding County Coun-
ell, Yorkshire. Snaith, who was for two
years president of the York Fabian Soci-
ETY., has already done excellent work on the
School Board and Poor Law Board, and
his election to the County Council is a dis,
tinct triumph to the local Socialists.
Paris, France.
CAPITALIST MURDER.-M. Edouard
Valiant, Socialist member of Parliament,
and one of the Oldest members Of the
Paris City Council, has published an art.
icle in La Petite Republique," in which
he charges the Montceau-les- Mines Min.
Ing Co. with murder en- masse. He claims
that said compagnie was responsible for
the death of forty mine workers who
were killed by the recent explosion. In
order to make exorbitant profits the com.
pany neglected to keep the mines in good
and safe order Human life is cheap.
Oxford, England.
kerr HARDIE SPEAKS.-The Socialist
member of Parliament, Kerr Hardie, had
a great reception in Oxford on Saturday
night. The room was not nearly large
enough, only about a quarter of those de-
string to hear him succeeding. Sir John
Gorst had spoken 4 week previously in the
Hall at Balliol College on the subject of
the unemployed. But the Balliol College
authorities did not contemplate the pros
pect Of Mr.. Keir Hardie coming to de.
bauch' Ito use Mr.. John Burns classic and
elegant expression) the Oxford students,
and after four days soulful consideration
declined the use of their College Hall
However, Manchester College came to the
rescue, and the Member for the Unem-
ployed had great reception. One funny
incident occurred at the end of the meet
ing. A lordling rose to ask a question.
prefacing his remarks by impressing the
lecturer with the Importance of his social
status. Did not Mr.. Kerr Hardie consider
that the duty of finding work for the IN
employed was an economic one? Mr.. Har.
die regretted that he had never received a
university education, and was unable TO
appreciate fine distinctions. He had never
heard of an economic duty, but only of a
moral duty. The lorGling blushed and the
audience roared, and everybody is now
tormenting him by continual references 10
his economic duty.
Rome, Italy.
CRIsPrS REIGN OF TERRoR.-The
past year has been the most prolific in
bloody tokens of the war between the
Capitalist oligarchy and the Proletariat
since the formation of the Italian king.
dom. The spring of 1894 saw in Sicily.
the garden of the earth and the field of
prey Of the usurer and the big landlords
a state of terrible misery. The revolt of
the populace at Petraperzie, Valguarnera.
and Partincio, was provoked by the heavy
town taxation of provisions. This unjust
tax was enforced and maintained by
wholesale peasant shooting and by the
state of siege.
At the same time the Government ar
rested the leaders of the Sicilian Easel
Oeague), the courageous representatives
Of MARKHAM Socialism. who tried with all
their efforts to prevent the outbreak of
useless opposition of an unorganized mass
and in fact, where there was a firm Or
ganization Of the Easel existing no riot
broke out, as in Partincio where the re-
volt was under the leadership of the in.
defatigable DR.. Barbato, and was master
Of the situation. All the leaders of the
Sicilian Parliamentary Committee and La.
Dor Party were arrested without distinc-
Ion and brought before the Military Court