The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-25
POLISH ALLIANCE
 OF SOCIALISTS IN
 SESSION IN TOWN

Meeting in Warner Hall yesterday, the opening session of the Polish So- cialist Alliance, which is to continue through the week was held and ad- dresses made by John Spargo, Repre- sentative of the National Executive committee of the Socialist party of America. and Ighacy Daszynski, a prominent European Socialist and member of the parliament of Austria Poland.
 It is the expectation that this con- vent1on will mark the utilization of the Polish Socialist Alliance with the National party in America
 MT. Spargo said in part:
 "Comrade Chairman, and Comrades and friends, especially to my Polish comrades and friends. I come today not for the purpose of making a speech but rather to bring you the fraternal greetings of the comrades of the American Socialist movement. The National Executive committee Of the party has chosen Comrade Hillquit and myself to come to the convention of our Polish comrades as an expression of our sense of international soli- darity.
 'I told Comrade Dasynski that I was quite willing to make his speech in Polish if he would make mine in English. I suppose that anyone would understand me as we'll one way as the other still there is one thing quite certain. that whatever differences of languages, of race, of Nationality di- vide the workers of the world there is constantly growing tie and bond uniting all workers regardless of race, of speech, color, creed or Nation, and that tie is the red tie of International Socialism. (Applause)
 we who live in America, who make up this great American Nation, which has as yet no Nationality, we are con- fronted by very great problems; name ly, that into this land each year there come million and more workers and their families. These men, women and children are drawn from all parts of the earth. so that we in America, who are trying to bring about the political and economic organization of the workers, have to face this great problem-that here in one land we gather all the Nations of the earth with all it's divisions; and the Ameri- ca is after all what one great writer, Israel Zanwen, has called it, The Worlds Melting Pot, and the one great factory in that melting pot which is going to make possible the union of all these workers Is the Socialist movement which we, in our different routes and in our different ways, are seeking to Dromote.''
 Ignacy Dasznyski, Socialist member of the parliament of Austria-Poland was then introduced and addressed the gathering in Polish.
 He gave the following information about his country:
 .'The 20,O0O,0 900 Poles inhabitating the area of Eastern Europe present a most uniform Nation. It is an agricultural country, but freed from feudalism. The peasant, who over thirty years ago owned an average of six acres of land, owns today (with the exception of certain provinces) a great deal less. The use of machinery in their agricultural pursuits drove thousands of landless peasants to cit ies, mines and factory colonies, and the over crowded condition of the last is the source of the systematic and periodical emigration which has de- prived Poland of over four million people.
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