The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-11-22
WEEKLY BULLETIN


Party Chicago, m, Nov. . 1912.
The following motion made by
I spar,go has been submitted by wire toI
4 the national executive committee and
adopted. That the books aud nc.
| counts of the national campaign com
mittee be Immediately audited and
/ with auditors report be transferred
and accepted by national secretary
and that the account OF the campaign
committee be entered as part of regu-'
1 lar party account
The Hungarian comrades have
/ started daily socialist paper in the
i Hungarian language. The address Is
| Elore (Forward) 3 East Third street,
New York city. Subscription price $3
per year 1t is published daily except
| Sunday. Fifty-one per cent of the
d stock is owned and controlled by the
i Hungarian Socialist Federation. Louis
Tarcai is the editor
The following is published by re-
} quest of Hope: "There has been
circulated recently report that Hope,
; the socialist cartoon magazine, had
J passed peacefully away In refuta-
ton of this, the publisher of Hope
: wishes to state that the same is gross
! " untrue. No socialist publication
! has ever died PEACEFULLY, and no
socialist publication has ever lived
frbig has
no doubt been propagated by persons
who have reasons to fear the ever
increasing spread of socialist litera-
! ture. In spite of the handicaps of
poor postal transportation afforded
monthly publications, which has been
our greatest drawback, Hope is still
! doing business at the old stand, 54O7
!, w. Chicago avenue, Chicago. While
there's life-there's Hope"
The national executive committee
motion by Irvine, that the national
secretary appoint a territorial secre-
J tary for Alaska for three months and
that an appropriation of one hundred
dollars be made toward his expenses"
has been adopted,
Jacob B. Salutsky, translator-secre-
tary of the Jewish section of the So
cialist party, will take up his work
J in the national office on or about the
18th of November. Mail should be ad-
dressed to him at Ill North Market
} street, Chicago.
What the Workers Have Done in Ger
many.
Twenty years ago the slums of
Germany were notorious. Cologne,
Frankfort, Munich, Breslau and Berlin
had acres of vile and overcrowded
tenements.
"a few years ago an English work
man, visiting Stuttgart at the interna-
tional socialist congress, asked Ger
man workman to show him where the
poor lived.
"He took him to clean, well-built
quarter, inhabited by the poorest work
men.
"'But want to Sc eyour sums said
the Englishman.
"'These are the worts we've got"
his German friend answered
. THE amazed Englishman exclaimed
Great heavens! If you'll get me a
job here I'll stay forever!'
eff you will visit German cities and
ask the same question you will re-
ceive the same answer.
"For over twenty years every Ger
man city has had socialist aldermen.
. "They have fought those responsible
for slUms, vile habitations, insanitary
. workshops, neglected children.
"They have fought all opposing
parties and have forced the municipal
ownership of public utilities. land re-
. form, taxation reform, the demolition
of insanitary districts and the build.
ing of sanitary tenements.
"The socialists have forced the mu-
nicipal councils to tax unearned in
crement, and the increase in land
values is gradually being taken over
by the community.
THE cities own extensive tracts OF
land. Strassburg has over $50 square
yards of land for each inhabitant.
Ulm owns 80 per cent of the land
within it's boundaries. 1t buys and
leases land daily and prevents all land
speculation.
For over thirty years the national
government has been hard pressed by
an intelligent and powerful socialist
party. And the German rulers were
forced to take action to relieve the
distress of the people.
"Times were critical The revolt
was growing. And the German kaiser
was forced to introduce a scheme for
insuring practically the entire mass
of German workers against accident,
sickness, inValidity and death
To-day over 100000 persons are