Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-10-24

GSTudttOudl DOC1dllSI bureau, tcOuS1SI-
ing of Emil Vandervelde, Edonard An
seele, Leon Furnemont, and Camille
Huysmans, secretary, has fixed Octo-
Der 9th as the date for the next meet
ing of the Bureau. It will be at the
International Socialist Headquarters
in the Peoples Palace, Brussels, Bel
GUM.
The object of the meeting is to fix
the date of the International Congress
at Vienna, to arrange the agenda of
the Congress, to pass upon applica-
tions for utilization, and to transact
such other business as may come be-
fore the Bureau. j,
1t had been the intention to hold
| the meeting in November, giving the
delegates from the various countries
more time in which to arrange to at
tend. The Congress of the German
Social Democratic party of Austria Is
to begin on November 1, however,
and since the International Congress
is to be held in that country, the
Austrian comrades desire to know the
date of the same before their own
congress meets, in order to make the
proper arrangements. The Bureau
| meeting was therefore set for the
earlier date.
1t was intended to call meeting of
the Interparliamentary Commission
also, but this was abandoned for the
present on account Of the shortness of
| the ii me. Later on, the Executive
Committee will propose more favor
able date for such meeting.
A short time ago, Troelstra and Van
Kol, delegates to the Bureau from Hol-
land, made motion that the Vienna
Congress be postponed until 1914. The
reasons they gave were that there are
no urgent questions necessitating a
Congress in 1913, and that 1914 will
be the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
| first congress of the new Internation-
al held in Paris. The result of the
vote on this motion has not been an
nounced.
The Bureau has sent to all affiliated
| parties the resolution on Ettor and
Giovannitti, which was adopted by our
national convention at Indianapolis
and later confirmed by referendum
vote of the membership.
The International dues of the So
cialist party for the. year 1912, recent
ly spaid by the National Office, were
1900 francs, ($250.90).
The National Office recently receiv-
ed gift of forty-seven dollars worth
of gold dust from Local Deadwood
| Alaska, to assist in defraying organic
ing expenses in that territory. After
placing the curiosity on display, it was
turned into cash.
| Local Portland, Oregon, has sent to
the National Office the sum of $103.50
for the Ettor- Giovannitti Defense
Fund. The amount was the result of
a collection taken at meeting at
ended by abou three thousand people.
The Naional Platform of the Social
| list Party in the Danish, Swedish and
Norwegian languages can be secured
by addressing N. Juel Christensen
Scandinavian Translator-Secreta
/ III North Market street, Chicago.
Price, $500 per 1000.
State Secretary Dietz, of Louisiana,
reports nine locals with total of
eighty-two members organized in that
state during the month of September.
Safe Secretary Stewart of Idaho,
reports as follows: 20. F. rPaimerton
has been expelled from the party for
taking subscriptions for "The Inland
Empire Echo" and failing to turn in
the money, borrowing property and
not returning it, attempting to take a
part of collection and literature from
a fellow comrade, registering at hotels
as other comrades and causing much
disruption in the movement"
j. E. Snyder is of the opinion that
the five or six months organizing
campaign in the South which he has
been carrying on in cooperation with
the other Southern organizers and
the state secretaries, will result in at
least three hundred locals.
An intellectual prodigy at Roches-
ter, New York, has sent the National
Office copy of '+The Growing Grocery
Bill" with the following illuminating
comment written through it. on the
margins of the pages: call lies.
Neither Morgan, Rockefeller or Ar
mour are any more responsible for
the growing grocery bill than you or /.
! If lot of you ranting Socialitsic fools
would get to wor and produce instead
of consume, the price of groceries
would come down. DR.. Crapsey is one
Of them. Were ten farmers instead of
one producing, the grocery bill would
be less and you know it as well as l..
The people Of the U. s. are paying
more for what they do not get any re-
turn from than what they do. For
instance, they are supporting "a lot
Il of ranters who go about devouring
the earnings of the wage earners and
produce nothing. If you fellow lived
up to the ten commandments and the
sermon on the mount, there would be
less trouble and more peace and pros
perity::'
Too bad that million and hall
copies of this book have been put into
circulation.
u After receiving this body blow, the
National Office is all up in the air as
to whether it should go out Of bust
ness or not.
/ Assignments of National Organizers
and lecturers: Prudence Stokes Brown
California; May Beals. Tennessee;
Thomas L. Buie, South Carolina; John
c. Chase, Nebraska; Andrew J. Eg
| Mann Movinns William I, Gar