The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
l 5a5. .AL|STS MEET AT. ..,- HAGUE IN JULY
Peace in Europe Will Be Dis
 cussed by Delegates

The Haugue May 25.-(Correspondenc of the Associated Press)-An fnterna- tional congress of socialists Is to be at tempted at The Hague early in July All the neutral countries will be represented and delegations have already been se lected to represent England and Ger many, but it is not yet certain that Rus sia France and Belgium will partici- pate. The Russian socialist leaders have accepted the invitation subject to cer tain special conditions. The Belgian leader, M. Vandervelde, has refused point blank to have anything to do with any conference in which Germany participates The French socialists and syndicalists also declined the invitation in the first place, but M Ottorina Morgari, leader of the Italian neutralist party, has gone to Paris in hopes of persuading them to reconsider. Austria and Hungary wrfi be represented if it is possible for their delegates to get through Germany for this purpose.
 The leading German delegates will be Messrs Scheidemann and Bernstein. The English delegates, although already chosen, have not been announced; they include, however, representatives of both pro-war and antiwar movements in the British labor party.
 Swiss in Charge
 The preliminary organization of the
 
 socialists. The tentative platform, which is understood sto have received the ap- proval of committees in Germany, Aus trial, England, Italy and the Scandinavian countries contains the following demands relating to the European war:
 l. Evacuation of Belgian and French territory and indemnity to Belgium.
 9 Suppression in future of all secret treaties.
 S immediate limitation of armaments by all countries, with a view to ultimately aboshing altogether all armed forces of individual states.
 i Obligatory arbitration and concila- tion in cases of disputes between states. B. Absolute right of all small nation $ alities to decide their future destiny; this decision to be made a matter of referen- dunn in which all adult males and females shall participate.
 Having Hard Time in Germany
 According to reports reaching socialist headquarters here, the German govern ment's attitude toward the party has been growing more severe during the past two months A number of socialist newspapers have been suppressed and many socialist meetings have been pro- hibited or allowed only under strict police supervision. At Dusseldorf, which is said to be the center of a pronounced reace propaganda, there have been ire quent police raids and searches of so- cIallSt houses.
 number of socialist meetings have been held in Bavaria, Wurttemberg Baden Hesse, and the Rhine provinces recently to discuss the rise in the prices of many of the necessaries of life. Alto gether more than 60 meetings were held within a few days, and many of the speakers dealt very frankly with the broader issues of the wal and its prob ,ems. In more than 40 of these meetings resolutions were adopted which amounted to a demand for the speedy conclusion of peace. Some of the speeches were strongly antiwar. and the whole move ment was regarded by the military au- thorites as seditious Newspapers were prohibited from quoting the terms of the resolutions passed or from giving any ex- tended reports of the speeches, and the voksfreuns, a socialist journal published at Solngen. was suppressed for referring too freely to the tone of the demonstra- ton