The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-06-15

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NWillConvene
international Convention win Be
Attempted At The Hague To
Discuss Peace q.
Asaoeiated Prpss By Federal wirslsss)

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tionai Congress % Socialists is to be
attempted at The Hague early in July.
An fhe neutral countries will be repre-.
sented, and delegations have already
been selected to represent England and
Germany, but IL Is not yet certain that
Russia, France and Belgium win par
ticipate. The Russian Socialist lead.
ers have accepted the invitation sub
ject to- certain special conditions. The
Belgian leader, NJ. Vandervelde, has-re-
fused point blank to have anything to
do with any conference In which Ger.
many participates. The French Social.
lists and Syndicalists also declined the
invitation in the first place, but M. OF
torino Morgari, leader Of the Italian
Neutraist Party, has gone to Paris in
hopes of Persuading them to reconsider.
Austria and Hungary will be repre-,
sented If it is possible for their dele
gates TO get through Germany for this
purpose. .. tsrs
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 anti-war movements
in the British Labor Party.
Swiss Are In Charge
The preliminary organization of the
Congress is under charge of the Swiss
Socialists. The tentative platform,
which is understood to have received
the approval of committees in Ger.
many, Austria, England, Italy and the
Scandinavian countries, contains the
following demands relating to the
European iwar:
!. Evacuation Of Belgian and French
territoryS and Indemnity to Belgium.
2. Suppression in future Of all secret
r. 5. Bdfhe'fiate limitation Of arma.
mehts by aiI countries, with view ia
ultimately abolishing altogether oil
! armed forces of individual states.
4. sObligatory arbitration and con
ciliation in cases of disputes between
states.
8. Absolute right of all small nation
alities to decide their future destiny
this decision to be made q matter OF
referendum in which all adult males
and females shall participate.
According to reports reaching. Social
ist headquarters here, the German gov
ernment's attitude toward the party has
been growing more severe during ths
past two months. A number Of Social
ist newspapers have been suppressed
and many Socialist meetings have beer
prohibited or allowed only under Strict
police supervision. At Dusseldorf, which
is said to be the center Of a pronounced
peace propaganda, there have been fire.
quent police raids and searches Of So
cialist houses.
German Socialists Active
A number of Socialist meetings hav,
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. Al
together more than sixty meeting
were held within afew days, and many
of the speakers delt very frankly will
the broader issues of the war adopted
and its problems. In more than forty
of these meetings resolutions wer,
adopted which amounted to demanC
for the speedy conclusion Of peace
Some of the speeches were strongl,
anti.war, and the whole movement wa
regarded by the military authorities a
seditiOns. Newspapers were prohibite,
from quoting the terms of the resolu
tions passed or from, giving any extend
ed reports of the speeches, and tn
Volksfereuns, Socialist journal pub
lished at Solingen, was suppressed 10
referring too freely to the tone Of tn
demonstration =. " .."'' ~