Arizona republican., 1917-03-04
SOCIALISTS TO REUNITE AF TER
 MAR |S HISTORY
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel


 LONDON. March 3.-International socialism, though broken down by the war, will be revived and there will some a day when British and German socialists will sit at the table again together, says Henry Mayors Hynd- man, the 75-year old leader of the social-democratic party in England.
 At his unpretentious home in St. James Park, with Q stones throw of Buckingham Palace, in q study flank d by piles of books and newspapers, mostly American. the aged philosopher received a correspondent of The As sociated Press and discussed some of the wars effects upon socialism. Not withstanding his advanced age, MT. Hyndman is active and looks strong. with a big face and white beard giving him a marked resemblance to pictures of the poet Longfellow. He is now engaged in reorganiZing the social democratic. party in England.
 The wars immediate effect upon socialism is not apparent he said, but one thing is certain as sunrise and that is that the war has taught the workers more than they could have learned in a score of years of peace. The war has made them think politically and when they leave the trenches it will be as new men. In other words when the soldiers come back, they will be wiser men and will not be willing to go back to the hopeless chaos-they will demand bet ter working conditions. will not per init what has gone into the hands of the state to be returned to private owners. especially the greater part of the improved machinery provided for by the state, AHhich means by the
  strengthening of social democracy as a result of the war"
 Then as If some happy thought had struck him, the socialist leader waved his arms to a map of the United States and exclaimed: Even in America - individualistic America - this insistence on democracy is. being left more and more. This was shown in the passage of the eight-hour law for railroad employees. Monopoly had reached such a point in regard to the railroads that when the workers de- manded better conditions and threat ened if they were not granted, they would hang up all transport, President Wilson as the representative of the federal govrnmnt interfered on be- half of the community and aided the. men in obtaining by peaceful means what otherwise would have led ta violence. It is an important economic advance that has been aided by the state.
 What has come to mass in the United States by peaceful means has only come to us through war. mean the gradual taking over of the railroads and public utilities. When the war broke out the capitalist sys- tenn showed itself incapable of hand ling the community under circum- stances which demanded great and continuous national effort. So the state stepped ir and took the rail roads and has since been command eering and controlling nearly every thing
 The result is that today We have 8 system of state socialism. which of course, is not true socialism. Under this system the worker is not free. i. not receiving his full return. Ii i. competition below and state monopol, above But at least We have a near. approach 10 one of the fundamental. OI socialism-public ownership ot public utilities-and I see no reasor
 hr # shouldn't ae continued aftel the war is oyer. The only areumen
 . | nom a socialists stand.