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...Victor L. Berger, Socialist Representative from Wisconsin, and editor of the Milwaukee Leader, addressed the members of the University in New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon, giving a general discussion of the meaning of Socialism and its relation to present day conditions, both political and economic...
...Berger said that Socialism is not a theory, but rather the name of a phase of civilization that we are approaching. Today, having passed the phases of feudalism and slavery, we have the capitalistic phase in which the worker is free but still dependent upon capital for employment. While seeking this employment the laborer is forced into the open market and hence is subjected to competition, which makes it possible for the employer to hire his men at starvation wages. Machinery, having done away with the necessity of skilled labor, has complicated the situation...
...Berger on "A Socialist Criticism of the Progressive Movement in New Lecture Hall...
...Victor L. Berger, Socialist Representative from Wisconsin, will speak in New Lecture Hall today at 4.30 o'clock. The topic of his lecture will be: "A Socialist Criticism of the Progressive Movement." Mr. Berger is recognized as the leader of the constructive movement of the Socialist party. He was one of the two American delegates to the International Socialist Bureau, and is a member of the National Executive Committee...
...committee, under whose auspices lectures on the "Progressive Movement" have been given by prominent men, to members of the University, from time to time during last year and this, has made definite arrangements for four speakers to come to Harvard. Hon. V. L. Berger, Congressman from Wisconsin, the first Socialist elected to Congress, and editor of the Milwaukee Leader, will lecture on Monday, February 19. His subject will probably be "A Socialist Criticism of the Progressive Movement." Mr. W. A. White, editor of the Emporia Gazette, Kansas, and author of "The Old Order Changeth," "A Certain Rich Man," and other...