Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Robert Hunter, the socialist writer, outlined the development of "Socialism" in Emerson D last evening...
...socialist movement is only 35 years old, but it has already a membership of over ten million men and is spreading with incredible speed over the earth. Throughout Europe all the scientists and literary men of the younger school are socialists. Germany forty years ago, was poverty stricken and just emerging from the social conditions of the middle ages. Modern capitalizing was developing and there was much discontent among the laboring classes. As a remedy for these evils, the workingmen formed the socialist party. In England, successive royal commissions appointed by Parliament to investigate the grievances of the workmen, accomplished...
...Robert Hunter, author of "Poverty" and "Socialists at Work," will speak on "Socialism" in Emerson F this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture, which is under the auspices of the Socialist Club, will be open to the public. After being graduated from the University of Indiana in 1896, Mr. Hunter became secretary of the Chicago Bureau of Charities. In 1902 he was made chairman of the New York Child Labor Commission and has since accomplished a great deal toward bettering the conditions among the poor of New York City...
...Salter began by saying that there are two things that embarrass us in reading Shaw: first, whether he is to be taken seriously or not, and secondly, the way in which he shocks us morally. The first thing to be remembered is that he is a socialist and looks for no good results from our present social organization. He is annoyed to see people who are "comfortable" morally, because they have established a new public school, when they ought to be uncomfortable; and he tries to make them uncomfortable by his writings. He is really one of the most serious...
Some of his plays criticise the present social order and some of the socialists of today. Among the former is one that speaks of war as a science of attacking a weaker opponent and getting out of the way of a stronger. In "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" he shows that an apparently helpless and unskilled woman is stronger in an emergency than the power of the sword. "Mrs. Warren's Profession," though known as "immorality dramatized," is really an enquiry into the self-complacency of modern society. "Candida" is a criticism of a modern socialist clergyman who is a good...