Emanuel
Chobot, Director of the Cooperative Society "Gec", Moravska
Ostrava ->
was a miner in Lazy and Orlau from 1895 to 1905 and became Secretary
of the Socialist Party and functionary of the Trades Union in Trinec,
1907-1912. He with the "Gec" in Moravska Ostrava and is Manager and
Chairman of the Polish Co-operative Society in East Silesia.
Krsto
Cicvaric, Author and publicist, Belgrade
->
is the editor of many socialist and revolutionary weekly newspapers
such as "Hleb i. Sloboda" (Bread and liberty), 1905; "Radnicka borka"
(The worker's struggle), 1907. In 1907 he became a political prisoner
and in 1911 he became owner and director of daily newspaper "Straza"
(Guardian). He has the largest private library in Belgrad. As a
philosopher he believes in monism, as a politician in democracy and
liberalism, and is otherwise a proponent of world organization.
Platon
Soterios Drakoules, Writer, Sociologist, founder of the Socialist
Labour movement, Oxford, N.W. and Athens
->
founded in 1885 in Athens "Arden", the first journal in Greece to
initiate ideals of social reform and he represented Greece at the
first International Socialist Congress at Paris in 1889.
Stanislas
Grabski, Professor of Political Economy University, Lwów
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In his youth he was a socialist. He emigrated from Russian Poland in
1890; was banished from Austria in 1891. Through instances of the
University of Cracow he obtained the permission to live in Austria in
1901.
Jon
Inculetz, Professor, Minister of Interior, Bucharest
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participated in the Russian revolution in 1917; and is a member of
the Soviet of Petrograd as a delegate of the Union Government in
Bessarabia. He is President of the Republic Moravia (Bessarabia).
Stanislaw
Jurkiewicz, Notary; delegate notary of the Polish Government to
the Administration Council of the International Bureau of Work,
Warsaw ->
worked in Moscow in the Polish socialist organization.
Karl
Kautsky, Writer, Vienna
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was a close friend of Engels and became a Member of the Austrian
Social Democratic Party in 1875 and a member of the German Social
Democratic Party in 1880. Afterwards he was in Berlin until 1924. He
adhered in the split of the Party in 1917 to the Independent
Socialists. In the revolution of 1917 he coordinated as Secretary of
State. Since 1924 he is in Vienna.
Vaclav
Klofac, Journalist, Prague
->
is the founder of the National Socialist Party and its leader since
1897. He was a member of Austrian Parliament from 1901 to 1918 and he
was accused of high treason and imprisoned for 3 years during the
war.
Panto
Krekic, Vice Director of the Office of Labourers Insurance,
Sarajevo
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is one of the founders of the socialist party in Bosnia and
Herzogwina and is a champion of the movement of Bosnian labour.
J.W.
Latziky-Bertoldi, Chief-Editor of the Newspaper "Frimorgn", Riga
->
was a founder of the Zionistic Socialistic Party in Russia in
1904.
Miecislas
Niedrialkowski, Deputy, journalist, editor in chief of
"Robotnich", Warsaw
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was involved in illegal political action in Poland with the Socialist
Party, was imprisoned in Germany in 1916, is a deputy since 1919 and
is President of the Parliamentary socialistic group.
Josef
Páta, Professor, Prague
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During the World War he was a member of the Revolutionary Committee
"Národ" (People) and of the Sokol Organization.
Janko
Sakasoff, Journalist; Deputy of Sobranjé, Sofia
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Since 1884 up to 1890 he was a teacher and a clerk. In 1891 he
founded the Socialistic Monthly Revue "Den" (The Da); in 1891-1894 he
founded the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party after a German model
and program. In 1894 he was elected a deputy of Parliament; he edited
a socialistic newspaper and was very active for the benefit of
socialist and Trades-Union Organizations over the whole country. He
participated in all political manifestations of the country, promoted
the democracy movement and the laws constitution; and propagated
socialistic activity among the peasants. In 1912 in the Balkan War he
spoke in the Sobranje against the war and in 1918 after the
dethronement of King Ferdinand became Minister of Industry and
Commerce. Since then he is Chief of the Socialist Party in the
Sobranje and is now President of the National Bulgarian Group for the
Balkan Conferences and he promotes the rapproachment of the Balkan
people.
Streten
Yakshich (Jaksic), Publicist, Chief of the Bureau for Labourer's
Insurance, Sarajevo
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is editor of the Socialist publication "Glas Slobodne", and is a
member of the Bureau of the Socialist Party and of various other
Labourer's Institutions.