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VIOLENCE AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT
SOCIALIST AND LABOR REPRESENTATIVES
IN PARLIAMENT.
Number of Seats
Per
in Lower House. Cent.
Total Socialist. Socialist
Australia 75 41 54.61
Finland 200 90 45.00
Sweden 165 64 38.79
Denmark 114 32 28.07
Germany 397 110 27.71
Belgium 186 39 20.96
Norway 123 23 18.70
Holland 100 17 17.00
Austria 516 82 15.89
Italy 508 78 15.35
Luxembourg 53 7 13.21
France 597 75 12.56
Switzerland 170 15 8.82
Great Britain 670 41 6.12
Russia 442 16 3.62
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Greece 207 4 2.00
Argentina
120 2 1.67
Servia 160 1 .62
Portugal
164 1 -61
Bulgaria
189 1 -53
Spain
404 1 -25
other single party. In addition to the representatives
here listed, Belgium has seven senators, Denmark four,
and Sweden twelve, while in the state legislatures Austria
has thirty-one, Germany one hundred and eighty-five, and
the United States twenty. Here again the strength of
socialism is greatly understated. In the United States,
for instance, the astonishing fact appears that, with a
vote of nearly a million, the socialist party has not one
representative in Congress. On the basis of proportional
representation it would have at least twenty-five Congressmen
and, if it were a sectional party, it could, with
;
its million votes, control all the Southern states and elect
every Congressman and Senator from those states. The