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16-1083: Socialist Labor Party or Socialist Labour Party may refer to: German Socialist Labour Party of Poland German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party Independent Socialist Labour Party , Poland Industrial Socialist Labor Party , Australia Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party Revolutionary Socialist Labor Party , United States Socialist Labor Party of America Socialist Labor Party (Australia) Socialist Labour Party (Canada) Socialist Labour Party (Egypt) Socialist Labour Party (Ireland) Socialist Labour Party (UK) Socialist Labour Party (UK, 1903) Socialist Labour Party of Croatia Socialist Labour Party of Greece Socialist Labour Party of Yugoslavia (Communists) See also [ edit ] Socialist Labor Party Hall in Vermont, United States List of socialist parties Topics referred to by

32-848: A new SPD organ ( Oberschlesisches Volksblatt ) was founded in the parts of Upper Silesia that remained in Germany. When the DSPP merged into the German Socialist Labour Party in Poland (DSAP), Lodzer Volkszeitung became the new central party organ of the unified party. Volkswille continued to published though, being the DSAP organ in Katowice. In January 1931 the Bielsko DSAP organ Volksstimme was, due to lack of funds, merged into Volkswille . In 1933, Volkswille

48-491: A separate German Social Democratic Party of Poland . In Silesia, the situation was somewhat different from in central Poland. In Upper Silesia , the party did not fare too well in municipal polls. In the 1929 city council election in Katowice , the party mustered to get two seats. In Bielsko , the result was better for the party in local elections. In the 1929 city council election the party won eight seats (in alliance with

64-563: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages German Socialist Labour Party of Poland Nominally, the DSAP was founded at a conference in Chorzów on August 9, 1925, through the merger of the Silesia / West Prussia -based German Social Democratic Party of Poland (DSPP) and the Łódź -based German Labour Party of Poland (DAP). The merger wasn't fully effective though, and in practice

80-793: The Silesian Uprisings , the devise of the newspaper was changed to 'Organ of the German Social Democratic Party of Poland for the Working People'. Volkswille became the central party organ of the German Social Democratic Party of Poland (DSPP), which had been formed out of the remains of SPD, USPD and SDAPÖ branches in areas that were now within the Polish republic. As Upper Silesia was divided between Germany and Poland,

96-554: The Hitler regime. The boycott call became controversial within DSAP, and some members (such as Arthur Kronig, Otto Heike, Ludwig Kuk and Gustav Ewald) left the party as a result. In 1932 the DSAP had 5,429 members in Upper Silesia. By 1937 the number had declined to 560. As of early 1936, the party had only three functioning branches in Upper Silesia, Katowice, Chorzów and Bielszowice . The Bielszowice branch went defunct before

112-648: The Lodz conference, including the SPD leader Johannes Stelling , the PPS chairman Herman Diamand , the leader of the Jewish Bund Henryk Ehrlich . In October 1930, DSAP suffered another split, as the leftist Heinrich Scheibler broke away and formed the German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left (DSAP-Linke). Scheibler was able to take parts of the party organization in the Łódź area with him. DSAP

128-565: The PPS). On October 6–7, 1929, a conference was held in Lodz which completed the task of unification of the DSAP set up at Chorzów four years earlier. The conference finally decided to locate the DSAP headquarters to Lodz (an issue that had been a bone of contention for years). Lodzer Volkszeitung was declared as the central party organ. Several representatives of the Labour and Socialist International and socialist parties participated as guests to

144-462: The area. In 1928, the party claimed to have 8,406 members, out of whom 2,500 were women. The youth wing of the party had around 1,200 members, out of whom 480 were women. The party had an educational organization, Bund für Arbeiterbildung (6,000 members) and a children's organization, Kinderfreudegruppen (300 members). In June 1928, the Bydgoszcz branch of the party had broken away, forming

160-616: The end of the year, though. By March 1937, the remainder of the DSAP branch in Chorzów joined the PPS. On August 26, 1939, DSAP signed the joint statement of socialist parties in Poland, calling for the people to fight against Hitlerism (other signatories included the Bund). The party was a member of the Labour and Socialist International between 1923 and 1940. Kattowitzer Volkswille Kattowitzer Volkswille ('Kattowitz/Katowice People's Will'), generally called just Volkswille ,

176-485: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Socialist Labour Party . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Socialist_Labour_Party&oldid=1147057632 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Political party disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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192-413: The two parties continued separate existences until the merger was finalized until 1929. An 'Executive of the DSAP' was formed after the nominal founding of the party, consisting of Siegmund Glücksmann , Johann Kowoll , Buchwald, Kociolek, Ludwig Kuk, Klim, Arthur Pankrantz and Emil Zerbe. Kattowitzer Volkswille was assigned as the central party organ. One of the first actions of the party executive

208-668: Was a German-language Social Democratic newspaper published from Kattowitz (today Katowice). The newspaper was founded in 1916 by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) politician Otto Braun . Initially, the newspaper carried the devise 'Upper Silesian Free Press - Organ of the Upper Silesia Agitation District of the Social Democratic Party of Germany'. As Kattowitz/Katowice was transferred to Poland after

224-526: Was converted from a daily to a weekly newspaper. The cause was rather simple, the German Machtübernahme meant that financial subventions from Germany for Volkswille ceased. In 1935 all DSAP organs were merged into one, Volkszeitung-Volkswille-Volksstimme , published from Łódź . Karl Okonsky became editor of Volkswille on December 12, 1918. Between 1922 and 1924 the editor was Dr. Wilhelm Wolf, chairman of AfA-Bund . From 1924 to 1935

240-592: Was fiercely opposed to the pro- National Socialist Young German Party (JdP), which had its base in Bielsko. The rise in popularity of National Socialism amongst the Germans in Poland would prove disastrous for the DSAP. In Upper Silesia, support for the party rapidly eroded after the 1933 Machtübernahme. In September–October 1933 DSAP joined the call initiated by the Bund for boycott of goods from Germany, in protest of

256-474: Was the publication of the 'Manifesto of the united DSAP . DSAP became the second largest party in the 1927 Lodz city council election, trailing behind the Polish Socialist Party (PPS). DSAP got 16,643 votes and seven seats in the council. In central Poland the municipal elections showed the strength of the party in the region; in total DSAP had 36 city councilors and 7 magistrate members in

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