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664 hearts into making first-class articles. They do not believe, however, in violence.

1202. The Third International. Almost from the beginning of the socialist movement in Europe, more than fifty years ago, there was an international organization of workingmen. The

"First International," as it was called, was organized by Karl Marx in 1864 and went to pieces shortly after the Franco-Prussian War. On the ruins of this organization the "Second International" was soon founded, which still persists. It was, however, badly broken up by the World War and further weakened by a "Third International," founded by the Bolsheviki at Moscow. The last International, though breathing the spirit of revolution, dictatorship, and violence in every line of its program, was indorsed in 1918-1920 by considerable sections of the labor movement in nearly all European countries except England. Still the number of working people actually represented in the "indorsement" was relatively small.