Een showcase voor het socialisme: 'Vooruit' in de vitrine van de wereld
A showcase for socialism. the ‘Vooruit’ in the display window of the world Only four days before the 1913 Ghent World’s Fair opened to the public, a large-scale general strike for universal suffrage, which was followed up by a march by half a million labour men from the labouring classes, was ended. Ghent’s mayor Emile Braun and the city council had tried everything within their power to prevent the strike, in order not to jeopardize the official opening of the exhibition, but the socialist alderman Edward Anseele eventually followed his party by supporting the potentially revolutionary moveme... Mehr ...