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Emile Vandervelde born in Brussels in 1866 died in 1938. Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, French: Bruxelles, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium and is considered by many to be the headquarters of the European Union, as two of its four main institutions have their headquarters in the... 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

  • Member of the Belgian Labour Party (Parti Ouvrier Belge, P.O.B.) in 1886. President of the party from 1928 to 1938. Initiator of the Charter of Quaregnon which is the "constitution" of the Belgian Labour Party. This constitution is strongly influenced by ideas of the French socialist Jules Guesde.
  • Member of the Belgian parliament in 1894.
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Emile Vandervelde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (261 words)
Emile Vandervelde (1866–1938) was a Belgian statesman, born at Ixelles.
Vandervelde was initiator of the Charter of Quaregnon, the party's "constitution." This constitution is strongly influenced by ideas of the French socialist Jules Guesde.
Vandervelde was a member of the Belgian parliament in 1894.
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Vandervelde became the first leader of the Belgian Workers' Party which was formed in 1885 and he and Maeterlinck were founding members of the Circle of Socialist Students in Brussels where they were both studying law.
While the Congo was not technically a colony of Belgium, Vandervelde claimed that the Belgian government had a moral obligation to intervene because Belgium had signed the Act of Berlin, because Leopold was using the Belgian military to exploit the region, and because the Belgian state had financed the King's venture (4-5).
Vandervelde tells us that this man was later found guilty of torturing women prisoners to death, of paying auxiliary soldiers with captured women, of torturing and killing porters who tried to escape into the forest, and of having his soldiers bring back cut-off hands of their recalcitrant victims.
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